MY TOP 5 (OR 11) JAZZ GUITAR RECORDS!!

Including
Barney Kessel Hiram Bullock Terje Rypdal Johnny Smith Kenny Burrell Pat Metheny Ralph Towner Bill Frisell John Scofield Tommy Bolin! John Abercrombie

[@pianostudentsemper]

Great resource for an up and coming jazz guitarist. Thanks! So many cool sounds in these albums!

[@johnlamarca3339]

Great video Ken, thanks for making us aware of all these great records. I’m going to see Bill Frisell in London at the Jazz Cafe towards the end of the year, really looking forward to it.

[@graham4028]

Mr.Micallef, I love your reviews , so much passion and enthusiasm and some wonderful descriptive alliterations and even willing to gamble your left nut, as always some great records to check out . Thanks again , take care.

[@georgealanlpsandcds9311]

Hey Ken, I love videos like this, very informative and it gives me a direction to follow in searching out some guys that I haven't gotten into yet - thanks!

[@patrickotoole8420]

Aw man thanks Ken! Really appreciate what you're doing. Thanks for the Marc Johnson recommendation, I love Peter Erskine's playing. He always seems to sound relaxed and in control no matter how far out shit gets!

[@JensLarsen]

Great list! I need to check out a few of these 🙂

[@gsolis31]

Had not heard of Timeless and I just streamed it and I am blown away. Wild and tremendous. My favorite tune was Red and Orange, but a close second was Timeless, what an amazing end to that album. Thank you for sharing and this is now on my vinyl wishlist!

[@ringwearvinyl]

Emily Remler, Both albums with Gomez. Catwalk and Transition are amazing!

[@fredericmorris2931]

Yes!!!

[@VinylRundown]

Metheny is a brilliant “musician” guitarist, composer, performer, innovator. ! Thanks for recognizing him. Still performs bright size life.

[@axeman2638]

i think he's an unmelodic over rated hack.

[@VinylRundown]

@@axeman2638 which albums have you heard?

[@axeman2638]

@@VinylRundown pat metheny shreds is better than pat metheny.

[@axeman2638]

@@VinylRundown watch the rick beato interview and then tell me what a guitar master he is. rofl. he's a hack

[@VinylRundown]

@@axeman2638 seen it. Which records have you heard? None. Your loss.

[@petermorris8653]

Ken-Thank you for the great information. Rather than other vc channels that only focus on new “audiophile” re-issues, you talk about LPs that no one else talks about. Peter

[@DlmlZ]

Well, I am glad owning already half of your list in my personal collection. These musicians are absoltue monsters and as a musician there is so much you can learn from them and their playing. Well I would have added Joe Pass to that list with his album "Virtuoso". I also need to check, where I can get those records which are still missing in my collection. Thank you very much for sharing! Great choices! Love it! Cheers DimiZ

[@Dems-fk8sh]

I'm a guitarist, I love guitar and I've learned a lot from this review. Great, thanks !

[@user-ex9zm7bg3x]

Ken, I love to save your recs in qobuz as I watch your video and check them out later on. Thanks for the insight.

[@JD_and_TheBanned]

Inspiring effort.

[@kenpendergrass6400]

I’m glad you hipped me to jazz on ECM.

[@chrisashley2100]

Thank you for this video! Love Ralph Towner and pretty much anything on ECM. One great guitar album that you can always find for a buck is Johnny Mathis - One Fire, Two Guitars which has great guitars of Al Caiola and Tony Mattola (I’ve always thought of this as a jazz guitar album)

[@danmartinez5502]

Ken your eclectic taste is very refreshing. I learn a lot from your videos. BTW Like your reviews on Stereophile. Burrell is the man

[@Roberjohnson]

Glad to see I'm not the only person who can only find worn-out copies of Johnny Smith albums. I've bought at least 5 copies of Moonlight in Vermont and they are all full of scratches, but what an amazing album it is!

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Right!

[@sianinesse]

Thanks for all the data for all those who we love jazz guitar !!

[@usedblazers]

Great channel! Must add, some of my top guitarist records are Grant Green’s Idle Moments and George Benson’s Beyond the Blue Horizon. Can you do a video on your top CTI Records albums?

