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Jazz guitarists - A list of the most famous jazz guitar players of all time, with photos. These are the most well known jazz guitarists - guitar players whose main style is jazz guitar. Famous jazz guitarists on this list have played in trad combos, with vocalists, in jazz fusion, solo, and in free jazz. Some of the most notable jazz guitarists in the world are Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian. This list includes jazz guitar greats from the dawning of jazz history in the early 1900s, including of course many of the most talented jazz guitar players today. These prominent jazz guitarists are some of the best musicians around. This list of renowned jazz guitar players is alphabetical. See also a full list of jazz funk bands, and a full list of jazz blues artists.

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Albums Nationality Labels
  1. 1

    Adam Levy

    Folk music, Soul music, Pop music, Jazz, Country, Blues
    Buttermilk Channel
    United States of America
  2. 2

    Adam Rogers

  3. 3

    Adam Taubitz

  4. 4
    Smooth jazz
  5. 5
    Rock music, Pop music, Jazz, Country
    hits, Bonanza! 1960-1969, Golden Hit Instrumentals, Tuff Guitar Tijuana Style, Soft Picks, Tuff Guitar, Golden Guitar More
    United States of America
    HMV, United Artists Records, RCA Records, Coral Records, Savoy Records, Atco Records, Roulette Records, Chancellor Records More
  6. 6
    Rock music, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Rhythm and blues, Jazz, Funk, World music, Instrumental rock, Chicano rock, Latin jazz, Gypsy jazz More
    Land of the Midnight Sun, Winter Nights, The Essence of Al DiMeola, Passion, Grace & Fire, Flesh on Flesh, Orange and Blue, The Infinite Desire, Di Meola Plays Piazzolla, Ritmo de la Noche, The Rite of Strings (feat. Al Di Meola & Jean-Luc Ponty), Tirami Su, Kiss My Axe, Cielo e Terra, The Guitarist , Acoustic Anthology, Soaring Through a Dream, World Sinfonia, Electric Anthology, Splendido Hotel, Christmas: Winter Nights, Scenario, The Guitar Trío, Fugata, Casino, La Melodia: World Sinfonia Live In Milano, Elegant Gypsy, Friday Night in San Francisco, Consequence of Chaos, Revisited, Heart Of The Immigrants, The Collection, Live at Belmont Raceway, Orange And Blue, Tour De Force - "Live", World Sinfonia - La Melodia, Diabolic Inventions and Seduction for Solo Guitar, Volume I, Music of Astor Piazzolla, Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody, Anthology, Greatest Hits, Cosmopolitan Life, Vocal Rendezvous, This Is Jazz 31, World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion, Electric Rendezvous, Al Di Meola Plays Piazzolla, The Infinite Desire, The Best of Al Di Meola: The Manhattan Years, Al Di Meola Revisited More
    United States of America
    Columbia Records, Telarc International Corporation
  7. 7
    Jazz fusion, Jazz, Experimental music
    Sic, [SIC], Featuring Ourselves
    Austria
  8. 8
    Jazz fusion, Heavy metal, Jazz, Thrash metal
    United States of America
    Nuclear Blast, Roadrunner Records
  9. 9
    Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Jazz, Instrumental rock, Free jazz
    Metal Fatigue, Hard Hat Area, The Things You See, I.O.U., I.O.U. Live, Atavachron, Then!, Best Works Collection, Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie, Velvet Darkness, The Sixteen Men of Tain, Sunbird, The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock, With a Heart in My Song, Road Games, I.O.U Live, All Night Wrong, Wardenclyffe Tower +3, Wardenclyffe Tower, Sand, Secrets, Heavy Machinery, None Too Soon More
    Warner Bros. Records, Relativity Records, Polydor Records, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Cream Records, CTI Records, Enigma Records, Restless Records, Favored Nations More
  10. 10

    Allan Reuss

  11. 11
    Soul music, Jazz, Electronic dance music
    My Favorite Guitars
  12. 12
    Germany
  13. 13
    United States of America
  14. 14
    Rock music, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, New Wave, Pop music, Post-punk, Jazz, Reggae More
    The Last Dance of Mr. X, I Advance Masked, Green Chimneys, Charming Snakes, The Golden Wire, A Windham Hill Retrospective, Synaesthesia, XYZ, Peggy's Blue Skylight, World Gone Strange, Peggy's Blue Skylight, Mysterious Barricades, XYZ, Earth + Sky More
  15. 15

    Anthony Wilson

  16. 16

    Arto Lindsay

    Experimental music
    O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body), Noon Chill, Invoke, Salt, Reentry, Mundo Civilizado, Hyper Civilizado, Prize More
    United States of America
    ZE Records
  17. 17

    Attila Zoller

    Common Cause
  18. 18

    Baden Powell

  19. 19

    Barney Kessell

  20. 20

    Barry Finnerty

  21. 21

    Barry Galbraith

  22. 22

    Ben Monder

    Excavation, Oceana, Ceremony, Flux
    United States of America
  23. 23
  24. 24
    Moving Forward, The Journey Within
    United States of America
  25. 25
    Folk music, Folk rock
    Collection, Crimson Moon, A Rare Conundrum, Avocet, From the Outside, Rosemary Lane, Leather Launderette, It Don’t Bother Me, The Ornament Tree, Santa Barbara Honeymoon, Bert Jansch / Jack Orion, Heartbreak, Nicola, Bert and John, Jack Orion, Dazzling Stranger, Sketches, The River Sessions, From the Outside, Young Man Blues: Live in Glasgow 1962-1964, Live at the 12 Bar: An Authorised Bootleg, Fresh As a Sweet Sunday Morning, Legend: The Classic Recordings, Lucky Thirteen, Best of Bert Jansch, Edge of A Dream, Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology, Birthday Blues, Downunder: Live In Australia, Sketches, Pentangling: The Collection (disc 3), L.A. Turnaround, Bert Jansch, Toy Balloon, Bert Jansch / It Don't Bother Me, The Bert Jansch Sampler, The Black Swan, When the Circus Comes to Town, Moonshine, Best of Bert Jansch, Poor Mouth, The River Sessions More
    Transatlantic Records, Charisma Records

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