Mel Bay - Jazz Pack - Joe Diori

Mel Bay
Mel Bay Jazz Blues Styles (Book/CD Set)
By: Joe Diorio

Jazz Blues Solos presents guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats. Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles of jazz blues; jazz ideas, phrases, and licks; jazz syncopation, the rhythmic language of jazz; jazz phrasing, the breath of jazz; how to use the triplet, altered chords, and slash chords; how to reharmonize the blues; a new innovative vocabulary of jazz chord sequences; how to use fragments of the chords to outline the harmony and create interesting new sounds; and how to play walking bass lines with chords. Diorio's "Right Brain Guitarist(R)" approach helps to direct your playing with your intuitive sense as opposed to your logical sense. The accompanying CD will help convey the subtle nuances of the music.




Mel Bay
Jazz Structures for the New Millennium (Book/CD Set)
By: Joe Diorio

" Joe Diorio is an accomplished guitarist and composer as well as a respected music educator. In this book he combines his skills to present innovative ""intervallic designs"" for the guitar. Written in standard notation and tab, these linear, often 12-tone flavored studies reflect Diorio's jazz roots and compositional mastery. Due to the harmonic ambiguity of these lines, the author recommends an experimental approach in applying these examples in various melodic and harmonic settings. The companion stereo CD features Diorio's performance of each of the 96 studies in the book. "