Who are your favorite five guitarists of all time?

[Gilpy]

I may not listen much to some of these guys now, but they're my main guitar influences:


Django: relentless swing, and his ideas translate to many genres of music.

BB King: (in his prime) So soulful. Never overplays. Tasteful, but thrilling!

Wes Montgomery: of course.

Hendrix: He opened my ears and my mind. Groundbreaking.

Carlos Santana: Introduced Latin rhythms, melodic solos and jazz influences to rock.

That Guitarist at the Local Club: You know...the one that you're staring at his fingers all night, and the instant you get home you grab a guitar and try to figure out what he was doing? These are maybe the guys that inspire me the most.

[danihrabin]

i may not listen much to some of these guys now, but they're my main guitar influences:


django: Relentless swing, and his ideas translate to many genres of music.

bb king: (in his prime) so soulful. Never overplays. Tasteful, but thrilling!

wes montgomery: of course.

hendrix: he opened my ears and my mind. Groundbreaking.

carlos santana: Introduced latin rhythms, melodic solos and jazz influences to rock.

that guitarist at the local club: You know...the one that you're staring at his fingers all night, and the instant you get home you grab a guitar and try to figure out what he was doing? These are maybe the guys that inspire me the most.

good list

[David B]

Peter Bernstein
Jesse van Ruller
Wes Montgomery
Pat Martino
Jonathan Kreisberg

[mangotango]

Very, very difficult. I have to go with the guys who most made/make me want to play this instrument: and for the purposes of this post, I'm going to go with jazz guitarists.

Jazz Players

Django Reinhardt
Joe Pass
Kenny Burrell
Pat Metheny

5th guy - torn between Kreisberg and Rosenwinkel!!!


There would be a different list for non-jazz guitarists.

Non-Jazzers

Chuck Berry
Peter Green
Carlos Santana
Larry Carlton
T-Bone Walker

[nikteague]

Hrmm

Jeff Beck

Allen Hinds

Trey Anastasio

Kurt Rosenwinkel

Metheny

[Rick5]

This is an impossible question (but fun).

In no particular order:

Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Mark Elf, Pat Martino, John McLaughlin

[danihrabin]

Hrmm

Jeff Beck

Allen Hinds

Trey Anastasio

Kurt Rosenwinkel

Metheny

Allen hinds?? who is he?

[Agate]

No order...

Bruno

Montgomery

Burrell

Pass

Pizzarelli

[nikteague]

Allen hinds?? who is he?

Some guy who plays a little

Allenhinds.com

[ninjasan]

Goran Sollscher
John Abercrombie
Terje Rypdal
Bill Frisell
Birelli Lagrene
Marcel Dadi
Mark Knopfler


How do you translate "five" please ?

christophe

[Jazzpunk]

This week I'd like to sub one of my picks out with Wayne Krantz. Way too many good players out there to narrow it down to 5!

[Jazzpunk]

Frank Zappa
Marc Ribot
Mike Stern
Scott Henderson
and ...
... Dani !

lol

What are some of your album recommendations for Ribot? I don't have any of his stuff.

[danihrabin]

This week I'd like to sub one of my picks out with Wayne Krantz. Way too many good players out there to narrow it down to 5!

Krantz is the man!! me my wife and him got trashed together friday before last and it was one of the funnest nights i had in a while! that dude is SUCH a GREAT guitarist and such a funny guy.


Check out this ribot project:http://www.marcribot.com/lospostizos.html its my fav!!! also anything he does with tom waits is pure gold!!!

[gcb]

Charlie Christian
Wes Montgomery
Barney Kessel
Joe Pass
Tal Farlow
Jim Hall

[339 in june]

What are some of your album recommendations for Ribot? I don't have any of his stuff.

Quite different aspects depending of which of his numerous projects you refer to
I do like a lot "Muy Divertido" (with the Cubanos Postizos)
You can check also his trio :

or Ceramic Dog :

or solo
or other cooperation with John Zorn's Electric Masada for instance :

and others .....

[eddy b.]

Stevie Ray Ed Bickert Jimi Hendrix Alex Lifeson Bob Marley

[Strickland]

Not one vote yet for Kessel, shame on everyone.

1. Barney Kessel
2. Django
3. Hank Garland
4. Wes
5. Russell Malone (Thought I should pick one who is still kicking.)

[wizard3739]

Make that list at least 10!

Jimmy Raney
Jim Hall
Ed Bickert
George Van Eps
Howard Roberts
Joe Pass
Doug Raney
Ron Eschete
Howard Alden
Joe Diorio
Barney Kessel

I could continue but there are too many other choices to pick from. IMHO, These great musicians are all jazz guitar masters.

wiz

[Patrick2]

Make that list at least 10!

Jimmy Raney
Jim Hall
Ed Bickert
George Van Eps
Howard Roberts
Joe Pass
Doug Raney
Ron Eschete
Howard Alden
Joe Diorio
Barney Kessel

I could continue but there are too many other choices to pick from. IMHO, These great musicians are all jazz guitar masters.

wiz

Wow . . . what a great line up Wiz!!

[teok]

1. Django Reinhardt
2. Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck
3. Wes Montgomery & George Benson
4. Wayne Krantz, Scott Henderson & Mike Landau
5. Miles' guitarist (Scofield, McGlaughlin, Pete Cosey, Robben Ford, Mike Stern)

By my count that's five.

[fumblefingers]

Krantz is the man!! me my wife and him got trashed together friday before last and it was one of the funnest nights i had in a while! that dude is SUCH a GREAT guitarist and such a funny guy.


Check out this ribot project:http://www.marcribot.com/lospostizos.html its my fav!!! also anything he does with tom waits is pure gold!!!

That would be... "he, my wife, and I got trashed together the Friday before last, and it was one of the most fun nights I've had in a while!

If you keep this up, people may develop the notion that you're from Alabama instead of Israel.


OK, just fuggin with ya.

[Patrick2]

Only five?? Wow . . . can't decide on any order either. Different players for different moods.

George Benson
Joe Pass
Tal farlow
Harry Leahey
Wes
Larry Carlton
Jeff Beck
Kenny Burrell
Chet Atkins
Lenny Breau
Johnny Smith

Check out this gem I found a few days ago.

[Agate]

Not one vote yet for Kessel, shame on everyone.

1. Barney Kessel
2. Django
3. Hank Garland
4. Wes
5. Russell Malone (Thought I should pick one who is still kicking.)

Consider me shamed... Yes, I have to swap Kessell in for Pizzarelli. What an oversight..

[Ma lala]

Richard Bona and Lokua Kanza

[fumblefingers]

Not jazz but one of my faves for sure. Probably the top guy out there as of 2013. (and finally a decent sounding youtube vid too)