[jazz_guitar] Magazine: Just Jazz Guitar

[Jeffrey]

any comments on this magazine? I've started with guitar player magazine although I am ready for something that is more jazz guitar focused. I may also try vintage or premier guitar magazines as well.

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[Ron Murray]

While JJG does focus on archtops playing standards, it does pay some
attention to fingerstyle and nylon-string players. I was interviewed
in #48, August 2006, and a couple of my arrangements were included.
There have been some roundtable discussions about the nylon-string
guitar in jazz with Gene Bertoncini and Jeff Linsky, among others.
it's a good magazine, with lots of arrangements and lessons in each
issue, features on luthiers and new instruments, and peeks into the
"scene", as it were.

On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:09 AM, rguitarjj wrote:

> Based on the handful of issues I've read, I think it's great. But,
> it has a particular focus, I think. That's on the style of jazz
> guitar that uses archtops and plays
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[will_halligan]

I subscribed to it for a couple of years.

Great transcriptions etc. but my personal
gripe was that many were printed in tab as
well as music.

That aside it is far and away better than any other
non-classical guitar magazine.

Will

--- In jazz_...@yahoogroups.com, "rguitarjj" <rpjazzguitar@...> wrote:
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> Based on the handful of issues I've read, I think it's great. But, it has a particular focus, I think. That's on the style of jazz guitar that uses archtops and plays standards. It's a great style and the magazine covers it well, with good artist profiles, reviews and lessons.
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> But, the more recent past and the future of jazz guitar are not covered as much, at least not in the issues I saw.
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> Rick

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> --- In jazz_...@yahoogroups.com, "Jeffrey" <jmoeller18@> wrote:
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> > any comments on this magazine? I've started with guitar player magazine although I am ready for something that is more jazz guitar focused. I may also try vintage or premier guitar magazines as well.
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[rguitarjj]

Based on the handful of issues I've read, I think it's great. But, it has a particular focus, I think. That's on the style of jazz guitar that uses archtops and plays standards. It's a great style and the magazine covers it well, with good artist profiles, reviews and lessons.

But, the more recent past and the future of jazz guitar are not covered as much, at least not in the issues I saw.

Rick

[David B. Klein]

At 02:09 AM 10/16/2009, rguitarjj wrote:
>Based on the handful of issues I've read, I think it's great. But,
>it has a particular focus, I think. That's on the style of jazz
>guitar that uses archtops and plays standards. It's a great style
>and the magazine covers it well, with good artist profiles, reviews
>and lessons.
>
>But, the more recent past and the future of jazz guitar are not
>covered as much, at least not in the issues I saw.
>
>Rick

That's okay. It all went to hell in a handbasket after standards on archtops.

David

[Chuck Decker]

[posted]
...That's okay. It all went to hell in a handbasket after standards on archtops.

David

Dave,
Funny you used that phrase, I just saw a great bumper sticker that read, "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?" :-)

Chuck Decker

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[David B. Klein]

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>Dave,
> Funny you used that phrase, I just saw a great bumper sticker
> that read, "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?" :-)
>
>Chuck Decker

Love it! :)

[Jeffrey]

--- In jazz_...@yahoogroups.com, "rguitarjj" <rpjazzguitar@...> wrote:
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> Based on the handful of issues I've read, I think it's great. But, it has a particular focus, I think. That's on the style of jazz

thanks for the feedback! and now I wonder what people are going to do with their stacks of old magazines laying around. looks like a good market on ebay however if someone just wants to share them and throw them in a box, I may be interested in them for a very reasonable price. although part of the interest of magazines is awaiting that next monthly issue, being in tune with the magazines current trends. otherwise they become like any other books that get stacked up, something we may get around to in the future. unless someone has found a way to really focus this medium?

[Dr. Marc Ybaben]

If you want a magazine that covers jazz guitar, JJG is pretty much the ONLY
one out there. Guitar Player, et al. are no comparison.

Although as some have mentioned it tends to focus on archtops and archtop
players, recent issues have had Adam Rogers, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny,
etc., so one can't argue that it's not "modern."

