been looking for some jazz chords that work well with the blues IN TAB OR CHORD CHARTS

I still like the old Mickey Baker Jazz series, books 1 & 2. These were foundational for me, & provide a great overview. Ted Greene's "Chord Chemistry" books are highly ambitious works that you could easily spend the rest of your days working through. An essential tool for learning & playing jazz concepts is "The Real Book", which contains the bulk of the old classic standards. I would suggest getting a copy of the book, & rounding up some old records that contain some of the standards in the book. Immediately applying the stuff to actual tunes is the best way to assimilate it. Jazz standards that are basically blues progressions include Thelonius Monk's "Straight No Chaser" & Miles Davis' "Freddie The Freeloader", & there are tons more. Joe Pass' "The Blue Side Of Jazz" is an instructional video that delves into this subject. Duke Robillard is an example of a modern player that spices up the blues with elements of jazz.

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Originally posted by Corleone:
I still like the old Mickey Baker Jazz series, books 1 & 2. These were foundational for me, & provide a great overview. Ted Greene's "Chord Chemistry" books are highly ambitious works that you could easily spend the rest of your days working through. An essential tool for learning & playing jazz concepts is "The Real Book", which contains the bulk of the old classic standards. I would suggest getting a copy of the book, & rounding up some old records that contain some of the standards in the book. Immediately applying the stuff to actual tunes is the best way to assimilate it. Jazz standards that are basically blues progressions include Thelonius Monk's "Straight No Chaser" & Miles Davis' "Freddie The Freeloader", & there are tons more. Joe Pass' "The Blue Side Of Jazz" is an instructional video that delves into this subject. Duke Robillard is an example of a modern player that spices up the blues with elements of jazz.

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thank you for sending me in the right direction
i,ve got some of the (roomful of blues) stuff with duke robillard. been wantin to learn some of those jazz chords. even some of the old christmas songs that were jazzed out
thanks again

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Originally posted by Corleone:
I still like the old Mickey Baker Jazz series, books 1 & 2. These were foundational for me, & provide a great overview. Ted Greene's "Chord Chemistry" books are highly ambitious works that you could easily spend the rest of your days working through. An essential tool for learning & playing jazz concepts is "The Real Book", which contains the bulk of the old classic standards. I would suggest getting a copy of the book, & rounding up some old records that contain some of the standards in the book. Immediately applying the stuff to actual tunes is the best way to assimilate it. Jazz standards that are basically blues progressions include Thelonius Monk's "Straight No Chaser" & Miles Davis' "Freddie The Freeloader", & there are tons more. Joe Pass' "The Blue Side Of Jazz" is an instructional video that delves into this subject. Duke Robillard is an example of a modern player that spices up the blues with elements of jazz.

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I agree.Ted Green's Chord Chemistry and Modern Chord Progression are highly reccomended.

If it ain't broke,fix it anyways.

I picked up a shedload of information from these sites;

http://www.jazzguitar.com/lessons.html

http://www.guitarmain.com/

http://guitar-masters.com/


http://ralphpatt.com/index.html

THANKS MONK

That last web site - ralphplatt.com, is an awesome resource. He breaks down most of the standars into their simplest form and structure. Very cool.

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Originally posted by Monkey!:
I picked up a shedload of information from these sites;

http://www.jazzguitar.com/lessons.html

http://www.guitarmain.com/

http://guitar-masters.com/


http://ralphpatt.com/index.html

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This is the best site I've found. You pay a small annual fee, but you get lessons, downloadable charts and Band In A Box backing tracks to practice with.

http://www.visionmusic.com

jazz chords are easy if you take the 5 minutes to learn how they work, then you can create all you want.. start with a basic bar chord, say a G bar chord, you have GDGBDG (from 6th to 1st string), if you lower the root 1/2 step, you have a major 7th (F#), so you can take either of those G's and move it down a 1/2 step to get a gmaj7 (GDF#BDG), of course, then you want to eliminate clutter- take out the doubles (GxF#BDx)- then you can do this with any g chord on the guitar (find any combination of GBDF# and play them together, you have a gmaj7)- for playing jazz it is also common to remove the 5 from each chord (GxF#Bxx)- and sometimes the root.. in jazz the most important tones are the 3rd and 7th of the chord...

Major chords have root, 3, 5
maj7 have root,3,5,7
minor chords have root, b3, 5, b7 (lower the b down a whole step, and the g down a whole step)
want a 9 chord? take one of the g's and move it up a whole step, you have a nine chord
raise one g to a 9 and lower one a 1/2 step to f# and you have a maj9 chord (r3579).. it's really pretty simple, then you just go through the guitar methodically and and find all of the g major chords, and convert all of them... you'll be playing hip jazz chords in no time...

learn to manipulate what you know, then it is easy... chord charts kind of suck until you can take the charts and go through these kinds of exercises with each chord.. learn how they relate to each other, and you will be much better off..

good luck..
rob

i forgot, there is a good book that goes over lots of this very well w/tab-
Advanced Harmony for Guitar by Vic Juris

very straight forward and starts with the major scale chords in different positions... great way to learn some these..

Get the "Best of Wes Montgomery Book" by Wolf Marshall! YEAH HE PLAYS THE PARTS LIKE A PRO!!!
"Best of Jazz Guitar" Same Wolf, Same insane playing from the master....!!!!
The Berklee Press Books..."The Jazz Guitar Chord Bible Complete" by Warren Nunes...

Oh YEAH! GET THE WOLF MARSHALL BOOKS! You will be playing better in no time! GET THEM!

Robert

Yeah, Wlof Marshall's books are awesome. He really tries to get it right. "Best Of Jazz Guitar" takes a few standards, and shows them in 2 or 3 different famous versions, to compare/contrast.