Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar (Guitar Books)

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It was once a very good book

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Maybe slightly archaeic but don't knock it!

Classic book for intermediate to advanced players

Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar (Guitar Books)
Mickey Baker
Manufacturer: Clifford Essex Publications
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ASIN: 0860010163
Release Date: 1973-12-31

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A self-instructor written by one of the most outstanding jazz guitarists of today. Includes how to play chords the modern way, vamps and fill-ins, bop-blues, bounce blues, runs, introductions, technique, theory, and much more. New, completely revised edition.

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It was once a very good book.......2006-08-27

It was once a very good book for me, some 40 years ago, when I had no idea about what jazz guitar playing was about, and friends referred to it as "The Jazz Guitar Bible". There were not many other books available right then.
As years went by I bought and studied other books, and come to the understanding that Mickey Baker didn't really know much about jazz, he only had very clear ideas on guitar tutoring, methodic studying, organization of the material, and fingerboard knowledge, all of them important topics but not the real thing.
I do not feel I lost something by studying this book (and the companion Book 2) when I was starting to play, I only wish there were then all the books that are available now for my own pupils.
In any case, the book is today little more that a museum's piece. There are today many books out there written by real jazz musicians, not blues singers like Mr. Baker (you can check out, for example, the Berklee books in all levels, by William Leavitt and others).
In any case, if you are interested in jazz guitar enough to read this review, good luck!

Additional Information Regarding Revision.......2006-05-14

The original Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar was two books; book one first published in 1955, and book 2, a sequel published in 1959. After reviewing the contents page of this edition, I found that this is a revision of book one only. However, book one alone is complete; book 2 is additional material for the more advanced guitarist. Regarding the content, I echo all of the other reviewers, but I still would not hesitate to pass it on to a student.

In a hurry?..start here.......2006-03-09

I bought this book in 1966. I've used it to get many of my students stared in jazz guitar. There ARE many better books, with more theory and interesting substitutions. But this one will have you playing good sounding stuff from the beginning. This book was written for people who wanted to know how to play the music they were listening to. If you like 50's and 60's jazz and standards, this book will jump start into how to get those sounds. Once you can play them, you'll need Arnie Berle, Andrew Green, Mark Levine, etc. to fill you in on where this stuff came from, and how to go on from here. Like another reviewer said, the book's been around for quite awhile. There's a reason for that...it's quick, to the point, and great sounds.

Maybe slightly archaeic but don't knock it!.......2006-01-26

Ted Greenes superb books sort of took off from where Mickey B. stopped. Like many of you out there i recall playing many a pub gig back in the very early 70s whilst relying solely on the chords from this book.
My music teacher at school, bless him, directed me straight to Bakers books way back in 1969.Was i glad he did. Where else would you find a D13b5b9th chord shown in all it's glory? The book taught me quite abit about chord tones and substitution. But the jazz guitarist today is spoilt for choice.There's far too much info. As one reviewer so sincerely points out this book was written when musicians PRACTICED to get their technique..these days they might get their computer to do the practice for them whilst they play video games.
The chord progressions are audibly predictable at least for 2007. They stick to the basic major-to-minor resolutions but then back in 1950 that's all it took to back Frank Sinatra.This was the fabric of the pop tune back then Inspite of this though if these progressions are utilised with a nice tone they still sound impressive today and one can use them as a platform from which to expand .
But if you are a basic rock player who wants to get into jazz, like i was, then this still is a superb book. If you are willing to use your imagination (yeah, a tough project for some today because there are so many distractions) you can really go places with the material.

Classic book for intermediate to advanced players.......2004-12-07

My old friend who used to play guitar for THE Army Band suggested this book to me. Realizing that coming from opposite sides of music spectrum, before using this book one may consider. My friend's career is Jazz and playing guitar as his living and I am a full time tech guy who just want to learn guitar at night by myself. Understanding pedagogy, this book is extremely useful if you are having a teacher, explain theories and walking you through all exercises. On the other hand, for beginners, explainations are at a minimum for how things are the way they are......I lost my interest simply because the learning procedures are not designed for someone whose basis of learning is pure self intructional.

Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar: Book 1

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Mickey Baker
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Release Date: 1955-12-31

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A method in how to play jazz and hot guitar.

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Mickey Baker's Complete Course In Jazz Guitar.......2007-01-10

I think Mickey Baker's Complete Course In Jazz Guitar - is very good book.

