Guitar instrumental music suggestions

[Meerkat]

Please not country or advant guarde. If there's such a thing as "rap guitar" that may be skipped as well! ;)

Mellow and laidback are best... classical, jazz, contemporary...

Suggestions?

[davidagage]

Devonian Boys

I am not sure if this link will work

Gontiti (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,93589,00.html)

or maybe this one Linky doodle (http://launch.yahoo.com/ar-315490-discography--Gontiti)

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

You Want to listen or play ????

[davidagage]

Of course, you can't beat Andre Segovia for classical
and Tuck Andress for jazz

[RichKrough]

I am not a big classical guitar fan, but I heard on the local public classical station last night I heard "Capricho Arabe" and "Allhambra"(sp) by composer Francisco Tarrega
performed by John Williams. it was excellent IMO.

If you have a Gnutella program (ie: Mynapster) you can search "Tarrega" or "Segovia" for downloads of spanish classical guitar

[Bruce Taylor]

Chester & Lester, featuring Les Paul and Chet Atkins.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/730/739369.jpg

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Paco De Lucia (http://www.pacodelucia.org/flash_ingles.htm)

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

How hard are you willing to look?
In his day Wes Montgomery was considered the epitome of a jazz guitar stylist. Most of his stuff is laid back and lyrical.
The only album of his I'm familiar with is "Bumpin'" where he was backed up by strings. As jazz goes this stuff is rather elegant.
Do a google on him.

Charlie

[davidagage]

Bruce, you picked a good one. I saw Les Paul in 1975 at the cellar door in Georgetown (DC) What a show that was.

[George.]

Isaac Albeniz - even the Doors were inspired by him, and he was long dead when Jim Morrison was born...

[Donn]

Start with Midnight in San Juan, and see if you like him.

[Mrleft8]

"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" By The ALLMAN BROS.

[pipefitter]

Al DiMeola.Probably one of the best jazz guitarist of our times.

[Mrleft8]

Al DiMeola.Probably one of the best jazz guitarist of our times.
I only have one time.

[Bill Thompson]

Greetings Meerkat, hope things for you and the pup are going well.
A couple of guitar album recommendations - maybe not what you want as these are not completely instrumental. Although I am not to familiar with the label, my wife says that Windham Hill has a number of contempory guitar instrumental albums
Leo kotte - several instrumental albums
instrumental selections from Knopfler/Atkins 'Neck and Neck'
Ray Kane - "Punahele" Hawaiian slack key guitar
Keola Beemer - more of the same
SRV - his version of Hendrix's little wing
Ry Cooder - vocals and instrumentals on various albums particularly the early ones


Classical
Liona Boyd Minatures for Guitar
Segovia

Blues - instrumental and vocal
SRV - sky is Crying
Danny Gratton 88 Elmira
Hendrix
Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter (first album)

Bill

[BrianY]

Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters Collection Vols. 1 & 2

Beautiful, mellow without being sappy. Perfect for a quiet summer evening by the water

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000030MF/sr=8-1/qid=1150010520/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7893635-7928611?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[DrakeChristensen]

These guys are on the right track with the Hawaiian Slack Key...Kane's Punahele is a great suggestion...

[Phillip Allen]

I like the Hawaiian stuff...it gets forgotton back here in the "states"

[Mrleft8]

D'jango Rheinhart.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

Well, since we are getting into some esoteric (Hawaiian slack key guitar?)choices, how about something from the mainland. I've been a fan of the folk/blues guitarist Brownie McGhee since the 1950's. Brownie had a nice baritone voice too.
He and his partner Sonny Terry did a lot of stuff for the Library of Congress so it should still be available.

[huisjen]

Why just guitar?

Just now I'm listening to Apalachian Waltz, by Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor.

It's still strings.

Dan

[George Jung]

I espe cially like Leo Kotke - on a good stereo, listening to him play 12 string is unforgetable.

[Bruce Taylor]

Pandora is a promising tool for finding music:

http://www.pandora.com/

[John Gearing]

Kottke, Django, yeah, and the album "magic touch" by Stanley Jordan. Jordan took the hammer-on technique and made amazing music. The album has a notice on it informing the listener that the music is that of a single guitarist and that there are no overdubs or multiple tracks. He's plalying bass with one hand and melody with the other.

If we can stretch from guitars a little, try some of the music made by folks who play the Chapman Stick. It's a ten-string touchboard. Looks like a wide guitar neck. Dunno why Jordan never used one (at least he didn't when I was seeing him play, but that was admittedly years ago). Cool stuff. Tony Levin (of King Crimson) plays it on a few tracks of his "world tour" album, which is great stuff in its own right.

[Oyvind Snibsoer]

You can find some very good, free stuff at music.download.com
http://music.download.com/2001-10685_32-0.html?tag=MDL_nav_dir&

[Popeye]

Chet Atkins , Carl Perkins , Mark Knopfler

Roy Clark , Bruce Cockburn , Valdy

Lenny Breaux , Ry Cooder , Bonnie Raitt

[troutman]

We play a lot of transcribed Bach and Scarlotti etc on the classical guitar but Tarraga wrote for the guitar. Makes playing his stuff somehow easier. He wrote some nice short piece supposedly for women he knew. I've been struggling with the Capricio Arabe for years. John Williams' (not the film composer) Romance of the Classical Guitar is nice. It has a contemporary piece, Cavatina, from the Deer Hunter. Beautiful. Somehow the CD lists something else for #8 on that disc but its Cavatina. My guitar teacher of 10 years shudders when I tell him how I use saws and drills. there's a Bach Goldberg Variations for the guitar that is unbelievable but I'd go with Glen Gould's last verison on the piano first.

[KNOCKABOUT]

Hrrmmm...

If you want a smooth and relaxed style try anything by Wes Montomery, Grant Green, or Pat Metheney (Im no fan of Pat, but many people are and he fits in here). If your looking for something that cooks Joe Pass is your man. Nobody, but nobody, moves quicker on strings than JP. Another avenue is Andre Segovia, and I am just old enough and priviledged enough to have heard him play live one time, and I was just a boy, and I can still remember it like it was yesterday - WOW! He was impeccable. Of the strings but not really (piano) check out Glenn Gould the Goldberg Variations - very enlightening.