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JAZZ IMPROVISATION FOR GUITAR, A Melodic Approach. Garrison Fewell, Berklee. BOOK CD % GUITAR TABLATURE

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Melodies based on triads and melodic extensions sound more natural and musical than ones developed exclusively from scales. Triads - the fundamental building blocks of harmony - are a simple and effective remedy for scale dependency in improvisation. In Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Apprach, explore the potential of triads and their melodic extensions and learn to connect them using guide tones. You'll learn to create solo phrases in the style of some of the world's finest jazz guitarists like Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Pat Martino. 143 pages.

Improvise better solos by using triads and melodic extensions. Melodies based on triads and melodic extensions sound more natural and musical than ones developed exclusively from scales. Triads—the fundamental building blocks of harmony—are a simple and effective remedy for scale dependency in improvisation. Explore the potential of triads and their melodic extensions, and learn to connect them using guide tones. You'll learn to create solo phrases in the styles of some of the world's finest jazz guitarists—Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Pat Martino.

In Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Approach, world-renowned jazz guitarist Garrison Fewell offers an organized approach to creating expressive and melodic jazz solos and accompaniments. This book includes numerous triad and melodic extension examples and exercises to help you achieve the most expressive jazz feel and rhythm.

• Broaden your melodic palette using triads, melodic extensions, guide tones, and altered notes.
• Expand your agility on the fretboard, throughout the range of the guitar
• Learn the intervals that make up melodies
• Add articulation to your phrases by playing excerpts in the styles of the masters of jazz guitar
• Use guide tones to connect your melodic lines and play the changes
• Get the rhythmic skills essential to jazz phrasing
• Use guide tones to build voicings for comping
• Tablature included

Develop a more melodic way of thinking about harmony, and learn the improvisational tools that will help you create your own approach to soloing over chord changes.

The included play-along CD features outstanding musical examples and rhythm-section tracks performed by a top-flight triio: Garrison Fewell on guitar, Steve LaSpina on bass, and John Riley on drums. A special bonus track explores the techniques you've learned throughout the book

BUZZ

"Garrison Fewell has long been a hero to the jazz community. Read this book and you will find out why."

—Jim Hall, Acclaimed Jazz Guitarist, Composer, Arranger

"Garrison Fewell presents and demystifies many of the essential elements and techniques of jazz guitar, with useful and easily applied examples. He gets the player's hands, ears, and mind all involved. I wish this book had been around thirty years ago!"

—Howard Alden, Jazz Guitarist

"This book is a really well-thought-out guide to improvisation. I wish I'd had a book like this when I was a student."

—George Cables, Pianist/Composer

"G.F.'s book is a profound learning tool! I refer to Garrison as 'G.F.' here because of this very clear, but so simple approach to using a 'G' minor triad with its natural connection to 'F' major in an earlier chapter. From this point in the book, you can build on this same approach by following this rule in all other keys and end up with 'great ears' and a wealth of knowledge."

—Billy Harper, Jazz Saxophonist/Composer

"Garrison Fewell's concept of using guide tones and intervals in improvisation instead of 'running scales' is very important. Recommended for all who want to master 'inside' as well as 'outside' playing."

—John Tchicai, Author of Advice to Improvisers, Ed. Wilhelm Hansen

The Author

Guitarist Garrison Fewell has been a Professor of Guitar and Ear Training at Berklee College of Music for more than twenty-five years. He has taught at most major European Conservatories including Rotterdam, Graz, Cologne, Leipzig, Warsaw, and the American School of Modern Music in Paris, and has conducted workshops throughout the United States and South America. With a mature, melodic sound and an elegant, lyrical style of writing and playing, Garrison has established himself as a distinctive voice throughout his thirty-year career. Critics have called him "one of today's most personal guitar players" (Boston Phoenix), "an assured stylist with a strong sense of tradition" (The New Yorker), "a player of virtuosity and swinging intensity" (UPI), and "refined, passionate, and inspiring" (Guitar Player). His diverse discography, beginning with 1993's Boston Music Award-winning A Blue Deeper than the Blue (Accurate), counts multiple titles ranked on best-of-the-year lists in publications such as Coda, Guitar Player, Musica Jazz, and his hometown Philadelphia Inquirer. Photo by: Elio Buonocore