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Release Date: 1959-12-31

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Jazz Blues Guitar Solos (book and CD)
Larry McCabe
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The excellent solos in this book are performance-quality improvisations on jazz-blues standards. If you are a rock, folk, country, or blues guitarist looking to advance to the next level, these solos will help you develop more variety in your phrasing, improved familiarity with the fingerboard, a vastly improved ear, and enhanced conceptual abilities. The solos are for guitarists with intermediate, or better, skills. Each tune is arranged in standard notation and tablature, and recorded note-for-note on the companion CD. Solos: Alberta; Careless Love; Corrine, Corrina; Every Night When the Sun Goes In; Hesitation Blues; Jada; Lonesome Road; Make Me a Pallet on the Floor; Nobody's Business; St. James Infirmary; Sporting Life Blues; Willie the Weeper.

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A MODERN METHOD IN HOW TO PLAY JAZZ & HOT GUITAR, 1955 SOFTCVR, MUSIC, CHORDS, THEORY, RIFFS, BLUES

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Rudy Rucker, author of the Software tetralogy and White Light, possesses a quality that could endanger his cyberpunk credibility: enthusiasm. No sullen antihero, Dr. Rucker is a computer science professor and a devoted family man, but his fiction has kept many a reader up all night with visions of humans uploading their consciousnesses into robots that eventually return the favor. His collection of short nonfiction, Seek!, is just as clear and sassy as his novels. Whether he's having visions in Yosemite with his son, flipping the bird at Jerry Falwell's second in command, or playing with his favorite artificial life forms, Rucker seems to know he'll be telling us about it later; his uncanny knack for perfectly apt descriptions must arise from this knowledge. Once you've been told that the "Mandelbrot set is shaped like big fat warty buttocks ..." you're not likely to forget it.

Divided into three sections ("Science," "Life," and "Art"), Seek! reads like a user's guide to the New Renaissance: after reading "A Brief History of Computers," we can move on to "Cyberculture in Japan," visit Industrial Light and Magic, and examine Brueghel's Peasant Dance in depth. All are infused with Rucker's intense delight and frustration with the things and people of this world; they inevitably provoke the kind of staring-into-space reveries long thought lost to our youth. He provides Web page URLs so that readers will have natural starting points for continuing research, including his own Web site's free software for playing with cellular automata and other funky almost-living critters. As Rucker says to his students, referring to the boundary between order and chaos (and providing a title for this book): Seek Ye the Gnarl! --Rob Lightner

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The essays and memoirs collected in Seek! trace Rudy Rucker's trajectory through the final decade of the second millennium. His topics include artificial life, chaos, the big bang, Pieter Brueghel, the church of the subgenius, live sex, mathematics, science fiction, and TV evangelism. A computer scientist and programmer, Rucker is an articulate, engaging guide to the world on either side of the computer screen.

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Reminiscent of Richard Feynman.......2002-08-10

Rudy Rucker is a mathematician and computer scientist who also writes science fiction. Unfortunately, he is so well known for his SF writings that his reputation in that area tends to swamp recognition of his accomplishments in mathematics and computer science, as is evidenced by other reviews on this page.

Rucker's mathematical writings tend to focus on the more esoteric subjects of infinity and the fourth dimension. They include: (1) "Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension" (1977); (2) "The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes" (1985); (3) "Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality" (1988); (4) "Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite" by Rudy Rucker (1995); and (5) "Software Engineering and Computer Games" (To be published in Nov 2002). That he is regarded as a serious mathematician is evidenced by the fact that "Infinity and the Mind" is published by the Princeton University Press, one of the best publishers of books on mathematics, engineering and science in the world.

In the area of software, Rucker is known for his participation in developing "Chaos" ands "CA (Cellular Automata)Lab", two highly innovative software programs that came out about 20 years ago. Cellular automata, which produce screen images that appear to be randomly generated patterns (in fact, the patterns are generated in accordance with simple rules) have been studied seriously by scientists (including Richard Feynman) interested in determining the patterns that underlie life. In fact, one of the earliest CA games was called "The Game of Life."

