List of Jazz Guitarists 1. Blake Aaron 2. Eivind Aarset 3. Rez Abbasi 4. John Abercrombie 5. Paul Abler 6. Steve Abshire 7. Morris Acevedo 8. Bernard Addison 9. Steve Adelson 10. Dan Adler 11. Ron Affif 12. Noel Akchote 13. Jan Akkerman 14. Odd Steinar Albrigtsen 15. Howard Alden 16. Johnny Alegre 17. Oscar Alemán 18. Glenn Alexander 19. Neal Alger 20. Laurindo Almeida 21. Peter Almqvist 22. Frode Alnæs 23. Leonardo Amuedo 24. Chuck Anderson 25. Tuck Andress 26. John Anello Jr 27. Michael Anthony 28. Ron Anthony 29. Marc Antoine 30. Bruce Arnold 31. Irving Ashby 32. Dave Askren 33. Badi Assad 34. Gustavo Assis-Brasil 35. Chet Atkins 36. Erich Avinger B 37. Elek Bacsik 38. Mike Baggetta 39. Derek Bailey (the most radical) 40. Sheryl Bailey (blazing style, need to check out) 41. Bob Bain 42. Clint Baker 43. Duck Baker 44. Matt Balitsaris 45. Dave Barbour 46. A Spencer Barefield 47. Danny Barker 48. Everett Barksdale 49. Junior Barnard 50. George Barnes 51. Jeff Barone 52. Carl Barry 53. John Basile 54. Frode Barth 55. Billy Bauer 56. Billy Bean 57. Gerry Beaudoin 58. Jeff Beck 59. Joe Beck 60. David Becker 61. Jean-Marc Belkadi 62. Robert Bell 63. Roni Ben-Hur 64. George Benson 65. Rolf Berg 66. Gonzalo Bergara 67. Chris Bergson 68. Randy Bernsen’s 69. Peter Bernstein 70. Gene Bertoncini 71. Mads Berven 72. Skeeter Best 73. Ed Bickert 74. Brian Blade 75. Jack Bland 76. Michael Bocian 77. Pascal Bokar 78. Paul Bollenback 79. Luiz Bonfá 80. Perry Botkin Sr 81. Jean-Paul Bourelly 82. Al Bowlly 83. Ned Boynton 84. Terry Bradds 85. Sean Bray 86. Joshua Breakstone 87. Lenny Breau 88. Zachary Breaux 89. Terence Brewer 90. Bobby Broom 91. Andy Brown 92. Norman Brown 93. Sam Brown 94. Dale Bruning 95. Jimmy Bruno 96. John Bruschini 97. Mike Bryan 98. Jimmy Bryant 99. Buckethead 100. Dennis Budimir 101. Hiram Bullock 102. Teddy Bunn 103. Teddy Bunn 104. Kenny Burrell 105. Andre Bush 106. Billy Butler 107. Jonathan Butler 108. Charlie Byrd C 109. Al Caiola 110. Glen Campbell 111. Royce Campbell 112. Jim Campilongo 113. Brent Canter 114. Andre Caporaso 115. Joe Capraro 116. Ana Caram 117. Steve Cardenas 118. John Carlini 119. Larry Carlton 120. Danny Caron 121. Stian Carstensen 122. Joe Carter 123. Deirdre Cartwright 124. Al Casey 125. Oscar Castro-Neves 126. Philip Catherine 127. Katie Cavera 128. Mike Cea 129. Franco Cerri 130. Eugene Chadbourne 131. Emmet Chapman 132. Roger Chaput 133. Fawzi Chekili 134. Ed Cherry 135. Andrew Cheshire (free and refreshing, check him out) 136. John Chiodini 137. James Chirillo 138. Charlie Christian 139. Corey Christiansen 140. Joe Cinderella 141. Roy Clark 142. Bruce Clarke 143. Doug Clarke 144. Greg Clayton 145. Dave Cliff 146. Nels Cline 147. Joe Cohn 148. George Cole 149. Joyce Cooling 150. Cal Collins 151. John Collins 152. Ken Colyer 153. Eddie Condon 154. Bill Connors (Return to Forever) 155. Robert Conti 156. Ry Cooder 157. Michael Coppola 158. Larry Coryell 159. Pete Cosey 160. Ray Crawford 161. Steve Cropper 162. David Cullen D 163. Thomas T. Dahl 164. Laurie Dameron 165. Jerome Darr 166. Daniel Heløy Davidsen 167. Bill DeArango 168. Angelo