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This is a great list for all jazz fans and guitar players.   All guitarists, even punkers and metal heads gotta respect the jazz cats.  Thanks to jazzguitar.be for this.

This list is like cheating to get your jazz cred. I'll admit, I'm ashamed I don't have more of these.  Check them out.

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Top 100 Albums - Jazz Guitar

1. Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
2. Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
3. Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
4. Baden Powell - At the Rio Jazz Club
5. Barney Kessel - Kessel Plays Standards
6. Barney Kessel - The Poll Winners
7. Barry Galbraith - Guitar and the Wind 
8. Bill Frisell - East/West
9. Bireli Lagrene - Gypsy Project
10. Bireli Lagrene - Standards
11. Bucky and John Pizzarelli - Contrasts
12. Charlie Byrd - At The Village Vanguard
13. Charlie Byrd - The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd
14. Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar
15. Charlie Christian - Solo Flight
16. Charlie Hunter - Bing Bing Bing
17. Danny Gatton - Untouchable
18. Django Reinhardt - Djangology
19. Django Reinhardt - Quintet du Hot Club de France
20. Earl Klugh - One on One
21. Ed Bickert - Live at The Garden Party
22. Eddie Lang - Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
23. Emily Remler - Firefly
24. Ernest Ranglin - Below the Bassline
25. Frank Gambale - Thinking Out Loud
26. George Barnes - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
27. George Benson - Bad Benson
28. George Benson - Breezin'
29. George Benson - Beyond the Blue Horizon
30. George Benson - The George Benson Cookbook
31. George Van Eps - Mellow Guitar
32. Grant Green - Green Street
    
33. Grant Green - Idle Moments
34. Grant Green - The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
35. Hank Garland - Jazz Winds From a New Direction
36. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass - Seven, Come Eleven
37. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass - Two for the Road
38. Howard Alden/George Van Eps - 13 Strings
39. Howard Roberts - HR Is A Dirty Guitar Player
40. Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
41. Jim Hall - Concierto
42. Jim Hall - Live
43. Jim Hall/Bill Evans - Intermodulation
44. Jim Hall/Bill Evans - Undercurrent
45. Jim Hall/Ron Carter - Alone Together
46. Jimmy Bruno - Burnin'
47. Jimmy Raney - Wisteria
48. Joe Beck - Strangers in the Night
49. Joe Diorio Trio - Live
50. Joe Pass - For Django
51. Joe Pass - Virtuoso
    
52. John Abercrombie - Timeless
53. John Basile - The Desmond Project
54. John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
55. John Scofield - A Go Go
56. John Scofield - Hand Jive
57. Johnny Smith - Johnny Smith
58. Johnny Smith - Moonligh in Vermont (w Stan Getz)
59. Jonathan Kreisberg - Unearth
60. Kenny Burrell - Guitar Forms
    
61. Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
62. Kevin Eubanks - Guitarist
63. Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song
64. Larry Carlton - Last Nite
65. Larry Coryell (w John McLaughlin) - Spaces
66. Lee Ritenour - Rit's House
67. Lenny Breau - Live on Bourbon Street
68. Luiz Bonfa - Solo in Rio 1959
69. Martin Taylor - Spirit of Django
70. Mike Stern - Play
71. Mike Stern - Standards (and Other Songs)
72. Mike Stern - Upside Downside
73. Mundel Lowe - Guitar Moods
74. Nguyen Le - Walking on the Tiger's Tail
75. Norman Brown - After the Storm
76. Pat Martino - El Hombre
77. Pat Martino - Footprints
78. Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
79. Pat Metheny - Question and Answer
80. Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden - Beyond The Missouri Sky
81. Pat Metheny/John Scofield - I can see Your House From Here
82. Peter Bernstein - Earth Tones
83. Peter White - Caravan of Dreams
84. Phillip Catherine - Summer Night
85. Ralph Towner - Solstice
86. Rene Thomas Quintet - Guitar Groove
87. Robben Ford - Tiger Walk
88. Ronny Jordan - The Antidote
89. Rosenberg Trio - Caravan
90. Stanley Jordan - Stolen Moments
91. Steve Kahn - The Suitcase (Live)
92. Sylvain Luc - Trio Sud
93. Tal Farlow - Verve Jazz Masters 41
94. Ted Greene - Solo Guitar
95. Tuck Andress - Wreckless Precision
96. Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar
97. Wes Montgomery - Bumpin'
98. Wes Montgomery - Full House
99. Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half Note
100. Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

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What are you favorite lines from tech support?
 
