Your top 10 players

[AKA]

Benson
Grant Green
Jimmy Ponder
Wes
Joe Pass
Django
Peter Bernstein
Herb Ellis
Jesse Van Ruller
Martin van Iterson

[Cunamara]

Wow. I'll go with the names that just jumped immediately into mind, with no particular thought as to who I should include. They are also not necessarily direct influences, I just love listening to them. Oddly enough, not even ten!

Ed Bickert
Jim Hall
Peter Bernstein
Jonathan Kreisberg
Gene Bertoncini
Johnny Smith

[jbromusic]

4) Kurt Rosenwinkel (1998-2010)

I'm basically with you on this but I would go with 1993 - 2005. I started losing interest when he started messing around with all of the digital gear and his tone became super processed. He's basically unlistenable to me now that there is absolutely no attack in his sound. It's like he's completely removed any natural percussiveness that the guitar possesses. I do think there have been some really incredible highlights since 2005, like "Star of Jupiter" and "Mr. Hope" from the Star of Jupiter recording, "Chords" from The Remedy live recording, and "Zhivago" and "Turns" from the Our Secret World album.

My top 10:

Scofield
Jim Hall
Metheny
Wes
Rosenwinkel '93-'05 :-)
John Abercrombie
Bill Frisell
Jimmy Raney
Lage Lund
Wolfgang Muthspiel

I love Scott Henderson, Mike Miller and Allan Holdsworth too as much as some of these other players but I would probably put them in their own category.

[Midnight Blues]

Joseph Antony Jacobi Passalaqua, to be 100% correct

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[Petimar]

Wes Montgomery



The space after Wes’ name was done on purpose because for me there is no one close to his greatness.

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[drbhrb]

I'm basically with you on this but I would go with 1993 - 2005. I started losing interest when he started messing around with all of the digital gear and his tone became super processed. He's basically unlistenable to me now that there is absolutely no attack in his sound. It's like he's completely removed any natural percussiveness that the guitar possesses. I do think there have been some really incredible highlights since 2005, like "Star of Jupiter" and "Mr. Hope" from the Star of Jupiter recording, "Chords" from The Remedy live recording, and "Zhivago" and "Turns" from the Our Secret World album.

My top 10:

Scofield
Jim Hall
Metheny
Wes
Rosenwinkel '93-'05 :-)
John Abercrombie
Bill Frisell
Jimmy Raney
Lage Lund
Wolfgang Muthspiel

I love Scott Henderson, Mike Miller and Allan Holdsworth too as much as some of these other players but I would probably put them in their own category.

Have you heard Kurt's latest, "Angels Around"? I don't like a lot of his stuff including the early records but this is just an inventive jazz guitar trio record with a pleasant tone on the guitar.

If I had to try to make a list myself,

Jim Hall
Peter Bernstein
Julian Lage
Ed Bickert
Baden Powell
Luiz Bonfa
Bireli Lagrene
Joao Gilberto
Jonathan Kreisberg
Wes

[jbromusic]

Have you heard Kurt's latest, "Angels Around"? I don't like a lot of his stuff including the early records but this is just an inventive jazz guitar trio record with a pleasant tone on the guitar.

Yes. I got it the day it came out. His tone on this album is exactly what I was talking about in my post. Super processed with no attack. The lines that he plays are brilliant but his tone is a complete turn-off for me.

[Hep To The Jive]

Ernest Ranglin
Sco
Bill Frisell (earlier period)
Pat Martino
Charlie Christian
Django
Mike Stern
Wes
Jim Hall
Andrey Ryabov (he was my first jazz teacher)

[drbhrb]

Yes. I got it the day it came out. His tone on this album is exactly what I was talking about in my post. Super processed with no attack. The lines that he plays are brilliant but his tone is a complete turn-off for me.

Ah, different tastes. I'm much more put off by his early Next Step, Deep Song etc tones.

[Wattie]

I am in! Not in any order:

Joe Pass
Pat Martino
Jimmy Bruno
Julian Lage
Wes Montgomery
John Scofield
Les Paul
Kenny Burrell
Grant Green
Allan Holdsworth (I think, he was so far beyond my compehension that he ought to be on the list)

Just my opinion, FWIW.

