Who are your 3 Favorite Jazz Guitarists?

MikeK

I wonder who everyone's 3 favorite jazz guitarists are? Let's only include guitar players that aren't known for playing gypsy jazz, since we talk about the GJ players regularly here. Mine are:

Grant Green

Charlie Christian

Kenny Burrell.

geese_com

Tal Farlow, Wes Montgomery, George Benson

elbasco

(had a hard time deciding so putting the three here that are less well known, sorry Wes, Sco, and Kurt).

Yotam Silberstein

Pasquale Grasso

Chico Pinheiro

Buco

Django (although he's the spiritual father of Gypsy Jazz, he himself is a jazz player)

Wes

Julian Lage

vanmalmsteen

Howard Roberts

Jimmy Raney

Djangooo

mac63000

Django, Wes Montgomery, Joao Gilberto

cmcmurphy22

Wes montgomery

charlie Christian

bill frisell

NewcastleBud

Pat Martino and two other guys.

Russell Letson

The two whose records have been in heaviest rotation for several decades hereabouts are Bucky Pizzarelli and George Barnes, partly because they played with so many other musicians I love--Grappelli, Venuti, Zoot Sims, Tony Bennett, each other. . . . Then it's Freddie Green, driving the various Basie units. (Though I also love picking Steve Jordan, Allan Reus, or Al Casey out of a rhythm section.)

And I really should mention my one-time teacher (but don't blame him for that) Steve Abshire, who retired from the Navy big band, the Commodores, and still gigs around the DC area. Look him up on YouTube. Better yet, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEqxUv5adTU

Willie

Choosing only 3 is hard work, so I concentrate on votes because of "unusual" instruments:

Charlie Byrd, who played a classical guitar.

Earl Klugh, who does that too.

Ted Greene, who mostly played a Tele and said something like "a decent person plays neck pickup" (I only know the german translation: "Ein anständiger Mensch spielt Halspickup.")

adrian

Johnny Smith, George Barnes, Hank Garland