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Jazz Guitar Standards: A Complete Approach to Playing Tunes

$22.50 - Book WMB001

This comprehensive anthology offers a lead sheet, chord solo arrangement, comping etude, and single-note solo for each of 22 jazz standards. These arrangements and etudes by some of the best arrangers and educators in the business provide jazz guitar students with material for development in every aspect of jazz musicianship. Written in standard notation and tablature. Overall Difficulty:  Intermediate. 200 pages.

A Foggy Day  All the Things You Are Alone Together Beautiful Love   Body and Soul   Bye Bye Blackbird   Days of Wine and Roses Have You Met Miss Jones? Honeysuckle Rose How High the Moon I Can't Get Started

I Could Write a Book I Love You  Invitation Just Friends Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be? Moonlight in Vermont Satin Doll Watch What Happens What's New Yesterdays You Stepped Out of a Dream

Jazz Guitar Standards II: A Complete Approach to Playing Tunes....

$22.50 - Book WMB009

This second volume of Jazz Guitar Standards contains a collection of 22 Jazz standards each containing a chord melody, a comping etude and a single-note solo. All arrangements are presented in standard notation and tablature for the beginning to intermediate guitarist. Overall Difficulty:  Beginning-Intermediate. 224 pages.

All of You   April In Pari As Time Goes By Bluesette But Not for Me Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man East of The Sun (And West of the Moon)   Embraceable You I've Got You Under My Skin In Your Own Sweet Way It Don't Mean A Thing

Long Ago (And Far Away) Misty (Comping Etude) My Funny Valentine Night And Day Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Someone To Watch Over Me Speak Low Summertime The Way You Look Tonight What Is This Thing Called Love? You Go To My Head

Jazz Guitar Standard: Chord Melody Solos

$24.50 - Book & 2 CD Set WMB011BCD

This collection of jazz standard chord solos for guitar is compiled from Mel Bay and Warner Bros. collaborations Jazz Guitar Standards Vol. 1 and 2. What makes this work so special is that each artist has personally recorded their solo guitar arrangement. The book comes with the CDs which have all 44 tunes. This book is a wonderful anthology of solo guitar that can be used for performances as well as educational purposes. Overall Difficulty:  Intermediate. 144 pages.

Fingerstyle Jazz edited by Corey Christiansen 

$16.50 - Book WMB002 (includes TAB)

Blues Sonata and Jazz Standards for Guitar by Charlie Byrd & John Griggs 

$17.50 - Book/CD Set 98380BCD

Blues Sonata is a "swingin' blues" in sonata form, approximately 22 minutes long, recorded by the Charlie Byrd Trio. Also in this book are three "standard" jazz-blues pieces arranged and recorded by John Griggs. All of the works are written in both standard and tab notation. These pieces are designed for both performance and learning. The standards have a lead line, an arpeggio study, a chord scale study, and a four-chorus performance arrangement. The four-chorus arrangements follow a standard performance routine used in clubs and on stage. For variety, during the third chorus the teacher or another instrument can take the lead. These pieces can be played either fingerstyle or with a pick. Overall Difficulty:  Intermediate. 56 Pages.

Lenny Breau Fingerstyle Jazz by Lenny Breau & John Knowles

$22.50 - Book/CD Set 93972BCD (includes TAB)

The late Lenny Breau was admired throughout the world for his complex fingerstyle jazz stylings. The first part of this text/CD contains Lenny's guitar workshop dealing with Building the Blues; Three Against Two, and Harmonics at Work. Section 2 presents three great Lenny Breau solos (5 O'Clock Bells; Little Blues, and Freight Train). Written in notation and tablature. Contains Lenny's "master class" on fingerstyle jazz guitar. ***** 3 songs from book are not on CD. 60 pages.

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Brazilian Jazz Guitar Styles by Carlos Barbosa-Lima & John Griggs

$19.50 - Book/CD Set 95111BCD (includes TAB)

Brazilian classical/jazz guitar virtuoso Carlos Barbosa-Lima and John Griggs have collaborated in writing these five extended, original solo compositions. These pieces explore a wide variety of Brazilian jazz rhythms, harmonies, and tone colors. The enclosed compact disc features Barbosa-Lima's performance of each solo. Thoughtfully written in separate standard notation and tablature editions, these pieces would best be played on a nylon-string guitar by the intermediate to advanced guitarist. 72 Pages.

