Southern Jazz Guitar Society

"Dedicated to foster the art and craft of the jazz guitar"
 
 
 
Southern jazz guitar society plectrum logo
All text content on
this site © SJGS.
Photographs
© Martyn Gingell
 
Library
This is a list of library material available to members of
the Southern Jazz Guitar Society
Please scroll down or jump to the relevant section
from the shortcuts at the top. Please order your requests for them to be brought to the next club meeting, giving your name, item and code.
Tutorial books Tutorial DVD VHS tapes Written music
Music CDs Music LP records Magazines Books
Tutorial books
Library Ref   Description Comments
TUT01   "The Jazz Theory Book"
by Mark Levine ISBN 1-883217-04-0		 A very comprehensive coverage.
TUT02   "The History of the Guitar in Jazz"
by Norman Mongan ISBN 0-7199-0280-1		  
TUT03   "A Jazz Improvisation Primer"
Marc Sabatella		 A lot of heavy text but probably worth it to the keenest student!
TUT04   "Handbook of Chord Substitutions"
by Andy LaVerne		 What a gem - plenty of theory and tunes with basic chords and then substitute chords - should take at least a month of solid study.
TUT05   "Super Chops" - Jazz Guita Technique in 20 Weeks
 Only for the VERY dedicated.
TUT06   "Joe Pass Guitar Chords - Book 1"
 Very useful and easy to follow.
TUT07   "Jazz Guitar Series - Vol 1 - Phrasing & Articulation"
by Dale Bruning ISBN 0-9633047-0-4` 		Looks good.
TUT08   "Guitar Comping"
Barry Galbraith Study Series.		  
TUT09   "Jazz Improvisation and Harmony" - Elementary to Advanced Principles. By Alan Phillips.  
TUT10   "Joe Pass Guitar Style"
 Needs skill and dedication!!
TUT11   "The Howard Roberts Guitar Book"
 Needs skill and dedication!!
TUT12   "Jazz Aids"
by Jamey Abersold		  
TUT13   "Southampton Jazz Guitar Society" - Newsletters and Notes from 1993 to 2001. A great read.
TUT14   Terry Coles Personal Tuition Notes
 PLEASE handle with great care - a mine of information.
TUT15   "Jazz Chording for the Rock/Blues Guitarist
by Paul Lucas 		A very good chord introduction
TUT16   Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar
 25 years old but still a useful course of study.
TUT17   "Harmonioc Mechanisms for Guitar" - Volume 1
By George Van Eps		 A very comprehensive treatment.
TUT18 New Purchase Gypsy Guitar - The Secrets: Volume 1                                        Includes CD
TUT19 New Purchase Aebersold Volume 1 How To Play Jazz And Improvise                           Includes CD
TUT20 New Purchase Aebersold Vol. 3: The II/V7/I  Progression
 Includes CD
TUT21 From Marian Howard Roberts Guitar Manual
Chord Melody		  
TUT22 New Purchase Learn Jazz Guitar With The Greats!
  
