Who's Your Favorite Jazz Guitarist?

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I found out about Rene Thomas through his work with Chet Baker

 

[RomanS]

Bill Frisell (runner up: Julian Lage)

 

[kennl]

OG's
Wes
Grant Green
Kenny Burrell
George Benson
Jimmy Ponder

contemporary
Jef Lee Johnson
John Scofield
Bill Frisell
Wayne Krantz
Jesse Van Ruler

 

[davidchagrin]

My fav guitarist is Julian Lage.

 

[archetype]

My favorite listen is Grant Green. I expecially dig how he could take soul and R&B songs and transform them into his own thing.

@burtf51 Cal Collins isn't one of my favorites, but he was damned good. The only time I heard his music, or heard of him, was once in the 70s when he played a local gig. He did a duo with a good player who was mainly a folk guitarist, so it was interesting to hear the two styles woven together sympathetically.

I had no idea I'd enter into this fun 'favorite' exercise and end up using the ignore feature for someone willfully increasing the noise in our signal to noise ratio, here.

 

[jdgladw]

Derek Bailey
Carl LeBlanc
Bern Nix
Sonny Sharrock
James Blood Ulmer
Noel Akchote
John Abercrombie
Joe Morris
Fred Frith
Ed Cherry
Brandon Ross
Liberty Ellman
Brandon Seabrook
Miles Okazaki
Gregg Belisle-Chi (A new guy playing with Tim Berne)

Unless I missed them, I'm surprised Eddie Lang and Jimmy Raney haven't shown up yet.

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

I forgot about Mr. Raney.

He was a somewhat local jazz celebrity.

 

[tuuur]

Frank Zappa.

 

[telemnemonics]

In no particular order I guess Bill Frisell, Sonny Sharrock and Django.

Jazz guitarists who roll back the tone control on the neck pickup?
The elevator is down the hall on the left!

 

[nickmm]

Wes is jazz guitar like Miles to Trumpet Coltrane to Sax and Jimi to rock guitar.

 

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I don't have a favorite but many ah really really likes and I really likes to listen to my Cal Collins often

Cal gets around - I have quite a few records with him as a sideman.