Chords?

fly

Can you please recommend me a good resource on chords?

I don't mean just a chord dictionary but something that will expand my knowledge of chords.

I would like to be able to take a simple ii-V-I progression and develop it into a progression of many chords.

I do not mean chord-melody arrangements either.

Not sure if I am explaining this well but I hope you will understand what I mean.

bigjon

Right here on the FretBoard! 200 chords analysed and discussed. For ii-V-Is follow the links in the second post to the Twinkle Jazz articles
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/598/chord-of-the-week-index

Barney

Iv had a load of chord books and the best for me without doubt is Sal Salvador chordal enrichment and chordal substitution ...great book ....

Danji

If you're looking at ways of placing ii V I together, get the Real Book and learn some standards, also look at the way that Coltrane/McCoy Tyner reharmonised standards that contained the ii V Is

Listen to their version of Body and Soul, look at the 3 and 4 tonic systems used in Giant Steps and Countdown, there's also 26-2 from Coltrane's Sound.  From a more static and standard perspective Clifford Brown did some good stuff too. Learn these and incorporate into blues turnarounds etc. A lifetimes work there. 

Megii

Creative Chord Substitution For Jazz Guitar by Eddie Arkin is a good one. The Ted Greene books of course, and worth looking on the tedgreene.com website. I will have to get hold of that Sal Salvador book.

bingefeller

The best chord books I ever read are Three-note Voicings and Beyond, and Jazz Guitar Voicings, both are by Randy Vincent.

The three note voicing one is incredibly detailed and is the thicker of the two books.