Just recently George Benson was asked who he thought was the best guitar player and without hesitation he said Django Rinehart. Not Charlie Christian, Eddie Lang nor Wes Montgomery.
My feeling is exactly the same feeling which he spoke about...
These two artists dont look for any music and dont play after a piece of music searching for another piece of music.
They are the music and their "swing" and their chords gesture is always the "ever present origin" of all the music they will ever play...
All their musics pieces or songs sound more like ONE piece of playing than different pieces...They dont need trying to be originals, they effortlessly, innately and naturally are...
They cannot play a piece of music without making it their own....If they play with many musicians,so good they are, we listen only them through the other musicians...
Their music sound at least like a very rapid dance or like a trance, they induce hypnosis of the listener... They are intense not only beautiful...
Jimi Hendrix was like that,and Ostad Elahi or Liszt ghost playing through Ervin Nyiregyházi, or Sofronitsky playing Scriabin, to give some examples that comes to me....
Martino and Reinhardt are on par and among the top musicians there is and there was....Not only for me....