Who is your favorite fingerstyle jazz player on the scene TODAY, so no Lenny Breau or George Van Eps, as wonderful as they are

[ASATKat]

Who is your favorite fingerstyle guitarist on the scene today,, not yesterday. They have to be alive.

 

[brookdalebill]

Martin Taylor, Julian Lage, and Tim Lerch leap to mind.

 

[ASATKat]

Good choices,

 

[Dukex]

Django

 

[Tricone]

Ralph Towner and Steve Herberman.

 

[buster poser]

Django

used a pick and very dead

 

[ndcaster]

Nathaniel Murphy



this dude is the shizzle

 

[Tricone]

Eric Skye has a nice tone also.

 

[richiek65]

 

[gitold]

Tuck Andress.

 

[ASATKat]

Django

Django is no longer playing because right now he's spending all his time being dead.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Django is no longer playing because right now he's dead.

Tis but a scratch!

 

[notmyusualuserid]

Stanley Jordan, Duck Baker, Pierre Bensuzan

 

[brookdalebill]

Django is no longer playing because right now he's dead.

Since 1953, if memory serves.
He also used picks, and sometimes buttons, for picks.

 

[notmyusualuserid]

used a pick and very dead

Django is no longer playing because right now he's dead.

Maybe he meant Django Rhinestone. Very obscure guitarist. So obscure that he doesn't exist.

 

[Freeman Keller]

Eric Skye has a nice tone also.

I'm another big fan of Eric's. Its kind of interesting that his guitar of choice is a small bodied SCGC acoustic, not the usual big old archtop.

 

[ASATKat]

Tuck Andress.

Martin Taylor was on my radar and in a guitar magazine interview, he said he was playing upstairs in this fancy expensive hotel. As Martin was done and leaving, he heard solo guitar over at the quick restaurant they had in the lobby. Martin stopped and his jaw dropped. There was Tuck playing solo guitar.

Martin has since mastered Tuck's amazing funky right hand featuring double picking with the thumb playing up/down strokes. Martin uses this Tuck technique all the time today.

Martin playing fast, that thumb is crazy good.
This is amazing.

 

[Tricone]

Since 1953, if memory serves.
He also used picks, and sometimes buttons, for picks.

He would also break off the ends of hair combs and use them. I wonder if the combs and buttons were real tortoise shell back in the day? Talented player.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Ralph Towner and Steve Herberman.

Anyone remember Steve Towner in Atmospheres?

 

[Tricone]

I'm another big fan of Eric's. Its kind of interesting that his guitar of choice is a small bodied SCGC acoustic, not the usual big old archtop.

I really like that about his style. I also like he doesn't request traditional woods but backs and sides of cocobollo instead of mahogany or maple.
It is a great sound and helps give him an identifiable tone in guitar jazz.