Editing Jazz guitar (section)

===1970s===
As a result of the ubiquity of the guitar in rock and pop bands during the 1960s, jazz guitarists began to pursue rock-based styles and genres, radically changing the face of jazz guitar and developing the style of "[[jazz fusion]]", which broke out of standard jazz idioms and explored rock, funk, and electronic music. As early as 1967, [[Larry Coryell]] and his band The Free Spirits recorded [[Out of Sight and Sound]], a groundbreaking album that was one of the earliest examples of rock music being interpreted and played by jazz musicians. More prevalently, [[Miles Davis]] featured [[George Benson]] as a soloist on the track "Paraphernalia" off of his 1968 album [[Miles in the Sky]], which marked the first example of his long-standing associations with guitarists. Shortly after this, he recruited [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]] to play on [[In a Silent Way|In A Silent Way]] and [[Bitches Brew]], some of the first jazz albums to be called "fusion" and the first serious jazz-rock albums. McLaughlin was a veteran of the British blues scene, and had cut his teeth playing with popular blues and rock groups, such as [[The Graham Bond Organisation|The Graham Bond Quartet]], [[The Rolling Stones]], and [[Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames]]. McLaughlin was an avowed fan of [[Jimi Hendrix]], and utilized phrasing closer to that of blues and funk guitarists than stereotypical bebop phrasing, and even had a track off of Bitches Brew named after him. He also played with the [[The Tony Williams Lifetime|Tony Williams Lifetime]] for two years, before departing, radically altering his approach, and founding a new band. Davis would continue experimenting with guitar-based music during the 1970s, spearheaded by experimental soloist [[Pete Cosey]], and rhythm guitarists [[Reggie Lucas]] and, for some time, [[Dominique Gaumont]]. Cosey made heavy use of effects, including a synthesizer, as well as 10 string guitars and experimental tunings. His work and influence is recognized by several avant-garde guitarists, such as [[Television (band)|Television]] guitarist [[Tom Verlaine]].

[[Mahavishnu Orchestra|The Mahavishnu Orchestra]], the resulting band, broke sigificant ground in both rock and jazz realms, and was headlined by McLaughlin's newer, more experimental style. His guitar playing began to utilize bends, sustain, and distortion common to blues rock musicians, as well as a vocabulary heavily influenced by [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani]] and [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] styles of [[Indian classical music]] which had become popular in [[psychedelic rock]]. His aggression and virtuosity earned him and his band fame, and he became a dominant force in jazz guitar. Inspired by him, pianist [[Chick Corea]] reorganized his Latin jazz band [[Return to Forever]] into a guitar-led rock band, first with blues-based guitarist [[Bill Connors]], then with young virtuoso [[Al Di Meola]]. Di Meola would also accrue much respect as a soloist, and influenced numerous rock and jazz guitarists after his time.

Many rock guitarists also began to utilize jazz vocabulary and jazz-based ideas, reflective of [[Progressive rock|progessive rock]]'s convergent evolution with fusion jazz. [[Yes (band)|Yes]] guitarists [[Peter Banks]] and [[Steve Howe]] had styles akin to that of many jazz guitarists early on, and helped define Yes's sound apart from other bands. [[John Goodsall]], guitarist for the seminal jazz-rock band [[Brand X]], utilized a fusion guitar style in the context of a progressive rock sound. Most notably, though, was [[Allan Holdsworth]], who played with numerous progessive rock groups and musicians([[Soft Machine]], [[Gong (band)|Gong]], [[Tempest (UK band)|Tempest]], [[Bill Bruford]], [[U.K. (band)|U.K.]]) before embarking on a decades-long solo career that saw him become of the most revered soloists in the guitar world. Rather than utilizing standard picking, Holdsworth relied on legato phrasing inspired by horn players like [[John Coltrane]] and wildly unique and extremely advanced harmonic ideas. Despite being an "underground" musician and getting very little commercial success, Holdsworth inspired several guitarists over the years, most particularly, [[Eddie Van Halen]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-09 |title=The one guitarist that inspired Eddie Van Halen |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-guitarist-that-inspired-eddie-van-halen/ |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref>{{empty section|date=May 2024}}