[@stevesanders6248]

First time poster, love your videos. Great guitarist that you mentioned . The only other i would have added is Larry Coryell ☮

[@jimgroce9487]

I went through a period years ago when I would buy anything I found on ECM. Always interesting, always beautifully recorded, and always seem to be in great condition. And yes “timeless” is high on my list.

[@williamjackson6705]

That`s actually Eberhard Weber on Pat`s " Watercolours". Pat always had great bass players with him. Mark Egan & Richard Bona weren`t exactly slouches in his later bands. Thanks for giving Tommy Bolin shoutout. The man died way too young.

[@Michael-xz1nk]

Quadrant 4 on Spectrum is beyond smokin!!!!

[@jasonshaw2065]

Great video thanks Ken. One of my favorite Scofield albums Bump was never released on vinyl. You are so right about what makes a great guitarist is a unique voice. Django deserves a nod for sure, especially with that mangled hand. Woody Allen's film Sweet and Lowdown was a fun homage to gypsy jazz guitar.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Yes Django was brilliant

[@mcgjohn22]

Hi Ken thanks for the video clip. Wes Montgomery - Full House is another great jazz guitar record.

[@marioalbertoceronromero7021]

timeless is an incredible album. I bought it some time ago after watching one of your videos :)

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Yay

[@1965zimmy]

Thanks for the great list! A couple of things for me to search out. One of my favourites is John McLaughlin's Extrapolation.

[@thinkingtom]

Ralph Towner's "Solo Concert" is a great 1980 ECM live album. He has two John Abercrombie compositions on it, "Ralph's Piano Waltz" and "Timeless". Highly recommended. Great suggestions, thank you!

[@joeyschreiner]

I learnt a lot!

[@christopherbarker181]

After this video, I had to play the Blue Note Tone Poet Introducing Kenny Burrell BN 1523 (Mono). I am using the Hana SL Mono cartridge and this pressing is awesome; the drums sound amazing and complement Kenny so well. I heard absolutely zero distortion. This group just kills it and if there is such a thing as a perfect album, this is it! Thanks for the great video!

[@David-by8ev]

Totally agree on "Timeless"! Although "While we're young" still remains my personal favorite (and I was young when I listened to it the first time when it was released early 90s). Still sounds so fresh, relevant, and....tight, intense. "Spectrum" is another big one, I am listening to since my school days. You descriptions (Terje Rypdal, Kenny Burrell...) are just nailing it for me - you have found the perfect words for it brilliant! Will check out the few records I wasn't aware of (Brecker Bros, for instance). Also will give Metheny another shot. That's one of few guitarists, I couldn't manage to get into so far (Frisell is another famous one), but that's just me. Would never trash him and as I wrote in response of Vinyl Rundowns comment, I lOVE his contributions on JM's "Shadow & Light" live recording. When it comes to favorite recordings I miss some of Alan Holdsworth and Shawn Lanes, although they aren't probably in the same league of the mentioned above all-time greatest recordings, but still.... The only record in particular, that I miss is "Sunday Night at San Francisco". I think it deserves to be in that rank of titles. GREAT VIDEO, Thank you, Ken

[@azdh85224]

Great video and excellent album picks. I would highly suggest Pat Martino El Hombre. Please listen to the title track - if you do, you will want to pick up this album. The entire album is one I enjoy listening to all the way thru. I subscribed.

[@bababooey5314]

Great rundown ! Thanks very much for turning me onto the Brecker Bros album!! . Hiram played on: Tee’d Off You Left Something Behind Squish Baffled I Don’t Know Either Your left nut is safe !

[@somerandomhomeboy]

Hi Ken, Thanks so much for your top5(11). I just listened to "Timeless" for the first time! It's so weird to listen to and not miss any bass playing especially on the up tempo stuff. Also this maybe the first time I've heard Jan Hammer on piano. Thanks again. Any chance of doing a top 5(11) ECM recordings?

[@redstarwraith]

I love everything I ever heard by Terje Rypdal.

[@DismasM]

I have to admit guitar is down my list of favorite jazz instruments---and I love guitar. I've never understood why that is. But when I think of jazz guitar I skip over almost all the greats and right at the top, tied, stand Concierto (de Aranjuez) by Jim Hall. Made truly famous by Miles, it was composed for guitar and Concierto is an amazing record. And next to it, As Falls Wichita, Pat and Lyle---if only for September Fifteenth. But not only. Thanks, Ken. Keep on keepin' on. You've got some great ones here.