[PickingMyEars]

Bill Jennings (and Billy Butler... because of that one solo that we all gotta learn to play the blooz right)

Grant Green
Wes Montgomery
Jim Hall
Billy Bean
Jimmy Raney

Joe Cohn
Andy Brown
Bobby Broom
Peter Bernstein
(One day I will get a lesson from each of those modern masters... One day... )

Special Mention: Barry Galbraith... some people lament not being able to study with Ted Greene (I would have loved to).

I would have loved to study with Barry Galbraith in person... I have studied with people who studied with Galbraith, but experiencing his stuff first hand... At least we have his books

10 is 10 too few...

[Bach5G]

Maybe not 10, but

The jazz guitar Mt Rushmore:

Wes
Joe
Pat
John McLaughlan (the Teddy Roosevelt choice)

And then:

Lee Ritenour’s Stolen Moments is one of my favourite jazz guitar recordings but I wouldn’t put Lee on a list of jazz guitarists.

I liked what I heard of Mark Whitfield and Peter Leitch. Ulf Wakenius.

I tried hard to like Jim Hall but I failed. Similarly Kenny Burrell and Grant Green.

[BlueWolf]

I’m a little all over the place with this, with a little modern and a little old school, but what the heck. In alphabetical order, my personal ten favorites:

Kenny Burrell
Larry Carlton
Grant Geissman
Grant Green
John McLaughlin
Pat Metheny
Wes Montgomery
Joe Pass
Django Reinhardt
John Scofield

Painfully, in order to keep it to ten, I had to leave off some of my other favorites including Charlie Christian, Herb Ellis, Alan Holdsworth, Barney Kessel, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, and Lee Rintenour.

[dasein]

I like the Top 20 idea - 10 was tough!
Now I need to add to my original list:
- John Abercrombie
- Wolfgang Muthspiel
- John Moulder
- Mike Moreno

and still probably more as I keep thinking about them!

John Moulder was one of the priests at the Catholic Church I attended growing up. I had absolutely no clue he was a monster guitar player until years later.

[2bornot2bop]

How does one have Emily Remler on a list without Wes. She attempted to be a Wes clone for how many years?

Add me to the list of individuals who detest lists.

[jbromusic]

Ah, different tastes. I'm much more put off by his early Next Step, Deep Song etc tones.

Interesting. His tone on The Next Step where he was playing through his old Polytone was just about perfect to me.

[jameslovestal]

How does one have Emily Remler on a list without Wes. She attempted to be a Wes clone for how many years?

Add me to the list of individuals who detest lists.

What are your top ten most detested listing?

[DMgolf66]

My top 10 list of JGO players:
1. Marinero
2. Marinero
3. Marinero
4. Marinero
5. Marinero
6. Marinero
7. Marinero
8. Marinero
9. Marinero
10. 3 guesses....

[Bach5G]

I’m sure we’ve all seen this happen, but, one morning, at a big band rehearsal, the conductor was trying to explain something to the guitarist. I should add that the conductor knew next to nothing about playing guitar.

In frustration, the conductor tried a different approach.

“Who is your favourite guitarist?”he asked the guitarist.

”Jeremy Brown,” the guitarist answered.

The conductor was confused. He’d never heard of Jeremy Brown. “Who is Jeremy Brown?” he asked.

”I am,” came the reply.

[BWV]

in no particular order

Herb Ellis (although only listen to him w/ Oscar Peterson)
Pat Metheny
John Scofield
Sonny Sharrock
Allan Holdsworth
Baden Powell
Martin Taylor
Bill Frisell
John McLaughlin
Pat Martino

[Hep To The Jive]

My top 10 list of JGO players:
1. Marinero
2. Marinero
3. Marinero
4. Marinero
5. Marinero
6. Marinero
7. Marinero
8. Marinero
9. Marinero
10. 3 guesses....

Ok, I'd like to see your list in 10 years. It has no soul like the old lists used to have.

[Litterick]

Top ten reactions to these lists.

1. Why are you always right?
2. I hate lists.
3. You just copied my list.
4. Are we still in the fifties?
5. Oh, them.
6. How could you possibly?
7. Let's not go there.
8. Who here has the worst taste?
9. Oh no, not him again.
10. Let's talk about real estate.

[kris]

It's getting kindergarten ... I'm disappearing.

[Groyniad]

no wes mr b in the whole top ten?

[BWV]

no wes mr b in the whole top ten?

dont listen much to Wes, just a list of who I listen to the most, not trying the 10 greatest - otherwise where is Charlie Christian and Django on everyone's list?