TUT23 From Marian Ultimate Ear Training For Guitar and Bass Includes CD
TUT24      
TUT25      
TUT26      
TUT27      
TUT28      
Order by e-mail to library@southjazzguitar.org.uk
Tutorial DVDs
Lib Ref   Description Comments
DVD01 New Purchase Mike Stern: Guitar Instructional DVD
 With Leaflet
DVD02 New Purchase John Scofield: Jazz Funk Guitar
 NO Leaflet
DVD03 New Purchase Jazz Guitar Rhythm Chops DVD
 With Leaflet
DVD04      
Order by e-mail to library@southjazzguitar.org.uk
VHS tapes
Library Ref   Description Comments
VHS01   "Bebop And Swing Guitar"
Emily Remler		 No Booklet
VHS02   "Swing Jazz" - Soloing and Comping
Herb Ellis		 No Booklet
VHS03   "Creative Jazz Guitar"
Joe Diorio		 No Booklet
VHS04   "Jazz Guitarist"
Martin Taylor		 No Booklet
VHS05   "Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar"
Martin Taylor		 With Booklet
VHS06   "The Music of Jimmy Van Heusen"
Taught by Martin Taylor		 With Booklet
VHS07   "Jazz Chording and Comping"
Sal Salvador		 With Booklet
VHS08   "Fingerstyle Mastery"
Tuck Andress		 With Booklet
VHS09   "The Legendary Guitar of Tal Farlow"
Tal Farlow		 With Booklet
VHS10   "Advanced Jazz Guitar"
Larry Coryell		 With Booklet
VHS11   "Jazz Lines"
Joe Pass		 With Booklet
VHS12   "Concert Clinic Interview"
Joe Pass		 With Booklet
VHS13   "The Blue Side of Jazz"
Joe Pass		 With Booklet
VHS14   "Solo Jazz Guitar"
Joe Pass		 With Booklet
VHS15 New Purchase John Scofield: On Improvisation
 With Booklet
VHS16 New Purchase Jazz Guitar Master Class Volume 1: Jazz Basics - The Principles Of Improvisation - JIM HALL With Booklet
VHS17 New Purchase Jazz Guitar Master Class Volume 2: Advanced Concepts - Self Expression  -  JIM HALL With Booklet
VHS18 New Purchase Jazz Guitar Master Class Volume 3: Playing With A Group - Interaction - JIM HALL     With Booklet
VHS19 New Purchase Jazz For The Electric Blues Guitarist
ADRIAN INGRAM		 With Booklet
VHS20   Jazz Guitar Improvisation
BARNEY KESSEL		 Donated By Peter Finch
VHS21   Rare Performances 1962-1991
BARNEY KESSEL		 Donated By Peter Finch
VHS22   Legends of Jazz Guitar - Volume 1
Wez Montgomery,Joe Pass,Herb Ellis,Barney Kessel		 Donated By Peter Finch
VHS23   Legends of Jazz Guitar - Volume 2
Wez Montgomery,KennyBurrell,Joe Pass,Barney Kessel,Charlie Byrd,Grant Green		 Donated By Peter Finch
VHS24   Legends of Jazz Guitar - Volume 3
Jim Hall,Herb Ellis,Tal Farlow,Pat Martino,Barney Kessel,Charlie Byrd		 Donated By Peter Finch
VHS25     Donated By Peter Finch
VHS26     Donated By Peter Finch
VHS27     Donated By Peter Finch
VHS28     Donated By Peter Finch
VHS29     Donated By Peter Finch
Order by e-mail to library@southjazzguitar.org.uk
Written music
Library Ref   Description Comments
MUS01   "The Best Chord Changes For The Worlds Greatest Standards" - ISBN 0 - 88188 - 852 - 4 100 Standards using professionally altered chords.
MUS02   "The Best Chord Changes For The Most Requested Standards" - ISBN 0 - 88188 - 853 - 2 100 Standards using professionally altered chords.
MUS03   "The Best of the Bossa Novas"
by Antonio Carlos Jobim		 Five of his best.
MUS04   "Jazz Guitar"
Transcribed by James Birkett ISBN 0 86359 408 5		 20 note by note arrangements - normal black dots
MUS05   "The Real Book"
 Hundreds of tunes - a massive Fake Book
MUS06   "The Real Book - Volume 2"
 Hundreds of tunes - a massive Fake Book
MUS07   "Joe Pass Chord Solos"
 6 Detailed Arrangements
MUS08   A Group of Four slim music albums: "20 Years 20 Hits for Guitar" "20 Years 20 Hits for Guitar - No 2" "The Ella Fitzgerald Album" "Jerome Kern Album for Guitar Solo" These are four fairly thin and fragile music books full of old standards and three with very useful chord grids over the music score.Together they cover about 60 numbers. They are grouped together in a plastic wallet.
MUS09   "A Jazz Chord Book - 2nd Edition"
by Lionel Grigson		 0ver 350 standards - Fake book a very early edition
MUS10   "Charlie Parker Omnibook"
Transcribed from his recorded solos.		 60 numbers
MUS11   "Anthologie des Grilles De Jazz"
Volume 1 - Titles beginning A to D		 A Fake Book of some 300 tunes
MUS12   "Anthologie des Grilles De Jazz"
Volume 2 - Titles beginning D to I		 A Fake Book of some 329 tunes
MUS12   "Anthologie des Grilles De Jazz"
Volume 3 - Titles beginning I to N		 A Fake Book of some 324 tunes
MUS14   "Anthologie des Grilles De Jazz"
Volume 4 - Titles beginning N to S		 A Fake Book of some 322 tunes
MUS15   "Anthologie des Grilles De Jazz"
Volume 5 - Titles beginning S to Z		 A Fake Book of some 281 tunes
MUS16   A Collection of Single Sheet Arrangements put together by Terry Cole and placed in a presentation folder - easy to lift from the plastic pockets and copy  
MUS17   A second Collection of Single Sheet Arrangements put together by Terry Cole and placed in a presentation folder - easy to lift from the plastic pockets and copy.  
MUS18   Two Small Buskers Books called "Band Aids", each of 175 tunes  
MUS19 New Purchase Aebersold Vol. 25: All-Time Standards
 Includes 2 CDs
MUS20   Masters Of The Plectrum Guitar Transcripts and Tabbed Arrangements
MUS21 From Marian More Top Jazz Standards  
MUS22 From Marian The Golden Era of Nostalgia - Vol 2 112 Jazz Standards
MUS23 From Marian The Great American Song Book 125 Standards
MUS24 From Marian Boogies, Blues & Rags 27 Titles
MUS25 From Marian A Selection of Classical Guitar Music Dozens Of Titles
Order by e-mail to library@southjazzguitar.org.uk
Music CDs
Lib Ref   Description Comments
       
