Jazz GUITAR poll

Don't know from him, sorry. Only Washington guitar player I know is a Brazilian guy who moved up here full-time last year.

This looks to be interesting: Kenny Wessel interviewed by Lewis Porter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Whg6Js62Xs

Hurting, just checked out the website of something called QJOG -the Queens Jazz OverGround, which is supposed to promote live jazz in Queens, and they had a woman listed there that I never heard of who studied with Ted and some other famous guitar players.

There are actually two people on that list who studied with Ted, and one was my year

Small world. Which I type whilst wondering if there is an emoticon for a certain kind of finding something a little surprising when really it is just a statistical likelihood that was bound to turn up sooner or later.

Lage Lund live streaming on Smalls website right now, later Nir Felder.

"You and the Night and the Music." Pretty nice.

This guy is really more of an "out" guitarist than a jazz guitarist, but I like this a lot:

https://soundcloud.com/nick-millevoi/sets/black-figure-of-a-bird

He's great. Saw him a few months ago, totally killed. Super nice guy, too.

Yeah he is in full disclosure a friend of a friend and is a generally killin guitarist as well as nice guy. I saw him do a basement show. Wasn't sure what thread to put his stuff in really, maybe not this one.

This thread is as good as any.

RIP Johnny Smith.

Some more info with I also posted on the Rolling Obit thread: http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/guitar-legend-johnny-smith-alive-and-well-in-colorado-springs/Content?oid=1111071

Jazz Guitar D-bags, go to this stream now (thanks to dow on the Rolling Jazz thread) http://www.npr.org/event/music/156120628/newport-jazz-festival to hear Jim Hall and Julian Lage.

Although this show was recorded earlier. But kind find stream in the archive.

It will be archived, likely enough, since a good number of these sets have been or are due soon, according to NPR's chat room cadre (I'll have to try this set again later; kinda spare-to-sparse/clean or just plain subtle for me right off)

Friend of mine is playing with Ed Cherry tonight, a cat I know nothing about.

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/