Contemporary Electric Guitarists playing Jazz?

[CGR]

Here he is playing Donna Lee at 300 BPM! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TR6OxXzEoY

... and Giant Steps at 330 BPM... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJxeQQ_PrHg

Did not enjoy that. That fusion flood scalic lines is not my cup of Rosie Lea.

[CGR]

How about this

[Joseph K]

Did not enjoy that. That fusion flood scalic lines is not my cup of Rosie Lea.

What are you talking about? Donna Lee is a classic bebop tune, and I guess you could consider Giant Steps a Hard-bop tune. Scales as a main way of improvising had been around in Jazz at least a decade before Fusion was a thing. Just listen to John Coltrane play with Thelonious Monk.

Ben Eunson is an incredible stylist. His lines also feature arpeggios and more intervallic ideas...

[Joseph K]

How about this

Very nice. Check out this:

[Serial_Apologist]

Very nice. Check out this:

Really nice JK - the Holdsworth number is on an old BBC 1972 or 3 broadcast on a cassette I was given by someone now probably regretting not keeping it - coupled with some Gilgamesh (led on guitar by Phil Lee, now I believe no more, who worked with Mike Garrick, Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler among others) from around the same time.

[Joseph K]

Really nice JK - the Holdsworth number is on an old BBC 1972 or 3 broadcast on a cassette I was given by someone now probably regretting not keeping it - coupled with some Gilgamesh (led on guitar by Phil Lee, now I believe no more, who worked with Mike Garrick, Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler among others) from around the same time.

'Fred' I know from the first Tony Williams record featuring Holdsworth.

I think Mancuso's original tune here 'Time to Leave' is nice.

[CGR]

[Bryn]

Last Friday, I much enjoyed the quintet, put together by N(athan) O Moore, comprising of John Butcher, Phil Durrant, James L Malone, NO Moore, and Eddie Prévost, for "Improvisers inside electronics" at Iklectik. Whether or not one regards what Moore and co. played as 'jazz', his "guitarism" I find most alluring.

[Joseph K]

[CGR]

I just posted a Lage Lund Trio concert under the Jazz Videos section.

[Ian Thumwood]

The new Pat Metheny trio album is quite intriguing. Upon first listen, the record sounds like a record made in the studio but it transpires to be a live recording. The impression I had was that this group featured the guitarist at the head of a trio that was following in the footsteps on the recent Chris Potter trio. The music transpires to be a range of styles which covers the bases between the old PMG and more traditional guir/organ/drum trios. The most run-of-the-mill track is an outing on Ornette Coleman's "Blues Connetation" which involves some Freddie Greene - style comping at one point! Whilst it is difficult not to be impressed by the level of musicianship, I have to admit that I am amazed that it is just three musicians producing this music and in a live circumstance as well.

[RichardB]

I've just been listening to a new release of a 1989 live set by Decoding Society with a lineup I happened to see in London around that time - Anthony Peterson and
David Gilmore on electric guitars, Ramon Poser on bass guitar and of course Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. Referring to the ongoing discussion of "fusion" on another thread, I think this music (as an outgrowth of Ornette's Prime Time concept) gives the lie to the idea that a backbeat somehow compromises the freedom of the music. I think I've mentioned the gig I saw with this group before - I was transfixed by the imagination and interplay of the guitarists, but as soon as it was over the friend I went with, who was an accomplished professional bass guitar player himself, remarked that it was the worst guitar playing he'd ever heard. Anyway the recording is here

https://ronaldshannonjackson.bandcamp.com/album/ronald-shannon-jackson-live-koln-germany-1989?fbclid=IwAR11s6JIxrT6dBq4zYDstbDKlcBucxmBx_Nx8ppo5BS9oO1bX-x3FkKVoZ8

so you can judge for yourself. I like Shannon Jackson's tunes as well; and this live recording captures the rawness and unpredictability of the music far better than any of their studio releases. (PS - RSJ's vocals take a bit of getting used to though!)