Evolving the guitar

•→Charlie Christian: Swing to Bop [1941]

¤ Pat Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility – a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues.

•→ Pat Metheny & Jim Hall The Great Guitars ←[2006]

∞ Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden ↓ ‘Farmer’s Trust’ [2009]

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Φ BILL FRISELL

«It’s hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell. Mixing rock and country with jazz and blues, he’s found what connects them: improvisation and a sense of play. Unlike other pastichists, who tend to duck passion, Mr. Frisell plays up the pleasure in the music and also takes on another often-avoided subject, tenderness.» – The New York Times

Bill Frisell from Brian Christ on Vimeo.

♦ ◊ ♦ ◊ The Guitar Artistry of →Bill Frisell ↓

◊ Live At Montreal Jazz Festival ↓ 2002

Bill Frisell – guitar & loops; Greg Leisz – steel guitars & mandolin; Matt Chamberlain – drums;
David Piltch – bass; Billy Drewes – alto sax; Curtis Fowlkes – trombone; Ron Miles – trumpet

1. What Do We Do? 2. Dream On 3. Outlaws 4. The Tractor

5. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry 6. Blues Dream 7. Ron Carter

8. Keep Your Eyes Open 9. Egg Radio 10. We’re Not From Around Here

•→ Bill Frisell Big Sur Sextet _ Vitoria/Gasteiz_2013 ←•

♦ Bill Frisell + John Zorn + Fred Frith + Joey Baron ↓ ‘Naked City’

♣ Ginger Baker Trio (w/ Charlie Haden, Bill Frisell) ⇓ [1995]

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¤ Terje Rypdal ←

Born in Oslo in 1947, Terje Rypdal is known as one of the leading modern jazz guitarists in Europe. At the same time he is regarded to be an outstanding composer of contemporary art music. Rypdal has had a multifarious musical career since he started his pop band «The Vanguards» in the 1960’s. He later started up «Dream» where his interest for jazz was awakened. In 1969 he joined the Jan Garbarek Quartet. At the same time he even played in George Russell’s Sextet and big band.

He has composed five symphonies, several works for solo instruments with orchestra, two operas and a large number of contemporary works with participation of jazz musicians.

Δ Cathedral ↓

♦ → ‘The Return Per Ulv’ [«If Mountains Could Sing»] ↓ (1994)

→ Terje Rypdal + Trilok Gurtu + Miroslav Vitous ←

•→Trio Rypdal Vitous Gurtu [FULL CONCERT] 1995 Live in Stuttgart

◊ Mystery Man ↓ [pics by Rene Magritte]

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¤ Ralph Towner

Best known as the lead composer, guitarist, and keyboardist for the acoustic jazz ensemble «Oregon»←, Ralph Towner has also had a rich and varied solo career that has seen fruitful and memorable musical collaboration with such great modern musicians as Gary Burton, John Abercrombie, Egberto Gismonti, Larry Coryell, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, and Gary Peacock.

•→ ‘Summer’s End’ [Lost And Found_1996]

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¤ John Abercrombie [1944-2017]

∞ ‘Isla‘ ↓ [«Five Years Later»; painting by Claude Theberge]

♦ Joseph Tawadros – Oud + John Abercrombie – Guitar + Drew Gress – Double Bass + James Tawadros – Req ↓ [2011]

•→ John Abercrombie Quartet – Köln [Germany, 1999]

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¤ Bela Fleck & the Fleckstones

•→ A Celtic Medley ⇐[1993]

♦ ‘Stomping Grounds’ ↓ [1996]

•→ «Sinister Minister» [2011]←

∞ with Oumou Sangare: ‘Djorolen’ ⇐

•→ Bela Fleck & the Flecktones with Alash: ‘Dyngyldai/What Child Is This?‘←

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