[@seansrecords]

ive been a guitar player for decades ... so jazz guitar was my way into jazz that poll winners record is so good ... its one of my favourite versions of green dolphin st ... ive already bought my craft reissue , cant wait to get it , i already have a 70s released one from contemporary but it aint the cleanest kenny burrell midnight blue is my all time guitar jazz record ... cant wait for blue note to re release the other KB records ... i still need to find the "introducing" on tone poet too joe pass intercontinental on MPS is great too george benson gets honorable mention ...

[@kieronjohnson8834]

Ken, I really like that your lists always tend to go beyond the dull and predictable. It's taken me quite a long time to fully appreciate the guitar in jazz, but in the last few years, mainly because of my exposure to the ECM label I now love listening to people like Frisell, Abercrombie, Towner and Metheny. Totally with you on the awesomeness of Timeless, I had the cd but your previous ECM video prompted me to go back and re-listen and search out a vinyl copy. Not sure why but Hall and Joe Pass always sound bloodless too me, it's pretty enough but it just doesn't stick like a Grant Green or John McLaughlin. More lists please.

[@jeffbakalar1535]

Amen to Hiram Bullock! A lot of great players talked about here, but as a side man who frequently takes the spotlight when given a solo, he always commands awe and exhilaration from even the casual listener. Very few strummers who can rock out, funk hard and/or enhance a delicate atmosphere, often in the same gig. He was best found live, which is why we don't have enough evidence on vinyl.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Perfectly stated thank you

[@krissimms4775]

Hiram has a least 8/10 brilliant lp.'s out .The first 4 are outstanding

[@westernartifact580]

This is so great. Absolutely great. Best list video I’ve ever seen. I mean, I have every one of these (except the Becker Brothers). This list is so good I have nothing to object to nor do I have anything to add. I could but I don’t need to. Just great. When you ask me about favorite jazz guitar records, you’re asking me about my favorite records. Nailed it JVA. Just nailed it.

[@fredericmorris2931]

Terrific as always! (Maybe a little ECM heavy.) Other worthies not mentioned: Charlie Byrd (At the Village Vanguard an amazing record), Joe Pass, Larry Coryell, Gabor Szabo, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bola Sete.

[@stevenpalmieri348]

Your list is very, very similar to mine!

[@michaelzimmermann2354]

Thank you for this Clip. Here we have a true lover of Jazz. You can take away his bread and wine, but never the music.... would be spiritual death.

[@stanyoung6730]

Awesome pics!! Check out Jim Hall / Ron Carter: Live at village west for some great music!!

[@FleagleSangria]

I must be getting old. I havent had an alert from your channel in forever Ken. Well, it might help if I actually turned the alert bell on... ok then Bandy get your act together. Enjoyed the vid Ken! I gotta get caught up on all your vids now. Thanks for your channel👍🏻

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Thanks for showing up John!

[@3340steve]

Thank you for mentioning Bright Size Life...his best record (also Question and Answer) ....excellent...Wes Montgomery : the record to get is Smokin at the Half Note...Essential....

[@citygirlfarm]

Good to see someone recognizing Tommy Bolin. He was a great guitarist who gets passed over a lot. Chet Adkins, Joe Pass, and Don Rich deserve a mention, very independent styles. John Gray, Carol Kaye, Howard Roberts, and one of my favorites Ed Bickert. Ed was one of the best jazz guitarist ever. Another guy who doesn't get mentioned a lot, but he was more in the blues vein is Roy Buchanan. Good video, I will check out some of the music. Thanks

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

I deal with jazz onlyso chet atkns, Don Rich don’t really fit here but great players

[@twostepped999]

F-- love frisell and I am seeing him next week with Rudy royston and Brian blade. I can’t wait. Saw metheny last fall. Ans Julian lage! I’ll have to check these records out thanks ken. Ps rip Ron miles

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Lage is brilliant

[@tonyhodgkinson4586]

Even the record covers were great designs back in the day.

[@muletrane]

Bill Frisell is tops for me. Just amazing!