Debarre 169. Graham Dechter (b. 7/23/1986, LA) 170. Phil deGruy 171. Paco de Lucía 172. Mike DeMicco 173. Tom Dempsey 174. Cary DeNigris 175. Bob Devos 176. Mike DiBari 177. Eddie Diehl 178. Al Di Meola 179. Sacha Distel 180. Joe Diorio 181. Diz Disley 182. Lonnie Donegan 183. Pat Donohue 184. Christy Doran 185. Jim Douglas 186. Ted Dunbar 187. Cornell Dupree 188. Eddie Duran 189. Eddie Durham E 190. David Eastlee 191. Jon Eberson 192. Lars Edegran 193. Bruce Eisenbeil 194. Howard Elkins 195. Charles Ellerbee 196. Edward Ellington II 197. Herb Ellis 198. Danny Embrey 199. James Emery 200. Tommy Emmanuel 201. Eddie Erickson 202. Gene Ess 203. Ron Eschete 204. Christian Escoude 205. John Etheridge 206. Bus Etri (b.1917 NY – d.21 Aug 1941, Culver City, CA, car accident, 24 years old) 207. Kevin Eubanks F 208. Dan Faehnle 209. Tal Farlow 210. Buzzy Feiten 211. Mordy Ferber 212. Jim Ferguson 213. Julio Fernandez 214. Per Arne Ferner 215. Boulou Ferre 216. Elios Ferre 217. Jean-Pierre “Matelo” Ferret 218. Pierre “Baro” Ferret 219. Garrison Fewell 220. Scott Fields 221. Ed Fila 222. Carl Filipiak 223. Jamie Findlay 224. Barry Finnerty 225. Jacob Fischer 226. Andy Fite 227. David Fiuczynski 228. Brick Fleagle 229. Rod Fleeman 230. William “Biddy” Fleet 231. Chris Flory 232. Ronaldo Folegatti 233. Robben Ford 234. Bruce Forman 235. Mark Fosset 236. Mimi Fox 237. Christer Fredriksen 238. Russ Freeman 239. Robert Fripp 240. Bill Frisell 241. Carl Filipiak 242. Nir Felder 243. Scott Fivelson 244. Peter Frampton (Verve 543514 in 1984, Monk’s “Work” on “That’s The Way It is”) 245. Fred Frith G 246. Gabor Gado 247. Slim Gaillard 248. Barry Galbraith 249. Eric Gale 250. Charlie Galloway i. Led one of the very first, slightly jazz oriented bands in 1889. ii. No recordings exist of his playing. 251. Frank Gambale 252. Oliver Gannon 253. Keith Ganz 254. Al Garcia 255. Dick Garcia 256. Paulinho Garcia 257. Hank Garland 258. Arv Garrison 259. Danny Gatton 260. Nigel Gavin 261. Jay Geils (“Jay Geils Plays Jazz”) 262. Grant Geissman 263. Mike Gellar 264. Jane Getter 265. Banu Gibson 266. Gene Gifford 267. Joe Giglio 268. Joao Gilberto 269. David Gilmore 270. Greg Ginn 271. Steve Giordano 272. Egberto Gismonti 273. Jamie Glaser 274. Jeff Golub 275. Mick Goodrick (post bob) 276. Torsten Goods 277. John Goodsall 278. Pedro Javier González 279. Tony Gottuso 280. Jimmy Gourley (hard bop solos) 281. Guthrie Govan 282. Davy Graham 283. Jack Grassell 284. Douglas B. Green 285. Freddie Green 286. Grant Green 287. Grant Green Jr 288. Barry Greene 289. Ted Greene 290. Sonny Greenwich 291. Tiny Grimes 292. Igor Grigoriev 293. Marty Grosz 294. Ivar Grydeland 295. Jostein Gulbrandsen 296. Fred Guy (Ellington Orchestra H 297. Bobby Hacket 298. Jerry Hahn 299. Jim Hall 300. Stuart Hall 301. Mary Halvorson (b. Oct 16th , 1980). A fierce improviser, avant garde 302. Bob Hames 303. Fred Hamilton 304. Steve Hancoff (b. Fe 13, 1948, ragtime) 305. Fareed Haque (b. 1 Jan 1963) 306. Richard Hart 307. Albert Harris 308. Bill Harris 309. Jerome Harris 310. Joel Harrison 311. John Hart (b. 15 June 1961modern mainstream ) 312. Richie Hart 313. Ken Hatfield (hard to classify) 314. Svein Dag Hauge 315. Jeff Healey 316. Gilad Hekselman (b. Feb3, 1983, Israel) 317. Scott Henderson (b. Aug 26, 1954, West Palm Beach. FL). www.scotthenderson.net 318. Al Hendrickson (Artie Shaw Orchestra, extremely busy studio guitarist) 319. Steve Herberman (Sept 10, 1966, Bethesda MD) 320. Jon Herington 321. Even Helte Hermansen 322. Jimmy Herring 323. Jim Hershmen 324. Carl Hogan 325. Allan Holdsworth (Aug 6, 1946, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK) 326. Clarence Holiday 327. Sol Hoopii 328. Toninho Horta 329. Michael Howell 330. Diane Hubka 331. Brian Hughes 332. Charlie Hunter (b. May 23, 1967, Providence, RI) i. 8 string ii. bop-based guitarist with an open mind towards funk and R&B iii. www.charliehunter.com 333. Clifton Hyde 334. James "Tootie" Hogan I 335. Adrian Ingram 336. Ike Isaacs 337. Enver İzmaylov J 338. Michael Gregory Jackson 339. Milt Jackson 340. Paul Jackson Jr. 341. Ron Jackson (b. July 27, 1964, Manilla, Philippines) i. hard-bop based guitarist. 342. Sid Jacobs 343. Bert Jansch 344. Tomas Janzon 345. Rolf Jardeman 346. Bill Jennings 347. Chris Jentsch 348. Denny Jiosa 349. Antonio Carlos Jobim 350. Kim Johannesen 351. Nils-Olav Johansen 352. Art Johnson 353. Eric Johnson (b. Sept 14, 1954, Pittsburgh, PA) i. Bluesy soulful 354. Henry Johnson i. straight ahead guitarist 355. Lonnie Johnson i. one of the couple of top jazz guitarists from the 20’s 356. Wayne Johnson i. Superior guitarist 357. Randy Johnston i. straight ahead who invigorates the hard bop/soul-jazz tradition 358. Rodney Jones 359. Ronny Jordan 360. Stanley Jordan 361. Steve Jordan 362. John Jorgenson i. Gypsy jazz 363. Joyce (Brazilian singer. “Music Inside”) 364. Barbara Jungfer 365. Vic Juris K 366. Dirk K 367. Henry Kaiser i. Hard to classify. ii. Worked with Fred Frith a lot 368. Ray Kamalay 369. Terry Kath 370. Halvard Kausland 371. Ryo Kawasaki i. fusion 372. Pat Kelley 373. Barney Kessell 374. Calvin Keys 375. Steve Khan 376. Rebecca Kilgore 377. Mark Kimbrell 378. B.B. King 379. Jackie King 380. Frode Kjekstad 381. Bjørn Klakegg 382. Oscar Klein 383. Mark Kleinhaut i. Hard bop and post bop jazz 384. Earl Klugh 385. Jan Erik Kongshaug 386. Dave Koonse 387. Larry Koonse 388. Jerry Krahn 389. Wayne Krantz 390. Jonathan Kreisberg 391. Tor Egil Kreken 392. Carl Kress 393. Frank Kvinge L 394. Fapy Lafertin 395. Julian Lage 396. Biréli Lagrène 397. Nappy Lamare 398. Shawn Lane 399. Eddie Lang 400. Jon Larsen 401. Steve Laury 402. Hugh Leal 403. Gene Leis 404. Peter Leitch 405. Nguyên Lê 406. Harry Leahey 407. Bob Leary 408. Michael Leasure 409. Peter Leitch 410. B.D. Lenz 411. Rob Levit 412. Adam Levy 413. O’Donel Levy 414. Vic Lewis 415. Vince Lewis 416. Arto Lindsay 417. Rudy Linka 418. Jeff Linsky 419. Ed Littman 420. Ulysses Livingston 421. Chuck Loeb 422. Bruce Lofgren 423. Lorne Lofsky 424. Lionel Loueke 425. Mundell Lowe 426. Robert Lowe Jr. 427. Romero Lubambo 428. Sylvain Luc 429. Nick Lucas 430. Reggie Lucas 431. Lawrence Lucie 432. Steve Lukather 433. Lage Lund 434. Alf Wilhelm Lundberg M 435.