guitar solos where less is more

I play the guitar and have many versions of Autumn Leaves on guitar. This is the most heartfelt rendition of the song on guitar I have ever heard. BTW, this was an improvisation by Ted Greene (RIP).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDuee6blvj8

Inna do you play guitar? If you do, you would appreciate how difficult it is to do what he did. You can find thousands who shred like Steve Vai or Yngwie Malmsteen (not knocking them as I do like their playing too) but rarely can you find who knows phrasing of meladies and subtleties of chord progression like Ted did. Just my opinion.

Pehare, I'm glad you enjoy Teds playing as much as I. He improvised jazz and classical styles in that piece. Go to YouTube and search Arlen Roth When a man loves a woman. There are two versions, one in his home and another in a studio, the latter has better sound. I think you would also like it too.

Inna, I was trained in classical guitar orginally. Nino is a flamenco guitar player, a very good one at that. It's an entirely different style of guitar playing. His playing is no better or worse than Ted, just different. Thanks for the link. I enjoyed it. You should try to be more open to other styles of guitar playing. See my next post.

Here are some very different styles. Some more is less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw74sDWPH7U&ob=av2e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-AK5Nls57k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33tWZqXhnk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXznwKgKR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsptWdzROE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X30AroojjFk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBjP0xw2HM

OK. I guess this could be less is more depending on how you define less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubVGiyAhkY&feature=related

Martykl and Bdgregory, glad you you liked them. Matt Rach is a French kid who started off as a guitar wonder on youtube playing rocked out version of pachelbel's canon when he was 14. He really has matured into a fine guitarist. He actually plays the bass and drums on his videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAj5LiXG5w

Inna, your taste in guitar music seems to be pretty much flamenco and fusion jazz, which is fine by me. I'm not a huge fan of Al DiMeola's guitar playing, other than Mediterranean Sundance. I do like flamenco in small doses.

I think the OP lost his interest after I posted the guitar links with too many notes!