Jazz Guitar

Joe Pass lots of chord melody stuff. One of the greats.

Wes Montgomery the undisputed king of jazz guitar. get the earlier stuff

Herb Ellis..some nice swing stuff, especially paired up with Joe pass

Duke Robillard modern player with a solid hold of old school swing. He also does a lot of blues so check what you are getting. After hours swing session is good.

Grant Green, Charlie Christian...old school big band. Charlie was essentialy the father of melodic single line jazz guitar.

Charlie Hunter...new school. He plays melody, bass lines and chords all at the same time on a custom fan fretted 7 strings..scary.

John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Al DiMeola,..very good modern fusion type players

Proper records has a compilation CD "Hittin' On All Six" that is essentially a history of jazz guitar. It would serve as an excellent intro to various top flight guitarist.

Kudos to Onhwy61. What a neat compilation. I am ordering my copy immediately!

Joe Pass, Barney Kessell, John Carlini (taught Tony Rice), Larry Coryell, John Ambercrombie, Philip Catherine, John McLaughlin

I find a lot of jazz guitar boring. I guess Im not sophosticated enough to appreciate all the subtleties. One old favorite that does comes to mind is "Friends" by Crusaders' guitarist Larry Carlton. Some funky, some blues, all big fun. I have not heard it on cd but on my old vinyl copy the sound is great. Another one that I have really enjoyed is Steve Kahn "Blue Man".
Neither of these releases are the basic guitar trio explorations some people seem to love, but these are a couple of great albums that have gotten a lot of spin time over the years for me.