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See also The following is a list of notable jazz guitarists, including guitarists from related jazz genres such as Western Swing, latin jazz, and jazz-rock fusion. Please add jazz guitar players to this list, even if they do not yet have an article on Wikipedia, as this helps to alert editors to the need for new articles This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Jazz guitar refers to the use of guitar in jazz music. ...
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Western swing is, first and foremost, a fusion of country music, several styles of jazz, pop music and blues aimed at dancers. ...
Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz harmonies from the United States. ...
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Jazz guitar refers to the use of guitar in jazz music. ...
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John Abercrombie (born December 16, 1944 in Port Chester, New York) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
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Howard Alden Howard Alden (born October 17, 1958) in Newport Beach, California) is a professional jazz guitarist, who has recorded a long series of albums for Concord Records. ...
Guitarist Juan B.H. Alegre III, aka Johnny Alegre (b. ...
Oscar Marcelo Aleman, (February 20, 1909 - October 14, 1980) was a jazz guitarist. ...
Gustavo Assis-Brasil Gustavo Assis Brasil is a Brazilian jazz guitarist. ...
Chet Atkins Chester Burton Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001) was an influential guitarist and record producer. ...
B Derek Bailey pictured at the Vortex Club, Stoke Newington, 1991. ...
Danny Barker (1909 - 1994) was a jazz guitarist and banjoist from New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Billy Bauer (b. ...
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Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist Ed Bickert was born in Hochfeld, Manitoba on November 29, 1932, and raised in Vernon, British Columbia. ...
Luiz Floriano Bonfá (October 17, 1922 - January 12, 2001) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer most widely known for the compositions he penned for the film Black Orpheus. ...
Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941–August 12, 1984) was a brilliantly innovative American-born Canadian jazz guitarist who brought together country, classical, flamenco and jazz guitar techniques. ...
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Jimmy Bruno, born July 22, 1953, Philadelphia, USA, is a jazz guitarist. ...
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
Charles L. Byrd (September 16, 1925 - November 30, 1999), better known as Charlie Byrd, was a famous jazz guitarist, born in Suffolk, Virginia. ...
C Jim Campilongo is a country/jazz guitarist from San Francisco, currently residing in New York City. ...
Steve Cardenas (born Stephen Antonio Cardenas on May 29, 1974) is an American actor and martial artist most noted for playing Rocky DeSantos in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series. ...
For the past three decades, Larry Carlton has been one of the nations most sought-after jazz guitarists, dividing his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with more popular bands. ...
Deirdre Cartwright is a guitarist and composer and became well known as the guitar presenter of the ground breaking BBC TV series rockschool. ...
Andrew Cheshire is an American jazz guitarist who was born on June 21, 1962 in Arverne, New York. ...
Charlie Christian (29 July 1916 – 2 March 1942) was an American jazz guitarist. ...
Bruce Clarke is an Australian jazz guitarist, composer and educator. ...
Dave Cliff (25 June 1944– ) is a British jazz musician who plays guitar. ...
Nels and his Jazzmaster. ...
Larry Coryell Larry Coryell (April 2, 1943-) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
David Cullen is a noted classical, folk, and jazz guitarist. ...
D Paco De Lucia on the cover of El Duende Flamenco de Paco de Lucia (1972). ...
Al Di Meola (born Al Laurence Dimeola July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist. ...
James H. Jim Douglas (born June 21, 1951) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. ...
Ted Dunbar (born 1937 in Port Arthur, Texas; died June 12, 1998) was a jazz guitarist, educator, and writer. ...
E Lars Edegran, left, with Lionel Ferbos. ...
Mitchell Herbert (Herb) Ellis (born in 1921) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
Kevin Eubanks on guitar. ...
F Tal Farlow was a talented jazz guitarist. ...
Ronaldo Folegatti (born Ronaldo Folegatti Poubel) (April 30, 1958, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and record producer. ...
Robben Ford (born December 16, 1951) is an American blues, jazz and rock guitarist. ...
Jazz guitarists Mimi Fox and Kenny Burrell Mimi Fox is a world renowned American jazz guitarist. ...
William Richard Bill Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is a North American jazz guitarist, progressive folk musician and composer. ...
Carl Filipiak is a jazz guitarist located in Baltimore. ...
Scott Fivelson is a screenwriter, fiction writer, and songwriter from Los Angeles. ...
G This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Walter Hank Garland (November 11, 1930 – December 27, 2004) was a legendary Nashville studio musician. ...
Grant Geissman, born April 13, 1953 in Berkeley, California, is a jazz guitarist and an Emmy-nominated composer for network TV series and TV movies. ...
Mick Goodrick is a jazz guitarist. ...
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Grant Green Grant Green (June 6, 1935, St. ...
Theodore (Ted) Greene (September 26, 1946 – July 26, 2005) was an American guitarist and noted educator active in Encino, California. ...
Igor Grigoriev is a composer and improvisational guitarist. ...
H James Stanley Hall (born December 4, 1930, Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
Scott Henderson (born August 26th 1954, West Palm Beach, Florida) is a highly acclaimed fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech. ...