Complete Jerry Hahn Method for Jazz Guitar   by Jerry Hahn   

$24.50 - Book/CD Set 99116BCD (includes some TAB)

This jazz guitar book is a compilation of three books formerly published as Volume 1 - Scales and Exercises, Volume 2 - Patterns and Solos and Volume 3 - Improvisation Course and Chord Studies. This comprehensive edition covers all of the facets of jazz guitar study including all of the primary scales and arpeggios in five positions. There are several exercises to help increase technical facility including an excellent cross-picking exercise. Also there is a large single line section that includes jazz vocabulary and ideas to be played over certain chords and progressions. Learning and memorizing these single line studies expands the student's improvisational concepts and technique. The chord section includes the primary chord forms found in jazz and contemporary music as well as examples of turn-arounds, variations on twelve bar blues, and modal comping. The harmonized bass line section has four chord studies in a Freddie Green style. The Improvisation Course is a unique systematic approach to teaching improvisation. It consists of four lessons that has the student write out solos (with out an instrument) utilizing certain rules. The material in this book will provide a solid foundation for the aspiring jazz guitar student and has been used as the primary text for the jazz guitar programs at Portland State University and Wichita State University. Overall Difficulty:  Intermediate. 176 pages.

Jazz Blues Styles by Joe Diorio 

$17.50 - Book/CD Set 99623BCD (includes TAB)

Jazz Blues Solos presents guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats. Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles of jazz blues; jazz ideas, phrases, and licks; jazz syncopation, the rhythmic language of jazz; jazz phrasing, the breath of jazz; how to use the triplet, altered chords, and slash chords; how to reharmonize the blues; a new innovative vocabulary of jazz chord sequences; how to use fragments of the chords to outline the harmony and create interesting new sounds; and how to play walking bass lines with chords. Diorio's "Right Brain Guitarist(R)" approach helps to direct your playing with your intuitive sense as opposed to your logical sense. The accompanying CD will help convey the subtle nuances of the music. Overall Difficulty:  Intermediate. 48 pages.

Improvisational Techniques for Jazz Guitar by Jay Umble 

Complete Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar by Alan de Mause 

$29.50 - Book/CD Set 95434BCD (includes TAB)

This book is complete in the sense that there is something for everyone: beginners, intermediate players and professionals. Along with learning the basics, this book teaches fingerstyle guitar players to play two-string harmonies, accompaniment styles and much more. Alan De Mause has filled the companion CD to capacity with 90 examples of music from his landmark text. The recording features nylon-string guitar throughout in both solo and midi-accompanied settings. A full range of jazz guitar stylings is offered, starting from square one and proceeding through advanced fingerstyle solo material. 184 Pages.

Complete Joe Pass

$29.50 - Book 99311

Music critics and performers alike have hailed Joe Pass as one of the finest jazz musicians to have ever lived. This book effectively combines five previously published books by Joe Pass in a single comprehensive volume including his insights on harmony, melody, and phrasing as well as transcriptions of recorded solos and Joe Pass/Herb Ellis duets. The transcribed solos are: Bay City Blues, Foxy Chick and a Cool Cat, Time In, Blues in G, Dante’s Inferno, and Grçte. The duet selections are: Bonnie, Jazz Waltz, Some of these Days, G Blues, Hot Stuff, and Ballad. All selections appear in standard notation only with chord symbols written over the staves. The solo and duet selections are intermediate to advanced in difficulty.   216 Pages.

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Bucky Pizzarelli Master Jazz Guitar Solo Collection - transcribed by Eddie Decker & Jerry Sims & Richard Maxwell 

$34.00 - Book/CD Set 99930BCD (includes TAB)

John “Bucky” Pizzarelli is one of the best known 7-string players alive. For more than half a century, “Bucky,” as he is affectionately known, has been a part of the fraternity of musicians who have kept mainstream and traditional jazz alive. Bucky is well known for his work in groups as well as his solo outings. This significant collection offers a look at Bucky’s famous brand of chordal guitar solos and chord melodies. Its 31 tunes include “Darn That Dream,” “Sweet Lorraine,” “One Morning In May,” and other great standards, some arranged for 6-string guitar but most for 7-string. A “must have” for any jazz library. Standard notation and tablature. Overall Difficulty:  Intermediate. 144 Pages.

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Easy Jazz Guitar Solos by Alan de Mause 
Book/CD Set 95700BCD (includes TAB) - Out of Print -

This book covers the basics of the middle-of-the-road swing and bebop-era jazz guitar style. Includes traditional tunes, exercises, and original pieces by seasoned jazz instructor and author Alan de Mause, plus an audio CD with 16 tracks that parallel the book's content. Written in standard notation and tablature, this modest 24-page book is particularly strong in introducing jazz rhythms and phrasing. The author addresses accents, guitar technique, and the concepts of swing, form, dynamics, and improvisation in an easily understood fashion. Frequent, elaborate performance notes and the recorded examples make this book/CD set of particular interest to the beginning jazz guitarist. Overall Difficulty:  Beginning-Intermediate. 24 pages.