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    I'm talking about listening rather than teachers...

    It's REALLY hard choice.... These aren't always the players I think are the best, funnily enough. For example I feel that Johnny Hodges is perhaps the greatest alto sax player of all time, even above Bird, but I'm not that influenced by him.

    1) Miles
    2) Lester Young
    3) Bird
    4) Coltrane (probably the first jazz musician I really got into - the whole quartet, really important, Elvin, McCoy)
    5) Duke Ellington

    Mostly horn players as you can see... But I do also love drummers.... This list is mostly 'historical' but Mark Giuliana would figure among my favourite modern non-guitar musicians.

    Is it just me or is the guitar much more prominent in contemporary jazz, or is that just the filter I am listening to it though?

    Singers... It's funny, but I do tend to learn my tunes from Ella or Nat Cole... Not Sinatra so much...

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    1. Barry Harris
    2. Barry Harris
    3. Barry Harris
    4. Barry Harris
    5. Barry Harris

    (Ah, just saw the reference to listening, rather than teaching.)

    1. Barry Harris
    2. Bud Powell
    3. Steve Swallow
    4. Tom Harrell
    5. Tony Bennett
    Last edited by David B; 03-02-2017 at 06:51 PM.

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    Wow, what an interesting question. It is somewhat discomfitting as it makes me realize I almost only listen to guitar players. I don't enjoy listening to most sax players except Paul Desmond (the sax cliches are really annoying to me, they tend to overplay, and the sound of the instrument is often unattractive). I like trumpet, particularly Art Farmer and Miles; I would rate those two as influences. And I love how Herbie Hancock comps and have tried to bring some of that into my comping.

    Come to think of it, I prefer to comp than to solo which might also be why I don't attend much to horn players and singers in terms of finding things I can play on guitar. Comping is a much more interesting and challenging process, to me.

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    Wow, hard to pick 5...here's probably "all time," but maybe not "this week"

    1. Paul Desmond
    2. Bill Evans
    3. Hank Mobley
    4. Chet Baker
    5. Ahmad Jamal

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    Not very diverse...

    Keith Jarrett
    Jack dejohnette
    Gary peacock
    Ahmad Jamal
    Ella Fitzgerald

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    louis armstrong -influenced everything that came after
    charlie parker-fluidity and invention
    don cherry- eclecticism
    jimmy giuffre-perfection
    stan getz-the sound


    cheers

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    1. wayne shorter
    2. miles davis
    3. monk
    4. bill evans
    5. keith jarrett

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    Stan Getz
    Paul Desmond
    Erroll Garner
    Joe Venuti
    Buddy Defranco

    Tomorrow, the list could look entirely different.

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    John Lewis - made jazz extremely approachable to me.
    Stan Getz - style, phrasing, tone and ideas and just about everything
    Thelonious Monk - Dissonance coupled with sheer fun
    Oscar Peterson - Fluidity and embellishment
    Ella Fitzgerald - 'nuff said.

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    in no order maybe...

    Lee Morgan
    Hank Mobley
    Art Pepper
    Dexter Gordon
    Bird

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    No big surprises I am sure, but I can't limit it to 5:

    Miles Davis
    Ornette Coleman
    Chet Baker
    John Coltrane
    Art Pepper
    Paul Desmond
    Art Blakey
    Charles Mingus
    Gerry Mulligan
    Thelonius Monk
    Bill Evans
    Kenny Drew
    Jan Hammer
    Billy Cobham

    I forgot Charlie Parker.
    Last edited by lammie200; 08-03-2019 at 03:00 PM.

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    John Coltrane
    Mingus
    Chick Corea
    Jarrett
    Freddie Hubbard
    Sonny Rollins
    Clifford Brown

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    Bud Powell
    Herbie Hancock
    Monk
    Red Garland
    Bill Evans

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    Clifford Brown
    Charlie Parker
    John Coltrane
    Chick Corea
    Jaco Pastorius

    The first three I've transcribed the most, though I'm afraid they haven't (yet) influenced my playing as much as I'd like. The last two are the guys that really got me into jazz.

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    1. Or
    2. Nette
    3. Cole
    4. Man
    5. John Zorn

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duotone
    1. Or
    2. Nette
    3. Cole
    4. Man
    5. John Zorn
    Ornette Coleman Hawkins? :-)

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    Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Pharaoh Saunders, Stan Getz
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    Lee Morgan
    Clifford Brown
    Donald Bird
    Lou Donaldson
    Jack MacDuff
    Jimmy Forrest


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    Only one really. Everything else came after the fact. Louis Armstrong. He's the reason I play music. I heard him when I was 11 and felt like I had been waiting my whole life to hear him. It's been a journey. So just limited to 5, in some approximation of time.

    Duke Ellington
    Miles
    Parker
    Mingus (a passing passion)
    Hank Mobley
    Desmond
    Pepper

    ok, so I lied And Clifford, definitely, Clifford.
    Last edited by deselby; 03-02-2017 at 08:16 PM.

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    Art Pepper
    Louis Jordan
    Jaco
    Illinois Jacquet
    Jack McDuff

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    Charlie Parker
    John Coltrane
    McCoy Tyner
    Dexter Gordon
    Cannonball Adderely

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    Dexter Gordon
    Chet Baker
    Miles Davis
    Charlie Parker

    Coltrane was the first one I really got into, but I'm not sure about influence simply because I can't play anything like he did, on the guitar. But I did listen obsessively.

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    Bill Evans
    Miles Davis
    Sonny Stitt
    Wayne Shorter
    Art Blakey

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    These guys shaped the way I hear jazz, it's as much about the composing as anything. They created the jazz repertoire I like to play.

    miles
    monk
    mingus
    shorter
    trane
    ...can't really leave out herbie

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    Picking 5..hard to do. But these have been pretty much constants

    Ornette Coleman
    Steve Lacy
    Anthony Braxton
    Thelonious Monk
    Charles Mingus


    ..and everyone who influenced them..like Parker, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, etc. I have always tried to learn about where my heros are coming from and then listen to them, and their own, to hear the relationship to what they themselves have done.