God doesn't need to know what time it is.

@stuartk  - I didn't know about him until he recently passed away and they were playing his music on Sirius. I thought I knew the great jazz guitarists - Wes Montgomery and his disciples (Earl Klugh, George Benson), & Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour. Not a big fan of John Scofield, but I know he is popular. 

@sokogear 

Well it's better to discover him late rather than never! 

If your taste's can be inferred by the players you've listed, you might enjoy "We'll  Be Together Again" (very melodic and mellow duo with keyboardist Gil Goldstein) or  "Remember-- A tribute to Wes Montgomery".  

Scofield has recorded in a wide variety of settings, so if you like Jazz guitar, I wouldn't give up on him until you've  sampled a cross-section of his work. Needless to say, Spotify is your friend, in this regard. 

Clapton great hands, but a muddled mind. Maybe the tragedy in his life.

As to watches not sure if God has a wrist, but I do know he carries a handkerchief.

Tony Rice and Norman Blake are my nods to acoustic guitar world. A lot of smearing and distortion in plugged in quitar world.

@mahgister 

Indeed, Martino was a musician, brilliant intellectual, passionate teacher and mystic, all rolled into one. 

@jpwarren58: Tony Rice was Art Dudley’s favorite acoustic guitarist. I’ve been finding some of Tony’s Rounder Records LP’s lately in local shops, including his s/t debut on the label (cat. no. 0085), The Tony Rice Unit (0150), the Unit’s Backwaters album (0167), and an album with his brothers (0256). Playing upright bass on all but the last is Todd Phillips, who in 1971 was playing a Fender P Bass in the same band as I around the San Jose area.

Todd was a member of Psychograss, and has a number of his own albums. I heard his 18th Century German upright bass up close ten years ago, when we played together for an afternoon. I now know what it should sound like when reproduced by a hi-fi system ;-) . Todd left the band to concentrate on studying mandolin with David Grisman up in Marin County. David told him there were plenty of good mandolin players, but a dearth of upright bassists, and advised him to get one. Todd took David’s advice, and ended up playing bass in David’s band! Last I heard he was on the road with Joan Baez, whom I am just now belatedly getting into. Her version of Dylan’s "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Low Lands" brings me to tears.