Like Feynman, Rucker is a free spirit, interested in virtually everything he encounters in life. Fortunately for the rest of us, he also likes to write about it. Among the topics treated in this collection of his essays are: (1) what it's like to live in Lynchburg, VA with Jerry Falwell; (2) a visit to a semiconductor clean room; (3) his beloved dog, Arf; (4) the paintings of Peter Breughel; (5) visits to Japan, where Rucker's S/F is immensely popular; (6) a live sex show in Manhattan; (7) his life as a hippie and abuse of drugs; and of course (8) thoughts on the possible uses of cellular automata.

Through it all comes the impression of a very good, very open, mind at work. I suspect that he really only writes to please himself; but fortunately he shares it with the rest of us.

Readers with more of an interest in Rucker's S/F writings should consider buying "Gnarl!", a companion volume of essays on that topic.

Ruining Rudy's Reputation.......2001-09-24

I agree with Michael Edelman (below), there are many essays in this collection that just don't merit anthologizing.

I used to have a pretty high opinion of Mr. Rucker, but reading this book took him down a few notches. His travelogues are "nothing to write home about," his self-aggrandizement gets annoying, his extravagant personal claims about cyberpunk and transreal writing are laughable, and his essays on Bruegel add nothing to art appreciation.

The companion volume of fiction, "Gnarl!" is a much better read.

A good choice for Rucker fans.......2000-02-03

Rudy Rucker is a wonderful writer, and judging from his writing, an excellent teacher. If all math professors were like him, there would be a lot more mathematicians, physicists and engineers around. And you've got to love a guy who can characterize chaotic phenomena as "gnarly".

"Seek!" is a collection of essays on various topics, published and unpublished, and therein lies one of the problems: A lot of these essays would have been better off remaining unpublished. They're just not that interesting or well done. Even some of the published essays should have stayed buried in the pulps where they were printed. The book is of course required reading for die-hard Rucker fans, but the general reader would be better off sticking with his more carefully edited books.

His history of computers, for example, is a completely unoriginal rehashing of the standard hardwware-based story. There's absolutely no point in reprinting it, particuarly as he has nothing to add to a thousand other books.

There's another problem as well. Like many very bright academics, Rucker seems to believe that skill in one area- mathematics- makes him an expert in all areas. Unfortunately there are some (history, economics, political science, psychology) where he is not terribly well read, and again, like many academics form the hard sciences he tends to view the social sciences as something you can just handle intuitively. Thus his views on matters of economics and policy tend to be the kind you get from enthusiastic college sophmores. He can't admit that someone could hold views opposed to his and still be a decent person; anyone who disagrees with him is basically evil. But that's par for course when you spend much of your life in academia.

Still, it's an interesting collection, and there are a few gems scattered amidst the dross. His A-life introduction is imaginative and particularly well done. My advice: Skip the hardcover and get the paperback.

An enjoyable trip with Mr Rucker.......1999-10-29

This collection of essays is well worth reading if you're any sort of fan of Rudy Rucker. The essays are very wide ranging, and I particularly liked the travel essays in the section "Life", which were full of interesting observations and characters (especially the moody Robert Anton Wilson and the inscrutable Terence McKenna in Portugal). The essays about Rucker's trips to Japan give a unique perspective on the mixture of old and new culture that he found there.

I found some of the earlier material on cellular automata and other mathematical curiosities to be less interesting, probably because I have never explored them, and I can't share the enthusiasm Mr Rucker has for them. On the other hand, his essay on the history of computing I found fascinating.

Overalll, I came away feeling that these essays were written by a very real person, one who has managed to enjoy the fame he has achieved largely as a writer. He is not backward in expressing his admiration for the opposite sex, and his openness and candour is sometimes startling compared to other more conservative modern essayists.

Eclectic, inspiring, and fun! "Seek!" is a blast........1999-10-16

Rucker's an author whose books either leave me wanting more or leave me floored; "Seek!", the author's latest collection of nonfiction, is one of the latter, an always energetic variety of science essays, travel diary entries, meditations on The Meaning of Life and cyberculture that accomplishes much more than the sum of its parts.

"Seek!" is nothing less than a portrait of the author, and as such it is both poignant and trippy. I had a great time reading this one.

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An interesting read..........2007-07-05

He does go on and on and on a bit, and you have to be careful not get bile on yourself as it gushes out of the book, but if you're hungry for behind-the-scenes ST info, whether truthful or not, it's enjoyable.