Garrison has performed with his quartet at NYC's Blue Note and Birdland jazz clubs, and international festivals such as Montreux, North Sea, Umbria, Clusone, Veneto Jazz, Copenhagen, Krakow, Budapest, Cape Verde, Africa, and Asuncion, Paraguay. His performing experience includes appearances with Tal Farlow, Benny Golson, Fred Hersch, Herbie Hancock, Larry Coryell, Buster Williams, George Cables, Kenny Wheeler, Dusko Goykovich, Cecil Bridgewater, Billy Harper, John Tchicai, Norma Winstone, and Slide Hampton. Garrison is the author of Jazz Improvisation (1984) and a frequent contributor to Guitar Player, Guitar Club, and Axe magazines. He is the recipient of several major music grants: National Endowment for the Arts, Artslink, Arts International.

Growing up in Philadelphia, I listened to all types of music, from classical and folk to blues and jazz. My father had all of Benny Goodman's records, and that's how I first heard Charlie Christian. From the beginning, I was always attracted to players with a strong sense of melody, and although I studied jazz in school, it was only after years of record collecting and listening that I developed my own sound. My intention in writing this book is not to teach you everything about jazz guitar, but simply to share some insights and encourage you to express your own artistic personality. Among the many approaches to jazz improvisation, one of the most common methods is to practice scales and modes as the basis for improvising over standard chord progressions. This can sometimes lead to an ailment called "scale-itis." Symptoms of this affliction are heard from guitarists who overplay in an attempt to impress fellow fretmates with their rapid-fire agility, running scales up and down the neck faster than the speed of sound. (What was that loud boom I just heard?) Students often spend long hours mastering scale vocabulary and neglect to develop their melodic and rhythmic vocabulary. They miss the opportunity to hear the intervals from which melodies are composed, and lack the rhythmic skills that are essential to jazz phrasing. Triads-the fundamental building blocks of harmony-are a simple but effective remedy for scale dependency. Using them can contribute to a more melodic way of playing. In this book, you will explore the potential of major and minor triads and their melodic extensions, and learn to develop phrases as an approach to improvising. The triad and melodic extension exercises include fingering studies, which will expand your knowledge of the fretboard and increase your facility throughout the range of the guitar. You will also learn how to add articulation to your phrases by playing excerpts from the styles of the great masters of jazz guitar. The ability to hear chord changes and play melodic lines that outline the harmony of a song is important to an improviser. This book will teach you to use guide tones to connect melodic ideas and "play the changes." You will also learn to use guide tones to build voicings for accompaniment, or "comping." Knowledge of harmony and its application to the guitar is another part of creative improvising. The exercises in this book will help you develop a more melodic way of thinking about harmony and will teach you improvisational tools to create alternate approaches to playing over chord changes.

What You Need to Know

The principles of melodic development demonstrated in this book are suited to all levels of guitarists who are seeking to improve their improvisational skills and instincts. To get the most from this book, you should have a solid understanding of key signatures, the cycle of fifths, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, tensions, and chord progressions. A familiarity with basic jazz rhythms and phrasing will help you derive maximum benefit from the exercises in this book.

How this Book is Organizated. This book is divided into three parts.