[@wylieroth3145]

Hiram Bullock along with Paul Shaffer, Will Lee and Steve Jordan, dubbed, "The Most Dangerous Band in the World." Incredible stuff for Late Night tv, i.e., Letterman. I actually watched the 1st installment of this without the audio. It's better with... Great music/musicians and a great presentation. Jolly good then.

[@brucevair-turnbull8082]

Thanks for a glimpse of your top jazz guitar albums, Ken. I must admit, I'm not that keen on guitar in the jazz setting- more Chuck Berry or Frank Zappa. That said, I do like 'The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd' on Riverside. He went very easy listening Latin shortly thereafter and lost me.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

He always lost me! Thanks for the comment

[@patrickcosgrove886]

Just wondering what you think of Ava Mendoza. I recently heard about her. I like players like Bill Frisell, Mary Halvorson, Nels Cline and Mr. Scofield.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

I’ve only heard her once, I think on a William Parker Record? She’s happening

[@coytebryson3059]

Hi Ken , just wanted to ask if Jimmy is good ? Thank you

[@yeptoo1148]

This just in - Gilad Hekselman 👍🎸.

[@JadeTheWolf1982]

Might I also add David Torn Cloud About Mercury an ECM release

[@ecyfoto]

Ya gotta get you some Martino!

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Martino records are rare, in even in NYC

[@meshplates]

An eccentric selection I'd say.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Eclectic, not eccentric

[@IvorThomas]

Howard Roberts “Velvet Groove”, Cal Collins “Cincinnati to LA” (not sure if I got the album title right). That HR record is absolutely gorgeous and swings like crazy!!!

[@axeman2638]

Roberts is better than all those over rated big nosed hacks like metheny and scofield put together.

[@Metranger-xd4bt]

Is The Poll Winners, and the Johnny Smith, you have the Mono versions?

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Yes

[@Marlg]

Rene Thomas. His work as a sideman with Lou Bennett, Bobby Jaspar and Eddy Louis as well as his records as a leader. The 50’s early bop stuff to the 70’s post stuff. All excellent. Give a listen if you haven’t already. A very strong, dynamic and beautiful player. 🙏🏽

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Yes I recall an album on Riverside?

[@Marlg]

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 "Guitar Groove" is on JAZZLAND (w/ JR Monterose). Maybe that's what you're remembering. I don't recall any Riverside albums. It's a great one. Take a look at "Enfin" by organist Lou Bennet and "TPL" (Thomas-Pelzer Limited) by Thomas. 👌🏽

[@tommeggison1466]

Joe Pass "For Django" needs to be heard more.

[@jeremyversusjazz]

good list. glad u mentioned the monster players u left out. no one i know trashes pat metheny. no one. easily one of the titans of 20th and 21st century music. on any instrument. metheny has a “real book” of just his tunes and it’s 3 inches thick. so, i mean… i own every thing kenny burrell ever recorded. his masterpiece is widely considered to be Midnight Blue. It’s his Kinda Blue. Not groundbreaking like kinda blue but the greatest archtop guitar jazz and jazz/blues tone and playing ever recorded. it is known. 😎

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Well said

[@Michael-xz1nk]

Love Abercrombie's "Timeless" record. The tune "Love Song" is one of my all time favs. Also love Metheny, Towner, Wes, Tommy Emmanuel, Martin Taylor, Joe Pass, Lenny Breau, Chris Standring, Chuck Loeb, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Earl Klugh, Lee Ritenour, Jack Jezzro, Dan Adler, Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Russell Malone, Domenic Miller, Jake Langley, Chet Atkins, the list goes on and on as you know.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Chuck Loeb, What a loss.

[@Michael-xz1nk]

Indeed!

[@patrickashby15]

Great titles but my own personal favorite is Jim Hall Live on artist house talk about interplay Hall shows all he learned from Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins.

[@engelschmidl2907]

I'll throw Joe Pass in the ring. Can't stop listening to his Pablo records, especially group one called Tudo Bem!

