1. St. Louis Tickle- VESS OSSMAN
2. Chain Gang Blues- SAM MOORE
3. Savoy Blues- JOHNNY ST. CYR and LONNIE JOHNSON
4. You're The One For Me- SOL HOOPII
5. Add A Little Wiggle- EDDIE LANG
6. Clowin' The Frets- EDDIE BUSH
7. California Blues- BENNY "KING" NAHAWI
8. How'm I Doin' / Dinah- ROY SMECK
9. Who's Sorry Now- EDDIE CONDON
10. Danzon- CARL KRESS & DICK McDONOUGH
11. China Boy- OTTO "COCO" HEIMEL
12. Minnehaha- SAM KOKI
13. Swingin' On The Strings- INK SPOTS
14. Honeysuckle Rose- DJANGO REINHARDT
15. Guitar Swing- CASEY BILL WELDON
16. Love Me Or Leave Me- EDDIE DURHAM & FREDDIE GREEN
17. Whispering- OSCAR ALEMAN
18. Pickin' For Patsy- ALLAN REUSS
19. Little Rock Getaway- GEORGE BARNES
20. Solo
21. Flight- CHARLIE CHRISTIAN
22. Buck Jumpin'- AL CASEY
23. Twin Guitar Special- LEON McAULIFFE & ELDON SHAMBLIN
24. I'm Walkin' This Town- TEDDY BUNN
25. Palm Springs Jump- SLIM GAILLARD
26. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You- OSCAR MOORE
27. Red Cross- TINY GRIMES
28. Ol' Man Rebop- BILL DE ARANGO
29. On Green Dolphin Street- BARNEY KESSEL
30. What Is This Thing Called Love- GEORGE VAN EPS
31. Body And Soul- JIMMY RANEY
32. My Baby Just Cares For Me- CHUCK WAYNE
33. Runnin' Wild- LES PAUL
34. Mountain Melody- CHET ATKINS
35. Yardbird Suite- TAL FARLOW
36. The Boy Next Door- JOHNNY SMITH
37. Tocata- LAURINDO ALMEIDA
38. I've Got You Under My Skin- JIM HALL
39. Aguas De Marco [Waters Of March]- JOAO GILBERTO
40. Bluesette- TOOTS THIELEMANS
41. Midnight Blue- KENNY BURRELL
42. Unit 7- WES MONTGOMERY
43. Naptown Blues- HERB ELLIS
44. Move- HANK GARLAND
45. Easy Living- HOWARD ROBERTS
46. Jean de Fleur- GRANT GREEN
47. Night And Day- JOE PASS
48. Clockwise- GEORGE BENSON
49. Just Friends- PAT MARTINO
50. A Taste Of Honey- LENNY BREAU
51. How Insensitive- CHARLIE BYRD
52. Gypsy Queen- GABOR SZABO
53. June 15, 1967- LARRY CORYELL
54. As We Used To Sing- SONNY SHARROCK
55. Should Be Reversed- DEREK BAILEY
56. Manic Depression- JIMI HENDRIX
57. Birds Of Fire- JOHN McLAUGHLIN
58. Coral- MICK GOODRICK
59. Ralph's Piano Waltz- JOHN ABERCROMBIE
60. The Prowler- RALPH TOWNER
61. Bright Size Life- PAT METHENY
62. Aqui, Oh- TONINHO HORTA
63. Midnight In San Juan- EARL KLUGH
64. Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)- CARLOS SANTANA
65. Inner City Blues- PHIL UPCHURCH
66. Thumper- ERIC GALE
67. Spiral- LARRY CARLTON
68. Captain Fingers- LEE RITENOUR
69. Mr. Spock- ALLAN HOLDSWORTH
70. Race With The Devil On Spanish Highway- AL DIMEOLA
71. Cause We've Ended As Lovers- JEFF BECK
72. Church- JAMES BLOOD ULMER
73. Ron Carter- BILL FRISELL
74. Hottentot- JOHN SCOFIELD
75. Postizo- MARC RIBOT
76. Fat Time- MIKE STERN
Album Description
Seventy-eight guitar classics are put together in 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR, a remarkable 4-CD anthology that yields the absolutely definitive jazz guitar collection ever assembled. The set spans the years 1906 to 2001, from the ragtime banjo of Vess Ossman (originally recorded on an Edison cylinder) to the diaphonous chords of Bill Frisell. In between, virtually every major figure of the jazz guitar weighs in, from Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian to Les Paul, Tal Farlow, and Wes Montgomery, and right up to Jim Hall, Grant Green, George Benson, Pat Martino, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, and John Scofield as well as Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, and the great Jimi Hendrix. In addition, the box also contains a book filled with photographs of each of the principles heard herein, an overview essay by guitar scholar Charles Alexander, old guitar ads, photos of classic guitar models and amps, solo transcriptions and technical analysis, testimonials from guitar legends, and precise discographical data. Clearly, 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR is the set to get if one is even remotely interested in the history and development of guitar over the course of the past century.