In part I (chapters 1-4), you'll begin to approach improvisation by playing triads and melodic extensions. It will also introduce you to rhythmic phrasing and articulation, so that you will have the tools to build great solos. Chapter 1 reviews the basics of jazz theory, including scales, the cycle of fifths, triad construction, diatonic harmony, tensions, and chord progressions. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of triads and melodic extensions. Then, in chapter 3, you will learn how to expand them into well-articulated phrases as a basis for improvising over chord changes. In chapter 4, you apply your knowledge of melodic extensions to dominant 7 chords. In part II (chapters 5-10), you'll learn to use triads and melodic extensions to build musical solos. First, we look closely at the styles of some of the great masters of jazz guitar to hear how they use triads and melodic extensions in improvisation (chapter 5). Listening to these great players will reveal new melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic possibilities that you can use as you begin to build solos in chapter 6. To further develop your melodic instincts, you will learn about guide tones in chapter 7. Then, you will build voicings by adding tensions to guide tones, and play them over different chord progressions to improve your understanding of jazz harmony. In chapters 8 and 9, you will learn more about how to connect your melodic lines from chord to chord using guide tones. This will help you hear the chord changes and build creative phrases using guide-tone resolutions to outline the harmony. Chapter 10 demonstrates how to apply these concepts to soloing on standard tunes and gives you an opportunity to improvise with a rhythm section. By the end of part II, you will have played triads and melodic extensions on major and minor chords and diatonic II/V progressions. However, as a creative improviser, you will need to be able to add more color to your solos by using a nondiatonic approach to triads and melodic extensions. In part III (chapters 11-12), you will learn to play triads that accent the subtle variations of altered "color tones" on dominant chords. Because of its important harmonic role in chord progressions, a good improviser needs a number of skillful approaches to playing over the V7 chord. Chapter 11 introduces the V7 altered chord, and shows you how to use triad substitution to build melodic lines with tensions b9, #9, and b13. In chapter 12, you will learn how to play augmented triads on the V7 (#5) chord. Then, you'll get a chance to put everything you've learned into practice with one final tune.

The use of triads and melodic extensions as building blocks for jazz solos represents a common thread that runs through many players' styles. This book offers an organized approach to learning them so that you can become a more creative improviser.

Contents:

CD Track List

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I APPROACHING JAZZ IMPROVISATION THROUGH

TRIADS AND MELODIC EXTENSIONS

Chapter I Harmony Review

Scale Construction

Key Signatures and the Cycle of Fifths

Triad Construction

Diatonic Triads

Diatonic Seventh Chords

Chord Function

Diatonic Chord Progressions

Tensions

Chapter 2 Major and MinorTriads and Melodic Extensions

Dividing the Fretboard into Four Areas Using Alternating Minor and Major Triads

Melodic Extensions and Related Fingerings through Four Areas of the Fretboard

Chapter 3 PhrasingandArticulation

Articulation: The Rest Stroke

Melodic Extensions of G Minor: Eighth-Note Triplets and Rest Strokes

Chapter 4

PART II

Melodic Extensionsof Dominant Chords

BUILDING YOUR SOLOS USING TRIADS AND

MELODIC EXTENSIONS

Chapter 5 Stylistic Interpretation

Minor Lines over Dominant 7 Chords

Chapter 6 Buildinga Solo with Triads and Melodic Line Extensions

Chapter 7 Fretboard Harmony: GuideTones and 2- and

3-Note Voicings

Voice Leading

How to Play Guide Tones on the Guitar

3-Note Voicings: Adding a Chord Tone or Tension

Minor Key Guide-Tone Voice Leading for II/V7/I Progressions: 2- and

3-Note Voicings

Chord Substitutions

Chapter 8 Using Guide-Tone Lines in Soloing

Direct Approach

Indirect Approach

Chromatic Approach

Double-Indirect Approach

Solo Structure: The Shape of Things to Come

Chapter 9 Guide-Tone Lines for II-7 (b5) V7 (b9) I in Minor

More Guide-Tone Lines: b9 to 5

Chapter 10 Soloing Over Standard Tunes: II / V / I in Major and Minor Keys

PART III HARMONIC CONCEPTS FOR IMPROVISATION

Chapter 11 Altered Tensions

V7 Tensions b9 and #9

V7 Tensions b9 and b13

Tensions b9, #9, and b13

Chapter 12 V7 (+S)

