• Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The...
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  • The Jazz Guitarist is an album by jazz guitarist Chuck Wayne which was released on the Savoy label in 1956. The album comprised two recording sessions...
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  • The following is a list of notable jazz guitar players, including guitarists from related jazz genres such as Western swing, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion...
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    undistorted "jangly" sound. The Soukous band TPOK Jazz additionally featured the unique role of mi-solo, (meaning "half solo") guitarist, playing arpeggio patterns...
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    1915 – September 11, 2005) was an American jazz guitarist who was a member of Fats Waller's band during the 1930s and early 1940s. Casey was born in Louisville...
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  • guitarist. He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing. He performed in many styles, including bossa nova, samba, Brazilian jazz,...
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    – August 22, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. His work explored jazz fusion, free jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Abercrombie studied at Berklee College...
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    Django Reinhardt (category French jazz guitarists)
    Sinti jazz guitarist and composer. Since he was born on Belgian soil, in Liberchies, he is also often named a Belgian musician. He was one of the first...
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    acoustic guitars. In the early 1930s, jazz musicians sought to amplify their sound to be heard over loud big bands. When guitarists in big bands switched...
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    Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt...
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    American jazz guitarist who worked with Jaki Byard, Chico Hamilton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lena Horne and as a bandleader. He is cited as a jazz guitarist who...
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  • Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined...
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  • and guitarist Tamara Milashkina, 89, Russian opera singer 11 Annie Nightingale, 83, English radio disk jockey Sigi Schwab, 83, German jazz guitarist 12...
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    Mike Stern (category American jazz guitarists)
    Mike Stern (born January 10, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist. After playing with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he worked with drummer Billy Cobham, then with...
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    which is a jazz piano technique. Jazz guitarists also have to learn how to add in passing tones, and use "guide tones" and chord tones from the chord progression...
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  • Swiss jazz singer, 59 (cancer) January 26 Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68 (cancer) Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist...
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    Pat Metheny (category American jazz guitarists)
    mə-THEE-nee; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977–2010) and continues to work...
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    1943) is an American jazz fusion guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. A former child prodigy...
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  • (September 20, 1913 – October 4, 2001) was an American jazz guitarist who was a member of the Nat King Cole trio. A native of Alabama, Collins grew up...
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    Matteo Mancuso (category Italian jazz guitarists)
    Italian jazz and rock guitarist and composer from Palermo, Sicily. Mancuso is known for adapting a quasi-flamenco/classical right-hand technique to the electric...
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    John McLaughlin (musician) (category Chamber jazz guitarists)
    Mahavishnu, is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. A pioneer of jazz fusion, his music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music, Western...
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  • Retrieved January 26, 2024. van den Wildenberg, Norman (January 27, 2024). "Jazz Guitarist Dean Brown Has Passed Away". Maxazine. Retrieved March 16, 2024. Jacobs...
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  • Jimmy Bruno (category American jazz guitarist stubs)
    American jazz guitarist from Philadelphia. Born in Philadelphia, Bruno started playing guitar at the age of 7. He began his professional career at the age...
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    Joe Pass (category American jazz guitarists)
    Jacobi Passalacqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. Pass is well known for his work stemming from numerous collaborations...
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    avant-garde guitarist and an important figure in the free improvisation movement. Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found in jazz, exploring...
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  • Norman Brown (born December 18, 1970) is an American smooth jazz guitarist and singer. Brown was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1970 and grew up in Kansas...
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  • Chilean-Canadian guitarist, whose signature style blends Latin and jazz styles. Lopez was born in Santiago, Chile, studying music through the University of...
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  • American poet and professor of English Rodney Jones (guitarist) (born 1956), American jazz guitarist Rodney Jones (boxer) (born 1968), American boxer Rodney...
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  • Jazz Guitarist is a solo studio album by jazz guitarist Ted Dunbar that was released by Xanadu in 1982. "Winding Blues" - 4:05 (Ted Dunbar) "Total Conversion"...
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  • Detroit) is an American jazz guitarist. Smith teaches at University of Southern California's Thorton School of Music. Rockin The Boat 1989 Puma Creek 1989...
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