Jazz guitarist
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Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines that is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and
Duke Ellington's big band at the Hurricane Ballroom had a rhythm section that included a jazz guitarist, a double bass player, and a drummer (not visible, but who is to the right of the bassist).
A jazz guitarist with his instrument plugged into a Polytone combo guitar amp (which combines an amplifier and a speaker).
Jazz fusion pioneer John McLaughlin at a festival in Limburgerhof, Germany, 2008
Stanley Jordan playing the fretboard like a keyboard
Wes Montgomery
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John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is most known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb and for his extensive use of octaves, which g
Jazz guitarist
…Vermont". Tal Farlow avoided the abstraction of Tristano. Farlow blamed his ability to play quickly on the need to keep up with bandleader Red Norvo. Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell and Jim Hall are perhaps the most important jazz guitar players of the sixties and of the following decades. Bossa nova…
Photo of Montgomery during a recording session in the mid-1960s
Montgomery in a mid-1960s publicity photo shot by Bruno of Hollywood studios for Verve Records
Montgomery in 1967