ABSTRACT
This chapter describes possible strategies in jazz guitar based in informal duo settings and with the five professional jazz guitarists as interlocutors. The author approached the sessions as a learner, and both verbal and musical dialogue was the basis for further insight into strategies in jazz guitar improvisation. The work relates to improvising over standard tunes and especially the challenges related to the project’s main tune All the Things You Are. All the guitarists played this tune, and their solos have been transcribed for further musical analysis. The emphasis is on the verbalized knowledge and refers to strategies typically associated with goal-directed practise, and flow and intuition in performance.
