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Thank You for starting this thread. Very good list of Players as above. Check out this artist and let me know what you think- F. Robert Lloyd.
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A most enigmatic guitar player
This is a puzzle to me. I am talking about REGGIE LUCAS, who performed with Miles Davis in his (to me one of the best) album "Pengaea". To me, his solo on "Godwana" (and also on "Zimbabwe" - the album consists of these two long tracks) is the most exciting, amazing and mysterious solo guitar session in a jazz performance - if this album can be called jazz at all, but I would gladly count it as a jazz album. John McLaughlin and Mike Stern, one of my favorite (jazz) guitarists, also played with Miles Davis. I love how they played with Miles (Mike Stern's solo on Jean Pierre is excellent and motivating). I also love the solo albums of these two guys. But very curiously, I consider REGGIE LUCAS solos on Pengaea far more superior. But wait, Lucas has no distinguished solo albums (to the best of my knowledge) and (it is not a joke) he played with Madonna! I am confused, how this guy played so amazingly on Pengaea (perhaps, only Miles and Reggie could have explained - none of them alive...)?
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Bitches Brew and Pangaea are two of my favourite albums by Miles, as different as they are. John McLaughlin virtually created jazz fusion guitar, his acoustic guitar is no less outstanding. But I think since 1992 he didn't have a great album, though there were great performances of older compositions. |
@jafant , thanks for the input. I did not know about the guitarist F. Robert Lloyd (by the way, there is a classic opera singer with the same name). I searched for his albums on Tidal and found only one called "Think about Brooklin". This is a quite multifold album including Indian-like music (the first composition that i liked), blues-like tracks (i like the most #7 called "Four lives in a day suit") and also more rock oriented tracks. Listening to some tracks (also some of Sonny Sharrock's performances), I was recalling Frank Zappa - a pioneer in guitar improvisation! @stuartk, the track named "Piece 1" on Sonny Sharrock's album "No material" is incredible (the sax, guitar and Pastorius-like solid base)! By the way, I have to correct the mistake i made in my previous post - this album was with Junger Baker (not Mitch Michell as claimed before - both were exceptional rock drummers). @inna, I like Miles Davis "On the corner" (which though could have been better recorded/mixed), "Big Fun" (which is much better recorded) and Panthalassa (it combines different tracks). You perhaps also like John Mclaughlin's solos in these albums. I think his Mahavishnu music has a strong ínflense of Miles Davis late 60s and early 70s albums. Collin Walcot, the best (to me) jazz sitar player, a former member of Oregon, also played in the first above album (sadly, he had a car accident and died young in 1983 in Magdeburg, Germany) . |
@inna , I love this composition and the whole album. And of course Carlos Santana is also one of the most outstanding guitarists to me. |
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