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Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar: Book 1 (Ashley Publications)

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One of the original Jazz Tuition Books
This is one of the few books I could get back in the mid 60's to help me understand what was going on in jazz chords. Mickey Baker teaches in this book rather like I was taught 50 years ago - look at these sets of chords, see how they sound better than a straight set of majors and minors, practice them like this exercise. And so on until you get better. Interestingly, Mickey talks about how much practice you should do - 2 hours a day and each lesson will take you about a week, he says - so there's a years work at 2 hours a day according to Mickey. But by that time you should be able to comp really well and solo over any jazz tune. (Well as well as you can get in one year anyway!) This is a very practical book and one that any player having got the basics down should be able to start. Some of the chords are difficult to finger - but who says playing is easy anyway? You'll find nothing here you can't use and an approach which is very much like all good player use - no unuseable...
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January 6, 2008 (Chippenham, Wilts England) | Helpful Votes: 31 | Rating: 5

The Original Chord Melody Handbook
Mickey Baker Book 1 is a bit of a misnomer, it sounds like it could be a beginner's book, let me assure you it is not. You should have some guitar skills before tackling this book. It moves very quickly through the first few lessons (which will take you a while), but the exercises do help you develop an ear for jazz chord voicing and turnarounds. It's a great book and still a classic after 50 years!
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November 12, 2007 (Litchfield, CT, USA) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

Great Jazz Method
This book is set up in 52 logical lessons... do one a week and make great progress in only one year... completeing this gives a terrific foundation to playing jazz. I use it as an extension to playing jazz on the accordion. The CordeenMan
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February 3, 2009 (Hudson Valley, NY) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5

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A method in how to play jazz and hot guitar. Top to learn more

The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

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My Favorite Jazz Guitar CD
This is my favorite Jazz Guitar album and one that I've had for some time, first on a cassette that I got from my brother and eventually on CD. I used to listen to this in my car and didn't even know the names of the songs or who had written them. All I knew was that I really dug Montgomery's guitar playing.After getting the 1987 version of the CD, I learned that the album included Sonny Rollins' "Airegin", Dave Brubeck's "In Your Own Sweet Way", 2 standards, and 4 originals by Montgomery. I also learned that his supporting cast included Tommy Flanagan on piano and the Heath brothers on bass and drums.This album is a real pleasure to listen to, not just for Montgomery's truly incredible guitar playing, but also for the relaxing atmosphere all 4 musicians create. This is a perfect album to play late at night before going to bed; just turn down the lights, lie down on your couch, and let the music soothe your soul.My only complaint about the CD I...
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February 23, 2009 (NY, USA) | Helpful Votes: 29 | Rating: 5

Wes Montgomery Review
I have always liked the jazz guitar, and Wes Montgomery has never let me down. His style and drive will always make him one of the best. And I would tell people that have never heard Wes play, this is the perfect CD to get you started. It has so much to offer, and with Tommy Flanagan, Percy Heath, and "Tootie" Heath playing excellent backdrop, Wes really shines in his ability to make you really hear the sound he wants to deliver. Thank you Wes, for the incredible sound.
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June 17, 2009 | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5

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At the summit of the jazz guitar mountain...
...Wes Montgomery has planted the flag! This is one of the most dynamic and sonically interesting works of jazz I've had the pleasure to hear in a long time. Never really a big fan of jazz guitar, works like Bill Frisell's have started to attract me to the appeal of jazz guitar, and this CD continues that trend. Wes keeps every song going steadily from start to finish, whether a soothing ballad or a rocking blues riff, with (what must be) intricate fingering at a lightening speed and nary a clue as to how he gets the strings to make the sounds they do. That's always been the epitome of jazz guitar for me: when the sound is so seamless that it doesn't even sound like strings were plucked but more like they were simply asked to sing and then do. Montgomery truly scales the heights with this work and guitar players will...
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June 14, 2008 (Madison, AL, US) | Helpful Votes: 15 | Rating: 4

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Jazz Guitar Voicings - Vol. 1

