This collection includes Robert Yelin's excellent chord melody arrangements in standard notation and tablature for 35 all-time jazz favorites: All of You * April in Paris * Cheek to Cheek * Cry Me a River * Day by Day * God Bless' the Child * Imagination * It Might as Well Be Spring * Lover * Moonlight in Vermont * My Foolish Heart * My Romance * Nuages * Samba De Orfeu * Satin Doll * Sophisticated Lady * Stardust * Tenderly * Unchained Melody * Wave * What's New? * When I Fall in Love * Willow Weep for Me * and more!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For Advanced Players...,
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This review is from: Jazz Classics for Solo Guitar: Chord Melody Arrangements with Tab (Paperback)
Full disclosure: I am a player of moderate ability, who is just getting into jazz. The book is as advertised: "...contains 35 professional chord/melody arrangements for solo guitar." Yes, these arrangements are written for a professional player; in other words, if you can easily articulate four or more different, difficult jazz chord changes per bar of music, this work is for you. The tablature appears accurate, and the chord harmonization is very tasty. Just be prepared for a very difficult slog if you are not prepared for this level of work. If you are, the music is quite beautiful and will inspire you to create your own reharmonizations of famous standards. Song choice here is excellent. This would have received five stars if the publisher had included a CD recording of the pieces, both slow and at tempo versions.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
no chord diagrams:is it a 5, a 6 or an 8?,
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This review is from: Jazz Classics for Solo Guitar: Chord Melody Arrangements with Tab (Paperback)
This series by Robert Yelin did not satisfy me in my quest to finding the best jazz guitar standards book. Although the transcriptions and the chords are very rich and interesting, they are difficult to read; you don't have the diagrams for the chords, and having often several chords per bar it is hard to read the changes: with the book on the stand, you don't know if it's a five, a six or an eight you're seeing! One of the best book I've come across is the Definitive Collection book of Django Reinhardt: you have chord diagrams beneath the title and the solo guitar tab beneath the standard notation. But two things: 1.you don't necessarily find the songs you want; 2. jazz standards have sometimes more interesting chord changes than Minor Swing or Limehouse Blues! Amore interesting collection is the one done by Jack GrasselJazz Guitar Standards: it has two recorded version of the standard (slow and fast) on a cd and a solo transcribed in tabs; with the chord's name you can make your own diagram. If someone finds a jazz guitar standards book with solo in tabs and chord diagrams, please tell me!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Arrangements for the soloist,
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This review is from: Jazz Classics for Solo Guitar: Chord Melody Arrangements with Tab (Paperback)
I purchased one of these books (Jazz Standards, then Classics), and now I've purchased all 5. Here's what they are not. They are NOT instructional books. They are NOT play along with the CD books. They are NOT books for jamming with others. What they are are very accurate and rich arrangements of the great jazz classics from the 20's through the 50's. The original keys are preserved. The player moves from one 4 or 5 note chord to the next with each melody note and it is not unusual to go from the 3rd position to the 10th in one single measure. However, the chords, once mastered are very guitar player friendly and flow logically in terms of finger position. The arrangements make sense in terms of the music and the guitar and they are not watered down for the novice nor overly difficult for the sake of diffculty. You can always add a few bass notes or drop a chord for a single note run if you wish. The arrangements leave some space for you to do that. Actually, Yelin in the forward says he intends the player to learn from these arrangements and perhaps become inventive. Absolutely great book and the lower star ratings of others, if you read their reviews, suggest they expect the books to be what they are not. These books are for players whith a lot of playing experience who need some clean no-nonsense arrangements of great golden age jazz tunes to be played by the soloist. Well here they are in a 5 volume series. If you are a guitarist who is comfortable all over the fingerboard and has no issues knotting and unknotting fingers for jazz chords, these books are for you. (ie. Professional Level).
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