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Check out the books that are listed through out the site. All are of interest and value for jazz guitarists. Here they are collected on one page (Useful Music & Guitar Books).
OR better yet buying one of my books or CDs helps support the cost of making this information available. ;-) It's FREE for YOUR viewing but costs me to make it available.
Books available directly through Curt Sheller Publications and this site are listed here.
Jim Kroger has posted his page of links to online jazz guitar lessons.
Here are sites that I have visited and found to be very useful.
(From the freddiegreen.org site) Devoted to jazz rhythm guitar and the man who epitomized the big band guitar style.
This site is dedicated to the master of the rhythm guitar - Freddie Green, and was created for the purpose of collecting and sharing information that will aid the big band jazz guitarist in keeping this style alive and well. This is strictly a not-for-profit endeavor carried out by volunteers.
Remember that the guitar is just your instrument of expression. We can and should learn from other instruments.
[from the Charlie's Banacos Site] - originator of the now classic exercises on such tunes as Autumn Leaves ,Giant Steps ,Anthropology (I Got Rhythm changes), Moment's Notice ,Countdown , major and minor blues, etc. using chord tones, tensions, passing tones, approaches, tonal paralypsis, bitonal pendulums (double mambos), hemiola substratum elisions, modal sequences, 23rd chords, intervallics, pivots, facets, agogics, number permutation systems, voicings in clusters, fourths, fifths, reverse tensions, interconnecting scales, entatonics, tetratonics, hexatonics, chord-on-chord, upper structure triads, pandiatonics, uperimpositions, harps, overlaps, etc. and 9-Basic Rhythm Systems and Sprays for sight-reading, etc.) is, in addition to his private in-person teaching in the Boston area, teaching by mail to people not in close proximity to Charlie's studio. The lessons are personalized using a cassette tape which is sent back and forth.
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The Touring Musician: A Small Business Approach
to Booking Your Band on the Road Great book on organizing a jazz tour.
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