A wider Jazz question

[azraelswings]

If any of you jazz cats have advice beyond the best fake book, what is it? I have a reasonably wide chord vocabulary, I know my scales and modes, I can improvise in them reasonably well, where would anyone suggest I go from here?

 

[FALKEN]

transcriptions.

 

[Dave_M]

How's your ear? Can you identify any interval you hear from any instrument? Do you have perfect pitch? How about playing chord-melody improvisation - like Joe Pass or Kenny Burrel? Pick a tune you like and build it into a solo chord-melody arrangement. Or take a celtic folk tune (or any other style from other cultures) and learn that too. Any way you can challenge yourself is another learning experience. That's the best part about music - it's limitless.

 

[AlChuck]

Transcribing for sure...

I would also recommend a couple of books by some really good players that have insights somewhat outside of the standard books:

The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick
Jim Hall - Exploring Jazz Guitar
The Jazz Guitarist's Handbook by Bruce Foreman