Jazz book recommendation

Hootsmon

jazz ballad book c/w cd, would be good, for easy(ish) jazz ballad standards, tab of course 

think of anything?

jdgm

There's plenty out there but no single book will give you everything.

Howard Morgens books are good, and I've read good reviews of the Martin Taylor one.

'Solo Jazz Guitar' by Bill Hart is one I have.

I would NOT recommend anything by Ted Greene, but go to his website and dowload a couple of his simpler arrangement charts to try.  Some of the blues charts are great.

https://tedgreene.com/teaching/default.asp

Barney

Have you looked at Frank Vignola on truefire ....he has all that type of thing downloadable to print...and how to play it....loads of exercises ect and only £7 a month 

DrCornelius

Barney said:

Have you looked at Frank Vignola on truefire ....he has all that type of thing downloadable to print...and how to play it....loads of exercises ect and only £7 a month 

I was about to post the same . His jazz Etudes may just be what you are after

Hattigol

Jazz mags any good, Hoots?

Hootsmon

Lookin' for a concise book Hatty with a whole bunch of walkin' bass type standards thanks

Coldfingers

If you're on Truefire, have a look at Tim Lerch's "Solo Jazz Pathways (Harmonic Enhancement)" - it starts with a really simple melody, he then  harmonizes this starting with C and G and then substitutes the hell out of it!

Then moves on to some tunes, a basic version, a second version, then an enhanced version:

Red River Valley
Amazing Grace
Star
Oh Danny Boy
Lady be good

I recently bought Howard Morgen's course which is good for understanding chords and their inversions (though isn't really a song book). Will have a look at Frank Vignola's Jazz etudes myself...

TINMAN82

Have a look at the FretDojo website too, starting with the 30 day jazz challenge. 

chrisj1602

http://jazzguitar.be/ 

I wanted to learn some Jazz basics to get me out of my 20 year  indie, rock & blues rut, there’s two free PDF books you can download here with sound samples and backing tracks. I’ve enjoyed it so far.

duotone

@Hootsmon ;
Did you manage to find anything?
I’ve got a few days left on my Amazon Prime membership before it runs out & wanted to get a jazz book.

Been looking today at Real Books, but not sure what one to go for, except it should be “C” instruments & the latest edition if possible, as these should have less mistakes?

Jalapeno

DrCornelius said:

Barney said:

Have you looked at Frank Vignola on truefire ....he has all that type of thing downloadable to print...and how to play it....loads of exercises ect and only £7 a month 

I was about to post the same . His jazz Etudes may just be what you are after

3rd'ed Either via Truefire, or his BigJerseyGuitarClub website - currently signed up for his practice regime - twice a week = $9 / month.

Hootsmon

duotone said:

@Hootsmon ;
Did you manage to find anything?
I’ve got a few days left on my Amazon Prime membership before it runs out & wanted to get a jazz book.

Been looking today at Real Books, but not sure what one to go for, except it should be “C” instruments & the latest edition if possible, as these should have less mistakes?

Duo

a good place tae start would be Martin Taylor on Amazon books