CD01   Django Reinhardt - The Indispensable - 1949 1950
  
CD02   Django Reinhardt - His Best Recordings - 1934 1942
  
CD03   Django Reinhardt - Souvenirs - with Stephane Grappelli
  
CD04   Grant Green - Idle Moments
  
CD05   Emily Remler - Retrospective Vol One "Standards"  
CD06   Toots Thielemans - Jazz Masters '59
  
CD07   Dale Bruning Quartet - Tomorrow's Reflections
  
CD08   Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
  
CD09   Ron Affif Trio - Ringside
  
CD10   Eddie Condon - Ringside at Condon's
  
Order by e-mail to library@southjazzguitar.org.uk
LP RECORDS

Library Ref

   Description Comments
REC 01   Joe Pass - For Django
  
REC 02   Joe Pass - Portraits of Duke Ellington
  
REC 03   Joe Pass - Virtuoso Number 3
  
REC 04   Joe Pass - Virtuoso
  
REC 05   Joe Pass - Catch Me
  
REC 06   Joe Pass & Ella Fitzgerald - Take Love Easy
  
REC 07   Joe Pass - Live Montreux '77
  
REC 08   Joe Pass - Oscar Peterson - Niels Pedersen
The Paris Concert - Salle Pleyel 1978		  
REC 09   Joe Pass - Niels Henning - Orsted Pedersen
North Sea Jazz Festival '79 -The Hague - Holland		  
REC 10   Joe Pass - Herb Ellis - Seven Come Eleven
  
REC 11   The Wes Montgomery Trio
  
REC 12   Wes Montgomery
  
REC 13   The Best of Wes Montgomery
  
REC 14   Wes Montgomery - Going Out of My Head
  
REC 15   Wes Montgomery - Wynton Kelly Trio
Smokin' at the Half Note		  
REC 16   The Montgomery Brothers - Groove Yard
  
