Joe Jewell's JAZZ GUITAR RESOURCES
(All websites active as of 8/31/01)

Publishers
These two companies have an excelent stock of jazz guitar materilas, including the Steve Khan book. You should look through and start developing a library of materials suited to your interests.

Chord Melody Guitar Music
http://www.chordmelody.com/

Avalon Guitar
http://www.avalonguitar.com/

Here are some general links pages that will give you plenty to look at (I have a much longer list, but many of the ones I checked today were dead.)
http://www.jazzguitar.com/
http://curtsheller.com/music/links/index.html

These are the best transcription sites I have found:
http://www.accattatis.com/home.html
http://www.stuntzner.brent.org/Transcriptions.html
http://guitar.about.com/msub14.htm?once=true&pid=2798&cob=home
http://www.stuntzner.brent.org/
http://www.adamgood.com/transcriptions/
There are more

Important links to players:
http://www.joediorio.com/
http://stevekhan.com/
http://www.patmartino.com/
There are many others, too numerous to mention here. Try searching for Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, or whomever and you will find a great deal of information.

The place to start for information on Django:
http://www.hotclub.co.uk/
rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz is the jazz guitar newsgroup. Discussions range from idiotic to interesting to informative. I have gotten valuable information from this group.

I recommend Just Jazz Guitar Magazine
http://www.justjazzguitar.com/

I also highly recommend Legato Guitars
http://www.legatoguitars.com/

Mel Bay's weekly update is interesting sometimes
http://www.guitarsessions.com/

For basic information on guitar maintenance, adjustment and setup,
I highly recommend
http://www.guitarsessions.com/
This is a GREAT website by Frank Ford, someone who really cares about guitars. All sorts of info about adjustments and tons of stuff.

List of websites for the student guitarist

In compiling this list, I have tried to avoid commercial sites. These sites provide, in many cases, solid instructional materials. There are some sites that provide important biographical information about the maters of the jazz guitar. There are also sites that have transcriptions of arrangements and solos. There is a wealth of information here for the student guitarist, even without the aid of a private instructor, even though a good teacher is, of course, highly recommended.

The categorization of these sites is casual because, of course, the information in many sites overlaps.

TRANSCRIPTIONS

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~heuser/
INCREDIBLE site with amazing transcriptions!!! Hard to believe the amount of work that has been put into this site.

INSTRUCTION

http://www.geocities.com/~sologuitar/
Guitar Masters excellent educational site providing free lessons and tutorials as well as biographical information on important players, discographies, etc. A MUST.

http://www.musicstaff.com/guitar/jazz.html
Good lessons

http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~cbuzzel/
Chris Buzzelli's (Bowling Green University) homepage with some excellent lessons on chord voicings

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/3573/
Dan Coy's site. Very good instructional site because it integrates blues with jazz. A very accessible site for younger guitarists

http://www.ws64.com/guitarchords/
Interesting interactive site that displays chords that are entered into a search matrix. Not scholarly, but fun and potentially educational.

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~pmusso/
Jazz Guitar Central. Tons of free lesson materials. Recommended.

http://www.guitarmain.com/
Important website because there is much valuable information on arpeggios.

http://www.visionmusic.com/
Excellent online lessons with audio clips of all lesson materials.

GENERAL

http://www.jazzguitar.com/
Jazz Guitar Online. Developed by Bob Patterson, the first and still the most comprehensive of the general jazz guitar websites.
Jazz guitar news, lessons, and excellent links

http://www.musicweb-uk.com/
Jazz Guitar International
Good reviews of books and CDs

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/kenbrowgtr/index.html
Ken Brown's homepage. Good general information

http://www.alljazzguitar.com/ajg_temp.htm
Excellent general information site

http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=jazzguitar;list
Another good general information site

http://webhome.idirect.com/~joegold/index.html
Canadian guitarist, Joey Goldstein's site. Although he does have materials for sale he has a great deal of free information, too.

http://www.guitarnotes.com/
Good general site

http://pages.cthome.net/JazzGuitar/
Good general site

http://www.justjazzguitar.com/
Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. The leading magazine devoted strictly to jazz guitar and guitarists. Website does contain some online lessons.

http://www.guitarcoalition.com/
Internet Guitar Coalition
Excellent general site with lessons, biographical information and other links.

http://www.guitar4u.com/
Good instructional and general site

http://www.mindsync.com/kerin/donprice/
Good general site with instruction

PERSONALITIES

http://www.joediorio.com/
Homepage of Joe Diorio, one of the living greats. Lessons and a ton of ideas.

http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/hansen/Charlie/
Website devoted to Charlie Christian, transcriptions and discussions of the music of this seminal jazz guitarist.

BIOGRAPHY, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DISCOGRAPHY

http://www.classicjazzguitar.com/
Excellent site for a wide range of biographical information

http://www.notz.com/jazz_guitar.htm
Good recommendation lists for listening and reading

INDICES OF OTHER SITES

http://www.citilink.com/~tkriehle/jazzguitar.html
Great index of sites

http://www.claymoore.com/
Clay Moore's site. Another good general site with some educational links.

http://photoshoptips.i-us.com/GuitarLinks.htm
Extensive list of related links