there's a lot of names that come up in the discussion of great jazz guitarists: Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Grant green... I see very few people mention Johnny smith. not sure why that is! I mean he had a relatively short recording career, but... there's very few jazz guitarists who have ever played with this much taste when it comes to melody and spare voicings. Two notes is a chord! and all his runs are exactly what needs to be played to connect the dots between one chord and the other - no endless eighth-note ramblings.
I'm obsessed with his version of Misty, the improvising in between the melody is exactly what I was looking for
prima - autumn leaves https://youtu.be/C-RUtH2Qc1w
nothing against lofi but the sampled version is kind of a disappointment after hearing the original, I mean the sampling adds very little imo.

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