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*If you're into burning CDs, get a
MP3
CD Maker and visit the following
websites!
mp3.com
Look around for great jazz and blues!
mp3Bot
A search engine for mp3s. Search for jazz, blues,
ska, whatever.
MusicSeek
A search engine for mp3, vqf, aac, and ra (RealAudio)
formats.
Lycos MP3
Search
A search engine for mp3 and other music-related
stuff.
Sonico.com
A search engine for mp3 and stuff in English,
Spanish, and Portuguese. Lots of Brazilian, Argentinian, and Mexican
jazz groups!
Palavista
A digital music metacrawler.
Oth.net
An FTP search engine for mp3s.
mp3Mac
Just for you Mac users.
Museeks
Totally dedicated to the classical music listener
and student, this site is very, very nicely done!
Usenet - alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
Try this and other newsgroups!
Sites That Jam
A database of music sites that have streaming
audio, MP3, or other MIDI files. Well worth looking around.
*If you're into burning CDs, get a
MP3
CD Maker along with a Ripper (for RealAudio) and Waver (for WAVs) and visit the following websites!
Vision Music 
Guitar virtuoso Mark Stefani’s home page
with free lessons, great advice, music theory resources, and Jam
Central Station. By far the most comprehensive and exhaustive
jazz guitar site on the web. You have to see it to believe it!
Alisdaire MacRae
Birch 
A New York based guitarist offering a diverse
selection of instructional materials including solo transcriptions.
With a great selection of links, Alisdaire's site is worth exploring!
Montreal
Jazz Guitar
Offering a slew of Lenny Breau chord-melody transcriptions!
Ulf Wakenius
Oscar Peterson's latest guitarist, Ulf certainly
belongs in the ranks with Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, and Joe Pass.
Check out his MP3s to get a taste of Ulf!
Jimmy Bruno 
An inspirational player and educator, Mr. Bruno
epitomizes the modern jazz player with monster chops, sensitive
stylings, and a strong musical personality. A favorite of nearly
every jazz guitar fan!
Ronald
Cid's Page
Another resource for Lenny Breau transcriptions.
The site owner, Ron Cid, is also a luthier!
Jody Fisher
A regular contributor to Guitar Player Magazine,
Jody offers valuable free lessons and advice. Also, check out
the index of his own instructional materials!
Guitar
Masters
Perry Terhune's wonderful jazz guitar site. Packed
full of tutorials, jazz & folk charts, theory & technique
discussions, and photos of famous guitarists, Guitar Masters is
a great resource!
Tony
Beltran's Chord Melody Approach
A nice beginner's method for learning the art
of chord-melody arranging for guitar. In ASCII format, Tony's
abstract utilizes the CAGED method of chord analysis and includes
a wonderful list of recommended readings in the bibliography.
Steve Kahn
Voted as one of the All-Time Greatest Jazz
Guitarists in a special issue of Japan's JAZZ LIFE magazine,
Steve has recorded with other jazz Greats such as Ron Carter,
Michael Brecker, Larry Coryell, and Jack DeJohnette. Check out
his outstanding website -- discography, bio, transcriptions (George
Benson, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, etc.), and much more!
Guido's
Jazz Guitar Pages
A nice site with transcriptions (George Benson,
John Scofield, Django Reinhardt, etc.), arrangements, and advice
on practicing and on amps.
Pick's Place
Website of bassist Lucas Pickford. Contains lots
of resources and some killer transcriptions of players like John
McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, etc.
Hank Garland
Website of legendary Nashville guitarist
Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland. Having discovered a passion
for jazz in the 1950's, Hank became a major influence for
many jazz guitarists, George Benson being just one example. There's
a lot of cool stuff here, so spend some time looking around!
Dirk
Laukens
A nice, small site with solo transcriptions, lessons,
and licks. All free!
