Good Solo/Chord Melody Players?

[jazzkenny]

And don't forget Jimmy Wyble

[wizard3739]

Ron Eschete, Howard Alden, Joe Diorio, Ed Bickert, Jimmy Wyble, Jim Hall and many other "new generation" guitarists.

wiz

[wolflen]

few may know, larry carlton is a super chord melody player..(of course, he studied with joe pass..)

[fredsmeal]

I highly recommend a record by Joe pass and Ella Fitzgerald called "Fitzgerald & Pass… Again". Great chemistry between the two, if you can't get the album check out the duo on youtube, here is a tune from that album.......

Fitzgerald and Pass... Again - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[2bornot2bop]

Run a youtube search for Howard Morgen. He has a whole bunch of clips playing standards solo.
Really though most good jazz players play some chord melody stuff and if you are getting into that kind of playing it might be worth while getting some kind of harmony book and getting some ideas from there.

That's as pure as mountain spring water. No unnatural tonal interference masquerading itself as music.

A miked hollowbody in the hands of a storyteller. Who'd imagine nowadays that's all that's necessary.

[AndyV]

Laurindo Almeida. Outra Vez is a spectacular album with a rhythm section.

Easy and Wonderful: Laurindo Almeida - Outra Vez (Once Again)

Almeida's solo LP Concerto De Aranjuez is long out of print but reissued on an unfortunately costly Japanese reissue CD. Superb chord melody playing.

Amazon.com: Concierto De Aranjuez: Laurindo Almeida: Music

[jtizzle]

I know I get monotonous about this, but Peter Bernstein is probably the best to me. He does some really out stuff, doesn't have a fully solo album, but a lot of his albums have really nice CM intros, and his Monk album has two solo songs (Monk's Mood and Ruby, My Dear). I'm working on a Pannonica Chord Solo, drawing some ideas from his.

[MackBolan]

- Ed Bickert
Cal Collins
Eddie Duran

this is just unreal