Tag: Jim Hall

Supposedly, Jim Hall placed a sign inside his guitar case so he would see it every time he took out his guitar. The sign said, “Make musical sense.” This story made an important impression on me. If Jim Hall (whose playing always makes sense to me) had to remind himself to make sense, certainly the rest of us would benefit from this advice.

Mick Goodrick in Guitar Player magazine, January 1992

A Guitarist’s Notebook

There’s a nice selection of Brazilian and jazz transcriptions for guitar at A Guitarist’s Notebook. Read more →

USC Jazz Transcriptions

USC has a collection of Jazz Transcriptions, and a few of them are analyzed by Bert Ligon. Great stuff… **Link corrected 4/15/2015 Read more →