The Augmented Triad

Wrap-Up

Coda

"Hearing Things" (Garrison Fewell, Steve LaSpina, and John Riley)

About the Author

Discography as Leader

Reviews

CD Track List:

1. Fig. 2.1. Extensions of G minor

2. Fig. 2.2. Melody based on G minor triad and melodic extensions

3. Exercise 2.3. "Elle," rhythm track

4. Fig. 3.1. Practice phrase using Bb major triad

5. Fig. 3.2. Practice phrase, with triplet added

6. Fig. 3.5. Sample solo, "Hot Saw"

7. Exercise 3.3. "Hot Saw," rhythm track

8. Fig. 3.6. Rest-stroke articulation in the style of Wes Montgomery

9. Fig. 3.7. Four triads with eighth-note triplets and rest-stroke articulation

10. Fig. 3.9. Combination, ascending and descending rest strokes

11. Fig. 3.10. Descending and ascending rest strokes in a II/V/I progression

12. Fig. 3.11. Triad over strings 1, 2, and 3, with rest-stroke articulation

13. Exercise 3.4.1.

14. Exercise 3.4.2.

15. Exercise 3.4.3.

16. Exercise 3.5. "Three Bee's," rhythm track

17. Fig. 4.3. Phrase in the style of Charlie Christian

18. Fig. 4.6. Christian-style phrase, using chromatic passing tones

19. Exercise 4.2. "Blues for Charlie," rhythm track

20. Fig. 5.1. G minor line over C7

21. Fig. 5.2. Phrase in the style ofWes Montgomery

22. Fig. 5.3. Minor lines played over descending chromatic progressions

23. Fig. 5.4. Phrase in the style of George Benson

24. Fig. 5.5. Phrase in the style of Pat Martino

25. Fig. 5.6. Martino-style minor line extension over dominant chord

26. Fig. 5.7. Phrase in the style of Grant Green

27. Fig. 5.8. Green-style phrase

28. Fig. 5.9. Phrase in the style of Kenny Burrell

29. Fig. 5.10. Phrase in the style of Jimmy Raney

30. Fig. 5.11. Phrase in the style ofJohnny Smith

31. Fig. 5.12. Phrase in the style of Tal Farlow

32. Fig. 5.13. Phrase in the style of Jim Hall

33. Fig. 5.14. Melodic grace and rhythmic precision, Montgomery style

34. Fig. 5.15. Montgomery-style phrase, moving from second to fourteenth fret

35. Exercise 5.2. "East Ghost Blues," rhythm track

36. Exercise 6.1. "Lovers No More," solo

37. Exercise 6.2. "Lovers No More," rhythm track

38. Fig. 7.1. Guide-tone voice leading using 3rds and 7ths

39. Fig. 7.2. 3-note guide-tone voice leading

40. Exercise 7.3. "Rhythm Changes," comping

41. Exercise 7.4. "Rhythm Changes," rhythm track

42. Exercise 7.6. 3-note voice leading with tensions for II-7 (%5) /V7/I- in D minor

43. Fig. 7.7. Chord substitutions

44. Fig. 7.8. Chord substitutions can add color and brightness

45. Exercise 7.7. "Love Is Beautiful," comping

46. Exercise 8.1. Guide-Tone lines/direct approach on II/V/I/V7 progression

47. Fig. 8.3. Guide-tone line with indirect approach

48. Fig. 8.4. Guide-tone line with indirect approach and melodic extensions

49. Fig. 8.5. Guide-tone line with chromatic approach

50. Fig. 8.7. Guide-tone lines with double-indirect approach over II/V/I

51. Exercise 8.5. Melodic contour with chord extensions and varied resolutions

52. Fig. 8.9. 3-note voice leading with guide tones over "Tune It Up!"

53. Exercise 8.7. "Tune It Up!," solo

54. Exercise 8.8. "Tune It Up!," rhythm track

55. Exercise 9.1. Guide-tone lines

