Groups with three guitarists

[Milestones]

I have enjoyed groups with two guitarists (sometimes just two alone), but three has not really done if for me.  In fact, I have been been checking out the recently released Saturday Night in San Francisco by McLaughlin, DiMeola, and De Lucia.  I was never much into that group, even though I am a huge McLaughlin fan.  A few outstanding tracks, such as "David" and "Beyond the Mirage."  But in general too fast, too crowded, too showy.  

But I too like the jazz guitar band by Kenny Burrell, which featured Rodney Jones and Bobby Broom (plus bass and drums).  

I think I'm long past the point of being a speed freak, and too often that seems to be the purpose.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sonnymax]

[Niko]

This one also has two organs that help balance the three guitars

Best cover in the three guitars genre?

Escoudé has various other albums that fit the bill... Here the guitar trio is extended by two more guest guitarists plus accordeon...

[BFrank]

Here's one with FOUR: Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, Ava Mendoza, Shane Parish, Wendy Eisenberg

[Gheorghe]

Didn´t Mingus use three fusion guitarists on "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" ? 

And I think Miles on "Dark Magus" in addition to Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas used a guy Dominique Gaumont..... also on the studio album "Get Up with it". 

[B. Clugston]

14 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Didn´t Mingus use three fusion guitarists on "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" ? 

And I think Miles on "Dark Magus" in addition to Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas used a guy Dominique Gaumont..... also on the studio album "Get Up with it". 

On Dark Magus, Gaumont shows up for Sides 3 and 4 and while Cosey is mostly on percussion while Gaumont is playing, all three guitarists are playing at once during the wild rave-up at the end. There's some tracks with all three on Get Up with It plus the box set documenting that era.

[Gheorghe]

7 hours ago, B. Clugston said:

On Dark Magus, Gaumont shows up for Sides 3 and 4 and while Cosey is mostly on percussion while Gaumont is playing, all three guitarists are playing at once during the wild rave-up at the end. There's some tracks with all three on Get Up with It plus the box set documenting that era.

Interesting, I didn´t know that, but it´s hard anyway for me to identify guitarists, I don´t have so many guitar albums or have not played so many gigs with guitar added, mostly the rhythm sections is just piano bass drums plus the horns, that´s unsually the formats I play in. 

And as you say it. How is it with the Mingus album ? Do they play together or sometimes only two of them ? I never had the chance to hear that group, strange enough I heard Mingus live in Summer 1977, but when an autumn concert at the end of 1977 was allready advertised and it was booked to promote the album with the 3 guitarists (I think it was Corryell, Scofield and a belgish guy Catherine) but that concert was chancelled. My luck was that it was chancelled before I got a train or plan ticket to Dortmund, Germania, where it should have been. 

[tranemonk]

I went to see these guys years ago (I mean in the way back machine) and I liked them a lot. I had never heard of them before.

https://newwestguitar.com/music

 

[sonnymax]

19 minutes ago, tranemonk said:

I went to see these guys years ago (I mean in the way back machine) and I liked them a lot. I had never heard of them before.

https://newwestguitar.com/music

 

Thanks for sharing this. I've enjoyed Perry Smith's recordings and look forward to checking out NWG.

[Guy Berger]

Paul Motian’s Garden of Eden has 3 guitarists

Edited January 23, 2024 by Guy Berger