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post #1 of 14
8/16/10 at 4:13pm
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I just recently just started listening to Jazz and I've been through the greats like Davis, and Coltrane.  They are fantastic and all but they just do not please me as much as Grant Green does.  The album "Solid" is well...  Solid.  I can listen to it at any time and its just so smooth.  I personally love the guitar work at anytime it comes in.  It just never gets tiring to me, I can listen to it all day.  So I am asking if there is anything similar to Green that has that bluesy guitar but still keeping the jazzy drum beat and jazz feel?

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post #2 of 14
8/16/10 at 5:02pm

That shouldn't be too difficult…jazz-guitar albums were pretty prevalent in Green's time. Try the following, then report back and let us know what you think.

 

Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of…

 

Wes Montgomery - Smokin' At The Half Note

 

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane


Edited by tru blu - 8/21/10 at 12:29am
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post #3 of 14
8/16/10 at 7:26pm

You may want to check out some more Blue note albums of the same tim Grant Green is a sideman on a ton of LPs. For a different Jazz guitar I really like the work of Gabor Szabo with the Chico Hamilton quartet more of a Pacific Coast vibe.

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post #4 of 14
8/16/10 at 7:32pm

Grant Green: Idle Moments. You will not regret it. The APO CD/SACD reissue currently in print sounds sublime.

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post #5 of 14
8/17/10 at 11:02am
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So I have listened to all of tru blu's recomendations and they are all fantastic.  I love  the Kenny Burrell & and Coltrane, it is exactly what I am looking for.  The only problem that I have with Wes Montgomery is that most of the recordings that I have aquired has this nasty hiss on them.  For me, jazz needs to be perfectly recorded for me to enjoy it the most.  Other wise Montgomery is awesome too.  

 

To lanL2-  I do already have that SACD, it is so amazing.

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post #6 of 14
8/18/10 at 8:26am

Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith - Dynamic Duo

 

This is a fantastic record and it is also recorded very well(no hiss). I would highly recommend it.

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post #7 of 14
8/18/10 at 11:53am
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Originally Posted by ThePandemonium View Post
The only problem that I have with Wes Montgomery is that most of the recordings that I have aquired has this nasty hiss on them. 


Yeah, unfortunately, that's something I can't help you with. My taste was formed pre-digital, so hiss isn't something that bothers me much unless it's really intrusive. Folks used to post in these forums all the time about the hiss on Kind Of Blue, which, oddly enough, I'd never even registered before then.

 

Another thing you might try, though:

 

Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo (s'posed to be "boogaloo", but they spelled it wrong on the cover)

The guitarist is George Benson.

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post #8 of 14
8/19/10 at 2:03pm

If you're into Wes Montgomery, you can also check out early Pat Martino (not that later Pat Martino has anything wrong either):

 

East

Live

Baiyina (really different and nice)

Footprints (reissued as The Visit)

Consciousness

 

Well see http://www.patmartino.com

 

- Ed

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post #9 of 14
8/19/10 at 2:17pm

Check out Lenny Breau, the world most underestimated Jazz gitarist IMO, a true gitar genius

 

Especially 'The Hallmark Sessions' and 'The Complete Living Room Tapes', amazing stuff!!

 

 

 


Edited by Quinto - 8/19/10 at 2:24pm
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post #10 of 14
8/19/10 at 7:25pm

Got another gem of an album featuring Kenny Burrell:

 

Milt Jackson & Coleman Hawkins - Bean Bags

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post #11 of 14
8/19/10 at 7:37pm

If you're willing to get something a bit more recent, but I'll bet within the range of what you're looking for (and absolutely no sound quality issues), try Mike Stern's "Standards".

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post #12 of 14
8/21/10 at 3:39am

Nice to see a recomendation of Lenny Breau!

 

I would also recommend the following:

 

Wes Montgomery

Barney Kessel

Tal Farlow

Kenny Burrell

George Benson

Joe Pass

Jim Hall

Charlie Byrd

 

Also, if you want to hear some great guitar - listen to some Django Reinhardt!

 

Here is some Barney Kessel!

 

 

EDIT: Would highly recommend you buy the following album:

 

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Edited by LFF - 8/21/10 at 3:45am
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post #13 of 14
10/5/10 at 7:39pm

 

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Originally Posted by LFF View Post

Nice to see a recomendation of Lenny Breau!

 

I would also recommend the following:

 

Wes Montgomery

Barney Kessel

Tal Farlow

Kenny Burrell

George Benson

Joe Pass

Jim Hall

Charlie Byrd

 

Also, if you want to hear some great guitar - listen to some Django Reinhardt!

 

 

 

EDIT: Would highly recommend you buy the following album:

 

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HEY, ThePandemonium, LFF, Hit This List  like it was going to be his desert Island choices!! I can't agree more!!  I like the early Benson Stuff on CTI....get any or all of these classics asap........You'll thank LFF for it!!!
 

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post #14 of 14
10/7/10 at 9:03pm

I love most of the suggestions here, too -- though how much they're "like" Grant Green is something unclear. If the question was just "jazz guitarists" then cool.  LOVE Lenny Breau, but he was a chordal, melody/rhythm, fingerstyle player who used artificial harmonics magnificently.  Which is VERY different from Green to my way of thinking (Green was essentially a single-note line player, always).  Lots more examples of that sort of thing.

 

Charlie Christian was the granddaddy; Wes Montgomery is relatively close, too (in spite of his famed octaves being more than single-string playing).  For a much more modern take, maybe Adam Rogers.  Or Jonathan Kreisberg (though more chordal, more often, too).  Pat Martino is an awesome single-line player, too.

 

Not the OP's question, but for those of use who are Lenny Breau fans, one of his former students, Phil deGruy, is mindblowing in something like the same realm of musicianship.

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