Here are a couple of mine:
 
(1). "Just call us if you have any more problems with your service.".
(Telecom support desk)
 
(2). "Email the helpdesk at helpdesk@xxx.com to open up a trouble
ticket". (IT support)
 
(3). "Is your phone working now?". (Live conversation over the phone)
 
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Scale can be the undoing of certain things. Imagine an intimate get
together with 1,000,000 "friends" attending.
 
Will Twitter survive mainstream adoption?
 
"Twittering" will survive but Twitter is at risk. The inherent
structure of Twitter does not work when and if it becomes very widely
adopted.
 
Social networking sites lose their value as entropy rises - and the
entropy will explode when it is broadly adopted by the populace.
However the idea of character limited short communications in a social
network context was brilliant even if it seems obvious after the fact,
and we should take our hats off to Twitter.
 
People will keep migrating forward to the next platform - we have not
seen the Google of social networking sites yet.
 
Have we?

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Small businesses have reason to keep the faith 

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Life is busy and time to contemplate can get lost in the shuffle.  We know things which sometimes we forget.  I am trying to remember.  Here are some principles that come to mind.

If we're aiming toward a tree we tend to hit the tree, especially rather than whatever is in the opposite direction.  We may not hit the tree, but we'll hit closer to it than if we aim for something else.

Someone that wants to be an entertainer probably is not well served by becoming a policeman, or at least they are less likely to become an entertainer if they focus on something other than entertainment.  In life there are no guarantees, which is what we really want.  We want to know that if we try something, we will succeed.  No such guarantee exists.

Still, we're more likely to achieve something, or succeed in the direction of something, if we focus on it and if we make it our explicit target.

If one is not already an expert marksman, one cannot expect to hit a target on the first shot.  The first shot will give us an idea of what corrections to make, the second shot will give us a better idea of further refinements, and so forth.  If we miss on either side of the target then we have it bracketed and we will hit it with adjustments, if we just keep taking shots.

It is completely unreasonable to think we will be successful at something new right off the bat.  Humans are born with limited instinctive skills, but with an amazing ability to learn and adapt.  Success tends to come from the focused targeting and learning as we persevere until we hit our mark.

• When our egos discourage us from shooting at our target, they do us a disservice

Egos are a social artifact of our personality, a personal manifestation of our status in the group, however they discourage us from taking shots at new things.  Missing a target is generally seen as a failure socially, but we cannot expect to hit a new target on the first try.  The effect of the ego can be to avoid trying things which are new and different. 

When the ego is in the way, the answer may be to be anti-social, pursuing our goals apart from the scrutiny of those in our social circle.  You may go into seclusion and not talk to your old friends for a year, you might share fewer details of your life with your parents during this period, old romantic interests may be avoided.  This may be necessary to keep shooting at your target without emotional turmoil and distraction.

• Remember we are social animals

While different people are different, Man in general is a social animal, we define ourselves in terms of other humans and human society.  Ultimately we cannot have a meaningful life taking shots for eternity with no one around.  If a person chops down a tree in a forest and no one else hears it fall, it doesn't mean anything.  There is going to be a limit on how long you can shoot for something in isolation, so if we can find a social environment that supports our endeavors rather than challenges our ego, we are in a better position to persevere toward the great goals we have had the courage to set for ourselves.

Perhaps we can be great without accomplishing great things, but striving for great things is part of the human make-up.  We should remember to focus on that we really want to achieve, and know that it takes many attempts and perseverance to achieve great things.  Keeping our ego out of the way may mean we need to avoid relationships that engage our ego during our trial and errors, but we all need people and there will be people out there who can be supportive as we strive for greatness.

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One nice feature of TweetDeck , a desktop client application for Twitter, is the ability to put people one is following into groups.  That way you don't miss a tweet (140 character note) from your girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse while you are having a fascinating discussion about internet marketing with someone else.

Groups

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The best deals on consumer goods in the after Christmas sale period may be found at brick and mortar stores rather than online.  There is something about physically holding stock one is unable to sell that really encourages making whatever deal it takes to sell it.

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