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Need

[@guygrundy6647]

The ECM output of the early 1970's through the 80's was simply astonishing.I well remember looking forward to every single release, excitedly going down to the record store, racing home and carefully placing the prize on the turntable...and being blown away. Through Manfred Eicher's single minded vision, ECM introduced a new sound, a gold standard of recording and production and as importantly, audiophile vinyl ( which as their famous byline stated was "the most beautiful sound next to silence".) He changed the landscape of contemporary jazz, period.I'd have included Rypdal's staggering double album,Odyssey... but as you state there are so many to choose from.. Scorcery I, the final track on Abercrombie's Gateway album still blows my mind. BY the way,I nearly chocked on my cornflakes when you said you'd no Pat Martino in your collection.

[@charleskatz2606]

Gabor Szazbo was huge in 60's and deserves a knowing nod 2

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

His playing didn't age well. And these are MY favorite guitar jazz records. it's not universal, I can't speak for humanity.

[@NotedArchived]

yep, that Poll Winners you showed is up for pre-order on the Craft/AS series with BG in deadwax. loved this topic and your choices. such a good array. thank you.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

What does BG stand for?

[@NotedArchived]

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Bernie Grundman!

[@hilde45]

What a great list! I'd only have wished to see a Pat Martino up there and, arguably, Steve Khan.

[@charleskatz2606]

1) Wes Montgomery "Full House Live At Tsubo" (With Johnny Griffin) 2)Grant Green "Matador" 3)Kenny Burrell -"Guitar Forms" 4)Jim Hall "Jazz Guitar" 4) Oscar Moore/Barney Kessel/Tal Farlow "Swing Guitars"- And if your looking for a sometimes passed over great (and tragic loss early) Emily Remler say "Catwalk" But damn Djng could have gone up top and you could fit Charlie Christian (whom some thought did the first bebop recordings with Monk at Small's) to guys he listened to like George Van Epps to free jazz from Sonny Sharrock" -one last KILLER DISC is "Blues Guitars" on EMI by Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson- G-d's Music and what is my favorite small groups swing Prez and Basie 'Kansas City 5.6.7." where the quintet has some sublime sides by Eddie Durham and Freddie Mr."Rhythm Green those KC5 duets pus trio are some of the finest jazz tunes cut IMHO.That's mine Ken I liked your list all though I am not the most ECM guy in the world it is a good list of a particular bent- bet you like Bill Connors as well

[@pauld7704]

Charlie Christian took licks from Django Reinhardt who started playing jazz guitar at least 6 or 7 years earlier.

[@fourth80]

Wes is the greatest, just my opinion, but the album 'Smoking' at the Half Note' is a MUST!

[@patrickcosgrove886]

Some great choices. You sent me to look in some boxes of vinyl records and I found John Abercrombie's Gateway, Gateway 2, Night, Current Events and Timeless. Also found Bill Frisell's In Line and Marc Johnson's Bass Desires. Already had pulled out Billy Cobham's Spectrum. Now I'm going to listen to In Line. All this cause I got a new turntable.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

in Line impossible to find!

[@tremunique6149]

I have a few good 1s. I love PMs Bright Size Life on ur list. Jaco Pastorus and Bob Moses’ playing make that lp just as incredible. I also love the lp Travels, by the PM Group. George Benson’s White Rabbit should be on any list (+ a myriad of his other lps). Kevin Eubanks is just as big a figure as Pat Metheny for this generation. His lps, Turning Point, Spirit Talk(s) 1 and 2 or Live at Bradley’s r all heavy in my rotation. Wes meets Bags lp from Wes Montgomery and MJQ shows guitarists the blue print. Those artist r all in my top 5. I like Grant Green’s sound though I only have 1 lp from him. I’m sure there’s a few I’m missing but this came off the top of my head.

[@westernartifact580]

Is George Benson Jazz? Maybe on some records. Hard for me to include him under the heading. Great great player though.

[@tremunique6149]

@@westernartifact580 White Rabbit is a Jazz lp. He’s got lps prior 2 that of the Jazz idiom. He was recording with Jimmy Smith prior 2 recording under his own name. Even his popular music is jazz influenced. All of Pat Metheny’s music hasn’t been improv either. He mentioned the name Hiram Bullock in the interview for Godsake. Hiram Bullock is a rock guitarist probably more than anything else. I think he was simply sharing the guitarists he likes more than anything. If u don’t like Benson it’s ok 2 say, but I don’t think it’s ok 2 question his chops to improv and create.

