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In the late 1930s , guitar began being used in jazz ensembles to provide rhythmic chordal accompaniment. By the 1940s, some guitarists began also playing a solo role in big bands, playing single note melodies and solos. In the 1950s and 1960s, jazz guitarists routinely played in small combos and Organ Trio s. In the 1970s, jazz guitarists began to blend jazz playing styles with the pop sounds of Rock and Funk to create a variety of jazz-rock Fusion styles. HISTORY Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970), a New Orleans -born guitarist, was one of the early guitarists to perform single-string (as opposed to chord-based) guitar solos. Lonnie performed with and influenced guitarist Eddie Lang (1902-1933), who also performed with jazz Violin ist Joe Venuti and many of the white jazz bands from the 1920s. Other early jazz guitarists included George F. Dudley, Roy Butin, Sam Moore, and Johnny St. Cyr. Louis Armstrong's Hot Five band would use the guitar in a melodic role. George Barnes (1921-1977) claimed to be earliest Electric Guitar ist, a title also claimed by Charlie Christian ). Charlie Christian (1916-1942) was a Benny Goodman Orchestra member who developed an influential style of Electric Guitar "single-string" soloing. In Europe, Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), a Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist recorded with his "Quintette du Hot Club de France" with Violin ist Stéphane Grappelli (1908 – 1997), a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette Du Hot Club De France with Reinhardt, one of the first all-string jazz bands. Oscar Aleman was an Argentine guitarist and contemporary of Grappelli, and Martin Taylor was an early protegé of Stéphane Grappelli who further developed Joe Pass 's playing style. Like Pass, Taylor's playing features a virtuosic fingerstyle approach that combines basslines, melodies, chords and solo lines. George Van Eps , who played a 7-string Guitar , was among the developed the solo guitar Chord Melody style, in which the melody notes are placed in the top of chord voicings. Freddie Green (1911-1987) was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra , and a strong rhythm guitar player who developed an influential approach to chorded Accompaniment . 1950s and 1960s In the 1950s, Herb Ellis ' accomplished technique and elegant lines reached a wide public through the recordings of Oscar Peterson 's trio. During the same time period, Tal Farlow 's Bebop virtuoso playing did much to make up the ground between the guitar and the other "frontline" instruments such as saxophone and trumpet. Kenny Burrell (1931-) did recordings in the 1950s with Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane and led his own groups. Lenny Breau (1941-1984) a was a cross-over from finger-style country music to jazz who was active in the 1960s. During this same time period, Charlie Byrd (1925-1999) did nylon-string guitar recordings with saxophone player Stan Getz which helped popularize Brazilian Bossa Nova and Samba music in North America. Jim Hall is a masterful melodic player, Composer , and Arranger who did his best work in duos with Bill Evans , Ron Carter and others. Hall has a melody-based, Motivic approach to improvisation. Wes Montgomery was a self-taught guitarist who used his right thumb rather than a Plectrum (pick) to produce his unique sound in his late-1950s and 1960s Hard Bop recordings. Joe Pass pioneered solo guitar with chordal substitutions in his duos with Ella Fitzgerald . George Benson (1943-)'s success as a pop vocalist in the 1970s made him a household name, but he was an influential jazz guitarist in the 1960s, particularly with his Organ Trio recordings with organist Jack MacDuff. 1970s and 1980s Grant Green 's funky 1970s Organ Trio music makes him a favourite with 2000s-era lounge and club DJ 's, but much of Green's best jazz work can be found in his 1960s output. The king of the descending blues lick, Grant Green's deceptively simple style was full of groove and tone, and it is hard to replicate. Pat Martino worked with many jazz organists, such as Charles Earland , Jack McDuff, Trudy Pitts, Jimmy Smith , Don Patterson, and Richard "Groove" Holmes. Fusion guitarist Larry Coryell (1943-) was among the first to combine the sound and energy of rock with jazz lines in the late 1960s. John McLaughlin is a jazz-rock fusion pioneer in the 1970s. John Abercrombie . Pat Metheny is a Missouri-based guitarist and leader of his own band, the Pat Metheny Group with Lyle Mays on Piano . Allan Holdsworth is a fusion virtuoso noted for his fluid, Chromatic , lines and for his distinctive Legato guitar technique. Holdsworth's influence can be felt outside of jazz, in heavy rock players such as Edward Van Halen and Joe Satriani . Ted Greene , a solo guitar performer and music educator influenced LA guitarists including Steve Vai and Steve Lukather with his Chord Melody work. Mike Stern , who came to prominence with Miles Davis during the 1980s, has a unique take on fusing Blues Rock guitar with Be-bop lines in extended improvisations. Bill Frisell introduced folk and Bluegrass Music into Jazz , use of intervals rather than single lines, combining harmonics and fretted notes. John Scofield played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, Dennis Chambers, and George Duke. At ease in the bebop idiom, Scofield is also well versed in jazz fusion, funk, blues, and soul. 1990s and 2000s is a child prodigy who was the subject of a 1997 Academy Award-nominated documentary " Jules At Eight ". SEE ALSO
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