As the acoustic guitar became a more popular instrument in the early 20th century, guitar-makers began building louder guitars which would be useful in a wider range of settings. The Gibson L5, an acoustic archtop guitar which was first produced in 1923, was an early “jazz”-style guitar which was used by early jazz guitarists such as Eddie Lang.
The jazz-type guitar was born as a result of using electric amplification to increase the volume of conventional acoustic guitars. Conceived in the early 1930s, the electric guitar became a necessity as jazz musicians sought to amplify their sound to be heard over loud big bands.
Although the earliest guitars used in jazz were acoustic and acoustic guitars are still sometimes used in jazz, most jazz guitarists since the 1940s have performed on an electrically amplified guitar or electric guitar. Traditionally, jazz electric guitarists use an archtop with a relatively broad hollow sound-box, violin-style f-holes, a "floating bridge", and a magnetic pickup.
In the 1940s through the 1960s, players such as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall laid the foundation of what is now known as "jazz guitar" playing. ===1970s=== As jazz-rock fusion emerged in the early 1970s, many players switched to the more rock-oriented solid body guitars.
Improved electric guitars such as Gibson's ES-175 (released in 1949), gave players a larger variety of tonal options.
Solid body guitars, mass-produced since the early 1950s, are also used. Jazz guitar playing styles include "comping" with jazz chord voicings (and in some cases walking bass lines) and "blowing" (improvising) over jazz chord progressions with jazz-style phrasing and ornaments.
In the 1940s through the 1960s, players such as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall laid the foundation of what is now known as "jazz guitar" playing. ===1970s=== As jazz-rock fusion emerged in the early 1970s, many players switched to the more rock-oriented solid body guitars.
In the 1940s through the 1960s, players such as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall laid the foundation of what is now known as "jazz guitar" playing. ===1970s=== As jazz-rock fusion emerged in the early 1970s, many players switched to the more rock-oriented solid body guitars.
McLaughlin later formed the Mahavishnu Orchestra, an historically important fusion band that played to sold out venues in the early 1970s and as a result, produced an endless progeny of fusion guitarist.
They also simply turned up to full volume in order to create natural overdrive such as the blues rock players. ===1980s–2000s=== By the early 1980s, the radical experiments of early 1970s-era fusion gave way to a more radio-friendly sounds of smooth jazz.
Particularly since the 1970s jazz fusion era, some jazz guitarists have also used effects pedals such as overdrive pedals, chorus pedals and wah pedals. The earliest guitars used in jazz were acoustic, later superseded by a typical electric configuration of two [pickups].
They also simply turned up to full volume in order to create natural overdrive such as the blues rock players. ===1980s–2000s=== By the early 1980s, the radical experiments of early 1970s-era fusion gave way to a more radio-friendly sounds of smooth jazz.
During the 1980s, a neo-traditional school of jazz sought to reconnect with the past.
By the early 1990s many small independent luthiers began making archtop guitars.
In the 1990s, there was a resurgence of interest among jazz guitarists in acoustic archtop guitars with floating pickups.
In the 2000s, jazz guitar playing continues to change.
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