Jazz GUITAR poll

Hurting, perhaps you should check out my man Tom Guarna, tons of chops but always with a great groove, plays plenty of big gigs but always super down to earth.

He's been gigging and recording his own project with some of your favorites in the band, Johnathan Blake on drums and Jon Cowherd on piano.

Two votes for Derek Bailey!? I demand a recount.

Derek Bailey would object to being included in a "jazz guitar" poll probably

Indeed

Here is nice interview with Tom in All About Jazz by George Collilgan: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=45570#.UogPy5TSONx

(Now I'm going to read the Billy Kilson interview)

RIP Jim Hall. What a career.

Damn. Sad. He wasn't that old in my mind, although in reality he was around 83.

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/06/120889787/jim-hall-guitar-as-miniature-orchestra?sc=tw&cc=twmp

I got to see him play at Sonny Rollins' 80th birthday show at the Beacon Theater in NYC a few years ago.

RIP. Sorry I didn't catch him on the last tour.

I saw the Jim Hall Trio two or three times, but all many years ago.

One of the few jazz guitarists I'd put up there with pretty much any musician. Kind of wish he appeared as a sideman on a wider variety of records -- would have liked to have heard him play with more different people.

i dunno, he played with tons of people! you mean, like outside of the jazz world?

speaking of which, just occurred to me that he passed very close in time to Chico Hamilton

When Gary Larson retired from drawing The Far Side, he started studying guitar with Jim Hall. Best retirement ever.

Very moving remembrance by Sonny Rollins: https://soundcloud.com/jazz-video-guy/sonny-rollins-remembers-jim

there is a dope YouTube of sonny and Jim

http://youtu.be/ZIq5w-NogWA

you know, i like sharrock too and i *love* "black woman" but sharrock getting more votes than charlie christian, jim hall, tal farlow and kenny burrell put together is ultimate challops

I think it's more ignorance than challops tbf. A lot of ilmers come to jazz from a punk background, so they gravitate toward the freer players. Similarly, Grant Green gets 3x Wes because he plays the heavy funk, even though he's a far inferior player.

I like Grant Green more than you do but agree with your basic argument.

not "ignorance", but personal taste

i dunno, this poll is a little silly to begin with -- like, we wouldn't just do a rock guitar poll would we? have people voting either thurston moore or scotty moore?

I like Grant Green ok -- he has a great sound and feel, his solos just never go anywhere and he's really limited harmonically.

Most polls are silly. This poll in particular is only silly because based on the voter turnout people probably haven't heard or let alone listened to many of these guys, personal taste or not.
/bring_it_on

i like grant green a lot but part of that i think is the early 60s blue note magic

i think the complete quartets with sonny clark is just all-time incredible

i'd probably pay for a recording of a dog pooping if it was recorded by rudy van gelder sometime between 1957 and 1961

Poo Note

Anything 60s Blue Note with Sonny Clark is particularly unimpeachable.

Lots of tributes out there about what a nice guy Jim Hall was.

Including these three by some Canadian guitarists: http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/12/11/remembering-jim-hall-i-tributes-by-david-occhipinti-mike-rud-and-roddy-ellias/

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/13/250736909/fresh-air-remembers-jazz-guitarist-jim-hall

This is a nice interview, in spite of featuring Gross's signature awkward racial questions

ha yeah.
sonny rollins' remembrance is wonderful, thanks for sharing that one.

She more or less just asks him "TELL ME SOME GOOD RACISM STORIES!"

Interesting about the double-edged sword of the Griffin gig. Had to play to plate-spinners, but also Ellington and Basie.

When she asked him why he took the gig after being on the road so long, I kind of thought "Duh, you answered your own question." Anyway, he seemed like a really nice and cool guy. I found the stuff he said about his physical limitations on the guitar comforting, because I always felt the same way about my own playing -- slow, stiff hands that only get so limber even with a lot of practice.

lol I just put on his Jazzpar Quartet record, not knowing that much about it except that it was some Danish thing relating to a prize he won, and I was like "Damn, rando Danish sax player is BURNING these changes. Euro-nobodies are smoking americans these days in jazz." Then I looked it up and realized it was Chris Potter.

unrelatedly, a neat tune I discovered by a guitarist I went to high school with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfRgHWaa38k

Today would have been the 92 birthday of Jimmy Wyble, who I believed I've mentioned here before, who passed away four years ago shortly before his eighty-eighth birthday. He started out in Western Swing, playing with both Bob Wills and Spade Cooley, among others- listen to his solo on the original version of "Roly Poly"- and later played jazz with the likes of Red Norvo, Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra- look for him in Ocean's Eleven and The Screaming Mimi. Later on he did tons of film and TV work, playing on the soundtrack of The Wild Bunch and The Flip Wilson Show among many others. Later still he was known as a teacher to many, many guitarists and for developing a contrapuntal approach for playing guitar. I was lucky enough to meet him once the before he died. The kind, gentle demeanor and devotion to maximizing musical matters and minimizing the attendant trappings that inspired so many were completely in evidence, you could feel it, even when he was just sitting at a table. You can read about him here http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Forgotten_Heroes_Jimmy_Wyble although there is something strange with that link, some pages seem to repeat.

Celebration of Jack Wilkin's 70th birthday this week on Tuesday at the Jazz Standard, featuring:
John Abercrombie
Howard Alden
Gene Bertoncini
Jimmy Bruno
Larry Coryell
Joe Diorio
Vic Juris
Jack Wilkins

Probably be some other guitar players as well. Also was the birthday of the great nylon string guitarist Paul Meyers yesterday. Happy Birthday, Paul.

Here's a nice interview with Paul talking about Freddie Green that I think I may have linked to before: http://www.freddiegreen.org/articles/meyers.html

Jazz Standard thing is sold out. Good thing I made a reservation.

Larry Coryell just walked by. Maybe I should have asked him about Locrian Mode.

Tal Farlow's widow is here

Biggest revelations for me were Joe Dorio and John Abercrombie.

This guy is a great jazz player, even though he looks like he should be playing with Nick Cave: http://www.jazzguitarsociety.com/interview/jgs-james-muller-interview-part-one-of-two/

Some guy trolls a jazz guitar thread and gets an interesting response here: http://rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz.narkive.com/1XDIQ7FF/al-caiola-hack

Which led to this: http://www.hagstrom.org.uk/buddy_fite.htm