The Great Jazz Guitarists - Ivor Mairants
Nazodesu
transcribed solos in two volumes: The Great Jazz Guitarists by Ivor
Mairants, published by Sanctuary (London), 2002. Volume 1 has 37
solos, Volume 2 has 27.
They cover quite a vast selection of artists, plenty in the first
volume of the more obscure cats; Dick McDonough, Allan Reuss, Teddy
Bunn, as well as those you'd expect to find; Christian, Django, Eddie
Lang. Plenty of good Bop players: Wayne, Bauer, Barney Kessel. The
usual god's are well represented; Farlow, Raney, Hall, Benson, Wes, as
well as those you might not expect: Dave Goldberg, Tommy Tedesco, Ted
Greene, Al Casey, a Chet Atkins and Lenny Breau duet.
Etc, for sure. There is plenty of chatter about the players and their
careers.
All solos are fingered. Clearly the work of a lifetime by the late
Ivor Mariants. It appears to be everything Dave Baker had in mind with
his guitar solos book from the 80's that didn't quite work out so well;
sloppy, error ridden, devoid of fingerings, and sometime chords. This
looks to be quite the opposite in all those respects; an epic work.
Greg clayton
and Van Epps et al it occurred to me how little we have really progressed
musically since they laid down the so called basics. Some great stuff.
gc
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<rob...@UNSPAMjavanet.com> wrote:
> Does it have clear references as to what recordings the solos appeared in?
Yes.
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<rain...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Could you tell us where/how you purchased those volumes. And thanks
> for the tip!
Believe it or not, Rick, I bought them in a local, and exceptionally
well-stocked sheet music shop, called the Sheet Music Shoppe in Costa
Mesa, California. They do special ordering if you are standing in
front of them, but they don't answer the phone. That's not a joke.
They so they don't on their tape message.
I assume they can be found at the usual suspects on line. I'd suggest
Googling the thing and letting others know if you get lucky. Me, I got
mine!
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Morton <dmo...@well.com> wrote:
> There are four volumes in total.
No, it looks to be the extent of this similarly named series.
Googling, I I found this:
"I've learned that Ivor Mairant's book The Jazz Guitarists is going to
be reprinted later this year and come out in two volumes at a modest
price. This will be published by Sanctuary Publishing. I believe this
has material on [Howard Roberts] in it and in particular a
transcription of Polka Dots and Moonbeams from Mr. Roberts Plays
Guitar. This book was published some years ago but was priced very high
($300). Ivor Mairants was a famous British guitarist, owner of a
well-known music store in London and writer of a number of good books
on guitar playing. His autobiography My Fifty Fretting years is
recommended. So this is something to look forward to. Many thanks to
Stuart Blagden of the Ivor Mairants Music Store and organizer of the
Brazilian Guitar newsgroup (on Yahoo) for this information. (May 24) "
But also saw this amazing shard:
"'The Great Jazz Guitarists' (Ivor Mairants). This beautiful book is
hard to describe. Printed on the highest quality paper, it's 637 pages
covering jazz guitar greats from the 1920s to the '90s, including some
obscure ones. Binding is absolutely spectactular! Asking $600. Call
Chester: (360) 385-6001. (No e-mail)"
I gotta wonder how many more than these 64 solos exist in the Mariants
archives.
For instance, I saw myriad references to differently named books at the
Charlie Christian site:
"Famous Jazz Guitar Solos 2" - 1988, International Music
Lists two solos, neither included in the volumes at hand.
"The Great Jazz Guitarists" - 1996, Musicmaker books.
Includes 4 solos, one of of which is not in the volume at hand.
This appears, then, to be the newest incarnation of some of the same
material.
james seaberry
Check with Phil Jones at http://www.bebops.co.uk/page0004.html
Jeremey Poparad
found a few others by him, one of them is at the Abersold site and it's only
$5 for a bunch of good solo transcriptions. If anyone has had any luck
locating it I would very much appreciate some insight.
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<jer...@nci2000.net> wrote:
> I'm not having any luck locating this particular book anywhere online. I
> found a few others by him, one of them is at the Abersold site and it's only
> $5 for a bunch of good solo transcriptions. If anyone has had any luck
> locating it I would very much appreciate some insight.
I might try the unthinkable--calling an actual sheet music store. I
find the local shop kind of irritating since they won't answer the
phone, but they do try for completeness in their stock!
van
I did a search on it and I came up with this thread.
IM was born in 1908, and he came from the UK, so he uses a kind of archaic, classical-oriented mode of thought that is kind of funny.
The page or two that he writes on each player contains a lot of inaccuracies, so I wouldn't trust this as a source for bio material on the players Gerry listed above.
However, there are some interesting transcriptions for each player, and I just played through the Kenny Burrell solo on "Shadow of Your Smile" (from his "Night Song" LP on Verve), and it's quite accurate.
I can't claim that all the solos are as accurate as KB's (it's a ballad), because I haven't checked them out yet.
He uses an interesting approach to some of the solos; he'll take a song played by one player, and compare it to the same song by another player.
One example is "They Can't Take That Away From Me", first by Ted Greene, and then by Martin Taylor.
A jazz piano book I looked at once did the same thing, and it can really open your mind up to everything that can be done with that particular tune.
Another good example is "Polka Dots and Moonbeams"- first by Howard Roberts, and then by Wes Montgomery.
Some other highlights of the transcriptions are 1) Jim Hall and Bill Evans doing "My Funny Valentine", and he even includes Bill Evans' counterpoint and comping (although written in only treble clef)!
2)Jimmy Raney's solos on "Thou Swell" and "Morning of the Carnival"
His inclusion of a solo by Eric Clapton is completely off the wall, though.