Wes Montgomery
Joe Pass
Charlie Christian

Grant Green is really tasty. If you like Kenny Burrell and as someone mentioned Wes Montgomery, he's not too far off from that sound.

If you like Lee Ritenour, check out Alphonse Mouzon's "Mind Transplant." It features Ritenour with one of my favorite guitarists, Tommy Bolin. If you dig that, check out Billy Cobham's "Spectrum," a jazz-rock milestone by all accounts.

Jim Hall, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow. Grant Green has been mentioned...check out “Live at Oil Can Harry’s’... it’s insane.

That’s a good list

Others
John Scofield
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Al Dimeola - land of the Midnight Sun or his stuff with Chick Corea
Gilda Hekselman- Hearts Wide Open
John McGlaughlin

Mike Stern
Pat Martino
Sonny Sharrock

at times you can put Clarence "gatemouth" Brown on the list as well.

Gabor Szabo is one I return to time and time again. "Dreams" is probably my favorite album of his...

Grant Green is really tasty. If you like Kenny Burrell and as someone mentioned Wes Montgomery, he's not too far off from that sound.

If you like Lee Ritenour, check out Alphonse Mouzon's "Mind Transplant." It features Ritenour with one of my favorite guitarists, Tommy Bolin. If you dig that, check out Billy Cobham's "Spectrum," a jazz-rock milestone by all accounts.

Double this suggestion!

I was really pleased to see redhouse1969 include Pat Martino in his post. My wife and I lived in the Philadelphia area until recently and managed to see him play a few times. These shows were after he had brain surgery and had to teach himself to play a second time. He was and is a great player. I highly recommend the originator of this thread to check him out.

I love guitars and of course guitarists, It's all about the wires and wood, but I do appreciate some other instrumentalists. There's some great players out there. The legends are out there, but I'll focus on some active touring bands/musicians.

If you love certain venues search out all upcoming shows and the music of those appearing there. Some recent Jazz/Jazz Fusion players I've seen of late. I consider some artists to have jazz leanings even though they bounce between musical genres. Tommy Emmanuel is in my ears Jazz Folk. He and Stephane Wrembel love to play Django tunes and so they're listed playing some songs. I almost included Leo Kottke. There's a couple fusion players included. I went back through 60 pages of my channel spanning 2 years to provide some sampling fodder (if you use keywords and dates you can see more of the shows via a search), Some of these folks I wasn't familiar with until they played in my targeted venues and I now follow them, own their CD's, & will attend future shows. Happy Hunting!

Jimmy Herring - Scapegoat Blues

Will Bernard Trio - We The People

Stephane Wrembel - Nuages

Frank Vignola's Hot Jazz Trio - Scheherazade/Flight Of The Bumblebee

Tommy Emmanuel, Vinny Raniolo, & Olli Soikkeli - Swing #42

Vinny Raniolo & Olli Soikkeli - Tico Tico

Jason Crosby - Youthful Offender

Robben Ford - At The Apollo

Hambone Relay - Chicken N Biscuits

Al Di Meola & Friends - Cerreto Sannita

I guess if we are to really consider jazz guitar carefully, one of the biggest names of modern jazz guitar has been Pat Metheny. I do not know his stuff myself, but his "Off Ramp" album was a big deal.

I'm no jazz expert. I'm a rock guy. Instrumentals by the Allmans and Rush and Rainbow/Purple got me to consider the whole idea of instrumental music, and Jeff Beck's "Wired" was then an instrumental step in moving me toward fusion. Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" got me to the Mahavishnu Orchestra which got me to electric Miles Davis and some Herbie Hancock. It did take my ears a while to adjust to non-electric jazz, pre-1967 say, but I have come to embrace it fully, and now I probably even prefer Miles from 1958-1964 to most of what he did after, though I certainly love "Jack Johnson" and "In A Silent Way."

Django Reinhardt is very much worth checking out, if you like the stuff that Fretsman linked from Stephane Wremble. A lot of people regard Django as the holy grail of jazz guitar in part because of his technical prowess despite only having limited use of his left hand. Stephane Wremble seems to be the torch bearer of gypsy jazz today.a

I do enjoy Django's playing but I prefer Oscar Aleman.
Oscar is a much lesser known contemporary or Django from Argentina, i'll post some links to his stuff later.

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Kenney Burrell Midnight Blue, Sinan Bakir On My Way.

I second the recommendation of Kenny Burrell’s Midnight Blue.

Here are a couple of my favorite Oscar Aleman cuts. Again, he was a peer of Django Reinhardt and never achieved as much fame in the music world despite being a very gifted showman and absolutely amazing guitar player.

He’s definitely worth checking out if you have not heard his music.

Here’s Tico Tico

And here’s Russian Lullaby. Similar arrangement to how Jerry Garcia did it, just at a lightning fast swing tempo

Lots of great recommendations here. Somebody mentioned Tommy Emmanuel, here he is with Jack Pearson on "Avalon":

"Autumn Leaves":

I love when these two guys jam together, if I lived near Tennessee I would check them out every chance I got.

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I saw Jimmy Herring’s Scapegoat Blues earlier, I absolutely love his solo records.

These two tracks off of his second solo release are about as close to straight ahead jazz I’ve ever heard Jimmy get, letting his Pat Martino influences shine through.
Red Wing Special

Twelve Keys

Django Reinhardt was one of the most astonishing jazz guitarists:

There isn't a lot of video, but he was prolific and there's plenty of audio: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=django+reinhardt&i=popular&ref=nb_sb_noss

Billastro

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Grant Green is really tasty. If you like Kenny Burrell and as someone mentioned Wes Montgomery, he's not too far off from that sound.

If you like Lee Ritenour, check out Alphonse Mouzon's "Mind Transplant." It features Ritenour with one of my favorite guitarists, Tommy Bolin. If you dig that, check out Billy Cobham's "Spectrum," a jazz-rock milestone by all accounts.

Well, I finally got around to listening to Grant Green. Wow!  He’s great. 

@peachlovingman The Avalon clip is from a Chet Atkins Appreciation Society convention and was the first time Jack and Tommy played together. They were introduced by the blond girl, Muriel Anderson, who is an incredible acoustic player and a reknown harp guitarist. Chet wanted Jack to audition for Oscar Peterson and offered to introduce him to Oscar. Jack was too nervous at the time, but Chet said that Jack was the only player he knew that he would recommend to Oscar. It's Jack's jazz mastery that brought him and Tommy together. Tommy says that playing with Jack is like kids on a playground, concerned with nothing but having fun.

@mikewest Jack and Tommy should do an album and tour. 

@robertdee That's my fat ass plugging Jack in. And Thom Bresh was the bearded gentleman leaving the stage. Thom is the son of Merle Travis. The All Star Guitar show is organized by Muriel Anderson, benefits music programs for students and draws great guitarists from around the world. Best $20 show you'll ever see, and all of that $20 goes to the programs. So, for only 20 bucks I can say I once "shared" the stage with Tommy Emmanuel.

@mikewest What an interesting thing here mikewest!! Yes Tommy and Jack too are two of my absolute favorites on guitar. Jack may be the best slide player of note out there. But others tell me it's probably Derek Trucks or Ry Cooler. 

I was a stage manager in the late 60's at an old theatre that had live country and western swing shoes on Saturday night. Merle Travis was there on a show and he was fantastic. Kinda like Roy Clark or Glen Campbell. Play things on the guitar that you couldn't do if you were a player too:)

An example!