Jazz Ballads (Guitar Solo) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is really a great collection of jazz ballads arranged for guitar. I have become pretty skeptical of this type of collection because usually the arrangers either take shortcuts to create arrangements that are too simple, or they over harmonize and use unnecessarily difficult chord substitutions. This collection is guilty of neither of these errors. The keys in almost every case are the same keys the songs were published in and the arrangements are standard jazz chord melody chords. Nothing too advanced, but a good solid performance level interpretation of the harmony. The tunes selected are excellent choices and even the lesser known tunes are beautiful and well worth learning. Most intermediate to advanced players will find themselves subing in some of their own favorite substitutions, but that is what should happen. Even played exactly as arranged, all the chord choices are extremely apt and musical. My only minor complaint is that the endings are routinely unimaginative. Most of the tunes just end on the same sixth chord voicing. I usually just sub in some other favorite ending chord sequences.

The tunes included are:
* A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
* Blame It On My Youth
* Body And Soul
* But Beautiful
* Darn That Dream
* Easy Living
* Easy To Love (You'd Be So Easy To Love)
* Here's That Rainy Day
* I Could Write A Book
* In A Sentimental Mood
* In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
* Long Ago (And Far Away)
* Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
* Misty
* Moonlight In Vermont
* My Foolish Heart
* My Funny Valentine
* My One And Only Love
* Nancy - With The Laughing Face
* Skylark
* Stella By Starlight
* The Nearness Of You
* The Very Thought Of You
* The Way You Look Tonight
* Time After Time
* When I Fall In Love
* When Sunny Gets Blue

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27 chord melody arrangements in standard notation and tablature, including: Body and Soul * Darn That Dream * Easy to Love (You'd Be So Easy to Love) * Here's That Rainy Day * In a Sentimental Mood * Misty * My Foolish Heart * My Funny Valentine * The Nearness of You * Stella by Starlight * Time After Time * The Way You Look Tonight * When Sunny Gets Blue * and more.

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