[@hrbeta]

Really, really hard to make a short list of jazz guitar greats. BTW, where are the wamen? Careful 😉

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

This is about guitar, not gender. To include everyone by gender just so gender is included demeans the entire process. And saying that, Mary Halvorson is one of today’s finest jazz guitarist. But my channel is about vinyl, and I can’t be expected to own every piece of vinyl by every jazz guitarist whether male or female.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

And please don’t tell me to be careful. You want the PC police? Go somewhere else

[@hrbeta]

From one old man to another, one should learn to laugh about the ridicule (it’s what’s around us) and one should not take oneself too seriously. Peace brother ✌🏻

[@anthonyanello1244]

Here is another under the Radar Classic ! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnmQY32DgqaigaM

[@anthonyanello1244]

No Larry Coryell Ken? Curses :) Love the list, Jim Hall "Concierto" is a keeper FYI. Thanks for the mention of Smith and Bullock, I do not have anything by them. Here is one for you- one of my favorites ever- kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGmUmaeioLOta7s Peace !

[@anystereo]

Jim Hall with Chet Baker, Paul Desmond and Ron Carter. C’mon Man how can you not even mention it! Yeah Bill Frisell is up there at the top innovative lyrical and deeply rooted

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

When you make a video like this there’s no way you can mention every artist to ever pick up the guitar. And some person always takes offense and says how could you not mention that! These are MY top favorite jazz records. Go make a video of YOUR top favorite jazz records and get back to me. And I mentioned Jim Hall!

[@anystereo]

Hey, I enjoy your videos and got some great leads for vinyl to look for. Just trying to return the favor

[@ejtonefan]

No Wes Montgomery would make Pat Metheny very suspicious.

[@luissoares6002]

Tommy Bolin

[@6strings5904]

Joe “Magnificent” Pass???????

[@oscarporteroazcona7585]

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[@davidbryanbartlett4071]

American Blinders-those artist do not come closr to Spanish & French guisters from the 1920 thru Today- Looking beyond USA

[@TheBuddyShowWorldwide]

Pasquale Grosso, best jazz guitarist today.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Pat Matheny called him the Bud Powell of guitar. Unfortunately, his records are not available on vinyl

[@s.t.e.r.e.o.]

Gabor Szabo?

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

I feel like he’s kind of dated. Just me

[@Sonorgie]

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Couldn’t agree more. Attila Zoller on the other hand… majestic.

[@travelthebest2676]

WhereS Jim Hall?!

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Watch the video

[@Rog5446]

No Al Di Meola???

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Thank God no al DiMeola

[@Rog5446]

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Oh dear, what about Alan Holdsworth?

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

@@Rog5446 not jazz, not rock, pure alan holdsworth genius

[@artyfhartie2269]

Silent Feet by Eberhard Weber Silent Feet is a real treasure. Not a guitar player. Plays bass. The music on that album is so evocative. On another level, Toots Thielman used to create great music on guitar as well as on harmonica.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

I have one of the early Toots Thielemans albums, great recording in a lot of fun

[@artyfhartie2269]

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 To be quite honest, I cannot choose who I like best. The British guitarist Jim Mullen, Terry Smith and Alan Holdsworth are aces. I also love Joe Pass, Jim Hall, early G Benson on CTI, Django Reinhardt, Joe Beck. I close my eyes and pick a record.

[@chrisashley2100]

Also he plays bass on Gary Burton Ring album which also features a young Pat Metheny. I think this album has aged well IMO

[@jakefalasca1561]

Time to buy some recordings" I don't own any Wes so he is not on the list" NOPE

[@skineyemin4276]

Hiram was an amazing player with great musical knowledge, but, he's not a "jazz guitarist". He was a skilled musician and a great guitarist and live performer. I've spent time in Mike Stern's and Hiram's apartment as saw them perform live in 55 grand Street at its peak and I never hear Hiram go into great jazz depth in his solos, ever.

[@Lou.B]

No Wes??? You should get some sleep.