56. Fig. 9.3. Example with b9 to 5 resolution

57. Fig. 9.4. Direct resolution, b9 to 5

58. Fig. 9.5. Indirect resolution, b9 to 5, with chromatic approach

59. Fig. 9.6. b9 to 5 with double-chromatic resolution

60. Fig. 9.8. Guide-tone resolutions with octave displacement

61. Exercise 9.5. Melodic lines over II/V7/I in minor

62. Exercise 9.6. "Love Is Beautiful," rhythm track

63. Fig. 10.2. "Bossa Azure," 3-note voice leading

64. Fig. 10A. Guide-tone line, embellished with Parker-esque melodic approaches

65. Fig. 10.5. Parker-esque approach using direct, indirect, and double-chromatic approaches

66. Exercise 10.1. "Bossa Azure," rhythm track

67. Exercise 10.3. "Falling Leaves," guide tones and melody

68. Exercise lOA. "Falling Leaves," solo

69. Exercise 10.5. "Falling Leaves," rhythm track

70. Fig. 11.1. Dominant 7 line with tensions b9 and #9

71. Fig. 11.2. Phrase in the style of Lee Morgan

72. Fig. 11.3. Phrase in the style of Charlie Parker

73. Exercise 11.1. Guide-tone line over V7 in major key

74. Exercise 11.2. Melodic lines using altered tensions

75. Fig. 11.6. G-(9) arpeggio over E-7(b5); Bb-(9) over A7

76. Fig. 11.7. V7alt with changed melody on II-7 chord

77. Fig. 11.8. Melodic motif, transposed in three keys

78. Fig. 12.2. Augmented triad over II/V/I in C major

79. Fig. 12.3. Augmented triads used in descending chromatic line over II/V/I

80. Fig. 12.4. Augmented triad played over F7 as approach to Bb-7

81. Fig. 12.5. Augmented triad over minor II/V/I in Ab

82. Exercise 12.2. "Bossa Lee," rhythm track

83. Bonus track, "Hearing Things" by Garrison Fewell

FAST FORWARD, JAZZ GUITAR IMPROVISATION. CD TABLATURE

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So you want to play jazz and improvise like a real pro? This book will show you how, fast! First learn a few basics: the all-important scales, fingering and chord sequences, starting with a simple Bossa nova solo. then move on to arpeggios and more complex patterns such as the be-bop scale. Experiment with melodic shapes and discover the jazz-based blues progression used at most standard jazz gigs. The music examples then demonstrate rhythmic and free flowing ideas with lots of tips on the advanced techniques used by professional jazzers. In no time at all you will be creating your own solos in the style of such great jazz legends as Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall.
Five complete solos are included in the book in easy-to-follow tab.
On the CD you'll find a matching audio track to every music example in the book. Each track is recorded twice: first with the guitar, the with backing track only so you can play the guitar part.

Playing A Solo
Imagine you're in a recording studio. The red
light is on; there's a session in progress. You can
just about make out the faces of the engineer and
the other band members behind the glass. You're
holding a guitar, and through your headphones
you're listening to the tracks for a newly-recorded
song. Verses and choruses pass by, and soon ...
very soon ... it will be time to record a solo. How
confident would you feel about playing the
session?