The
Serious Guitarist
Rod Furlott's very cool site with some nicely
done chord and scale theory lessons in PDF format. Also being
a luthier, Rod performs on his own hand-made instruments!
Swing and Jump
Guitar Web
Matthieu Brandt's incredible site dedicated to
teaching all about swing and jump blues! Check out his FREE 70-page,
downloadable instruction book and the accompanying RealAudio/MP3
clips and TABs. Dynamite!
Guitar Scribe.com
For those of you looking for custom transcribing services, here's a great option. Be sure to check out
Paul Hunter's contributions on my Transcriptions
page!
John
McGann's Custom Transcribing Service
Another option for getting custom music transcribing services.
Marco
Accattatis
Very nice site of bassist Marco Accattatis, Italian-born
Berklee graduate. Lots of beautiful transcriptions here (Ray Brown,
Slam Stewart, Mingus, etc.).
Marc
sa Guitare
Beautiful site of free classical guitar scores
-- well over 100 in PDF format! Also free manuscript papers.
Peter Prisco
New York jazz guitarist and teacher Peter Prisco
has put together a fine website highlighting his background, recording
projects, and some fantastic photos of him in action. Check it
out!
JustStrings.com
A great place to buy all kinds of strings. I prefer
the LaBella Nylon Tapewound .014-.067.
Musician's
Friend
A mail-order and online resource for all musicians.
What can I say? They've got it all.
Gryphon Stringed
Instruments
The infamous retail and repair store in Palo Alto,
California. If Gryphon doesn't have it and can't get it, then
no one can. If they can't fix it, it's not fixable.
Music
Books Plus
A great resource for the aspiring musician as
well as the seasoned pro. Books, videos, software, apparel and
CD-ROMs on music, audio, video, multimedia, recording, songwriting,
MIDI, music business, computers, instruments, broadcasting and
much more!
Musicnotes.com
13,000 digital sheet music titles! 220,000 traditional
music books, single sheets and more! Definitely check these guys
out.
Jamey Aebersold Jazz, Inc.
Looking for the famous Aebersold tapes? Looking
for other instructional publications? Go straight to the right
source.
Sher Music Co.
Publisher of jazz and Latin fakebooks and sheet
music. The Jazz Theory Book, by Mark Levine is a real winner!
WebCompass
Topic: Jazz Improvisation
A link site that has to do with jazz and jazz
improvisation...a wealth of stuff here!
GuitarPrinciples.com
Click above and get 10 things you can
do right now to become a better guitar player.
Guitar Scribe.com
For those of you looking for custom transcribing services, here's a great option. Be sure to check out
Paul Hunter's contributions on my Transcriptions
page!
John
McGann's Custom Transcribing Service
Another option for getting custom music transcribing services.
Jeffrey
R. Elliott Guitars
A Portland luthier of much repute who builds flawlessly
beautiful classical guitars. Also an educator, Jeff
teaches at the American School of Lutherie and offers consultation
services for the amateur and professional builder.
Ervin Somogyi Guitars
A Bay Area luthier who builds gorgeous acoustic
guitars and pieces of art. Ervin is a frequent contributor to
American Lutherie, Guitarmaker, and Acoustic Guitar (Japan)
magazines and is an avid educator, lecturing for the American
School of Lutherie, the bi-annual Guild of American Luthiers convention,
and teaching his own classes in Intermediate
Guitar Building.
Roberto-Venn School
of Luthiery
Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the R-V School teaches
guitar construction and repair. Offering 5-month programs,
students build at least two guitars (one electric and one steel-string
acoustic) under the guidance of the school's skilled faculty and
spend several weeks concentrating on repair techniques.
Cottonwood
Lutherie
Servicing the greater Vancouver, Washington area,
Ron Bobbitt and Joe Wightman of Cottonwood Lutherie offer high
quality stringed instrument repair and custom-made guitars of
any style. Located on the banks of the Columbia river in
historic Camas, Washington.
