Ghosthouse, thanks for your comments. No offense taken. How could I possibly be offended that you didn't particularly like three of the records on most jazz guitar fans' "top ten" lists. Yikes! I am not really surprised that you didn't particularly like those records given what you have posted as your preferred guitar styles. As I, and O-10, have said previously "we likes what we likes"; no excuses necessary. What I would say is that I predict that as you listen to more and more jazz your opinion about those will change. A couple of further thoughts:
While tone is certainly an important element of any jazz player's personal musical identity, for whatever it may be worth, it is dogma among players that it is a distant second to what the player is saying via phrasing and choice of notes; the nuances in his rhythmic feel and his harmonic vocabulary. From that standpoint, I am surprised that your comments focused almost entirely on tone. As far as the bigger picture goes, and maybe this is a "semantics" issue, there really is nothing "abstract" about any of that music;. ALL of it, including the improvisations, are within the harmonic frameworks of the "tune"with practically no straying from it (abstract).
Nice clip of Frank Vignola. He's a great player who was "looked at" a while back and who is very active in the traditional swing scene. As far as the "breakneck tempos" go: that's bebop for ya.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXNB9kkTSg
While tone is certainly an important element of any jazz player's personal musical identity, for whatever it may be worth, it is dogma among players that it is a distant second to what the player is saying via phrasing and choice of notes; the nuances in his rhythmic feel and his harmonic vocabulary. From that standpoint, I am surprised that your comments focused almost entirely on tone. As far as the bigger picture goes, and maybe this is a "semantics" issue, there really is nothing "abstract" about any of that music;. ALL of it, including the improvisations, are within the harmonic frameworks of the "tune"with practically no straying from it (abstract).
Nice clip of Frank Vignola. He's a great player who was "looked at" a while back and who is very active in the traditional swing scene. As far as the "breakneck tempos" go: that's bebop for ya.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXNB9kkTSg