Jazz Round Table #10 - History of Jazz Guitar

History of Jazz Guitar

Tonight we have Brad Rabuchin, Jeff Miley, and Mitch Holder discussing history of Jazz Guitar! They’ll be demonstrating the different artists and discuss what made them different and how they moved jazz guitar forward.

We won’t talk about everyJazz guitar playe so we wanted you to have comprehensive listiong of some of the greatest with a link to check them out.

3 early Groundbreaking Guitarists:

John St. Cyr (with Louie Armstrong and the Hothouse Five playing banjo in the 1920’s – Oriental Strut – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MktwmJ-aVYo
Charlie Christian – Not content to be just in the rhythm section – Swing to Bop – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9Jtl9D6FQ
Django Reinhardt – First jazz guitarist to emerge from Europe – Minor Swing – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcE1avXFJb4
Freddie Green – with Count Basie – he plays Chord melody – not single note lines – The Elder – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVwB7_CS6rk

Mainstream Guitarists of the 50s, 60s and 70s:

Carl Kress & Dick McDonough – Stage Fright – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgNDZsSOpjM
Herb Ellis – Georgia on my Mind – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTnIM5TlfAM
Tal Farlow – Autumn in New York – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyCx1VytLhs
Kenny Burrell – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9lLqtOb9rk
Jim Hall – The Bridge with Sonny Rawlins – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIq5w-NogWA
Joe Pass – Ain’t Misbehavin – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM
George Benson –
Wes Montgomery – Round Midnight – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOm17yw__6U
Grant Green – I Wish You Love – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwnPr0_W5QE
Barney Kessell – Autumn Leaves – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAsEfhU2Ehg
John Pisano –
George Van Eps-inventor of the 7 string guitar (Once In A While prior to the 7 string. Howard Roberts told me about this track when I studied with him)
Jimmy Wyble –
Jimmy Raney (Signal & Motion w/Stan Getz-both on youtube+ lots more)
Hank Garland (Jazz Winds From A New Direction album-youtube+)

Modern Guitarists 1970-:

Pat Martino – Sunny – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_9dTwmidw
Larry Coryell – Live in Oslo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9dYOoLqwmE
John Abercrombie – Homecoming – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQF9bJE800s
Pat Metheny – https://youtu.be/-NYkne_WrRc, https://youtu.be/YRNT-TRARpY
Ralph Towner – Icarus – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lDJ4YE8XaE
Allan Holdsworth – https://youtu.be/BTRO0SxOV4c
Mike Stern –
Bill Frisell –
John Scofield –
Frank Gambale –
Russell Malone – Jingles – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfpVi7QJ8yw
Lenny Breau – Bluesette – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGjQ3QPydA
Ted Greene – Send In The Clowns – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr9XUj8kt70
John McLaughlin
Al Di Meola
Emily Remler – Tenor Madness – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYqqA1U0mc

The “Next Generation”:

Wayne Krantz – Six – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k85pSv0SQg
Ben Monder –
Kurt Rosenwinkel – Zhivago – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiw8CTK2o_Q
Scott Henderson – Dolomite – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHb2UGIYzPM
Peter Bernstein – I Love You – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRiRcZNKBQg
Jonathan Kreisberg – Autumn in New York – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xuZpDOXd_o
Adam Rogers –

Mitch Holder – Guitar

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