The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written! This comprehensive book details the sounds, elements, and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions to fingerboard organization to phrasing, essential blues scales, riffs, lick development, and an array of advanced concepts and devices, including substitute scales & extended super arpeggios are covered. Throughout this process 38 solos, over 100 music examples, and hundreds of licks are featured. Written in notation and tablature.
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In 1994, Jim Ferguson received one of the highest honors of his profession: a Grammy nomination from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the Best Album Notes category for annotating Fantasy Records' 12-CD boxed set Wes Montgomery - The Complete Riverside Recordings, which includes an incisive biographical essay and interviews with numerous figures, including Nat Adderley, Ron Carter, Kenny Burrell, John Scofield, and Tommy Flanagan. The award marked a recent high point in a career that began in the mid '70s. For more than 15 years, Ferguson was associated with Guitar Player Magazine. A former editor, he specialized in jazz and classical guitar - meeting, interviewing, and writing about virtually every important figure in the guitar world. A specialist in jazz, and in jazz guitar in particular, he con-tributed the guitar history entry and 14 biographies to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. He has also annotated over 40 albums (Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Tal Farlow, George Van Eps, Johnny Smith, and many others) and compiled several acclaimed collections of historic performances for the Fantasy, Rhino, and Concord labels. In addition to Guitar Player, his hundreds of articles have appeared in JazzTimes, Down Beat, Classical Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar, and other international publications. His books have covered topics ranging from blues to the music of Federico Moreno Torroba. A noted guitar instructor, Ferguson has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College in Oakland, California, and teaches music at both Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California, and California State University, Monterey Bay in Seaside, California. He has studied with George Barnes, Red Varner, Lenny Breau, Jose Rey de la Torre, and David Tanenbaum and performed in Europe and the U.S. Moreover, he is profiled in Maurice J. Summerfield's The Jazz Guitar - Its Evolution, Its Players And Personalities Since 1900. Regarding his own approach to jazz, Cadence Magazine said, "Bluesy and swinging, Ferguson bears up under repeated listening." In 1997, Jim founded his own music publishing company, Guitar Master Class, whose first book, All Blues for Jazz Guitar - Comping Styles, Chords & Grooves, has been received virtually with universal acclaim. He resides in Santa Cruz, California.
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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"All Blues Soloing..." takes you step by step in an easy to understand, logical progression. The writing is clear and not abstruse. Each solo is an excellent example which makes the point of the written section but is also a beautiful, short musical piece which doesn't sound forced and is fun to play (which you can do along with the accompanying CD, very helpful for those who get the rhythms better by listening).
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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I have been using this and the Blues Comping Styles for Jazz Guitar at the reccommendation of my guitar teacher and have found both books to be informative and useful. I am relatively new to guitar playing and have learned some difficult techniques at a rapid pace. My compliments to the author.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I've looked at many books to improve my improvising skills. I learned more from this book than all of them put together.
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I got this book nearly fourteen years ago and forgot that I had it. Well, I was busy with classical guitar and solo jazz and looked through it, but set it aside temporarily and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bill the Cat
A very good book for many levels of players
As I have mentioned in my prior reviews, you often need to be at a certain level of playing for any given book, teacher or lesson to really take hold. Read more
Published 5 months ago by cincinnatislim
Excellent Learning Guide for Guitarists
Don't let the title fool you -- this book is an excellent learning guide for a wide range of guitarsits, not just jazz players. Read more
Published on June 4, 2009 by Charles F. Buccola
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For the sake of thoroughness, clarity, and consistency, this book focuses on a single 12-bar chord progression, the most common in jazz. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
super arpeggios, chordal tones, guide tones, seventh mode, home scale, major pentatonic, following solo, blues scale, minor pentatonic, diminished scale, fifth mode, melodic minor scale, given chord, sub forms, available root, pentatonic scale, dominant chords, major scale Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, George Barnes, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Herb Ellis, Grant Green, Blues Scales, All Blues For Jazz Guitar-Comping Styles, John Scofield, Lenny Breau, Riff Heritage New!
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For the sake of thoroughness, clarity, and consistency, this book focuses on a single 12-bar chord progression, the most common in jazz. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
super arpeggios, chordal tones, guide tones, seventh mode, home scale, major pentatonic, following solo, blues scale, minor pentatonic, diminished scale, fifth mode, melodic minor scale, given chord, sub forms, available root, pentatonic scale, dominant chords, major scale Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, George Barnes, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Herb Ellis, Grant Green, Blues Scales, All Blues For Jazz Guitar-Comping Styles, John Scofield, Lenny Breau, Riff Heritage New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Jazz Guitar by Maurice J. Summerfield on page 95
- The Classical Guitar by Summerfield on page 95
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