Favorite Jazz Musicians Besides Guitarists

[frisellfan19]

I think everyone should listen to these Charles Lloyd albums:


The Water Is Wide



Fish Out Of Water



Hyperion With Higgins



Notes From Big Sur

[paynow]

So many of mine are listed here already, especially Paul Desmond. And one I'll mention who I just learned passed away Monday; pianist George Shearing:

Jazz Articles: Jazz Pianist George Shearing Dies ? By Lee Mergner ? Jazz Articles

Chuck Wayne and Toots Thielemans both played guitar in his groups at various times.

[kris]

Chet Baker-trumpet and all listed before.

[63Bigsby]

Buddy Emmons - pedal steel guitar, listen to his album Steel Guitar Jazz from -63 and you'll hear some serious $hitt

[P.J.]

Drummers I Love:
Tony Williams
Bill Bruford
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Jon Christensen
Paul Motian
Jack DeJohnette

Trumpeters I Love:
Miles
Don Cherry
Kenny Wheeler
Lester Bowie
Tomas Stanko
Art Farmer
Jon Hassell

Sax Players I Love:
Coltrane
Desmond
Dewey Redman
Ornette
Henry Threadgill

Bassists I Love:
Steve Swallow
Charlie Haden
Jaco
Marc Johnson

Probably 100's, if not 1,000's of others out there that I forgot.

PJ

[princeplanet]

If I was Paul Chambers, I would be annoyed to have not rated a single mention, yet.... Mr PC!

Oh, and Jackie maclean, joe henderson, johnny griffin, cannonball adderley, bird+trane, eric dolphy, clifford brown, freddie hubbard, lee morgan, miles, milt jackson, lionel hampton, art blakey, philly joe jones, max roach, sonny clark, bill evans, jarret, corea, hancock...... oh shoot me!....

[Drumbler]

Living supergroup that is now playing:

Return To Forever

Lineup -

• Chick Corea - keyboards
• Frank Gambale - guitar
• Stanley Clarke - bass
• Lenny White - drums
• Jean-Luc Ponty - violin

[oneworld]

For Big Band writers I love Wheeler and Maria the most. I also really dig Brookmeyer's stuff and Bob Mintzer's big band. Dave Holland's band is also especially killing.

my favorite is vince mendoza... schneider is wonderful as well... they have been writing for and conducting our band many times. wheeler is going to be here
in 2 weeks, brookmeyer later this year...our current bandleader is michael abene - his predecessor was bill dobbins... very few write well for guitar...

[bahama]

I'll keep it simple: for me it was and still is Art Tatum

[jeffstritt]

My all time favorites are in order...

Cannonball Adderly
Clifford Brown
and
Sonny Rollins

Wouldn't that be a "Supergroup" frontline? Heck let's finish out the rhythmn section...

Max Roach
Ron Carter
Hank Jones
Wes

[rpinzon]

Some of my favorites
Bill evens
joey calderazzo
john coltrane
tom harrel
paul motian
eddy gomez
danilo perez
herb ellis
joe pass
etc etc...

[KingCrimson250]

If I was Paul Chambers, I would be annoyed to have not rated a single mention, yet.... Mr PC!

I was actually thinking the exact same thing. Paul Chambers is a favourite of mine. Also surprised at the lack of Elvin Jones. I absolutely love his playing especially on Love Supreme. Not much Wynton Kelly either is also unexpected, having played on some of Wes' biggest albums I'd kind of expect to see more of him.

But then I guess they're sort of "obvious," too.

EDIT: Heh, just noticed that Elvin was mentioned a few times in the first posts. Don't know how I missed that.