FastForward Jazz Guitar Improvisation will
give you the confidence to create awe-inspiring
jazz solos and breaks. No-one can teach you how
to improvise - however, you can learn a lot about
technique and musical sense to give you a better
chance of being able to playa great solo when
the time comes!
The book is divided into five sections. Each
section represents a different recording session
and a different style of playing, including Bossa
Nova, and Blues and Jazz progressions. Before
each solo, you get to playa few simple phrases at
a slow tempo and practise some scale patterns
and some other ideas that you could use in a solo
of your own.
Then it's your chance to learn a solo (usually 24
bars) that fits the chord sequence and is
accompanied by a 'Spotlight on Technique' which
focuses on some of the ideas featured in the solo.
Later, you can use the backing tracks to
improvise your own lead breaks. Each backing
track is twice the length of the solo track, to give
you more time to get your creative juices going!
Along the way this book will answer some of the
common questions players have about soloing:
What scales should I be using?
Do I have to change the scale when the chord
changes?
Which scales go with jazz? Are these the same as
for other styles of music?
What is syncopation?
Which scales go with which key?
How do I build a whole solo?
How do I make the scales I know sound more
like a solo?

Each example is given in musical score and in
guitar tablature. With the latter each number
indicates the fret at which the note is played,
each line is a string. If you find it hard to
remember which way up they go, think always of
pitch: high notes are above low notes, therefore
the high-sounding string (1st E) is at the top.
Each musical example is played once with the
lead guitar, and once without. The first is for you
to learn by listening, the second 'play-along' track
is for you to practise.
The examples have a one-bar count-in.
TRACK I Tuning notes

Guitar Tablature Explained
Introduction
Playing A Solo

Chapter 1: The Big Bossa
Bossa Nova Scale Shapes
Arpeggio Chord Tones
Five-note Scale
Scale Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
The Big Bossa (solo)

Chapter 2: Where's Montgomery?
Blues Scales
Blues Arpeggios
Arpeggio Impro
Solo Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
Where's Montgomery? (solo)

Chapter 3: Tune For Toots
Scale Shapes
Repeating Patterns
Arpeggio Shapes
Classic Chord Sequence
Spotlight On Techniques
Tune For Toots (solo)

Chapter 4: Bygones
The Circle Of Fifths
Half-scale Patterns
Arpeggios In Fifths
D Minor Arpeggio Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
Bygones (solo)

Chapter 5: Song For Sonny And Jim
Standard Scale Shapes
Repeated Scale Patterns
Standard Arpeggio Shapes
Chord Tone Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
Song For Sonny And Jim (solo)
Conclusion
 

WALKING BASS LINES FOR GUITAR. Jean-Marc Pillard. BOOK WITH CD & TABLATURE

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This book and CD teaches excellent techniques to use for walking bass lines on guitar when playing in a duet format, either with another guitar player or with a singer or other instrumentalists. The idea of this book is to give a few answers to the question, "How do I harmonize walking bass lines when I've never done it before?". We will take the principal chords, major 7, 6, dominant 7, minor, diminished, and minor 7 flat 5 and walk bass lines on the sixth or fifth string. Written in notation and tablature.
Pages: 56

Contents:

Harmonization of the Walking Bass
How to Harmonize the Chords
Major 7th Chords
Dominant 7th Chords
Dominant 7b9 Chord
Diminished 7th Chords
Minor 7th Chords
Minor 7b5 Chords
Alternative Positions on String 5
Different Rhythms
Examples with Syncopated Rhythms
Example of Walking on G7
Major II-V-I Cadence (String 6)
Major II-V-I Cadence (String 5)
Minor II-V-I Cadence (String 6)
Minor II-V-I Cadence (String 5)
Example on II-V-I Cadence
Blues
Autumn Trees
Days of Water and Tulips
Walking by Moonlight
Tune-Down
Lunar
Rodeo

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Peter Erskine;

Steve Jordan;

Dave Weckl;

Jaco Pastorius;

Mark Egan and Jeff Andrews 

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TAYLOR MARTIN, GUITAR METHOD. CD TABLATURE

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The Martin Taylor Guitar Method offers you the chance to study with one of the giants of jazz guitar. Hailed by guitar legend Chet Atkins as "One of the greatest and most impressive guitarists in the world today..." and celebrated by New York's Jazz Times as "Europe's finest guitarist," Martin shares the secrets of his style for the first time in this amazing tutor.

