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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Pat Martino
424,176 plays (64,925 listeners)
One of the most original of the jazz-based guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, Pat Martino made a remarkable comeback after brain surgery in 1980 to correct an aneurysm that caused him to lose his memory and completely forget how to play. It took years, but he regained his ability, partly by listening to his older records.
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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Grant Green
1,239,674 plays (152,020 listeners)
Grant Green (St. Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1935 – New York, January 31, 1979; some sources erroneously give the birth year as 1931) was a jazz guitarist and composer.
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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Joe Pass
1,084,219 plays (106,304 listeners)
Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua, January 13, 1929, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, died May 23, 1994, Los Angeles, California), was a virtuoso jazz guitarist. One of the greatest solo jazz artists of all time, Joe Pass also ranks as one of the great guitarists not only for his knowledge of the instrument and technical prowess, but also his compositional and improvisational skills.
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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Kenny Burrell
1,017,068 plays (158,032 listeners)
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931 in Detroit) is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is founded in bebop and blues but works well with other jazz styles, so he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.
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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Charlie Christian
391,835 plays (51,583 listeners)
Charlie Christian (Charles Henry Christian, Bonham, Texas, 29 July 1916 – New York City, 2 March 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.
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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Jim Hall
391,839 plays (63,733 listeners)
James Stanley Hall (born December 4, 1930, Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz guitarist. Jim Hall educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s. By 1960 Jim had arrived in New York to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, among others.
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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Tal Farlow
201,400 plays (31,322 listeners)
Tal Farlow was a talented jazz guitarist. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina on June 7, 1921 as Talmage Holt Farlow.
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Super similarity to Wes Montgomery
Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery
110,763 plays (23,402 listeners)
Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and guitarist Wes Montgomery collaborated in September of 1966, and two records resulted: The Dynamic Duo and The Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes.
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Very High similarity to Wes Montgomery
Barney Kessel
260,788 plays (38,337 listeners)
One of the finest guitarists to emerge after the death of Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was a reliable bop soloist throughout his career.
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Very High similarity to Wes Montgomery
Kurt Rosenwinkel
428,044 plays (45,638 listeners)
Kurt Rosenwinkel (born October 28, 1970) is a jazz guitarist who came to prominence in the 1990s. His improvising style was initially influenced by guitarists such as Pat Metheny and John Scofield, but has emerged as an individual stylist whose lines are lengthy and linear, recalling the styles of Lennie Tristano in the 1940s and 50s.
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