New to Jazz

[vanchilli]

I just started listening to Jazz a couple of months ago and I am very interested in a certain type of Jazz. The ploblem is that Jazz is quite complicated and a little difficult to research, which I like as well. I love jazz guitar soloist playing single notes with a fast melody. The slow chords, singing and combination of too many chords is not what I want. I heard a song by Joe Pass that I love. I dont know the name of the song and I tried to listen to Joes other songs and they are not like this. I want the fast steady flow of improvised noted being played by a solo guitarist. Can somebody please lead me into the right direction so I can fullfill this desire to hear a beautiful arrangment of notes being played with that perfect jazz guitar tone.

-Mike-

[Bright Moments]

hello and welcome to the board.

try mark ribot.

[Dave James]

The best single note guitarist I know is Grant Green. His entire output for Blue Note is readily available from multiple sources. Welcome aboard. This is a great place to be if you are looking to learn more about jazz in general or the jazz you're enjoying right now. The beauty of this music, and you'll find this out if you stay with it, is that one thing leads to another. It's like a set of musical Legos.

[vanchilli]

Thanks for the quick responses.

Marc Ribot was too experimental for me. I am looking for more formal arrangments but also with the impovising.

Grant Greens sound is almost there in some of the early songs I heard

but his later songs went way off course. Thanks though

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I'm a great Grant Green fan, but he wasn't the fastest guitar in the west, which seems to be what you're looking for. George Benson was a good bit faster - in the days before he was a singer - and influenced by Grant Green a lot. Also try Pat Martino.

MG

[colinmce]

Sounds like Tal Farlow's Verve sides fit the bill.

There were released in their entirety in a 7xCD box set by Mosaic records, but that set is now out of print. Arguably the best album collected therein, The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow, is still available separately. There are also two compilation discs that cover this period, Verve Jazz Masters 41 and Tal Farlow's Finest Hour, both of which can be found on Amazon.

[Dave James]

Joshua Breakstone might be worth looking into.

[brownie]

How about Barney Kessel?

The first Poll Winners album should be a good start for the 'perfect jazz guitar tone' you're looking for...

[AndrewHill]

How about Sonny Greenwich?

[David Ayers]

I think Wes Montgomery might be what you are looking for. His studio sides are a bit careful, sometimes he plays bass which will bore you, and his solos sometimes contain both chordal work and a top/bottom string double octave playing which are not strictly what you are asking for - but. Oh and there's a lot of stuff with orchestra which no-one really cares for. And yet.... he's musically and technically better than uh some others who keep getting mentioned - try the live version of Mr Walker from a live Paris gig in 1965. It will slay you.

[vanchilli]

Thanks for the infomation. So far I like Grant Greens early sound and also Tal Farlow.