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- Audio CD: 0 pages (2005-09-27)
- Publisher: Sony
- Label: Sony
- Format: Box set
- Studio: Sony
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 13 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #14931
Avg. Customer Review:
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Summary: An incredible overview of Jazz guitar! 2008-10-20
Comment: As my title says, I consider this box set an overview...all in good reason, though. As a guitarist myself that has never really known where to begin when dealing with Jazz guitar, this set which was actually a gift was the absolute perfect place to start. It is the greatest open-door into the Jazz guitar world. I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to drop-anchor here though. It would be doing the people who put this box-set together a disservice. Branching out using this box-set as a springboard is the best thing you can do when building a Jazz guitar collection. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Great overview 2008-10-10
Comment: I've had this box set for more than a year now and really enjoy it. It has been a good way to explore many of the jazz guitar masters. I just picked up three CDs from artisits I disovered through this set; Al di Meola, Mike Stern and John McLaughlin. Id covers everything from early innovators through fusion masters.
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Summary: Great buy for guitar geeks 2007-10-19
Comment: Part of the fun of these kinds of anthologies is the grumbling over who was left out, what doesn't belong, etc. Taken as a whole however, this is a pretty compelling set of tunes.
I love disc one with some really good finds - like the hysterical Minnehaha by Sam Koki - maybe not the best playing but very fun. But, since these old tunes are so short shouldn't we have gotten more than one Django and Charlie Christian? Disc 2-3 have some nice tracks by players I've kinda ignored: Johnny Smith, Jimmy Raney, Lenny Breau for example. And Grant Green, who I had enjoyed on the old Blue Notes but had seen as a sort of Kenny Burrell lite, is surprising, fresh and swinging here. Good choices of tunes in almost all cases - Wes Montgomery, Hank Garland and others. (Did alot of these players let their chops slacken a bit over time?)
But, do we need Lee Ritenour on a jazz anthology? Jeff Beck? Santana?
Where are Egberto Gismonti, Bireli Lagrene, Stochelo Rosenberg, Sylvain Luc, Pierre Dorge, Scotty Anderson, Jimmy Bruno?
Its funny though, if you listen to one Derek Bailey or Sonny Sharrock tune, you don't realize that all of their solos follow the same frightening descent into hell. I actually like their playing if I hear, like one piece every year or so.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar 2007-02-10
Comment: What a shame one never gets to hear Oscar Almen do what he does better
than just about any other Guitarist,Or hear enough Django,Charlie Christen
,Teddy Bunn,To really understand why they are more than just fine Guitarist....they are "Jazz Greats"
Thats because this Collection is more Intrested in getting
non jazz fans to buy this set.
There's a few odd things about this very good box set.The fact
that the cover of the Booklet(which is very nice)is a picture of a flattop
guitar,and there's plenty of Guitars and Guitarist that should be in a rock or pop collection
I guess when they were trying to update the fine two record set
50 years of jazz Guitar,They stuck with the one track pre artist.
This makes for a lot of space for many guitarists,Which is the main
problem with this set.Instead of giving you 2 or 3 cuts from real
jazz greats(not just fine Guitar Players)they fill the four
cds with Pop and Rock recordings that have no place in a jazz Guitar
collection.
I love Santana ,but he's not Jazz,Part of something being jazz in
improvisation,something that Santana doen't do much of .Which
doesn't make "Europa" any less great,.Also just because you
Improvise doesn't mean that a artist is a jazz also.Theres plenty
of Guitarists that have nothing to do with jazz on this set.Some
are jazz players who play pop(Earl Klugh),Others like Hendrix
or Jeff Beck aren't Jazz at all.The last pages
of the booklet are pictures of Strats and Les Pauls and even
a Classical guitar gets a double page spread how silly is That!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: This collection could have been better 2006-07-26
Comment: After listening to this 4 cd set several times I've come to the conclusion that it could have been better condensed into 2 spectacular jazz cd's. First of all, cd 1 starts off with what sounds like banjo. Who's bright idea what it to include it on 100 years of jazz guitar? There are also songs that are dominated by saxophone and/or vocals with guitar as a background instrument.
If I wanted to hear vocals and sax I would have purchased cd's with vocals and/or Coltrane or Sonny Rollins, repectively.
There are only a few gems on cd 1 most notably Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian.
Cd 2 is probably the best with cd 3 close behind. However, can somebody tell me why Jimi Hendrix doing "Manic Depression" is on this cd? If you know the answer then perhaps you may also know why in the world Carlos Santana is on this collection as well.
And Derek Bailey's 1997, "Should Be Reversed" is just garbage!!! THIS IS NOT JAZZ!!! Who's bright idea was it to put this track on the compilation? I keep thinking, another Django tune, another Wes Montgomery, Pass, Ellis, Burrell tune would have been better suited to make this a better compilation.
All that 1970's distorted psuedo-jazz fusion racket by the likes of John McLaughlin and others dominate cd 4. Cd 4 contains all the "really want to play rock, but call themselves jazz guitarists."
There are some great guitarists and tasty licks on this cd package, but there is also NON jazz on this too. Be advised.
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