Jazz Guitar Method

Originally published in two volumes, this starts out with the basic concepts of scale and chord formation. After that, it looks at jazz soloing as the development of a musical line based on the chord vocabulary. There's attention paid to developing a line as a rhythmic variation on the original melody, followed by the use of runs on various scales and the role of passing tones. Readers are encouraged to not just play, but write out their choruses. Also covered in the text at some length ares chord types, progressions, substitutions, voicings, and comping. This is a good book for developing basic to intermediate skills at handling chord changes, with an introduction to soloing thrown in - although there's great material for learning melodic improvisation, I wish it had more in that area.