need guitar jazz advice

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I'm new on jazz. Can you guys recommend some good guitar oriented jazz songs. I'm particularly looking for slow contemporary guitar jazz. If it has vocals, it would be better. Thanks for the time.

[Coypu]

Check out Allan Holdsworth, not sure exactly what his style is called but he is the greatest guitar player I have ever heard. Check out the songs :

City Nights - here (http://galaxen.net/~coypu/musik/MX/01%20-%20City%20Nights.mp3)
Road Games
Water on the brain pt2. - great bassplay on this one by Jeff Berlin

[LectricGuitarDude]

Mike Stern - Voices.

Mike is an excellent guitarist. Contemprory, but none of that smoot jazz stuff. This album has vocals in it.

Pat Metheney is another player you might want to look at.

(Allan Holdsworth is and excellent fusion guitarist as well. If you are comming from a rock background you might want to check him and a guy named Frank Gambale out.)

[solarjazzband]

The most modern (listenable, so not weirdo) (jazz)guitarist, is Kurt Rosenwinkel. For introduction, I would say:

East Coast Love Affair (standards, more ´jazz´
Next Step (really modern, which I like more)

Enjoy!

[senorblues]

West Coast Blues is a classic guitar tune by Wes Mongomery

[Jakeweiser]

Pat Martino writes some good guitar tunes like Catch or Turnpike. If you're looking for Slow contemporary... most of these guys mentioned are burners.

Contemporary gets thrown around a lot as a term to so I'm not sure exactly. I would suggest checking out some John Abercrombie as a guy who doesn't play a whole lot of really up tempo tunes, not in comparassion to Martino or Holdsworth (shred jazz)

[Jim R]

I don't get it. Did anybody notice that the person who is supposedly on the receiving end of the advice here (who was interested in smooth jazz guitar with vocals, by the way) disappeared 2 and a half years ago after posting this question? I don't think he or she is interested in Wes Montgomery, and I don't think he or she is going to be reading this...

[Anvil]

hahaha ... it doesn't really matter we all just want to hear ourselves talk anyway :P

[aquabenz]

I'd suggest listening to almost anything Marc Ducret (www.marcducret.com) has ever recorded. He used to sound a bit like Holdsworth and Metheny, but recently he's really cultivated his own percussive and all-encompassing sound in groups like Tim Berne's Big Satan, Caos Totale, and Tony Malaby's quartet. He's not as clean-cut as Holdsworth, Metheny, or Scofield, but his take-all approach and his uncanny abilities on the 12-string acoustic and the fretless guitar will stagger you. Some of the chords and riffs he spins off are unimaginably unique. Be warned, though...he's waaaay on the avant-garde end of jazz, so don't expect standards and finger-snapping. I'm real biased for Ducret because I've seen him play, and it's quite an experience.

Other guitarists worth looking into are Ben Monder, John Abercrombie (especially his seventies fusion stuff with Gateway and Billy Cobham, if you're into rock-ish stuff) Wayne Krantz, Adam Rogers, Nguyen Le, Brad Shepik, Hilmar Jensson (if you like alternative rock-ish stuff check out him in Jim Black's Alasnoaxis) and Liberty Ellman...the list is really endless.

[jjloomis]

Hello AAJ Forum. This is my first post. I was just searching for stuff I like. I'll second the Ducret, Monder, Ellman nods. I just got a whole bunch of Durcet stuff on Sketch (unfortunately, they just went under) and a solo album on Screwgun. Awesome stuff. A whole new style. He also seems to eschew the standard jazz guitar tone--I think he's playing a solidbody on most of what I've got.

Have your heard the Liberty Ellman album that he put out before Tactiles? If so, how is it? I keep meaning to order it.