In the 1940s through the 1960s, players such as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall laid the foundation of what is now known as "jazz guitar" playing.ġ970s Jazz fusion pioneer John McLaughlin at a festival in Limburgerhof, Germany, 2008Īs jazz-rock fusion emerged in the early 1970s, many players switched to the more rock-oriented solid body guitars. Improved electric guitars such as Gibson's ES-175 (released in 1949), gave players a larger variety of tonal options. In the hands of George Barnes, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow, who had absorbed the language of bebop, the guitar began to be seen as a “serious” jazz instrument. It was not until the large-scale emergence of small combo jazz in the post-WWII period that the guitar took off as a versatile instrument, which was used both in the rhythm section and as a featured melodic instrument and solo improviser. The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “King” Cole's trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.ĭuke Ellington's big band had a rhythm section that included a jazz guitarist, a double bass player, and a drummer (not visible). Few of the big bands, however, featured amplified guitar solos, which were done instead in the small combo context. Some guitarists, such as Freddie Green of Count Basie's band, developed a guitar-specific style of accompaniment.
By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.ĭuring the late 1930s and through the 1940s-the heyday of big band jazz and swing music-the guitar was an important rhythm section instrument.
The Gibson L5, an acoustic archtop guitar which was first produced in 1923, was an early “jazz”-style guitar which was used by early jazz guitarists such as Eddie Lang. As the acoustic guitar became a more popular instrument in the early 20th century, guitar-makers began building louder guitars which would be useful in a wider range of settings. The stringed, chord-playing rhythm can be heard in groups which included military band-style instruments such as brass, saxes, clarinets, and drums, such as early jazz groups. ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Comping refers to playing chords underneath a song's melody or another musician's solo improvisations. Jazz guitar playing styles include comping with jazz chord voicings (and in some cases walking bass lines) and blowing ( improvising) over jazz chord progressions with jazz-style phrasing and ornaments. Solid body guitars, mass-produced since the early 1950s, are also used. Traditionally, jazz electric guitarists use an archtop with a relatively broad hollow sound-box, violin-style f-holes, a " floating bridge", and a magnetic pickup. Although the earliest guitars used in jazz were acoustic and acoustic guitars are still sometimes used in jazz, most jazz guitarists since the 1940s have performed on an electrically amplified guitar or electric guitar. Jazz guitar had an important influence on jazz in the beginning of the twentieth century. When guitarists in big bands switched from acoustic to semi-acoustic guitar and began using amplifiers, it enabled them to play solos. In the early 1930s, jazz musicians sought to amplify their sound to be heard over loud big bands. Jazz guitar may refer to either a type of electric guitar or a guitar playing style in jazz, using electric amplification to increase the volume of acoustic guitars. It has been in production continuously since 1949 until 2019. Hollowbody electric guitars are quite common in jazz the Gibson ES-175 is a classic example. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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