Guild of American Luthiers
An organization providing information and resources
pertinent to lutherie for both members and non-members. They publish
the unparralled American Lutherie magazine as well as several
books and instrument plans.
Luthiers Mercantile International,
Inc.
An exhaustive resource of woods, tools, and other
supplies needed by stringed instrument artisans. They organize
the Healdsburg Guitar Festival in Healdsburg, California every
other year which is a must-visit for any guitar enthusiast.
Cactus Publishing
Wanna build a pedal steel guitar, or an archtop,
or an acoustic? Then go take a peek at the work of Robert Gluck,
Cactus Publishing's main man.
A.S.I.A
The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans,
is a professional luthier organization providing resources and
information. They also publish a magazine, Guitarmaker,
which comes out sporadically.
Frets.com
A wonderful site maintained by repair
guru Frank Ford which includes a ton of useful information on
guitar repair and other things of interest. Check it out!
Musical Instrument Makers
Forum
A really cool site for amateur and professional
luthiers. Of particular interest is the bulletin board.
Kathy Matsushita's
Amateur Luthier Page
Kathy does a great job of documenting her experiences
of building guitars and her site is a great place for any beginner
to start.
American
School of Lutherie
Learn state-of-the-art guitar making and repair
from today's leading professional luthiers. Choose from weekend
workshops, 1-week seminars, 2-week hands-on classes and long-term
professional training courses. Once located in Healdsburg,
California, ASL has now relocated to Portland, Oregon.
Luthier's
School International
Harry Fleischman's lutherie school in Sebastopol,
California. He teaches on a variety of subjects including repair
techniques, classical and steel-string guitar building, and bass
building, among others.
Ervin
Somogyi's Intermediate Guitar Building Workshop
Ervin teaches this class once or twice a year
and is worth every penny. Learn about top plate tuning, bracing,
and design!
Virtual Guitar
Gallery
The world of guitar makers is not only
limited to those industry monsters whose instruments can be easily
found in every shop. There are many talented individuals and small
companies who are putting all their experience and soul in creating
instruments that DIFFER. This is the place to learn more about
such people and the instruments they build.
Artwork of David
Stuntzner
What can I say? If you really
like art you will love this site! A very comprehensive gallery
with oil & acrylic paintings, ceramics, watercolors, and mixed
media. If you visit, say "hi". :-)
ArtistFirst.com
A really cool idea! ArtistFirst
is a World-Wide Radio Station & Web Store designed to help
Independent Artists. They broadcast the best Independent Bands,
Authors, Artists & Shows & help them sell their CDs, Books,
Videos & Cool Artistic Stuff right here 24/7. Always looking
for new artists, ArtistFirst, puts the artist first.
KMHD — 89.1 FM
A member-supported jazz radio station, located
in Gresham, Oregon, that supports live streaming through the internet.
All styles of jazz daily plus down-to-earth blues on Friday! Bottom
left for live streaming.
Mark
Harden’s “Artchive”
I love art. Here’s a great site for those
of you who also love art and want to kill a few hours, or are
searching for that perfect wallpaper for your computer.
Wes'
Wonderful World (of BiaB Arrangements)
A slew of Band-in-a-Box arrangements ripe
for the picking! Wes has done a terrific job of compiling a HUGE
storehouse of arrangements that can be downloaded and used for
study and practice. (see also Computers & Software)
Yahoo Groups
A free "e-mail community" service, communities
with an interest in guitar include: blues guitar, chords_lyrics_&tabs,
jazzguitar, players and 158 related topics. My personal favorites
are the jazzguitar,
jazz_guitar,
alljazzguitar,
and luthier
lists. :-)
Blue
Note Online
Broadcasting live performances from the Blue Note!
TabCrawler
Can't find the TAB you want? Try this free online
service.
Big Ears:
The Original Online Ear Trainer
This is a totally hip site where you can practice
your interval ear training. You gotta check this one out!
