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White Denim's first several albums were solidly in the alt-rock vein. Their music has evolved over the years, and gotten more soulful and complex, and have turned into a jazz-rock band sounding an awful lot like classic Steely Dan. It's very listenable... listen:
 
Another installment in our series of live shows from NYC guitar brainiacs, here's Scofield from 2004 with Steve Swallow on bass and Bill Stewart on drums:

 
Bill Frisell, back when he was a longish-haired avant-garde jazzbo. As usual, his choices of cover songs is unexpected and awesome.


I haven't checked out ^^^that clip yet, but I'm betting one of those "unexpected and awesome" cover songs is Madonna's "Live To Tell" right? I heard his trio with Joey & Kermit play that at The Knitting Factory (original location) sometime in the early 90s and it nearly brought me to tears.

The youtube "You Probably Like This..." algorithm has pretty much figured out that I'm a sucker for anything featuring Bill Frisell, or Pat Metheny, or John McLaughlin, or Allan Holdsworth, or Herbie Hancock, or Chick Corea, or Lee Ritenour, or Simon Phillips, or Snarky Puppy, or Dave Weckl, or Wes Montgomery, or Dennis Chambers, or Frank Zappa (okay, most of those Zappa clips aren't "jazz") so that's what I've been listening to lately.
 
I haven't checked out ^^^that clip yet, but I'm betting one of those "unexpected and awesome" cover songs is Madonna's "Live To Tell" right? I heard his trio with Joey & Kermit play that at The Knitting Factory (original location) sometime in the early 90s and it nearly brought me to tears.

The youtube "You Probably Like This..." algorithm has pretty much figured out that I'm a sucker for anything featuring Bill Frisell, or Pat Metheny, or John McLaughlin, or Allan Holdsworth, or Herbie Hancock, or Chick Corea, or Lee Ritenour, or Simon Phillips, or Snarky Puppy, or Dave Weckl, or Wes Montgomery, or Dennis Chambers, or Frank Zappa (okay, most of those Zappa clips aren't "jazz") so that's what I've been listening to lately.

Yea, The Algorithm's kinda got my number, too. If you haven't checked him out yet, try Gilad Hekselman. And I suspect Oz Noy fits in with your tastes as well.
 
To expand a bit:

I first heard Bill Frisell (after having first seen a photo of him an an ad for Marshall amps, no less) on Lyle Mays' first solo album, which has been one of the steadiest listens in my entire musical life. I listen to it probably once every month, except when I listen to it several times over a few days.

Anyway - the atmospheric and at times dissonant stuff Frisell was doing on that record really caught my ear, and I have loved everything he's done over the 38 years since I first heard him. His ability to do "weird" stuff in the context of jazz standards and pop and country songs is just one of the most exhilarating listens available, for my money. And I am quite fond of his original compositions as well.

Anyway, back to work. Have a listen.

 
I first heard Bill Frisell (after having first seen a photo of him an an ad for Marshall amps, no less) on Lyle Mays' first solo album

Frisell was in an ad for Marshall amplifiers?!?!
I am shocked!
I've been following Bill's career ever since I first heard him playing for someone's recital at the Berklee Performance Center in 1977 (!), when he was using a tiny Gibson amp.
When I lived in New York City during the late 1980s (and Bill was still based on the east coast, before he relocated to Seattle) I would go see his band perform as often as possible -- so much so that I used to refer to myself as the Unofficial President Of The Bill Frisell Appreciation Society. During that time he was mostly using a small MusicMan combo amp, sometimes paired with an older silverface Fender Princeton or Champ for stereo.
I haven't been following him as obsessively for these last two decades so he might've snuck a Marshall amp in there at some point, but every video I've seen of his performances in the 00s has him playing through Fender amps, or, in at least one show (with venue-provided backline no doubt) a Roland JC120.
But never saw him with a Marshall. That would be a hoot!
 
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