Speaking of time warps.......2007-02-27

I see that I ordered this book from Amazon nearly 10 years ago...so perhaps I should get around to my review. (No, it didn't take me that long to read the book.) As I recall, I bought it less out of interest in the original script (Star Trek hasn't appealed to me since my teens, aka the 1970s) than in order to have a complete version of Ellison's splenetic denunciation of "those amoeba-brained barbarians who butchered his masterpiece." I had read a brief excerpt of same in Harper's, nearly wet myself laughing (at Ellison's self-righteous ego, not from anything he wrote for intentional comic effect), and had to have the whole thing. And I did. But a little bit goes a long way, as the cliche states, and Mr. Ellison's screed tires before very long. (Thinking that a grown man, a professional writer, wrote these complaints is finally pretty sad.) At the very least, his original teleplay was obviously much too long for an actual aired episode of Trek, so it was going to have to be cut one way or another, so what was that baby crying about?

On the other hand, don't miss out on The Oscar, the 1966 bomb co-written by Ellison, which is MST3K-worthy. So bad it was referenced MORE THAN ONCE on SCTV, including an extended parody called The Nobel.

So, in conclusion, I love it when hack writers (Steven King, I mean you too) whine about how they're just not appreciated...but keep it to a three-page maximum, okay boys?

Harlan Should Just Make It Himself.......2006-03-11

I loved this book. It gives us more insight into the original version of a great episode. I love Harlan Ellison, warts and all, however, my holding back from giving this book 5 stars is that there is no insight into the production process. Harlan feels that his script was wronged somehow. As pointed out in various reviews here on Amazon, if he didn't want changes made, he shouldn't have written it for a series.

Here is an idea Harlan... what with all the interest in fan films, and since you own the rights to the script lock, stock and barrel, why don't you get together a group of actors and crew, and make your version of "City..." yourself. Believe me, this would be a great thing, since there is no Star Trek fan film activity being done in LA except "Hidden Frontier."

Unless there is a WGA rule that prohibits this, maybe you should think about it. Walter Koenig and George Takei are working with the "New Voyages" group trying to get something they never got from Gene and Paramount; respect for their characters. Maybe you should think about it.

City on the Edge of Forever, a writer on the edge of madness.......2005-06-19

To hear Harlan Ellison tell it(as well as his butt-kissing entourage, which includes Peter David, David Gerrold and Melinda Snodgrass), his original script for City on the Edge of Forever is the greatest work of literature since Joyce's Ulysses. It isn't. It is, however, a very ambitious and well-written teleplay, but then so is Gene Roddenberry's version that was actually produced. Both scripts have their strong points and weak points. In Ellison's version, the strong points(in comparison to the Roddenberry script) include a drug-dealing officer who causes the temporal displacement, which is more convincing than a doped-up McCoy; a pair of ominous ancients who call themselves the Guardians of Forever, which is far cooler than a single Guardian that looks like a post-apocalyptic video screen; and the final, very moving conversation between Kirk and Spock. The weak points are the silly business with the space pirates(having the Enterprise simply cease to exist is more logical, and poetic), a dated drug trip scene, and the tacky retribution that eventually befalls the villainous time-distorter. Regarding Kirk's actions(or lack of action) at the story's climax, both versions are valid. I disagree with the all the folks(Ellison and his cronies included) who think the original ending makes Kirk more human, less heroic. I never thought of Kirk as especially heroic in the Roddenberry version, just pragmatic, he does what he has to do, what many of us "humans" would do in the same situation. He is still guided by passion, but his passion for the way of life he knew and the people in it, his passion for the millions who would have suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis, wins out. In fact, having Kirk be the one to prevent Edith from being saved is in many ways more powerful than Ellison's ending. They both work for their own reasons, however.

I can't agree with those who act as if even the bastardized version of City is light years beyond anything else Star Trek ever produced. For my money, Amok Time is the most brilliantly written and executed episode, and there are several other episodes in the same league. Even the highly flawed Requiem for Methuselah had the potential, if it had been done correctly, to be as powerful and meaningful a love story as City.

Frankly, Ellison's script, with its quality and its historic value, is the primary reason to read this book. Ellison's bileous introduction is certainly entertaining, but it is also overlong, repetitive and obscenely self-praising. Likewise, the afterword essays are a little too obsequious for my tastes. If Ellison is truly the man of integrity he claims to be, then he should have allowed some negative reactions to his work, just to balance things out. Instead, the author comes across as a man who needs his ego stoked as often as the warp engines on a starship.