Live Jazz
at The Crow
"Live Jazz at the Crow" features Live
Jazz tracks (mp3, Real Audio) recorded over a period of time during
several jam sessions at the cafe Kraaij & Balder ("The
Crow") in the city of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Digibid.com
To the best of my knowledge, the only online auction
house specializing in music industry wares -- guitars, drums,
amps, pro audio, lighting, etc.
FetchBook
This is a pretty cool site that allows you to
easily compare prices of any book among 60 bookstores, and find
a price which is 30% - 80% off the market list price! If you're
looking for something specific, try here first. :-)
Jazz Resource Center
Your guide to jazz theories, transcriptions,
cd-reviews and more... Some nice transcriptions here by Benny
Green, Stan Getz, Herb Ellis, and others.
Classic Jazz Guitar.com
Mike Kremer's incredible site of jazz guitar biographies.
Interested in learning more about Howard Roberts, or George Van
Eps, or Johnny Smith, or some other monster jazzer? Then you gotta
check this site out!
AllJazzGuitar.com
A comprehensive site including feature articles,
jazz chat, and other educational and resource material. A good
place for us jazz guitar players to hang out!
Just Jazz Guitar
An online version of their printed magazine, the
JJG site's contents include free lessons, free articles, video
clips, and a nice photo gallery. A nice place to look around and
spend your free time!
Jazz Improv Magazine
A 200 page quarterly with a companion CD, featuring
in-depth interviews, 100 record reviews, excerpts from books about
jazz, how-to and motivational articles, analyses and solo transcriptions,
and much more, in every issue. Their covers have featured John
Coltrane, Pat Martino, Miles Davis, Horace Silver and Monk (You
may be especially interested in the Pat Martino issue, which includes
several of Pat's tracks on the companion CDs, plus what Pat himself
called one of "the most intense" interviews he ever
did!).
Jazz Guitar Online
A super place to hang out and learn about jazz
guitar. Includes free lessons, news, classifieds, and much more!
Crossroads
Learn guitar using some of the latest web technology
-- streaming video, live on-line lessons, sound clips, TAB, and
more!
Carma Productions
An acronym for "Cyber Arts, Research, Music,
and Audio", this site is a fascinating place to hang out
for awhile. It's hard to describe, so I'll leave it up to you
to explore!
Guitar Salon International
The "world's largest collection of fine Classical
and Flamenco guitars", GSI has got everything for the classical
and flamenco guitar aficionado.
Chordfind.com
Need a fingering for that pesky A#m7b5 or that
EbmM7? Give it a try.
Chordinversion.com
Looking for a 3rd inversion Emaj7 chord? This
site'll do it.
Music Styles
List
A pretty great links site with tons of stuff all
categorized for easy searching. Check out the Jazz category!
*If you're into burning CDs, get a
MP3
CD Maker along with a Ripper (for RealAudio) and Waver (for WAVs) and visit the following websites!
Music
Books Plus
A great resource for the aspiring musician as
well as the seasoned pro. Books, videos, software, apparel and
CD-ROMs on music, audio, video, multimedia, recording, songwriting,
MIDI, music business, computers, instruments, broadcasting and
much more!
Musicnotes.com
13,000 digital
sheet music titles! 220,000 traditional
music books, single sheets and more! Definitely check these guys
out.
Mr Musico.com
The world's only source for Philippine
digital sheet music, songbooks, and much more!
The Cannonball Adderley Rendezvous
An awesome site including a bio, discography,
photos, solo transcriptions and more!
EJMA
School
Lots of free solo transcriptions from the likes
of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Jaco
Pastorius, and many other jazz Greats. Make sure you look around
thoroughly because little treasures are hidden everywhere! (in
French)
SaxSolos.com
A truly fabulous site housing a TON of transcriptions
from artists such as Trane, Sonny Rollins, Bird, Cannonball, King
Curtis, Phil Woods, Sonny Stitt, John Scofield, Coleman Hawkins,
Lester Young and MANY MORE! Over 320 transcriptions in all PLUS
licks...Fantastic! Don't forget to ask Curtis
about his custom transcribing
services.