Jon Herington, real name: Jonathan Reuel Herington, was born on April 14th. ...
Allan Holdsworth (born August 6, 1946 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a British jazz guitarist and composer. ...
Toninho Horta, guitar player and violinist, plays eclectic music and has a recent CD Com o Pé no Forró with Dominguinhos and other musicians. ...
Brian Hughes (born 1955) is a Canadian guitarist whose work draws from both the smooth jazz and world music genres. ...
Charlie Hunter is an American jazz, rock and fusion guitarist. ...
I Enver Ä°zmaylov (b. ...
J Alfonzo Lonnie Johnson (February 8, 1894 – June 6, 1970) was a pioneering blues and jazz singer/guitarist born in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Stanley Jordan (July 31, 1959) is an American jazz/jazz fusion guitarist, best known for his development of the touch technique for playing guitar. ...
Wayne Johnson is a notable jazz and acoustic guitarist based in Southern California. ...
K Ryo Kawasaki (å·å´Žç‡Ž, Kawasaki Ryo) (February 25, 1947 – ) chose a career as a guitarist after spending some years studying as a scientist. ...
Barney Kessel (17 October 1923 - 6 May 2004) was an American jazz guitarist. ...
Earl Klugh (born September 16, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American smooth jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. ...
Wayne Krantz is a jazz fusion guitarist who has played with names such as Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham, and others, but currently has a solo act. ...
L Abraham Laboriel, Sr. ...
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Biréli Lagrène is a French guitarist and electric bassist. ...
Nappy Lamare (Jun 14, 1907, New Orleans, Louisiana - May 08, 1988 Newhall, California) was an american singer, guitar and banjo player. ...
Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was a jazz guitarist, considered by many the finest of his era. ...
Guitarist Adam Levy. ...
Arto Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist and singer. ...
Jeff Linsky (born 1952) is an American guitarist who has achieved a rare level of improvisational freedom on the solo guitar. ...
Mundell Lowe (b. ...
Romero Lubambo (born 1955 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian guitar player. ...
Sylvain Luc is a jazz guitarist born in Bayonne, in the French Basque Country, in 1965. ...
Lorne Lofsky is a prominent and prolific jazz guitarist in Toronto, Canada. ...
M Russell Malone (born November 8, 1963 in Albany, Georgia) is a jazz guitarist perhaps best known for his work with Diana Krall. ...
For other uses, see Jack Marshall (disambiguation). ...
Session musician whose notable work includes David Lee Roths solo EP, Crazy from the Heat,and with Run-D.M.C. on Rockbox. Artist and Designer from Pacoima, California. ...
Pat Martino (born Pat Azzara, August 25, 1944, in South Philadelphia) is a world-renowned Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer. ...
John McLaughlin John McLaughlin (aka pinyon)(born January 4, 1942), also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitar player from Doncaster, Yorkshire in England. ...
Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954 in Lees Summit, Missouri) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
Chieli Minucci is an Italian-American smooth jazz guitarist. ...
Roman Miroshnichenko (Роман Мирошниченко in russian) (born June 4, 1977) - Virtuoso guitarist in fusion style. ...
Ben Monder is a jazz guitarist. ...
John Leslie Wes Montgomery (6 March 1923 - 15 June 1968) was an American jazz guitarist and the grandfather of actor Anthony Montgomery. ...
Joe Morris (born September 13, 1955) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
Jim Mullen (born November 26, 1945) is a Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum. ...
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N Randy Napoleon (born 1977) is a jazz guitarist who has toured with Benny Green, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (CHJO), led by John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton and with Michael Bublé. He has also performed with jazz legends including Freddy Cole and Rodney Whitaker and is the leader of his...
O Andreas Öberg (born August 6, 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a jazz guitarist. ...
P Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua, January 13, 1929, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, died May 23, 1994, Los Angeles, California), was a jazz guitarist. ...
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Andreas Paolo Perger (b. ...
Bobby Perry is a forward currently playing basketball for the University of Kentucky. ...
John Pisano (born 1931 on Staten Island, NY) is a jazz guitarist. ...
John Paul Bucky Pizzarelli (born January 9, 1926)) is an American classical jazz guitarist and banjoist, perhaps most notable for his work with jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli, his own son. ...
John Paul Pizzarelli Jr. ...
Q Ed Snoozer Quinn (1906 – 1952? ) was a jazz guitarist very highly regarded by his fellow musicians, but who left few recordings. ...
R Todos os tons (1992). ...
Jimmy Raney (20 August 1927-10 May 1995) was an American jazz guitarist born in Louisville, Kentucky most notable for his work from 1951-1952 and 1962-1963 with Stan Getz and for his work from 1953-1954 with the Red Norvo trio, replacing Tal Farlow. ...
Vernon Reid (born August 22, 1958) is a guitar player, perhaps best known as the founder and primary songwriter of hard rock group Living Colour. ...
Jean Django Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Sinto Gypsy jazz guitarist. ...
Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 - May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist who rose to prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s, before dying young while on tour in Australia. ...
Lee Mack Captain Fingers Ritenour (born January 11, 1952) is a prominent session musician, and recording artist. ...
Howard Roberts (2 October 1929 – 28 June 1992) was an influential American jazz guitarist, educator and session musician. ...
Michael John Duke Robillard is a blues guitarist and singer. ...
Stephen Rochinski (born 20 January 1954) is a jazz guitarist. ...
Stochelo Rosenberg (b Helmond, Netherlands, 19 Feb 1968) is a Sinti-Gypsy Jazz Guitarist who plays in the Manouche style of Django Reinhardt and leads the Rosenberg trio. ...
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Terje Rypdal in Warsaw in 2005 Terje Rypdal (born 23 August 1947 in Oslo) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. ...
S John Scofield (born December 26, 1951 in Dayton, Ohio)[1] is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who played and eventually collaborated with Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, and other important artists. ...
Spencer playing in Hella at the High Five in Columbus, Ohio Spencer Seim is best known as the guitarist in the band Hella. ...
Elliott Sharp (born 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer who has personified the avant-garde experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. ...
Alex Skolnick (born September 29, 1968, grew up in Berkeley, California) is an American jazz and rock guitarist. ...
Johnny Smith, (born John Henry Smith, Jr. ...
Terry Smith (May 20, 1943, London) is a British jazz guitarist. ...
Jazz critics have likened Pete Smyser to such legendary guitarists as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, and Barney Kessel. ...
John Stein, is a jazz guitarist, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. ...
Leni Stern (born in Munich, Germany) is a jazz pianist, guitarist, and singer. ...
Mike Stern (born January 10, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist. ...
Andy Summers (born Andrew James Somers 31 December 1942) is an English guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police. ...
Gábor Szabó (March 8, 1936 - February 26, 1982) was a jazz guitarist. ...
T British guitarist Martin Taylor is one of the most highly regarded guitarists in the world. ...
Thomas J. Tedesco (July 3, 1930 – November 10, 1997) was an American master session musician and renowned jazz fusion and bebop guitarist. ...
David Torn (born 1953 in Amityville, New York) is a guitarist and composer known for electronics and performance techniques that have a highly atmospheric or textural quality. ...
Ralph Towner (b. ...
U James Blood Ulmer (born 2 February 1942 in St Matthews, South Carolina) is an American jazz and blues guitarist and singer. ...
V George Van Eps (7 August 1913 – 29 November 1998) was an American jazz guitarist noted both for his recordings as a leader, and for his work as a session musician. ...
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W Jack Wilkins is an American guitarist born on June 3, 1944. ...
Z | Jazz lists | | Important pieces • Albums • Genres • Festivals • Clubs Attila Cornelius Zoller (born June 13, 1927 in Visegrád, Ungarn; died January 25, 1998 in Townshent, Vermont) was the first guitarist to discover the free jazz and is considered as one of the innovators of modern jazz guitar. ...
For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ...
This is a list of jazz pieces by composer: Dave Brubeck Take Five Blue Rondo A La Turk The Duke In Your Own Sweet Way John Coltrane Giant Steps Countdown Moments Notice Naima A Love Supreme Crescent Bill Evans Waltz for Debby Peris Scope Time Remembered Sugar Plum...
The following is a list of jazz albums, which were initially released on LP records or compact discs. ...
Acid jazz Avant-jazz Bebop Dixieland Dixieland revival Calypso jazz Chamber jazz Contemporary jazz Cool jazz Creative jazz Crossover jazz European free jazz Franchesca jazz Free funk Free jazz Groove jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Jazz blues Jazz-funk Jazz fusion Jazz rap Jazz rock Kansas City Jazz Latin jazz...
This is a list of notable jazz music festivals, broken down geographically. ...
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Lists of artists: Musicians • Bassists • Trumpeters • Saxophonists • Drummers • Guitarists • Pianists • Vocalists • Clarinetists • Trombonists • Jazz fusion artists • Smooth jazz performers • Sicilian-American jazz musicians This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles. ...
The following is a list of noted jazz bassists with Wikipedia articles. ...
This is an alphabetical list of jazz trumpeters for whom Wikipedia has articles. ...
This is a list of jazz saxophonists. ...
This list of jazz drummers attempts to include all those for whom Wikipedia has an article. ...
This is an alphabetized list of notable pianists who play or played Jazz music. ...
A jazz musician is someone who plays or sings jazz music. ...
This is an alphabetical list of jazz clarinetists for whom Wikipedia has articles. ...
This is a list of notable jazz trombonists: (see also: trombonists, [[Category:Jazz trombonists]], [[Category:Trombonists]], and [[Category:Classical trombonists]] Back to jazz, trombone, or trombonists. ...
The following artists and bands have performed jazz fusion. ...
The following artists and bands have performed smooth jazz. ...
United States jazz musicians of Sicilian ancestry include: Sharkey Bonano was born with the name Joseph Gustaf Bonano in the Milenburg neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, by the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. ...
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