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Jim Ferguson
In 1994, Jim Ferguson received one of the highest honors of his
profession: a Grammy nomination from the National Academy of Recording
Arts and Sciences in the Best Album Notes category for annotating Fantasy
Records' 12-CD boxed set Wes Montgomery - The Complete Riverside
Recordings, which includes an incisive biographical essay and
interviews with numerous figures, including Nat Adderley, Ron Carter,
Kenny Burrell, John Scofield, and Tommy Flanagan. The award marked a
recent high point in a career that began in the mid '70s.
For more than 15 years, Ferguson was associated with Guitar Player
Magazine. A former editor, he specialized in jazz and classical guitar
- meeting, interviewing, and writing about virtually every important
figure in the guitar world. A specialist in jazz, and in jazz guitar in
particular, he con-tributed the guitar history entry and 14 biographies to
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. He has also annotated over 40
albums (Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Tal Farlow,
George Van Eps, Johnny Smith, and many others) and compiled several
acclaimed collections of historic performances for the Fantasy, Rhino, and
Concord labels. In addition to Guitar Player, his hundreds of
articles have appeared in JazzTimes, Down Beat, Classical
Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar, and other international
publications. His books have covered topics ranging from blues to the
music of Federico Moreno Torroba.
A noted guitar instructor, Ferguson has a Master of Fine Arts degree
from Mills College in Oakland, California, and teaches music at both
Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California, and California State
University, Monterey Bay in Seaside, California. He has studied with
George Barnes, Red Varner, Lenny Breau, Jose Rey de la Torre, and David
Tanenbaum and performed in Europe and the U.S. Moreover, he is profiled in
Maurice J. Summerfield's The Jazz Guitar - Its Evolution, Its Players
And Personalities Since 1900. Regarding his own approach to jazz,
Cadence Magazine said, "Bluesy and swinging, Ferguson bears up under
repeated listening." In 1997, Jim founded his own music publishing
company, Guitar Master Class, whose first book, All Blues for Jazz
Guitar - Comping Styles, Chords & Grooves, has been received virtually
with universal acclaim. He resides in Santa Cruz, California.
Jim Ferguson - All Blues For Jazz Guitar
- Book and CD
Designed to help you play in a broad
spectrum of jazz guitar settings from big band and small combos to a solo context, this
comprehensive guide to
jazz comping starts with the basics of chord symbols and blues form. The book's four major
sections address
voice
leading, linear comping, modal concepts and advanced rhythm chord comping styles.
Excellent material!
Notation and
tab...........................................................................Price
- $24.95
Jim Ferguson - All Blues Scales For Jazz Guitar - Book and CD
Include lessons in: 12-Bar jazz-blues progressions - (major and minor Bebop/Swing variations and progression), Blues
scale basics, "long"
blues scale fingerings, blues scales in C & G, CAGED formation), Patterns &
Exercises (eighth/sixteenth note
patterns, triplet patterns), Solos & Grooves ("Groove Blues Comp in G,
Groove Solo, Slow Blues Comp in F,
Slow Blues Solo, Funk Groove Comp in C, Funk Solo, Bebop Comp in A Minor, Minor
Bebop Solo, Walking
Bass Line Comp in E Minor, E Minor Octaves Solo, Bebop Comp in G, Bebop Solo In
Every CAGED Fingeringin G").
Notation and
tab...........................................................................Price
- $19.95
Jim Ferguson - All Blues Soloing For Jazz Guitar - Book and CD
This comprehensive book
moves from blues progressions to fingerboard organization to phrasing, essential
blues scales, riffs, licks & lick
development. It addresses an array of advanced concepts & devices, including substitute
scales and extended
super arpeggios. Contains 96 pages featuring 38 solos, over 100 musical examples and hundreds of
new licks.
Notation and tab...........................................................................Price
- $24.95
Jim Ferguson - All Intros & Endings
For Jazz
Guitar - Book and CD
Includes
lessons and
examples on bebop, blues, latin, jazz and swing chord progressions, unique ending chords,
hip voice leading
basics, vamps - repetitive intros and endings with cool grooves and chords - intros
and endings and putting
extended ideas together.
Notation and
tab...........................................................................Price
- $19.95
Jim Ferguson - All Solos & Grooves
For Jazz
Guitar - Book and CD
This material is intended to help players get a better handle on negotiating the guitar's fingerboard and
improvisation in general
while learning hip solos over cool backgrounds! This book has a number of dynamic
features, including a
methodical, position by position look at improvisation, a focus on phrasing, cool
repetitious grooves that
give
the player a chance to develop skills without the added complication of having to change
to a new scale
or key center, swinging solos that cover the range of a given fingering or
position, and formulas for the major
modes and
a variety of other scales.
Notation and
tab...........................................................................Price
- $20.95
Jim Ferguson - Shapes, Patterns & Lines
For Jazz Guitar - Book and CD
Includes lessons
on shapes and superimpositions, shapes within chords, one-bar
iim7-V7 patterns, moving to other string sets,
phrase extension & modification,
llm7b5-V7s (circle-based and chromatic), resolving to Imaj7, one-bar major
based
phrases, whole-step pattern & chord progressions and much more! Songs include:
"Confirmation Blues,
Green Porpoise Street, Deep Blue Bossa, Rhythm Changes".
Notation, tab and chord diagrams..................................................Price - $19.95
Jazz Guitar Chords & Arpeggio
Patterns - Stacy McKee
-
This unique book jazz guitar chord formations and matching single note arpeggio patterns in a quick reference format
that no one has ever done before! Cross indexing makes
this manual extremely easy to use and regardless of what style of music you play, we know
you will find this to be a valuable, "must have" addition to your library. Stacy McKee was the
featured guitarist with "Les
Brown and The Band Of Renown" and for a limited
time only, we will include an exclusive copy of his book
FREE with
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order!
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