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Wow! A profoundly insightful and useful book
I'm a long time guitar player -- 41 years -- and a long time systems analyst -- almost as long.I set out to end my guitar music illiteracy about 5 years ago. This was the result of trying to play jazz, feeling ashamed at how poor I was at dealing with the music and working with some very patient bandmates who are literate.So, I began a journey through the myriad of guitar chord dictionaries and, especially, books that claim to have discovered THE secret to all guitar chord playing knowledge.Unfortunately, because I'm a systems analyst, I get splinters in my mind when I read books that don't get to the essence of what they are trying to say. (Or worse, have an essence that is just bogus.) Most of the many books on chords for guitar suffer from these problems.On the other hand Jazz Guitar Voicings is crystal clear about a profoundly fundamental idea: arrangers have standard ways of arranging the notes in a chord (i.e. voicings), low to...
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July 8, 2010 (Scarsdale, NY United States) | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 5

excellent
great book. the rare, actual difference maker, if you put the work in.one suggestion: once you've covered the intro, and gained a feel for where it's going, proceed to section 4. that's the "practicing" part. do a bunch of that. get to the point where the foundation is under your fingers -- all string sets, all keys, to the point where the harmonized scales feel like, well, scales -- and the actual music-making material (which comes before the practice section in the book) will flow a whole lot better.that said, i'm real glad i picked this up. thanks to the author.
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July 17, 2011 (Valley Cottage, NY, United States) | Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 5

Must have
Great book for guitarists desiring to go beyond stock voicings. Based on Mark Levines' drop2 book, it explains how to incorporate modal and chromatic (diminished) passing chords, approach chords to your voice leading efforts.The book helps you bridge the gap between soloing and comping. In most textbooks the melodic approach to soloing is abandoned when talking about comping. This method emphasizes melody also in accompaniment and gently advizes you "not too overdo" this approach behind singers or soloists.It brings chord soloing within your reach with deeper understanding of yhe theory and praxis behind it. Great kindle book. Let's have his threenote voicing book on kindle asap...:))
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January 30, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Have you ever wondered how guitarists like Joe Pass, Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery find such full, luscious voicings for their chord melody playing? Well, much of that sound is based on the "Drop 2" principle of chord voicings. In this book, veteran guitarist Randy Vincent explains exactly how you can get that same sound too. Endorsed by Julian Lage, John Stowell, Larry Koonse, etc. Top to learn more

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Beginning Jazz Guitar: The Complete Jazz Guitar Method- Beginning, Intermediate, Mastering Chord / Melody, Mastering Improvisation

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Book & CD Pages: 96
By Jody Fisher

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Probably the best tutorial in print
I've played guitar for more than thirty years and have focused on straight ahead jazz for the last 15 or so. All that time I've absorbed bits and pieces of musical knowledge from method books, lick guides and transcriptions as well as from the experience gained playing with others. No resource that I've encountered offers the degree of fundamental understanding that one can gain from this series of books.Unlike most other method books, "Beginning Jazz Guitar" starts from chapter 1 with a dual track instruction mode of chord and scale studies mixed with a moderate dose of musical theory AND the author wisely limits the first volume to just the major scale. Too many other fine publications insist on bedeviling the student with a bewildering array of scales and modes in rapid fire succession. This volume shines when it comes to supplying answers to real world questions as the student might actually encounter them. Additionally, Jody Fisher presents scales in a format...
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October 1, 2004 (San Diego, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 81 | Rating: 5

Good Book to Learn More Sophisticated Guitar
First off, when this book says "beginning," it does NOT mean it is targeted to a complete beginner to guitar. It means it is written for a guitarist who knows the basics of rock guitar and would like to learn more about the more sophisticated and traditional jazz style.The book assumes that you already know a couple scales (pentatonics, etc.) and most standard rock chords, and I greatly appreciated that it assumed I knew these, because I was afraid the book would be too "dumb" in the beginning.This book is fantastic... it shows you what to play with clear diagrams and explanations and all the etudes and songs are written in TAB and traditional so it exposes you to playing guitar using traditional notation, which is an important skill.I highly recommend this book. If you are a fairly good intermediate-level rock guitarist who knows all the basic open and barre chords, this book will pick up right where you want it to and help you add some...
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June 3, 2008 (Los Angeles) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

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Anyone with a knowledge of basic chords and guitar scale fingerings can dig right in and start learning to play jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way up to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced. Beginning Jazz Guitar breaks the age-old tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Clearly organized into easily mastered segments, each chapter is divided into separate lessons on harmony or improvisation. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 96 pages. Top to learn more

Learning Jazz or reading TAB
I have used this book a lot since I got it, and I have learned much from it. While I at first was quite entusiastic about the book, I am slightly more critical now.The book proceeds along two tracks, chords and solo. In both cases etudes goes alongside the theory so you can apply what you have leared. But after learning some of the etudes, I started wondering if I had really learned the theory. You learn to play basic triads on any three adjacent strings, and this accompanied by an etude. But as the etude is written in TAB I do not think about whether the chord I play is an d-minor or an A major or any other chord. I found that when I took an old song-book and tried comping using the same basic triads, I had to think about how to form the chord and hence I learned more. For many of the other etudes I got a similar feeling that what I learned was not the chord or the fingering, but to read TAB.Another strange point is that the book starts out by a short review...
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March 15, 2006 (Oslo, Norway) | Helpful Votes: 21 | Rating: 4

