similar artists to john martyn

Welcome to the site. I was not familiar with the musician whom you showed, but I imagined Joni Mitchell when I thought about general musicality.

Looking at the UK collective of folk musicians, nobody pushed toward the jazz blues quite as hard as John Martyn. The John Renbourne and late Bert Jansch included blues in their repertoire but didn't attack the music as Martyn did. And then American Stefan Grossman played traditional blues like a folkie. Roy Harper had a similar agression but .... So Tim Buckley is about as close as I think with an original fusion of jazz and folk. Joni Mitchell was something else to cherish, even the albums with Jaco Pastorius. Davey Graham???? Richard Thompson I don't think so.  What about the TIms (e.g. Rose) and Toms (eg. Paxton) of American folk in the 60's and 70's?

Edited by Dick Heath - 21 Nov 2011 at 11:57am

Sean Trane wrote: Dick Heath wrote: Looking at the UK collective of folk musicians, nobody pushed toward the jazz blues quite as hard as John Martyn. The John Renbourne and late Bert Jansch included blues in their repertoire but didn't attack the music as Martyn did. And then American Stefan Grossman played traditional blues like a folkie. Roy Harper had a similar agression but .... So Tim Buckley is about as close as I think with an original fusion of jazz and folk. Joni Mitchell was something else to cherish, even the albums with Jaco Pastorius. Davey Graham???? Richard Thompson I don't think so.  What about the TIms (e.g. Rose) and Toms (eg. Paxton) of American folk in the 60's and 70's?   Well, Pentangle definitely mixed jazz, blues and folk , but you're right, both Renbourn and Jansch seemed to shun the jazz in their solo output... But in Pentangle, the jazzman was the extraordinary Danny Thompson >> one of my fave contrabassist (and Terry Cox, to a lesser extent)... and it's no small coincidence that the jazzier John Martyn album were with DT, just like once Tim Biuckley played two or three UK concerts with DT, his next albums (Happy Sad, Lorca, Starsailor) were his jazziest... also DT had played withMcL before Pentangle   Common smallest denominator seemed Danny Thompson, in this case...     mixing jazz & folk is also a partof Oregon, but it depends whether you consider Indian trad music as "folk"