{"id":2216,"date":"2004-01-26T22:58:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T06:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2014-01-12T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T23:12:23","slug":"review_of_unaccompanied_django_just_jazz_guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/review_of_unaccompanied_django_just_jazz_guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of <i>Unaccompanied Django<\/i> (Just Jazz Guitar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Just Jazz Guitar &#8211; November 2003 &#8211; By Ted Gottsegen<\/b><p>\n<p>For those of you who are currently working through <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/gypsy_picking\/\">Gypsy Picking<\/a><\/i>, here&#8217;s another\nDjangoBooks.com release to fuel the fire to learn the authentic Gypsy style\nguitar. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/unaccompanied_django\/\">Unaccompanied Django<\/a><\/i> examines the solo style of Jazz Manouche. From\nDjango&#8217;s brilliant, often on-the-spot solos like <i>Parfum <\/i>and <i>Naguine <\/i>to\nStochelo Rosenberg&#8217;s modern <i>Stephanesque<\/i> and the mellow and grooving <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/unaccompanied_django\/samples\/just_relax.pdf\">Just\nRelax<\/a><\/i> in addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/unaccompanied_django\/songlist\/\">14 other full transcriptions<\/a>, Horowitz takes the lessons\ntaught in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/gypsy_picking\/\">Gypsy Picking <\/a><\/i>and gives the player a melodic way to fully integrate\nthem into their own playing. The transcriptions are outstanding, following\nDjango&#8217;s original style &#8211; fingerings and all, while the <i>Gypsy Etudes<\/i> examine\ndifferent stylistic traits common in Manouche solo guitar. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/gypsy_picking\/\">Gypsy Picking <\/a><\/i>set\nthe standard for what a true method on Jazz Manouche should be and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/unaccompanied_django\/\">Unaccompanied\nDjango <\/a><\/i>raises that bar. Oh, and for all of you Gypsy jazz junkies out there who have broken the rewind button on your VCR&#8217;s in an attempt to learn Django&#8217;s glorious intro to\n<i>J&#8217;Attendrai<\/i>, that&#8217;s also included. Another killer DjangoBooks.com product!<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just Jazz Guitar &#8211; November 2003 &#8211; By Ted Gottsegen For those of you who are currently working through Gypsy Picking, here&#8217;s another DjangoBooks.com release to fuel the fire to learn the authentic Gypsy style guitar. Unaccompanied Django examines the solo style of Jazz Manouche. From Django&#8217;s brilliant, often on-the-spot solos like Parfum and Naguine [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}