And really, we should tolerate any sort of musical discussion here. My brother is a big jazz fan and has exposed me to a lot of that music, though, I've found plenty of it myself. I'm a fan of Kenny Burrell. But I need to get more of his albums. And George Barns too. I like a lot of really old school jazz, like Sidney Bechet and the New Orleans Feet Warmers. (Great name for a band.) And John Kirby Orchestra. The Benny Goodman Sextet of course, because Charlie Christian!! And I got into Eddie Lang from there. So I know Joe Venuti too, and a bunch of dudes (very few dudettes) from the 20's. I found Larry Coryell on my own as a teenager. I have his Barefoot Boy album, which I still love today. And because I'm a progressive rocker, I'm also into some fusion bands like Soft Machine, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jane Getter Premonition (there's a dudette!), and Percy Jones. Well, that's a start. Be cool! - Mark
Jazz is the soccer of music . Or is it soccer is the jazz of sports? I do feel like there are similarities in the free-flowiness, the improvisation, the egalitarianism, etc. That's how I see it anyway. I'm a jazz musician so maybe I'm partial. I play piano and sax mainly but I love guitar and have dabbled on it. For guitar, off the top of my head, I like Wes Montgomery, this younger guy named Julian Lange, Pat Martino (RIP), early George Benson (before he became more of an R&B / pop guy), Martin Taylor, who does a lot of great solo guitar stuff on acoustic, and then there are a whole bunch of great Brazilian guitarists, like this guy Romero Lubambo, etc. On a completely different style spectrum, for blues I've always liked Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Soccer predates Jazz by a fair number of millennia, so Jazz is the soccer of music. I'm a progressive rock guitarist, so King Crimson, ELP, Yes, and a lot of my own music. ProgRock is clearly a more sophisticated version of rock. More for musicians than people on a crowded sweaty dance floor. I dabble on keyboards and I have a handful of percussion toys. I still need to get setup to record my own music. And I don't limit my listening to guitarists. I like saxophone players and keyboard players a lot. My favorite musicians include Mel Collins on sax, and Keith Emerson on keyboards. And a whole host of others. And I try to borrow from some of what they are doing. It expands my thinking about music. Also, keeping a guitar or two in different tunings forces me to play differently and think differently. Kind of fun. This discussion got me to dig out a bunch of jazz albums. Listening to Kenny Burrell, On View at the Five Spot right now. Very nice!