Recommend me some great jazz guitar albums please!

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  1. SamTheSham968

    SamTheSham968 Forum Resident

    Anything, and I mean anything, recorded by Charlie Christian during his tragically short life.

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  2. jhw59

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    Add Emily Remler to the list I like East to Wes.
     
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  3. Clucking

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    I second Julian Lage's "Arclight" - absolutely exceptional album. Same group released "Modern Lore" just a couple of weeks back, it doesn't have the same oomph to me as Arclight.
     
  4. gary191265

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    Mike Stern, though it may be too bluesy/rocky for some. I actually prefer him live where he's even more bluesy/rocky and rarely (I've never seen him with one) uses a keyboard/piano player.
     
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  5. eeglug

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    Speaking of Julian Lage, if you can tolerate something a bit more edgy and abstract I highly recommend his album with Nels Cline, 'Room'. Really great stuff.
     
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  8. Ignatius

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    Howard Roberts "Equinox Express Elevator"
     
  9. TEA FOR ONE

    TEA FOR ONE Listening to the world one note at a time

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    I pulled this up on Spotify today,GREAT album!!
     
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  10. TomPManchester

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    Great thread, and some great recommendations. Couldn't see Pat Martino mentioned yet. This is an excellent one to start with:

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  11. DJ LX

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  12. Stone Turntable

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    My fave ECM album:

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  13. Jimbino

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    Here's some variety in the canon....

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  14. Rob C

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    I’m a big fan of Miles Okazaki’s “Trickster” released last year on Pi.

     
  15. jneilnyc

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    His catalog is all over the map - acoustic, electric, inside, outside, improv, shred, latin (and that's not even counting his gun-for-hire work for everyone from Tom Waits to Marianne Faithfull) - but it's worth clicking through Marc Ribot's Youtube clips to see what might strike your fancy

     
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  16. sneerbot

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    Grant Green is the king of jazz guitar for me. One of his albums that rarely shows up on the best-of lists is Feelin' the Spirit. An album of spirituals recorded in 1962 with Herbie Hancock on piano, I've listened to it far more than anything else he's done and I've never tired of it. That Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark that has already been mentioned gives you a lot of bang for the buck and it has a couple of MONSTER tracks with Art Blakey.

    Jim Hall is always great too, and I especially love two of the albums he did with Bill Evans - Undercurrents and Interplay.
     
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  17. munjeet

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    Yeah, those two albums are both superb. Forgot those - perhaps because they are so delicate & understated.

    Both albums exist in their own world. Listening to either is like watching slow-motion snow globes with miniature glaciers inside. Undercurrent = especially gorgeous.
     
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  18. rednoise

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    If you, like me, love "delicate and understated" uncanny improvisation, try "Alone Together", a duet album by Jim Hall and Ron Carter. It's a beautiful jewel.
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  19. munjeet

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    John Fahey’s America is great. I’ve gotta say that I’ve never once thought of it in a jazz context before... although a case could be made for Fahey as a kind of jazz musician. Great album.
     
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  20. munjeet

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    The Martin Taylor & David Grisman album Tone Poems 2 is beautiful music, and also beautifully-recorded.
     
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  21. Crossfire#3

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    Bright Size Life & Watercolors
     
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  23. cedarbrew

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    Oh, oh, I probably shouldn't have opened this thread. This is one of my main interests, so I can't help myself from making a large post here.

    I'll give you a rundown of some of my favorites. A lot of these are just the artists' names since they have so many good albums, others are names of individual albums in parentheses. These are all albums or guitarists that I have, or have listened to enough to know them.

    There's a lot here, but you can sample some of them on youtube to see what you like. Maybe save the list to refer to over time, rather than trying to separate out a specific album or artist from it.

    Mostly Classic Jazz Style, well known:

    Wes Montgomery
    Charlie Christian
    Tal Farlow
    Joe Pass
    Jim Hall (look for Concierto in addition to Live mentioned above)
    Doug and Jim Raney (Stolen Moments)
    Larry Coryell and Emily Remler (Together)
    Pat Martino
    Grant Green (cool version of Black Orpheus on album Iron City)
    Kenny Burrell
    Barney Kessel
    Charlie Byrd


    Mostly Classic Jazz Style, lesser known:

    Howard Alden
    Alexi Kuznetzov
    Tommy Tedesco
    Martin Taylor
    Bruce Foreman
    Mark Whitfield
    Jack Wilkins (Call Me Reckless)

    Fusion-ish or some blues basis:

    Pat Metheney
    Mike Stern
    Alan Holdsworth
    Stanley Jordan (Magic Touch)
    Larry Carlton
    Paul Bley
    Robin Ford
    Charlie Hunter (bing bing bing)
    Amos Garrett Jazz Trio (Jazzblues)
    Danny Gatton
    Jimmy Bryant
    John Scofield
    John Abercrombie
    Rory Stuart (Hurricane)

    Gypsy/Manouche with some Classic Jazz and Dawgjazz:

    Django Reinhardt
    Bireli Lagrene
    Philip Catherine
    Stochelo Rosenberg
    Jimmy Rosenberg
    Sylvain Luc
    Robin Nolan
    Romane
    Angelo Debarre
    Christian Escoude
    Dorado Schmitt
    Oscar Aleman
    Dimitri Vandellos
    Diz Disley
    Tony Rice
    Mark O'Connor
    Jon Sholle
    Tommy Edwards

    Atmospheric, or hard to categorize:

    Lenny Breau
    Adrian Legg
    Leo Kottke
    Michael Hedges
    Tuck Andress
    Chet Atkins
    John Basile
    Leni Stern
     
  24. mono.edition

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    Great recommendation! It's been reissued in Japan and is still available here
     
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  25. Blank Frank

    Blank Frank King of Carrot Flowers

    And he makes an interesting contribution to John Zorn's Masada "canon" as one of the 3 guitarists on Masada Guitars (the others being Tim Sparks and Bill Frisell), which is a set of Masada tunes done on guitar, mostly acoustic.
     
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