Great Jazz Guitar Classics

Guitarist and composer Andrew York presents the ultimate guide to jazz for classical guitarists. The first two sections of this three-part book cover jazz harmony and chord/melody, focusing on comping, chord voicings, voice leading, and arranging for solo guitar. Part three looks at improvisation, which may be the most exciting---yet foreign---aspect of jazz for classical guitarists. York shows you that improvisation is a skill that can be learned and practiced just like any other. By practicing the ear training and visualization exercises in this book, you will learn how to turn the music you hear in your 'mind's ear' into imaginative, great-sounding jazz solos. The CD contains the exercises and examples performed by the author. / Guitare

A Series Written And Arranged For Classical And Jazz Guitarists. Par RAMO MICHELE. 'Michéle Ramo is a composer to be reckoned with!” (Charlie Byrd). This fresh, exciting new material will be a fantastic addition to your collection! Original compositions and arrangements for fingerstyle guitar make up a terrific book of Classical, Brazilian, and Swing music by guitarist, violinist and composer Michéle Ramo. Each piece is dedicated to a special guitarist and reflects the spirit of the tribute with wonderful melodies and harmonies. This volume pays homage to Charlie Byrd, Luiz Bonfá, Jorge Morel, Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden. These full guitar arrangements along with the actual chords make it great for both classical and jazz players. Book/CD Set presented in standard notation and tablature. - Classical, Brazilian, and swing music by guitarist, violinist and composer Michéle Ramo - Original compositions and arrangements for fingerstyle guitar - Pays homage to Charlie Byrd, Luiz Bonfá, Jorge Morel, Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden - Full guitar arrangements along with the actual chords make it great for both classical and jazz players - Book/CD Set presented in standard notation and tablature / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Jazz - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee's (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: 'In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.' Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton's city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman's reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means 'conversation with the gods' in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao's (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950's following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo's ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece's characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don't Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach's Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht's The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli's Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish's A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony's co-production of George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess.

Book and 2 CDs adapted by Cory Christiansen. Building on the success and popularity of Vol. 1 - Jazz Guitar and Vol. 2 - Nothin' But Blues for Guitar, Corey Christiansen has adapted another classic, Vol.3 The II/V7/I Progression for guitar. As with the previously mentioned adaptations, this one uses both standard and TAB notation and is correlated closely to the original edition, but speaks directly to the aspiring jazz guitarist and addresses all of the important techniques and concepts used by jazz guitar legends to solo and comp over II/V7s. Completion of this easy-to-understand volume will have you ready to play any song that contains II/V7s, including most songs of the Bebop and the Great American Songbook era. Includes 2 CDs of trio accompaniment and demonstration tracks plus free bass-and-drum-only mixes available online that allow you to sit in and practice without the recorded guitarist present.

Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons-Learn the art of fingerstyle jazz guitar with these 12 insightful lessons. With chapters aimed at building chord vocabulary separating bass and melody voices and improvisation in the style of jazz guitar greats like WesMontgomery and Joe Pass this book is your guide to building and playing great solo guitar arrangements of songs from the classic jazz-standard repertoire. Complete with jazz interpretations of traditional songs. Lessons includeaudio downloads standard notation and tablature for all examples and songs and much more.

16 great performances transcribed note-for-note with tab for acoustic and electric Bass.Includes: Autumn Leaves (Scott LaFaro) - C-Jam Blues (Ray Brown) - Chasing the Bird (Paul Chambers) - Giant Steps (Paul Chambers) - Inner Urge (Bob Cranshaw) - Killer Joe (Ray Brown) - Poinciana (Song of the Tree) (Chuck Israels) - Seven Steps to Heaven (Ron Carter) - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (Wilbur Ware) - There Is No Greater Love (Ray Brown) - and more. / Guitare Basse

A top-notch resource for every guitarist, this 111-song collection assembles songs in all musical genres and guitar styles. Contains everything from pop/rock hits to jazz standards, Motown masterpieces to movie classics, traditional tunes, country favorites, Broadway blockbusters and beyond! Features note-for-note transcriptions (Evil Ways - Give It Away - Photograph), riffs (All Right Now - Deuce - Iron Man - Start Me Up), and arrangements for easy guitar (Change the World - Crazy - Jump - Roxanne), chord melody (The Christmas Song - Stella by Starlight - Yesterdays), fingerstyle (Come Sail Away - Linus and Lucy - My Funny Valentine), classical (Lagrima - Minuet - Pavane), and more! / Guitare

John Fahey is truly an original and distinctive voice in the musical world revered by artists and performers the world over for his unusual compositions and cross-pollination of genres. His recording career has drawn influencefrom Country Blues Old-Time music Indian ragas the European classical tradition and Gregorian tonalities. He formed a loosely defined 'school' of American Primitive guitarists that included such diverse characters as LeoKottke and Robbie Basho.In 1968 Fahey released his first album of Christmas songs and holiday melodies to great critical acclaim. The arrangements reflect Fahey's preference for slightly Jazzy and upbeat styles - hedemonstrates and dissects nine of his most popular and requested versions. These songs will showcase your fingerstyle techniques and slide-style playing in both standard and open G tunings.