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Best of Jazz Guitar (Signature Licks) 10 reviews Wolf Marshall
Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000
A great resource
+ Simply Awesome + Great purchase for jazz guitarist + Not all tunes are fine. + Great way to build a jazz vocabulary, esp in/outside approaches to solos
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Modern Chord Progressions 8 reviews Ted Greene
Alfred Publishing Company, 1985
One of my favorite music books!
+ guitar + Another great one from Ted Greene + Reason for studying music theory + Wow. This book will keep you busy for about a year. Maybe two.
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Jazz Guitar Structures 10 reviews Andrew Green
Andrew Green, 2004
boost your soloing with these structures
+ must have for any modern player + Clever and clear + A comprehensible approach for the advanced player + An excellent resource
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Mel Bay presents Jazz Structures for the New Millennium 1 review Joe Diorio
Mel Bay Publications, 2001
This guy is amazing!!!
Joe Diorio writes some of the most inovative stuff for guitar. This is another great book in the style of Intervallic Designs (which, despite it's early publication date, still is very inspiring). And the stuff you get at this price..!!
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101 Must-Know Jazz Licks: A Quick, Easy Reference for All Guitarists 5 reviews Wolf Marshall
Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000
Nicely Done!
+ for quick fingers + Great reference book on the historical eras of jazz. + Fantastic
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Jazz Guitar Technique 11 reviews Andrew Green
Andrew Green, 2004
A thorough approach to common jazz techniques
+ Remodel Your Playing Technique + The best series out there + I'm working through it + Eat your spinach if you want to grow up big and strong
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Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, Volume 1 7 reviews Ted Greene
Alfred Publishing Company, 1985
The best teacher ever
+ Re-released 2008 + Any Ted Greene is most welcome + A scale for every chord + An unassuming but important book.
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Chord Chemistry 27 reviews Ted Greene
Alfred Publishing Company, 1981
Best Guitar Book
+ if your serious.. + Ted Greene's book was always my favorite. + guitar books
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Building a Jazz Vocabulary 14 reviews Mike Steinel
Hal Leonard Corporation, 1995
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+ Excellent
Very well organized with a wide variety of presentations of the material. A finely structured presentation of several jazz basics with exteensive permutations of each.
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Intervallic Designs for Jazz Guitar: Ultramodern Sounds for Improvising 4 reviews Joe Diorio
Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000
GET THIS ONE !
+ Definitely worth working through, but not all that "ultramodern" + Free Jazz + Very, very good
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101 Must-Know Blues Licks 14 reviews Wolf Marshall
Hal Leonard Corporation, 1999
Great book.
+ Good book!! + Fine presentation + Gotta Love The Tones
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Thelonious Monk for Guitar 4 reviews Thelonious Monk
Hal Leonard Corporation, 1999
A Worthy Challenge!
+ Accurate and Valuable!!!
No longer is the idiosyncratic style of Thelonious Monk inaccessible to the guitarist. For the guitarist who has ever spent time listening to the genius of Monks music - feeling at the same time enlightened by it's wisdom, and saddened by the ever nagging feeling that you, as a guitarist, could ...
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The Hal Leonard Real Jazz Book - C Edition 11 reviews
Hal Leonard, 1998
Good jazz book. Disappinted in Amazon shipping.
+ Boost your repertoire! + Nice update to the old Realbooks
Good jazz book. Son loves it. This item WAS shipped to me, however, I'm VERY VERY disappointed in Amazon's overall lackluster, unreliable (lack of shipping) to military APO addresses. In general, they've shipped to my military APO address about 60% (if that) of the time - for very basic items. Many ...
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Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble: A Comprehensive Method for Jazz Style and Improvisation 2 reviews Mike Steinel
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, 2000
Excellent Learning Tool
+ Covers all the basics for playing guitar in your high school's jazz band
This is a fabulous, simple and straightforward method for learning the elements of jazz. I was so impressed with it that when I found the seconc CD in the used book I originally bought was cracked, I went out and bought another copy (for clarinet and direct from the publisher). Very highly ...
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Ultimate Jazz Fake Book : B Flat/No 240080 1 review
Hal Leonard, 1988
Terrific fake book
My band, Harbour Jazz, uses this book in C and B flat for all our gigs. Great selection of classic jazz tunes. I have three copies of it!
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The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book: E-flat Edition 2 reviews
Hal Leonard Corporation, 1988
Love this book!
+ great usage of great music
This book is full of awesome music, I could play all day!
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The Best of Joe Pass: A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Styles and Techniques of the Jazz Guitar Virtuoso 6 reviews Wolf Marshall, Joe Pass
Hal Leonard Corporation, 2003
Great Insight to an Insightful Maestro
+ Such an unfair assessment of a great work + Solid job by Wolf! + Awesome... Just awesome
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Single Line Improvising Diorio, Joe
Alfred Publishing, 1992
Single Line Improvising consists of complete transcriptions (in notation and tab) of the classic Diorio album Bonita, and the complete album is contained on the included cassette. This is a wonderful opportunity to study how this creative genius plays in many styles from bossa nova to blues, ballads, bebop and free jazz.
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Expanding Walking Bass Lines 1 review Ed Friedland
Hal Leonard Corporation, 1996
the first book is better
I bought this hoping to get some more great tips and theory that Friedland's first book contained, and that helped me develop walking lines when i was first learning. Unfortunately, I found that the content here was not as rich, not as based in theory, and kind of obvious if you listen to ...
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The Latin Real Book: C Edition 3 reviews Chuck Sher
Sher Music, 1999
Great Fake Book
+ Good buy
Good tunes, easy to read charts, spiral bound to lay flat. What more do you need?
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