Jazz guitarist
In early days of jazz in New Orleans, most bands had guitarists, but there are no recordings by Lorenzo Staulz,[1][2] Rene Baptiste, Dominick Barocco, Joe Guiffre, Coochie Martin, and Brock Mumford.
Buddy Bolden, one of the earliest jazz musicians, played in a band in 1889 that was led by guitarist Charlie Galloway.
In the 1930s, he formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, consisting of three acoustic guitars, a violin, and a double bass.
[6][9][11][12] The gypsy jazz tradition has a small but loyal following that continued in the work of the Ferré family, the Schmitt family, Angelo Debarre, Christian Escoudé, Fapy Lafertin, Biréli Lagrène, Jon Larsen, Jimmy Rosenberg, and Stephane Wrembel.
Django Reinhardt's Hot Club of France was a string quintet in which being heard over the other instruments was rarely a problem.
[4][8][9] Durham persuaded Floyd Smith to buy an electric guitar, and while on tour he showed his amp to Charlie Christian.
[8] According to jazz critic Leonard Feather, Christian played a single-note line alongside a trumpet and saxophone, moving the guitar away from its secondary role in the rhythm section.
While in New York City, he spent many late hours at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, playing with musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie.
[9] Although Charlie Christian had a brief career (1939-1941), his impact was big enough that some critics divide the history of jazz guitar into pre-Christian and post-Christian eras.
Two pioneers of bebop, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, recorded with young guitarists Bill DeArango[14] and Remo Palmier and inspired Chuck Wayne to change his approach.
Billy Bauer explored unconventional territory with Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz,[15] playing dissonant chords and trying to adapt the abstraction of Konitiz and Warne Marsh to the guitar.
Johnny Smith carried this love of harmony into a romantic, chordal style, as in his hit ballad "Moonlight in Vermont".
[16][9] Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Jim Hall are perhaps the most important jazz guitar players of the sixties and of the following decades.
Two years with the album Getz/Gilberto with some compositions of by Antonio Carlos Jobim, among wich "The Girl from Ipanema", the bossa nova exploded.
Brazilian guitarists include João Gilberto, Baden Powell de Aquino, and Bola Sete.
McLaughlin recorded an album of acoustic jazz in the early 1980s with guitarists Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola.
Sonny Sharrock used dissonance, distortion effects units, and other electronic gear to create sonic "sheets of noise" that drove some listeners away when he performed at festivals.
[19] English guitarist Derek Bailey established his reputation as part of the European free jazz scene.
