The Jazz Guitar Handbook: A Complete Course in All Styles of Jazz (Popular Handbook)

The Jazz Guitar Handbook is a step-by-step guide to jazz guitar playing. It takes you from the basics through to advanced harmony and soloing concepts, and teaches you the music theory a jazz guitarist needs to know. Along the way it covers a wide range of styles, including jazzy blues, swing, bebop, modal, jazz-funk, Gypsy, and more. The handbook features over 120 exercises in notation and tab and includes a 96-track CD of examples, play-alongs, and backing tracks. It also presents the history of the jazz guitar and its great players. Easy to use and useful for players at various levels, this volume is a must-have reference for players looking to expand their jazz skillset.

Rod Fogg (UK) became guitar-obsessed as a teenager. Fogg now performs, teaches, and runs workshops. He has written widely on guitars and guitarists in books and magazines and is the author of The Electric Guitar Handbook, and books on Django Reinhardt and Eddie Van Halen.