Want some cheese with your whine, Harlan?.......2005-06-06

Moan, moan, b*tch, whine, whine. It's all too much, as the Beatles sang. I read this book once, a few years ago. Harlan thinks he is making a great case for himself, but in his much speaking, his heart is revealed -- he simply doesn't seem to have understood that he was hired to create a script that fits within the pre-established context of an episodic television series, and was beholden to the vision of its creator, Gene Roddenberry.

He's like Ayn Rand's Howard Roarke who wants to take other people's money and use it to build his own vision of a building instead. No, Harlan, you should dance with the guy who brung ya. Roddenberry paid for a script that fit HIS specifications.

City on the Edge of Forever was one of the great Star Trek episodes, and reading Harlan's "ideal" version of it is of great interest. As a standalone motion picture, it would have been great. The problem is, he took liberties with the characters and story that simply wouldn't fit the Star Trek series.

As I recall, in the end of the book it is revealed that D.C. Fontana re-wrote the script that was eventually filmed. If that is true, then praises for D.C. Fontana. I love Harlan's script, and I love the final TV episode that was filmed. I just don't think all the fuss about the rewrite is justified. It was rewritten, and it should have been rewritten. Harlan, if he wasn't such an egonmaniacal little twit, could have done the rewrite properly himself, had he wanted to. He just didn't want to. His loss, because to my mind, D.C. Fontana deserves as much credit as Harlan for one of the top ten episodes of the pioneering TV show Star Trek (The Original Series).

Harlan Ellison is a great writer. I do not debate that. But it is much better to read his fiction than his endless crabbing about these incidents that happened nearly forty years ago. It matters less than the dust on the balance now.

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Creating a virtual network gives network administrators a way to maximize the usage of their servers. This will be the only book on the market that outlines how to manage all aspects of virtualization across an enterprise. Other books focus on single aspects of virtualization, without delving into the interrelationships of the technologies. Coverage of all aspects of virtualization, including virtual machines, virtual file systems, clustering, and virtualized storage solutions, will enable readers to understand which virtualization technologies may be right for their environment.

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Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise (Books for Professionals by Professionals).......2007-05-26

Libro muy completo aunque practicamente solo habla de VMware

Great Virtualization Book for Microsoft and VMware.......2005-10-05

This book provides installation coverage for VMware (ESX, GSX, and Workstaion) and Microsoft Virtualization applications (Virtual PC and Virtual Server). The book also explores the use of these virtualization applications in different environments, as in "from the desktop to the enterprise". Though the book can be a bit academic, it is easy to read and is packed with practical information and devoid of marketing hype. Some vendor specific information is outdated; however, the publisher maintains updates on the web. The book provides background information to understand all aspects of virtualization applications, virtual file systems, clustering, and backup strategies. If you are trying to get a grip on virtualization, this book is well worth the money (used or new).

Great Book on Virtualization.......2005-09-18

This book is what I needed to bring me up to speed on virtualization. If you are an IT manager and whant to know what the buzz is all about, start with this book. It covers all aspects of virtualization.

Well worth the money.......2005-09-16

I recently was assigned to a newly created virtualization and storage division within my company and based on a recommendation from a friend bought this book. I must say that I have been very impressed with its content. The authors cover all of the major virtual machine software technologies, including VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Microsoft Virtual PC. At first I was afraid that with so much coverage, this book would be a rehash of existing online docs, but this wasn't the case at all. While the book does offer some simple guidance to get you started with each technology (with both coverage on Windows and Linux), its real value comes in the many tips, tricks, and hacks discovered by the authors. For example, there is a chapter full of backup scripts that can be used for VMware VMs on each platform type, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Virtual PC. The book also describes how to resize virtual disk files. This is not supported, but pretty good to know if you have a virtual disk that is too small.

The book also covers distributed file systems and clustering. I had wanted to setup DFS on Samba for a long time, but didn't have time to do all of the research. After following the procedures in the book, the process was pretty easy. There are also steps provided for setting up Windows and Linux failover and load balanced clusters.

The book finishes up by describing SANs and storage virtualization. If you're like me and are faced with supporting a number of different virtualization technologies, you need this book.

Better Together .......2005-08-23

I bought this book and VMware ESX server: these books are great together! You will also want to visit VMware's website for cool tips and tricks. VMware really knows what is going on in the industry with virtualization. If you are looking for open source stuff, visit http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/.

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