[@bobtaylor170]

Eddie Lang was the first prominent jazz guitarist, a decade before Charlie Christian. There were others: George van Eps, George Barnes, Les Paul, and DJANGO REINHARDT!!!! If you omit Django and Joe Pass, you don't know jazz guitar. There was the great, lost talent, Hank Garland. Frank Vignola is probably tops in the world today.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

These are MY top five Jazz guitar records. I can’t own every jazz guitar record ever produced. Do you own every jazz record led by a drummer? You left out Carl Kress, Mary Osborne, Lenny Breau, And Freddy Green. And Hank Garland was a country player

[@bobtaylor170]

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 , listen to the Garland album, Jazz Winds from a New Direction. I wouldn't have mentioned him otherwise. Carl Kress' was the name I blanked on. Mary Osborne was post Charlie Christian, as were the others. No need to get hostile. I'm sorry if my tone provoked it. If you haven't heard some of the Eddie Lang/Joe Venuti recordings you've missed some fascinating stuff.

[@blombidobadila8084]

ECM my favourite label. To be Continued is a strong one. Can't listen to a bar of Abercrombie, robotic new age sound/musician to my ears. Why Eicher used him and Corea beyond me such fluffy, cold, extraverted, mental..musos whose sensibiliites appeared at variance with the depth of most of the label, or raison d'etre.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

I don’t know how you can say that about Chick Corea. Light as feather is a masterpiece as is crystal silence with Gary Burton. And now he sings now he sobs one of the greatest records in the jazz Canon, incredible improvisations and interplay. Chick Corea was an incredible unique voice, A gargantuan town could play anything. Spain, 500 miles high, you’re my everything, and his early electric records like hymn of the same galaxy are innovative classics. The world couldn’t contain his talent.

[@blombidobadila8084]

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Exactly, ''light as a feather''. Doodle Jazz, out of place at ECM which tended to seek deeper sounds, not just innovation for its own sake. I could never quite fathom why Eicher issued Lp's with Corea, Abercrombie or Burton, it's the main reason ECM gets shirt shrift so often.

[@westernartifact580]

I think I know what you’re saying about the music on the label being deep and in but there is great music that goes out and up and ME, like many people, probably liked some of both. Maybe you’re on the part of the personality wheel that’s always in. Maybe people like me have aspects of both so at different times we relate to (as you put it) wholly different things, beyond major or minor, beyond just mood. To you this may seem at conflict beyond just what mood you’re in, more like a judgement on what makes for good or bad jazz. So you don’t like Chick and Gary.’s extroversion. Or Abercrombie’s shallowness. You probably don’t like pop either. I don’t either and I’m not always reaching for Abercrombie but it’s great when I am in a mind to. What about Jarrett on ECM. He is mostly introverted and sure is deep most of the time. But he’s both. His record with Burton is one of my favorites. I know what you mean, I think. Do you like Alice Coltrane on ECM? I mean, I feel the same way about that as you do about Abercrombie. I could say it doesn’t belong because it’s not consistent with what I like on the label. By I won’t. I’ll just say I don’t like it. Others may think it’s good. I can’t stand it. Perhaps I lose all Jazz cred by saying that. Like maybe in your world there is a monolithic view that ECM carries bad jazz so they can be put down dismissively. That’s not the case in my world. The people I know have their own taste but aren’t so dismissive and frankly judgmental. As if ECM were recording pop country along with Marcin, Shai, and Wolfgang. I have hundreds of ECM records and they are treasured. I am so grateful for what this record company has done for music generally and for the meaning in my life.

[@blombidobadila8084]

@@westernartifact580 I do like some pop, although what is ''pop'' a good question. Was Alice on ECM? Not sure whay you mean by out/in, although it might be a reference to the tenuous intorversion/extroversion model? I assume Eicher enjoyed the more shallow, doodly, ....sounds at times, after all he did put out quite a lot of this, alongside the more revered or substantial offerings. His own pop'' perhaps? Jarrett is a mixed bag on ECM, Koln and Survivors suite the ones that stand out, his Standards' efforts later on are much more widdly or sunday afternoon at the local jazz pub offerings, not the kind of music I can tolerate for more than a few seconds! Nevertheless as far as I know the best record label out there, or larger one. In terms of how many great Lp's they issued, might be 50 or so, what other label can claim this?

[@frankcosta1729]

Fusion is awful

[@TheEleatic]

I don’t know anything about guitar, but I know that John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth are in the pantheon.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

As stated in the title of the video, these are my top jazz guitar records. The word my infers not every jazz guitarist in the world, living or dead, but my top Jazz guitar records.