REC 17   Kenny Burrell - Night Song
  
REC 18   Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
  
REC 19   Django - The Quintet of the Hot Club of France
Swing ' 35 - '39		  
REC 20   Django Reinhardt -
 
REC 21   George Benson - Blue Benson
  
REC 22   George Benson - Blue Benson - Breezin'
  
REC 23   Tal Farlow - Autumn In New York
  
REC 24   Tal Farlow - Tal
  
REC 25   Tal Farlow - A Recital
  
REC 26   Tal Farlow & Charles Mingus - The Savoy Sessions
  
REC 27   Charley Christian with Thelonious Monk & Others
  
REC 28   Charley Christian with Dizzy Gillespie at Mintons
  
REC 29   Barney Kessek, Shelly Manne & Ray Brown
Poll Winners Three		  
REC 30   Barney Kessek, Stephane Grappelli
I Remember Django		  
REC 31   Jim Hall & Bill Evans - Intermodulation
  
REC 32   Jim Hall & Art Farmer - Big Blues
  
REC 33   Kevin Eubanks - Opening Night
  
REC 34   Charlie Byrd Trio - Travelin' Man
  
REC 35   John & Friends - Jazz Classics
 John Coates?
REC 36   John Renbourne - Sampler
  
Order by e-mail to library@southjazzguitar.org.uk
Magazines
Library Ref Description Comments
MAGS01 Folder Containing Three Magazines: "Just Jazz Guitar" - August 1995 "Just Jazz Guitar" - November 1995 "Just Jazz Guitar" - February 1996 These contain lots of arrangements and techniques - usually in tab - not to be missed.
MAGS02 Folder Containing Three Magazines: "Just Jazz Guitar" - May 1996 "Just Jazz Guitar" - June 1996 "Just Jazz Guitar" - August 1996 The June 1996 Magazine is the Joe Pass Collector's Edition.
MAGS03 Folder Containing Three Magazines: "Just Jazz Guitar" - November 1996 "Just Jazz Guitar" - February 1997 "Just Jazz Guitar" - May 1997  
MAGS04 Folder Containing Three Magazines: "Archtop" - Vol.1 no. 4 - Nov/Dec 1987 "Archtop" - Vol.1 no. 5 - Jan/Feb 1998 "Archtop" - Vol.1 no. 6 - March 1988 These "Archtop" magazines are definitely for those who can read the black dots.
MAGS05 Folder Containing Five Magazines: "Archtop" - Vol.2 no. 1 - May/June 1988 "Archtop" - Vol.2 no. 2 - July/Aug 1988 "Archtop" - Vol.2 no. 3 - Sept/Oct 1988 "Archtop" - Vol.2 no. 4 - 1988/1989 "Archtop" - Vol.2 no. 5 - March 1989  
MAGS06 Folder Containing Five Magazines: "String Jazz" - Edition 1. Vol.1 - Jan/Feb 95 "String Jazz" - Edition 2. Vol.1 - Mar/Apr 95 "String Jazz" - Edition 3. Vol.1 - May/Jun 95 "String Jazz" - Edition 4. Vol.1 - July/Aug 95 "String Jazz" - Edition 5. Vol.1 - Sept/Oct 95 These are more newsy and less technique but usually have a short Workshop in each edition.
MAGS07 Folder Containing Five Magazines: "String Jazz" - 1st Anniversary Issue "String Jazz" - Issue 8 "String Jazz" - Issue 9 "String Jazz" - Issue 11 "String Jazz" - 2nd Anniversary Issue  
MAGS08 Folder Containing Three Magazines: "Just Jazz Guitar" - May 1999 "Just Jazz Guitar" - August 1999 "Just Jazz Guitar" - November 1999 These contain lots of arrangements and techniques - usually in tab - not to be missed.
Order by e-mail to library@southjazzguitar.org.uk
Books
Lib Ref   Description Comments
BOOK 01 From Marian Kiss And Tell - Autobiography by Martin Taylor