Martin Taylor's books

[Kmatuhin]

Has anyone studied from Martin Taylor's books (published Fundamental Changes)? In particular, "Single Note Soloing for Jazz Guitar". I like his approach to improvisation (with a minimum of theory, based mainly on chord tone soloing and melodic variations). It is strange that on this forum I did not find information about his books. If someone is studying them, it would be interesting to know your opinions about them.

[Edl]

I’ve used his single line and walking bass books.
I’ll just talk about single line.
I really like his idea of improvisation just being variation of the melody. Honestly I wish I would spend more time with this. His examples are so simple and great but I found it really hard to really translate. That being said I love his approach to chord tones and especially seeing 10ths on the board

[garybaldy]

I have his tribute to Art Tatum transcriptions book.

[GastonD]

I would also be interested to hear other people's experience and thoughts of those books.
@Edl , could you please elaborate a bit on what aspects of the material are hard to translate, nd in which way?

[jaco]

I've played some of Martin's arrangements for years. I recently purchased his Christmas book. It's a wonderful window into how he arranges songs as these are tunes we've all heard since we were young. I highly reccommend it.

[Rgblutone]

I have his single line soloing book, and it's a brilliant book, really useful with a very natural approach to playing, it's just a great mindset shift as much as anything. The approach is a very natural way of playing and as MT says is likely the way a lot of the original masters thought about and approached playing lines.