Learn how Martin creates solo guitar arrangements of jazz standards via a series of progressive studies aimed at introducing guitarists of intermediate level and beyond to the world of arranging and solo performance.

All music examples are transcribed in standard notation with tablature and played by Martin himself on the accompanying CD. You won't get a better chance to study with one of the instrument's true masters!

Foreword
Introduction

Chapters
Quick Start Jazzy
Tuning
Fretboard Geography
Don't Call Them Chords
Tenths
Basslines
Right Hand Technique
Left Hand Technique
Phrasing
Rhythm
Tone
Special Effects
The 'Danny Boy' Variations
Bhai Bhai Blues

Appendices
i) Guitar Design
A look at Martin Taylor's gear and signature guitar.

ii) Jive Talking
An interview with Martin Taylor about improvisation and how he built up his legendary chord melody chops.

Martin Taylor
MARTIN TAYLOR, MBE

"There is a touch of genius in Martin Taylor's playing." - CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE

The virtuoso guitarist Martin Taylor first came to prominence in the late 1970's through his collaborations with the jazz violin legend Stephane Grappelli, and now tours the world's concert halls with his dazzling live performances.

He began playing at the age of four when his father, jazz bassist Buck Taylor, gave him a small acoustic guitar as a present. A totally self taught guitarist, he learned to play by listening to his father's records and trying to imitate what he heard. Seven years later he was playing in local bands and gained the respect and admiration of professional musicians who were amazed by the young boy they called "The Guitar Wizard." Although inspired initially by the Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, it was to be piano players, most notably Art Tatum, that caught his imagination and set him on the path of developing his own individual style of solo playing.

In 1978 he made his debut album Taylor Made for Wave Records and the following year received a call from Stephane Grappelli inviting him to play on a series of concerts in France. Shortly after those concerts he joined Stephane on a coast-to-coast tour of the U. S., including New York's Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. It was the beginning of an eleven year collaboration which took in numerous world tours, and over 20 albums including recordings with Michel Legrand, Peggy Lee, Yehudi Menuhin, Nelson Riddle and several film soundtracks including the Louis Matle movie Milou en Mai and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

Alongside his work with Grappelli, Martin was also pursuing his own solo career and in 1987 had great commercial success in America with his Los Angeles recorded album Sarabanda. In 1993 he made his first solo album for Linn Records Artistry, which topped the UK jazz charts for six weeks and made him the biggest selling British jazz artist in the UK. The following year he formed his group "Spirit of Django," and their first recording for Linn Records also proved to be a best selling jazz album and was nominated best album in the British Jazz Awards and Martin was voted best guitarist for the seventh time in a row. Even people who are not familiar with Martin's work will have heard him many times with his version of Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary, which was used on the famous cult TV ads with "Nicole-Papa" for the Renault Clio. In 1999 he signed a recording contract with Sony Jazz, making two critically acclaimed albums Kiss and Tell and Nitelife. He has also collaborated with many musicians outside of jazz including Yes guitarist Steve Howe and country guitar legend Chet Atkins. He was also featured on the Prefab Sprout album Andromeda Heights, and has recorded with George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Chris Rea, and ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman.

In 1998 Martin founded the Kirkmichael International Guitar Festival in his home village in Scotland, which has now become one of the biggest guitar festivals in the world. He also founded Guitars For Schools, which promotes the teaching of guitars in primary schools. Through his work he has raised money to pay for guitars and tuition for hundreds of school children throughout South West Scotland. Over the years he has received many awards and honours including The Freedom of the City of London, the Gold Badge Of Merit from the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, and was made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Paisley, Scotland in celebration of 25 years in music. In 2002, on the recommendation of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Martin was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to Jazz Music, in the Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours List, making him the first jazz guitarist ever to receive an honour from the Queen. His autobiography for Sanctuary Publishing "Kiss and Tell" is available worldwide.