Thanks, I really appreciate it.
From a jazz point of view, the main things that I got into were Martin Taylor (he used to do an awesome fingerstyle jazz section in guitar techniques- really good transcriptions of jazz stds, and not just obvious ones). Also Howard Morgens books (particularly the Gershwin one) are very good. Obviously Joe Pass, and I do some stuff with a female singer so I tracked down the Ella and Joe Pass cds which are well worth tracking down. I think I've accumulated most of his stuff over the years.
From the single note stuff point of view, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and Pat Martino are all players that I think it's worth learning solos for note for note and stealing licks. You probably know all that already though.
Actually one thing I found really got me to improve was learning one particular progression (like a jazz blues) inside out, and learning every possible substitution over it and then figuring out what notes you can play in which bit to get a particular sound. Once you've done that with one set of changes, it's relatively easy to apply that knowledge to other changes. So I found it best to focus on one tune really intensively, rather than try and learn lots of different ones. That said, you do get sick of the same changes after a while.....
Anyway, thanks for asking, take it easy
David
