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

This is a beautifully produced book, in hardback with spiral binding, quality paper and secure CD storage. It is a joy to work from. I really liked the "soft start" without too much bewildering theory and technique in the first chapters. If you are moderately experienced in pop-rock guitar this book will give you a good introduction to jazz styles, chords, progressions and soloing. If you get through this book you will have a head start when following on with some of the more advanced jazz books. If, not, you will still have a beautiful coffee-table book which your friends will admire!

The books content is great but unfortunately I was sent a second hand one with a rip down the spine of the hardcover so felt a little bit ripped off paying full price for damaged goods. I suppose sending it back was an option but having to waste time re wrapping and going to the post office I would rather spend my time playing the guitar and reading the book would be nice to get some money back if anybody from the company actually reads this.

I'm still working my way through this book and it seems to cover all the ground I was looking for. The spiral bound format makes it easy to follow each page clearly. The CD makes it easy to understand and follow what is on the tabs. Perhaps my one criticism is that it started off a bit too basic - but that hardly matters as you can skip that part. All in all, a good guide.

This is a decent jazz book. It start from the basics so at the beginning it's very boring. I think it should have gone deeper and target more experienced guitarists. The main disappointment is that there is no link to download the tracks as MP3. It's 2017 and many people don't use CD players anymore.

Although I have played guitar for many years, Jazz has always been a style I could never quite master or appreciate. However, this excellent book looks set to change all that. Easy to follow and with its indispensable CD this could easily make me a Jazz guitarist much quicker than I might have hoped. Superb and thoroughly recommended.

Excellent purchase, I am enjoying it all, from reading the history of the Jazz Guitar, the easy to follow Tabs with CD examplesA great way to learn

It was bought for my Son-in-law and he says it's really good

Another great book in the series , a lot to learn and a few tricky , but nice chords . Have learnt a lot