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Your Favorite Living Jazz Guitarists

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By Michael Ricci
December 1, 2022
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All About Jazz member votes were tabulated and this list represents our favorite living jazz guitarists. Fully transparent and easily verifiable, All About Jazz's living guitarists poll was conducted during the 2022 calendar year running from May 3rd to November 30th. We would like to thank every member who participated in creating this impressive list (200 total!) for the next generation of jazz enthusiasts to discover.

Note: This list represents the top vote-getters. Hundreds of guitarists received votes, but we capped the results at 200.

Pat Metheny

John Scofield

Bill Frisell

John McLaughlin

Julian Lage

Kurt Rosenwinkel

George Benson

Peter Bernstein

John Pizzarelli

Mary Halvorson

Russell Malone

Charlie Hunter

Larry Carlton

Mike Stern

Ralph Towner

Kevin Eubanks

Kenny Burrell

Lee Ritenour

Nels Cline

Jeff Beck

Marc Ribot

Gilad Hekselman

Ben Monder

Terje Rypdal

Wolfgang Muthspiel

Jonathan Kreisberg

Lage Lund

Mike Moreno

Robben Ford

Martin Taylor

Bobby Broom

Mark Whitfield

Lionel Loueke

Adam Rogers

Pasquale Grasso

Bireli Lagrene

Dave Stryker

Frank Gambale

Frank Vignola

Earl Klugh

Carlos Santana

Steve Khan

David Torn

Miles Okazaki

Paul Bollenback

Jimmy Bruno

Liberty Ellman

Stanley Jordan

Ulf Wakenius

Bill Connors

Wayne Krantz

Robert Fripp

Eivind Aarset

Mimi Fox

Vernon Reid

James Blood Ulmer

Steve Cardenas

Norman Brown

Andy Summers

Sheryl Bailey

Nguyen Le

Romero Lubambo

Joe Morris

Nir Felder

Scott Henderson

Jeff Parker

Matthew Stevens

Jakob Bro

On Kaa Davis

Anthony Wilson

Jack Wilkins

Fareed Haque

Oz Noy

Peter White

Dom Minasi

Steve Tibbetts

Marc Ducret

Philip Catherine

Eric Clapton

Gene Bertoncini

Ava Mendoza

Howard Alden

Chico Pinheiro

David Gilmore

Bob DeVos

Jean-Paul Bourelly

David Fiuczynski

Pete McCann

Marvin Sewell

Tim Miller

Kazumi Watanabe

John Etheridge

Roni Ben-Hur

Henry Johnson (guitar)

Derek Trucks

Mick Goodrick

Jack DeSalvo

Al Di Meola

Marc Antoine

100

Jocelyn Gould

101

Andy Brown

102

Reg Schwager

103

Ed Cherry

104

Brandon Ross

105

Dean Brown

106

Will Bernard

107

Corey Christiansen

108

Gray Sargent

109

Elliott Sharp

110

Dan Wilson

111

Nigel Price

112

Steve Herberman

113

John Basile

114

Brad Shepik

115

Joel Harrison

116

Randy Napoleon

117

Larry Koonse

118

Fred Frith

119

Jacob Young

120

Matt Hollenberg

121

Samo Salamon

122

Marco Cappelli

123

Amanda Monaco

124

Rez Abbasi

125

Stephane Wrembel

126

Mark Wingfield

127

Otomo Yoshihide

128

Matt Munisteri

129

Trey Anastasio

130

John McLean

131

Henry Kaiser

132

Rodney Jones

133

Chris Standring

134

Ken Navarro

135

Egberto Gismonti

136

Rob Luft

137

Bruce Forman

138

Adrian Belew

139

Dominic Miller

140

Trevor Giancola

141

Anthony Pirog

142

Chieli Minucci

143

John Tropea

144

Sylvain Luc

145

John Pisano

146

Ry Cooder

147

Phil Upchurch

148

Lorne Lofsky

149

Paul Brown

150

Brandon Seabrook

151

Jonathan Butler

152

Randy Johnston

153

Leni Stern

154

Keith Rowe

155

John Stein

156

Gabriel Vicéns

157

Hristo Vitchev

158

Rolf Sturm

159

Susan Alcorn

160

Bruce Edwards

161

Will Brahm

162

Mike DeMicco

163

Marvin Horne

164

Danny Embrey

165

Rotem Sivan

166

Charles Ellerbe

167

James Chirillo

168

Dave Chappell

169

Nelson Riveros

170

Kevin Breit

171

Michael Howell

172

John Storie

173

Paul Jackson Jr

174

Will Graefe

175

Tony Romano

176

Dave Miller

177

Sanjay Mishra

178

Tom Dempsey

179

B.D. Lenz

180

Thomas Dahl

181

Hedvig Mollestad

182

Chris Platt

183

Linda Taylor

184

Sam Raderman

185

Slava Grigoryan

186

Tom Ollendorff

187

Jessica Ackerley

188

Lula Galvão

189

Tim Fitzgerald

190

WG Snuffy Walden

191

Sara Niemietz

192

Christophe Goze

193

Ant Law

194

Charlie Ballantine

195

Evgeny Pobozhiy

196

Jan Akkerman

197

Tim Mirth

198

Nino Josele

199

Wendy Eisenberg

200

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