Does anyone know of a good collection of jazz guitar tunes out there that is arranged and presented for classical guitarists? By that I mean the music would be written out in standard notation, preferably with no tablature, to allow more lines on the page and a bigger note font. Also, classical guitar music is usually fingered, either by the composer or editor, to show which finger should be used to play a note and what string and fret it should be played on. It doesn’t do this for every single note, but it does when a change of position is called for, or if the note is to be played in an unusual position, for example an E played at the 14th fret instead of on the open bottom string.
All of the jazz guitar collections I’ve seen have standard notes and tablature, but the standard notes aren’t fingered, and I’m always having to stray to the tablature to get the fingerings. TAB is physically difficult to read and doesn’t give you the melody line in an obvious way, unlike standard notation.
Any help would be appreciated. (BTW I know I could finger it myself, but it would be nice not to have to do that.)
These are pretty difficult arrangements and require good chord-reading skills, so good luck with them. There is some fingering but it’s fairly limited (the best way, in my opinion)
Laurindo Almeida put out a book like this once, and I bought a copy. Some of it I could play, some of it was too advanced for me. It had a purple cover with his pic on it. This was back in the 1870s-1980s.
These might be what I’m after, I’ll check them out. Limited fingering should be OK, as merely having major shifts of position indicated is a huge help if you know the fingerboard.