Compact Diss Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 Guitar. Please no Joe Pass. I only have one Wes Montgomery(Finest Hour) but the particular one I have sounds way too much like elevator music to me. I am enjoying Bitch's Brew by Miles Davis featuring Johnn McLaughlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funk Jazz Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 check out the stuff Wes recorded with riverside. pretty much anything else is garbage. a good place to start is "boss guitar" or "a dynamic new sound in jazz." check out "idle moments" by grant green, it's essential cool jazz. "forever gold" by george benson has jaw dropping good, i mean sick (sorry ted) guitar playing. there is some great guitar playing on records by organ trios, like "crash" by jack mcduff w/ kenny burrell. or the jimmy smith meets wes montgomery. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlChuck Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 Pat Martino! The Visit is awesome. So is Interchange... hell, all is stuff is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 See the Pat Metheny thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batterypowered Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 I recommend Scofield's earlier stuff, when it was just the trio. Bar Talk, Shinola, Out Like a Light, as well as his more recent stuff, like What We Do, A Go Go, and Up All Night. I really HATE his mid-80s fusiony stuff. He's better than that. I got to see him live in... 1991, I think it was, and I've been in love since then. twoblock.net batterypowered.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Strat Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 I always liked Eric Johnson's jazz music, like Manhattan and East Wes. Too bad he hasn't done a jazz CD. BlueStrat a.k.a. "El Guapo" ...Better fuzz through science... http://geocities.com/teleman28056/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 The problem is, jazz has gone into so many now acceptable forms, that rating a "jazz" guitarist can be broken down into too many arenas. A jazz guitarist can come from many sources; fusion, swing, big band, "cool" combo, etc. Some of my favorites cover all this ground. McLaughlin, Metheny, Montgomery(whose "elevator" phase began after he found crossover success with "Sunny"), Christian, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Ed Bickert, Earl Klugh, Larry Carlton... For me, you'd have to be a bit more specific. Whitefang I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compact Diss Posted January 19, 2004 Author Share Posted January 19, 2004 Tonight I picked up Miles Davis "Live Evil" w/ McLaughlin on guitar and I am loving it. I am only about 13 minutes into it but this is what I like in Jazz, this type-it was recorded in 1970 and it's great to listen to-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitaristi0 Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Up All Night and A Go Go by John Scofield. Groovelation is also pretty good. A duck-pond, a museum, and a red hunting hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihategarybettman Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 This is going to sound like heresy on this board, but, truth is, 95% of the jazz guitar recordings I've heard bore me to tears (one exception that leaps to mind is Django-I love Django). A lot of jazz guitarists who go on about tone kill theirs by rolling off all of the treble and playing with no edge or fire in their music. Also, frequently the solos go off on irrevelant tangents and have nothing to do with the song; you could drop any one of their solos in any one of their songs. I like jazz, but give me a good piano player like Bill Evans, Horace Silver, or Vince Guaraldi, or someone who knows his way around a horn, like Miles, Bird, or Diz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihategarybettman Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 P.S. If I've offended anyone, I am truly sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitaristi0 Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 ihategarybettman, i agree with you. Most of the jazz if heard is pretty boring, and the only Jazz ive heard that i like is John Scofield. A duck-pond, a museum, and a red hunting hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corner Pocket Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 lenny breau as for piano players, Art Tatum. my 0.02 Paul Peace, Paul ---------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc taz Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Allan Holdsworth's "ALL NIGHT WRONG". I love that one. Live, with no synths, no excessive effects, and no overdubs. Recorded direct to a 2 track digital recorder from the soundboard. Allan plays both rhythms and solos effortlessly. With only the bass of Jimmy Johnson, and Chad Wackerman's drums to back him up, Allan's at his musical finest here. No compromises, no bullshit. sevenstring.org profile my flickr page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklava Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Billy Cobham - spectrum Anything by Grover washington jr The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curly Dan Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Bola Sete, "Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival" "music heals" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Strat Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 I'm just not a Jazz cat. I'm more song oriented in my listening, and I'm not much on instrumental music. I can't even listen to classical music like Beethoven or Stravinski for long. Swing is cool, and about the only instrumental music I can listen to for extended periods of time, with the only possible exception being surf. BlueStrat a.k.a. "El Guapo" ...Better fuzz through science... http://geocities.com/teleman28056/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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