Jazz and Acoustic Guitar recommendation

Well, as an old jazz fan who loves acoustic guitar, let me offer a few of my personal favorites as suggestions:
1. Charlie Byrd: almost all of Charlie's recordings were good, but "Jazz Samba" (with Stan Getz), "Live At The Village Gate" on the Riverside label, and most of his recordings on Concord Jazz are all good. His last recording before his death in December, 2000, which was dedicated to Louis Armstrong, was also a fine effort. Charlie played both jazz and classical guitar, having studied for several years with Andres Segovia, the master.
2. Tal Farlow: very tasty electrical guitar recordings with trio and quartet.
3. Grant Green: several excellent, bluesy albums from the mid-1960's on the BlueNote label (at least one has been re-issued on the JVC XRCD series).
4. Wes Montgomery: one of the greats on electric jazz guitar. His recordings for Riverside represent his best work.
5. Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel: fine jazz guitarists from the Swing tradition.
6. Kenny Burrell: the best of the hard-bop electric guitarists.
7. Joe Pass and Jim Hall: my personal nominees for the greatest electric guitarists in jazz during the past 40 years.

Hope this gets you started. If you get serious about listening to jazz guitar, you should also explore the work of Django Reinhart, the great Gypsy jazz guitarist from the Swing era.

I appreciate your positive remark, Frap! After I made my initial post, I realized that I forgot to mention two of my favorite contemporary guitarists, John Abercrombie and Bill Frisell. Frisell amazes me at times, because he can manage to sound like a number of different guitarists, depending on which style he chooses to play. His albums of the past 5 years or so are consistently creative, intelligent, and musical as hell, ranging from jazz to mildly folky to rock-flavored (such as his CD several years ago with Ginger Baker, the great British drummer). Some other guitarists that I admire: Emily Remler (who sadly died much too young some 10+ years ago), Martin Taylor (fine British player), and John McLaughlin (the stellar British guitarist who played with Miles Davis, then his own Mahavishnu Orchestra, and later did several excellent "straight jazz" CD's). About 15 years ago, Stanley Jordan enjoyed the popular spotlight and was critically acknowledged for his style of playing in which he tapped the strings with his fingertips rather than plucking or strumming. In closing, I'll share a personal note, and mention that many years ago (when I was in high school in the late 1950's near Washington, DC), I took guitar lessons from Charlie Byrd. Charlie was a fine man and a wonderful musician, and his technique amazed me. He could pluck notes with both hands, and sometimes used to amuse the audience by plucking notes on the neck of the guitar using just the fingers of his left hand. Charlie played for a number of years at the old Showboat Lounge off Connecticut Avenue in DC, and I took my regular girlfriend there for many evenings of beautiful music that ranged from Swing-flavored popular songs, to bossa nova, to classical music and flamenco. It was with great sadness that I learned of Charlie's death late last year. The music world -- not just the jazz world -- lost a stellar musician.