The Editor, Ed Benson, is a great guy and makes a classy product. If you'd
like an article on "your" style of jazz, then write one and submit it to Ed.
Most of the writers (if not all) are non-paid jazz guitar fans, and in many
ways "create" the magazine. I wrote an interview on Ralph Novak of Novax
Guitars -- definitely NOT a "traditional" luthier -- and Ed was happy to
have it. I've also submitted an article on Mick Goodrick's "summer camp" --
another "non-traditional" player -- which will be published in an upcoming
issue.

There's always something, if not many things, in each issue worth reading
regardless of your tastes; I highly recommend it.

Peace,

Marc

[Thesl...@aol.com]

Excellent magazine............a must have.

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Subject: [jazz_guitar] Magazine: Just Jazz Guitar

any comments on this magazine? I've started with guitar player magazine although I am ready for something that is more jazz guitar focused. I may also try vintage or premier guitar magazines as well.

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[musicmaker1245]

I wish magazines in general would really give real reviews rather than just product placement. It seems every magazine these days is just about
getting advertising dollars so reviews tend to be all praise and little criticism. I can not remember the last time I saw a bad review.

Regarding JJG, I enjoy reading the occasional issue, but I think the quality has gone down since the early days. I think they used to have a music editor but now the music articles are of very variable quality. I hear they do not pay for the articles, perhaps another example of musicians giving things away and then wondering why they do not make any money.

Mark

[rle...@calstatela.edu]

Hi Everyone,

IMHO (and as an author of several articles) Just Jazz Guitar is
really top-notch and has only gotten better (I have a full
collection). For example, the latest issue is Number 60 (August 2009)
and costs $11. It contains (in 178 high quality paper pages):

-Full song arrangements by Jack Wilkins, Robert Conti, Howard Morgen,
Frank Vignola, John Stein.
-11 jazz guitar lessons from people such as Mark Stefani, Adam
Rafferty, Roy Patterson, and Doug Munro.
-Listening Test with Henry Johnson
-Interviews with Frank Vignola, Kirk Sand (luthier), Dom Minasi, Jamie Findlay.
-Very good reviews of jazz guitar CDs, videos, books, and concerts.
-advertisements for everything jazz guitar that I enjoy reading.
-and more.

I believe the magazine consistently delivers great value for the
money. If you are not familiar with this magazine, or have not
checked it out in a while, you might want to visit the website for
more information and for a lot of free resources including great mp3s
and video clips.

http://justjazzguitar.com

Hope this helps.

Ron

[Dr. Marc Ybaben]

Sorry -- I mistakenly said there was an article recently on Adam Rogers in
JJG -- I meant Ben Monder. Great interview, too.

Marc

[Brian Kelly]

Ronald,

I agree completely with your comments about Just Jazz Guitar. It's an amazing magazine and we are lucky to have anything like it at all.

Brian Kelly

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Hi Everyone,

http://justjazzguitar.com

Hope this helps.

Ron

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[John Amato]

A Lesson I teach my students -- One (6) I Learn from every time (note that teaching is learning twice .....)

A common fault (six that I can count now) I find I must combat against when playing in periods of low energy (or inspiration) levels, or just a general malaise of attitude or approach on the instrument:

1. Knowing there's a better sounding chord, voicing, fingering, etc. available at the moment but it takes a "degree" of more work or effort to get through -- but instead, I settle for the "easier," or "closer" alternative.

2. Knowing there's another better or more efficient fingering up or down the neck, but I settle for the "easier," or "closer" alternative.

3. Instead of sight-reading as written, to compensate for interpreting the "jazz feel" -- an esoteric way of not paying close attention to what's written -- there's a time and a place for "jazz" interpretation and playing exactly what's written (of course, giving for that element of freedom of interpretation...).

4. Instead of playing the chart "straight," we can sometimes adversely affect the overall sound by overdoing the substitute chord thing ... because of the "art" ... (I sometimes ask myself to "sacrifice" for the Art...)

5. Using VOLUME as a soloing tool ... especially when I have nothing to say.

6. Approaching a tune out of impulse without thinking out in advance the voicings, fingerings, chords, fretboard areas, bass line, subs, etc., etc. (Going "cold" is cool but it can sometimes leave the music "cold.")


.... there are more, but these basic 6 encompass for me first, then my students, the areas where "laziness" can kill the music ......