Best of Jazz Guitar

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Summary: An excellent how-to guide for playing the jazz guitar
Review: Best Of Jazz Guitar is a remarkable, step-by-step presentation of jazz guitar styles and techniques, incorporating the music of famous guitarists such as Tal Farlow, Grant Green, Jim Hall, Joe Pass and many more. Filled cover to cover with accessible sheet music, each song in this volume is annotated with a very short biography of its author, step-by-step instructions for proper arrangement, signatures, and also performance notes to better help beginners. Also included is an audio CD to better help amateur musicians learn how to play at a professional level. Novice and intermediate jazz guitarists alike will appreciate this singularly excellent how-to guide for playing the jazz guitar.

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Summary: Wolf is the best.
Review: I have always admired the skills of Wolf Marshall in all his educating career, magazine articles, books...etc.; especially in the eightees when rock guitar was booming. But I never thought of Wolf as a real Jazz Author, so recently I purchased both 'Best of Jazz' and another on Wes Montogomery and to be honest I was skeptical that he would deliver!

I was 100% wrong and the books were fantastic and Wolf did it again! The quality of subscription, playing and production is super stuff. A must for any serious guitarist who passed the journey of Rock shredding, and now in the phase of playing classic jazz (Maybe getting a bit older as well!!)

Both books are highly recommended and I would grade them more than 5 stars, if that was available

Finally, Wolf if you write down any other books regarding Jazz, reserve me a copy.

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Summary: THE BEST!!
Review: If your a rock, blues, country player..or even a budding jazz player who wants an intro to the world of jazz guitar--then this is your book. You are bound to come away from this book/CD a better, more well rounded player. Man, the CD is worth the price alone!! If you don't read music--no worries--the TAB is fantastic. I only wish I had had this 20 yrs ago!! Another Wolf masterpiece!! Thanks Wolf!!

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Summary: book ok, cd terrible
Review: The transcriptions in this book are ok I guess (alltough you'll learn even more by trancribing yourself). The comments are not so 'in-depth' but pretty interesting.
The audio-cd however is not good. The comping is ok but Wolf Marshall's playing is very bad. He has terrible timing. And since good timing is probably the single most important element in playing jazz it sounds pretty awful. If you want to learn these solos, get the original recordings and listen to them carefully (and maybe use the backing track for practice).
I was very dissapointed with the level of playing on the cd...

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Summary: Wolf is the best.
Review: This book is awesome. Also, check out books by Scott Henderson (M.I. Press), Allan Holdsworth(Hal Leonard?), Scott Miller(Mel Bay), Sid Jacobs(Mel Bay), and Don Mock(Warner Bros.).