A most enigmatic guitar player

@niodari 

Abercrombie recorded three albums with Wall and Nussbaum but I prefer the one I linked. I heard Abercrombie live with Holland and DeJohnette in Gateway. I will check out the titles you’ve mentioned. My greatest reservation about Abercrombie is his use of guitar synth, which I do not enjoy. Don’t like it in McLaughlin’s hands, either. And once McLaughlin stopped using amps, I found his tone pretty lacklustre. Sorry for the rant.

Lari Basilio is a great player. Do you know Mateus Asato? 

RE: Ginger Baker, I don’t know if you’d like it (it’s not guitar-centric) but I very much enjoy "Coward of the County". Also, some of the Bran Blade Fellowship recordings have Kurt Rosenwinkel on guitar. And yet another fine guitarist that I don’t think has been mentioned is Adam Rogers. 

@stuartk , among John Abercrombie's albums with Dan Wall, I like "Speak of the Devil", but even this one is not my favorite. Neither I  like his synth solos and the combination of Wall's keyboards with Abercrombie's guitar on these albums too much. You may like his acoustic recordings with Towner. He also has a nice album with John Scofield. 

Ginger Baker's "Coward of the County" is not bad, thanks for letting us kno​w. His drums and the rhythm section sounds solid in this album. Besides, I appreciate a classical rock artist making a purely jazz album!  

I did not​ know about Adam Rogers. I did not like​his "non-jazz" albums​  too much, but his four jazz albums I found on Tidal are ok to me. ​T​hough I did not see him having his own style. He basically playe​s as Pat Matheny does in his jazz albums (e.g., in 99->00 Trio). 

How about this for a change. No, not the most enigmatic guitar player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6R5wb9iY6I&list=FLHAEL8Iwz684WaGFx1rQchA&index=306

Enigma?  Buckethead

For me, it is without a doubt, Allan Holdsworth. 

Not only is his technique as good as it gets, but his unique approach to chords is unrivaled. 

He sounds like no one else. There have been quite a few players influenced by him, and his legato style, but despite that, he still sounds highly unique. 

I saw  @yyzsantabarbara mention Matteo Mancuso. A great player. But take a look at who he says was his biggest influence.

As a good friend of mine, a top studio musician here in L.A, once said this about Holdsworth:

"For me, Allan Holdsworth was the most innovative improviser of all time on ANY instrument. The great jazz soloists (McCoy, Brecker, Freddie Hubbard, Trane, etc.), all had predecessors on their respective instruments that they copped licks from and modified with their own voice. There clearly was no guitar lineage leading up to Allan’s approach. This freak landed ship with a completely new vocabulary not based on anything that was already established. No blues, pentatonics, bop, post-bop...NOTHING"

 Looking Glass