Continuum
A terrific site housing jazz solo transcriptions
from jazz Greats such as Chet Baker, Paul Chambers, Paul Desmond,
Freddie Hubbard, and T. Monk. A storehouse of other stuff, this
site is a real gem! (in French)
Jazz-Sax.com
A high-quality site offering free transcriptions,
excercises, audio clips, music news, and more. Transcriptions
include solos by Cannonball Adderley, Michael Brecker, John Coltrane,
David Liebman, Charlie Parker, and Sonny Rollins.
Charlie
Christian: Legend of the Jazz Guitar
Garry Hansen's comprehensive site about Charlie
Christian and his music. Includes bio, discography, tutorial,
transcriptions, photos, and much more. A must-see for any jazz
guitar enthusiast!
Ralph
Patt's Jazz Web Page
A truly superb site that includes 400+
free jazz charts of classic tunes as well as an interesting look
into tonal centers. Can you lose? Only if you don't visit Ralph's
site!
Bossa Nova
Guitar Transcriptions
Jason Brazile's cool website of bossa
nova featuring music by João Gilberto, Stan Getz, and others.
If you're into bossa, or want to be, check it out!
Real-Book Online
Here we go again, another site for people wanting
to get online jazz charts! (French and English).
Jose
Menezes: Portugese Sax Player
Lots of cool saxophone transcriptions here --
Coltrane, Gordon, Liebman, Shorter, Getz, etc. Bill Clinton?!
Thomasia: The Rene
Thomas Unofficial Webpage
A very nicely crafted website for French jazz
guitarist Rene Thomas. In addition to a discography, bio, and
bibliography, there are a handful of transcriptions in chord grid
& TAB format. Some Rene originals plus standards such as Donna
Lee.
www.chipin-kaiya.com
Website of violinist Chi-pin Hsieh and pianist
Kai-ya Chang, two Taiwanese jazz musicians who studied and reside
in Brussels, Belgium. Their site is a non-profit jazz instructional
website which concentrates on jazz education and related issues
written in Chinese. It has already become the first and
the most in-depth jazz website in global Chinese world since 2000.
Check out their transcriptions of jazz superstars Wes Montgomery,
Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown and MANY
OTHERS!
Jazz Standards and
Bossa Nova Fake Books
Over 640 tunes in two volumes with optional CDs
in mp3 format! These are some cool fake books, do yourself a favor
and check them out. :-)
All-Music Guide
For those of you who are music information hounds,
this is THE site for you. Search by artist, album, song, genre,
etc. Includes biographies and complete discographies
for artists of all sorts.
Double-Time
Jazz
A wonderful resource for jazz recordings. The
"100 Historically Most Significant Albums" program is
a great way for the novice to begin experiencing and collecting
great jazz. Owned and operated by the one-and-only Jamey
Aebersold himself!
GuitarCDs.com
An awesome resource for people looking for hard-to-find
guitar music. Their catalog includes over 3000 entries!
Software
for Woodworkers
Commercially-available software for professional cabinet-makers,
finish carpenters, and woodworkers of all kinds.
Quality Plans and Software,
Inc.
Offering a variety of software and printed materials for use in
the construction trades -- estimators, building plans, rafter
cuts, beam sizing, etc. A nice place to shop.
Bridge
City Tool Works
Probably the finest tools this side of the Mississippi, Bridge
City is the premier source for high quality hand tools.
Hida Tool and Hardware
A great source for Japanese tools. If you haven't tried a Japanese
chisel or pull saw, you haven't lived. ;-)
Frei and Borel
A fantastic jewelry supply house in Oakland, CA. A great source
for hand files and Dremel bits.
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