Jazz Violin Glaser/grappelli [Paperback]

Matt Glaser (Author), Stephane Grappelli (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1992 | Series: Violin

A comprehensive method for playing "hot fiddle," including accurate transcriptions of solos as played by Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Eddie South, Jean-Luc Ponty, and others. Plus revealing interviews and photos, many never-before published.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Music Sales America (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825601940
• ISBN-13: 978-0825601941
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #752,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Would be a fantastic resource, but..., February 19, 2006

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D. Marshall (Tasmania, AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews
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This book would a fantastic way to understanding how six great jazz violinists improvise - if only there was easy access to the recordings. Even when I have found cds available that have the same title as refered to for the transcriptions, they don't always have the track that has been transcribed. What this really needs is to be packaged with a cd recording of all the tracks transcribed in the book. If anyone can suggest an easy way of getting hold of all these tracks please do so. Perhaps Amazon could even compile a list of where to find these specific tracks on cd? Any one wanting a more tuitional guide that you can start using strait away, see Jazz Fiddle Wizzard.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage, February 27, 2009

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jumpy1 (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jazz Violin Glaser/grappelli (Paperback)

The prior reviewers mention they're sorry they couldn't find recordings to match up to these transcriptions but I don't think having the recordings would make this book any more useful because Matt Glaser knows nothing about notation. I have several versions of Stephane playing "After You've Gone" for example and I can play each one note for note. But when I play Matt Glaser's notation of it, it doesn't resemble Stephane's style AT ALL. Clearly Matt did not grow up reading music and didn't spend time playing in orchestras because he knows nothing about practical notation which is much more than just putting notes down and drawing them into measures. For example he has the entire page in sixteenth and 32nd notes including those notes which would have been a wide vibrato or merely ornaments by Stephane. Because of this it just reads as a jumbled mess. On the page, Matt's notations bear little resemblance to Stephane and it is a shame they didn't have a better musician write them out. I feel this book is a huge waste of money and based on this book alone I have a considerably lower opinion of Matt than I otherwise would have. Either Matt is really that bad at notation or he did it to deliberately confuse the type of violinist who could actually read this stuff!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a gift!, September 16, 2007

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K. Morrison "arizwldcat" (Ogden, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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I love this book! The interviews are insightful, and Matt Glaser's transcription of the jazz pieces are nothing short of amazing. I have to concur with the other reviewer who said that it would be very helpful to have recordings. I have managed to find a few of them on iTunes, but it's difficult since this book was published in 1981 and a lot of the recordings used are now out of print. Maybe Mr. Glaser can release a new one with different songs on it...I can always hope. This book feels like a great gift...unlocking a mystery. I love the motifs that he included as well...Stephane Grappelli's most used licks. That is SO helpful!