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Pat Martino - Impressions
Wes - Caravan
Jesse van Ruller - The End of a Love Affair
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09-07-2015 11:34 PM
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Hank Garland - Riot-Chous
Johnny Smith - I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Chico Hamilton - People - (Gabor Szabo - Guitar)
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little unusual .but really check out the solo that denny diaz does with steely dan on( king of the world)
staggeringly tasteful . go to the stratosphere .metheny undeniably blows if your a realist and not caught into musical dogma
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Hi ,
Wes Montgomery : Round Midnight
Kenny Burrell : My favorite Things
George Benson : Breezin
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You can take nearly any of Jonathan Kreisberg solos...
And most Pat Martino solos ...
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I'm still pondering but.... considering how popular Joe Pass is on this forum, I don't see many Joe Pass solos getting mentioned.
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What no Joe Pass? It's difficult to choose one solo as the greatest as it's dependent on the interpretation, technical difficulty, etc. Is a very difficult solo better than a simple but entirely moving interpretation? Is Hoagy Carmichaels Stardust a better than All the things you are! I love all of Wes's single line solo's, Jim Halls So nice to come home to and Autumn Leaves.
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JUST FRIENDS - BARNEY KESSEL Live
SMILE - BIRELI LAGRENE
SWING TO BOP - CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Live
AFTER YOU'VE GONE - DJANGO REINHARDT
and so many JOE PASS impros Chords, bass and solo...
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I remember listening to Jimmy Smith performing "The Midnight Special", And I thought Kenny Burrell's solo was the most tasteful guitar I Had ever heard. Some 50+yrs later my opinion is the same.
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I don't know about greatests but these three work for me. I have to say that it's about the entire track for me - you can't separate the statement of the tune and the solo.
My fave Scofield solo, Charlie Chan off the DVD, isn't on youtube atm so let this be a placeholder
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Greatest? Hm?
This is fantastic
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Scott Henderson (Vibe Station) Chelsea Bridge, Brent Mason (Smokin Section) Real Bad Blues, and... Footprints, (Pisano, Henderson, Carpenter, Kendall)
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I could have chosen any number from the Pat Metheny catalogue, but my favorite solo is probably from the version of "Are You Going With Me" on the album "Travels". Its not available on youtube, but other excellent versions (though more pyrotechnic) are the ones he did with Anna Maria Jopek
and the 2003 performance with the Metropole Orchestra...
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Well , obiously there are more than three
The thing is ,today I´m thinking in three or four solos and tomorrw this will change.
Today I remenber very well the solo in You dont know what love is from Doug Raney ( Cuttin lose Album)
The solo Him hall in You´d be so nice to come home ( Concierto)
And I remenber very well a solo made by Martin Taylor in Hawai 5-0 in his solo Album , This solo is an example of simplicity and elegance ,is going from simple to dificult and terribly melodic.
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A very difficult question. Here are three that spring to mind (this week!):
Larry Carlton "Things We Said Today"
Wes Montgomery "James and Wes"
George Benson "Stella by Starlight"
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Thanks for all the great suggestions above. My personal favourite - George Benson 'Take 5'
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I love the guitar duo of John Scofield and Bill Frisell... That's perfect music to me!!!
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Chuck Wayne: I Concentrate On You
Tal Farlow: Stella By Starlight
Jason Argos: However
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Difficult one... My top ten would actually be quite hard to rank but here goes.
1) Pat Metheny - "Have you Heard" from Letter from Home. Fabulous structure and phrasing, harmonically inspired. This solo sounds great even when transcribed for other instruments which means it is not just 'guitaristic'.
2) Hank Garland "All the things you are" from Jazz Winds from a new direction" with Gary Burton et al. This was the solo that first opened my ears to jazz guitar as a young lad.
3) Charlie Christian. "Swing to Bop" from the Jazz at Minton's recordings. Along with Hank's solo's this made me realise that there is more to guitar than rock and blues.
John Scofield would feature prominently in my top 10 but I have listed the 3 that probably have had most effect on my approach to the instrument. I don't understand what Scofield gets up to on guitar so I just admire him from a respectful distance.
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One of my all time favorites is the solo on "Little Shoes" by Mike Stern. Lyrical and nuanced with flashes of pyrotechnics in just the right places.
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Originally Posted by Leport1951
That is splendid performance all 'round.
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Well my father R.I.P is my favorite guitarist (I am biased) and his name was Slim Richey and he was from Texas He recorded a album in 1977 called "Jazz Grass" which featured bluegrass musicians like Ricky Skaggs playing jazz standards. This solo is from an original Slim wrote called " Jazz Grass Waltz"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Richey
My next favorite is from another Texas Jazz guitarist Clint Strong who studied with my dad when he was around 9 years old and my dad taught him Satin Doll lick and gave him the assignment to learn Ed's Place by Hank Garland (which he did), a year or so later he then went on to study with jazz guitar legend Howard Roberts. Clint is just an incredible jazz player. I really like his version of " I Remember April" he was my dad's favorite living jazz guitarist. He played with Merle Haggard for a number of years. In my humble opinion Clint is a lot better player than some of the more famous contemporary jazz guitarists ( not naming names) but he never put out a record which is a shame. I am sure some of you know who he is. He is also a real cool and humble guy.
This last one was tough because my three favorite jazz guitar players who were famous were Hank Garland, Barney Kessel, and Wes Montgomery in that order. I would mention Django but I am picking solos from bebop players I will have to go with this solo from Hank Garland's jazz recording "All the things you are" it is a masterpiece of improvisation.
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Wes Montgomery: D Natural Blues
Joe Pass: Django
Django Reinhardt: I'll See You in my Dreams
(The truth is that almost any solo by those three knocks me out. I can say the same about Pat Martino, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel. Kenny Burell and Bireli Lagrene)
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I'm there with ya! Diaz had the tough job of figuring what to play on Aja. Just found out the other day Fagen told Carlton to add that opening chord on Don't take me alive. The solo works well over C blues, check the video, lol,
chris
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