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The Very Best Of Smooth Jazz Guitar

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The Very Best Of Smooth Jazz Guitar
This series gave me some new insight to some wonderful jazz artists I have been missing in my library for sometime. I am an avid collector, of Earl Klugh, Peter White, Dave Grusin, Kenny Gee, David Sanborn, Wes Montgomery, Patrice Ruschen, David Benoit, Tommy Flanaghan, Nancy Wilson, and so many more I can't cover. This series is one of the best I have heard in some time. I gave it five stars, because its tops in my book. Such variety, such style, such CLASS. Great job!
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January 26, 2000 (Russell, Ks) | Helpful Votes: 25 | Rating: 5

Best Smooth Jazz CD Ever
I purchased this album in Singapore 5 years ago at an HMV music store where it was the featured CD in their jazz section. It was then, and is now the finest Jazz CD I have ever heard. I gave a copy of it to the owner of a Jazz bar I frequent near Tokyo, and he plays it every Friday night. Amazingly popular with guests, and generally anybody that listens to it, it will make a smooth jazz lover out of anyone.
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April 14, 2003 | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

A real foot-tapping experience!
Whoever decided to put Ronnie Jordan's "After Hours" as the opening track should be given kudos galore. It is the perfect intro to a brilliant selection of guitar tracks that represent a feel for good times with good company. For me "After Hours" and "Playing For Time" are the best tracks because they give such a soothing touch to your eardrums. The others are groovy and funky in their own nature. I could go on forever talking about each track, but I should simply say that it deserves its five stars!
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August 15, 1999 | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 5

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Jazz Guitar, Complete Edition (Book & CD)

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Book & CD Pages: 320

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Great Jazz Study
I've Been playing guitar for over 50 years. I taught myself for 10 years before I started getting serious aboutmy progress and practice procedure. When I entered college I took some music lesson about theory and composition.That really tied alot of lose ends together for me. But I still never got the complete understanding about Jazz Guitar until now.This book is both practical and easy to read. Jody Foster the author is very organized in his progession of both solo work and chord rhythms.I started at the beginning just to brush up on my basic rudiments of music. He touched on alot of tips and different ways to look at scales and chord shapes I never even thought or heard about. Yet it all makes complete sense. I now have a better understanding of how the Pros think.My knowledge of the fret board and note position has increased ten fold. Plus my rhythm and timing coordinationof both hands now feel more comfortable and exciting.This book has a wealth...
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April 25, 2012 (Houston, Texas) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

The jazz bible
Recently I bought this book. I once had the beginning and intermediate and then noticed that there is a full version combined of all four books. The book to me is the bible of jazz. Every important aspect of jazz is covered there with very helpful mp3 tracks to support the full understanding of the concept. I strongly recommend this book or any of the four alone.
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March 3, 2012 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Anyone with a knowledge of basic chords and guitar scales can dig right in and learn to play jazz right away. This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything, from basic to advanced techniques. The clearly organized lessons add up to a step-by-step, enjoyable method supplemented by full-length etudes or songs with every new concept. Beginning concepts span from major scale and basic triad theory all the way to extended chords and the modes. For the intermediate player, this book can help with the ii-V-I progression, creating solo lines, altered chord formulas, and comping in such jazz feels such as Latin, swing, ballad, and even funk. You will then master the art of playing harmony, melody, rhythm, and bass parts of a song simultaneously, making your guitar the ultimate jazz solo instrument. The book concludes with advanced techniques for improvisation. Whether you are starting to learn jazz guitar or are an advanced player looking to give your playing more nuance, Jazz Guitar Method Complete is all you'll ever need. An MP3 CD demonstrating examples in the book is included. Top to learn more

Recommended if you have a guitar teacher
I don't recommend this book to beginners or for self-study. This book is actually 4-separately published books all bound together as 1 Complete Edition, and that makes this book a good risk/value. The 4 books (or sections, in this case) are: Beginner, Intermediate, Chord Melody, and Advanced. I like the Intermediate book and the Advanced book. I find the Beginner and Chord Melody books disappointing.There are some major scale and pentatonic fingerings in the Beginner section I disagree with because I think they are way too awkward and difficult for beginners, and not all that practical for experienced players, either.The reliance on tabs throughout the book is a bit troubling, since any serious jazz student should be taught to read sheet music ASAP. The concept of a finger to a fret is not adhered to or taught in this book. The best players seem to figure out that simplicity is key to mastering the fretboard, a la Jimmy Bruno, Barney Kessel, etc.My...
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February 12, 2012 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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