Great to see him carrying on the Wes and Benson tradition

These artist are here to help heal the world with music….play on…..☮️🎶🔛🌎

Mark is for real.  L-5 Studio tells us it's so.

@LeviClay Can you please transcribe 2:20 - 3:09? This is the greatest jazz blues lines of the man kind.

@xboxslimkid: Mark was bensons protege, I guess you could say, back in the 1990s when Whitfield hit the scene in a big way... Benson was one of his fans, and biggest influences. Listen to "The Marksman" from the album of the same name, for proof.

Outstanding- amazing sound that he gets from the guitar-

Chip played with the Elvin Jones band for sometime. Great bass player!

this dude is pure fiyah!

Absolute beast

An interesting, well illustrated (musically) lesson on the lineage of Lead Guitar.

Many Thanks. You Made My Day When I Heard This Music

what an incredible right hand he has! I'm gonna be shedding this guy I think!

Respkt to Mark Whitfield in that he recognizes the BIG DAWGS(Wes, G.Benson, C.Christian)!!!

Oh man, this is nice... Billy Taylor and Whitfield dueting... that's some down home, good stuff right there. Like how Mark's playing assumes a different character depending on who he's playing with. Thanks for the clip, JVG!

Enjoyed this session very much. Very educational!

He has very good technique. Likes to play a lot of sixteenth notes.

Ken, Toronto

Very nice. I can hear some of Benson's technique in there.

BRAVO ! Quite admirable performance for many significant reasons , his sense of our musics history exemplified by the informed reference to the  "single notes" technique of Charlie Christian, the multigenerational collaboration with an elder statesman  of Jazz Billy Taylor on piano and perhaps above all the Father son relationship that provided his first guitar and the nurturing environment that imparts a sense of LOVE from which this music called JAZZ is created and grows and in TRUTH, LOVE is the only source that gives such noble fruit  like the sweetness of AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC..

Yhank you Bret !!!!! with all my respect Sir :D

Always loved this video - mainly for the moment where Mark plays with just drums. There's something I love so much about the style of playing that comes out when he's reacting to every beat with chords. If anyone could recommend something similar I'd be very grateful.

The only loose comparisons I can make are so far from jazz, like certain 90's and 00's emo bands such as La Dispute or Julia or even straight rock and roll like Thee Oh Sees. The closest and most enjoyable comparison I've found yet are Still House Plants who everyone here should check out.