| Steel Guitar Jazz | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Buddy Emmons |
| Cover: | Steel Guitar Jazz - album cover.jpg |
| Released: | September 1963 |
| Recorded: | July 22, 1963 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 36:20 |
| Label: | Mercury |
| Producer: | Hal Mooney |
| Chronology: | Buddy Emmons |
| Next Title: | The Steel Guitar and Dobro Sounds of Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons |
| Next Year: | 1965 |
Steel Guitar Jazz is a 1963 studio album by steel guitarist Buddy Emmons. It was reissued in 2003 by Verve Records.
Ken Dryden reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "Buddy Emmons wasn't the first musician to be featured playing a pedal steel guitar in a jazz setting, but it is unlikely that anyone else recorded an entire date playing one prior to this 1963 session. He's surrounded by some top players...he also interacts with the band rather than overdoing the special effects available to him, especially the horn-like sounds obtained from his use of the slide. Emmons also chose an intriguing mix of material...This was pretty much a one-time affair for Emmons, who returned to country music, though he did record some additional jazz with guitarist Lenny Breau during the 1970s".
Kevin Whitehead reviewed the album in 2003 for National Public Radio's Fresh Air.[1]