Lets discuss good jazz/fusion instructional books and videos

[rosskoss]

What are some of the best out there?

I have Scott Henderson's Jazz Fusion Improvisation and that is definitely one of the best purchases I've ever made

I also have Joe Pass's Jazz Lines video which is pretty good.

I have John Scofield's double video set(Jazz funk guitar) and I think that was a waste of money.

What are some other must have videos? I've heard that John Scofield's first video - on improvisation is pretty good.

How about the Jimmy Bruno videos? Someone I know online and whos a kickass guitar recommended Don Mock's instructional video. He also recommended Clint Strong's video.

How are the John Stowell videos/books?

I'd appreciate any suggestions/recommendations that you might have for books or videos

[Michel]

Video's Video's Video's Video's Video's..........????
I never had video. You want to learn Jazz Guitar from video's:confused:
What you need is a good theory Book like the W.G.Leavitt
modern method that will andwers the "Whys..? "stuff and a Band I mean Jazz is something that have to be played LIVE not in front of a TV set... You will learn more making mistake playing whit your friends Play Play Play...and if it does'nt work learn again and try it again
Anyway here's another book .....Joe Pass Guitar Style
NOT for the style. FOR the Chordal Thinking;)
B'Bye...Michel

[rosskoss]

Originally posted by Michel
Video's Video's Video's Video's Video's..........????
I never had video. You want to learn Jazz Guitar from video's:confused:
What you need is a good theory Book like the W.G.Leavitt
modern method that will andwers the "Whys..? "stuff and a Band I mean Jazz is something that have to be played LIVE not in front of a TV set... You will learn more making mistake playing whit your friends Play Play Play...and if it does'nt work learn again and try it again
Anyway here's another book .....Joe Pass Guitar Style
NOT for the style. FOR the Chordal Thinking;)
B'Bye...Michel

I don't think theres anything wrong with learning from a video. Its just another medium to convey information.

It all comes down to how its presented. You can learn a lot from a video like Scott Henderson's Jazz Fusion Improvisation. Then its up to you to go figure out the rest. I have the Joe Pass book btw, thanks for the suggestion.

[daviej]

You can definately get more from a video than a book, even if it has an accompanying CD, because you can experience what the player is talking about at a much higher level. And they can be so inspirational. I've been watching a lot of drummer videos lately and have got some good ideas from them, esp Danny Gottleib's 'all around drummer' video. Also, guitar ones I've seen are some Steve Morse ones which areamazing, the Joe Pass videos 'jazz lines' and 'the blue side of jazz' which are both good but are a little more to do with demonstrating a LOT of licks than philosophies (but still interesting and worthwile videos), and Yngwie's untitled video which is pretty ordinary - just here are some licks I use a lot - slow and then fast. Then again, I'm not into Yngwie - if you are then you'd probably feel differently. John Scofield's video 'On Improvisation' would be good if you were not up with all the major and melodic minor modes, and diminished and whole tone scales.I have written more on this in the John Scofield thread.

[rosskoss]

Thank you Dave, I think I have a fair handle on the major modes and the melodic minor, diminished and whole tone scales as well. But I want to move up to the next level and I was looking for a good video.

The problem is that these videos are totally priced out of my reach and I can, at best, afford just one :(

[jesus]

Focusing on jazz I would recommend you a couple of books:

The two Steve Kahn books, "Chord Kahncepts" and "Pentatonic
Kahncepts" have several high level and good ideas. The former deals with chord progressions and how to expand the chord on
different voicings, the second is about pentatonic in a rock, jazz
and fusion environment, they provide CD with play-alongs.

The books of Don Mock, "Melodic Minor Revealed" and "Harmonic
Minor Revealed". The titles are self-explained. They are very comprehensible stuff on the melodic and harmonic minor scales,
and their modes, but Don Mock doesn't talk on modes, but he explains the stuff from the key center approach, and exposes a lot of good solo lines made with the mentioned scales.

For me this texts have been veru helpfull.

Jesus