View Poll Results: Favourite Guitarist
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John Scofield
132 10.57% -
Bill Frisell
92 7.37% -
Django Reinhardt
156 12.49% -
Wes Montgomery
349 27.94% -
Jim Hall
169 13.53% -
Joe Pass
278 22.26% -
Pat Metheny
161 12.89% -
Kurt Rosenwinkel
80 6.41% -
John Mclaughlin
66 5.28% -
John Abercrombie
29 2.32% -
Lee Ritenour
26 2.08% -
Pat Martino
106 8.49% -
Tal Farlow
64 5.12% -
Barney Kessel
94 7.53% -
Allan Holdsworth
61 4.88% -
George Benson
148 11.85% -
Grant Green
124 9.93% -
Jimmy Raney
51 4.08% -
Charlie Christian
77 6.16% -
Kenny Burrell
164 13.13%
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
Last edited by jameslovestal; 05-14-2021 at 03:28 PM.
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05-14-2021 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by jameslovestal
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My favorite guitarist right now is Emily Remler. Why is she not in the list?
Another notable omission is Lenny Breau.
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Originally Posted by Tal_175
Of course, I'm joking, but a poll with a fixed-listing of choices is flawed from the start.
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I'd have Mike Stern and Danny Gatton... Also George Golla.
But an excellent representative list.
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This poll was started in 2007, two years before Julian Lage's first album as leader, a year before Mary Halvorson's debut. Lage Lund had made one album.
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How is Johnny Smith not on this list???
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Originally Posted by ruger9
"Sorry for any shortcomings of this poll, it is only guitarists and obviously there is more than ten around, but thats the max option".
Note that now there are 20 guitarist listed so that "max option" must have changed from 10 to 20.
While I would have included Johnny Smith in a listing of 20 jazz guitarist, the overall problem is that there is a list to begin with, but that is the easily way to conduct such a poll; much more difficult for the software being used to allow "write in" choices.
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Been listening to Johnny Smith, "The Sounds Of Guitar." Wonderful player. Should be on the list...along with a couple hundred more.
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Originally Posted by jumpnblues
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Originally Posted by jameslovestal
It's still an interesting list.
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Originally Posted by jumpnblues
The general problem with a list of fixed choices (like 20 here) is when one says "how can they not be part of this list", this leads to "who should they replace in this list".
E.g. Should Johnny Smith replace Jimmy Raney or Tal Farlow?
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The list was compiled in 2007 and doubtless reflects the tastes of that time. Johnny Smith perhaps was not quite as respected then as he is now. Certainly, he has received growing attention and reassessment in recent years.
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So I picked monty and Burrell.
I listen to Kenny B by far the most, mainly because the quality of the other players on his albums is so high, e.g. if uve not heard it check out earthy, Art Farmer runs it!
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There are so many guitarists I love listening to, but I think these are my top 3. Who knows, maybe tomorrow is different.
1. Allan Holdsworth
2. Pat Metheny
3. Kurt Rosenwinkel
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Originally Posted by mwilliams
E.g. how many are into things that were created before they were born?
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It’s great to see that Wes is so well received here. He’s been dead for 54 years and yet he’s still leading polls! Wes lives!
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Originally Posted by jameslovestal
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Originally Posted by mwilliams
I also enjoy the music of the musicians you mentioned but I don't listen to them as much as the musicians that got me into jazz guitar like Farlow, Raney, Kessell, Green, Pass, etc.. These are the guys that inspired me to play jazz guitar.
Of course jazz musicians tend to know about the musicians that came before we were born, often as part of our overall musical education. My experience is that non musicians tend to mainly listen to the type of music they grew up with and maybe a few that their parents were into (e.g. The Beatles), but rarely their grandparents.
What I love about this forum is being exposed to jazz musicians from all eras \ generations.
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I voted for Grant Green .
First time I heard him 20 years ago ,I was shocked ( in a negative way ) by his "unprocessed" sound.
All these years that passed I wasn't paying any attention to him.
I like almost all the players from the list.
Suddenly something happened to me and I dig GG so much that the
last 2 months he is the only guitar player I am in the mood for listening.
So I think it really depends in the mood of each person.
The same happened with Kenny Burrell and e.t.c.
It is like voting for your favorite food.
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I settled on Barney Kessel. I was a 16 year old listening to Black sabbath and borrowed a live album from the library and loved it. Even though I appreciate many more players now BK, especially live, is what I enjoy the most.
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Originally Posted by mwilliams
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Much into Sonny Sharrock, Johnny Smith, Wes, Jim Hall, Kurt Rosenwinkel, etc. (edit: add Lenny Breau, Jack Wilkins to that list)
Some big names on the list who don't jive with me at all. I would say, any record that seems to focus on solo guitar that doesn't swing as much as others on the list, those are the ones I don't prefer. There's a lot of rubato playing out there and a lot of it is boring.
Looking for more modern day cats to listen to, who play modern day stuff.Last edited by stylo; 12-10-2022 at 11:34 PM.
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"modern day cats to listen to, who play modern day stuff"
Sonny Greenwich, James Blood Ulmer, Sonny Sharrock, Bern Nix, Joe Morris, Nels Cline, Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, Vernon Reid, Mary Halverson, Pete Cosey
Also...some forward thinking older stuff..
Gabor Szabo with Charles Lloyd ("Of Course, Of Course" or "Manhattan Stories" )
Dennis Budimer with Chico Hamilton on "Gongs East" featuring Eric Dolphy, or the Dennis Budimer Revelation Records trios from the early 1960s called "Sprung Free"
Just a few suggestions beyond the list.
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So many good choices. I had to vote for Wes, though, since I live in Indianapolis. If I lived in Seattle, I’d be saying “Dude! How can you make a list like this without Kurt Cobain???”
Kenny is a close second.
Half of Joe Pass — the half that plays in combos or accompanies Ella — is eye-wateringly good. The other half — the “Virtuoso,” solo, out-of-time stuff — doesn’t speak to me even a little bit. That might say more about my lack of sophistication than anything else.
There are several on this list I hadn’t heard of. I need to spend a little quality Spotify time, I guess.
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