Bert Jansch

Books

• Bert Transcribed: The Bert Jansch Songbook Volume 2

  2023 • Bert Jansch Foundation
  

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  The eagerly awaited Bert Transcribed: The Bert Jansch Songbook Volume 2 has been released on 25 August 2023 by distinguished music publishers, Hal Leonard. This follows the first volume of the Bert Jansch Songbook published in 2017, which was hailed as “a spectacularly well-thought-out, information-packed and useful publication.”

  Volume 2 features a further 30 songs from the full breadth of Bert's canon, each meticulously transcribed and annotated by the Bert Jansch Foundation's team of Jansch experts, who were able to reference some recently discovered examples of Bert’s own tentative transcription work from the 1980s. Therefore this songbook presents the most definitive transcriptions of Bert’s music that have ever been published.

  Detailing every aspect of Bert’s ground-breaking style and technique, the songbook includes guitar tab, standard notation, chord symbols, guitar chord boxes, melody line and complete lyrics. Jon Riley, head of the team, has again compiled expansive explanatory notes on the elements of Bert’s style and the background to the songs, including guidance on their complexity and tips for players on each song.

  Both volumes of #BertTranscribed are exclusively published by Hal Leonard and available to purchase at Music Room.

• Bert Transcribed

  2017 • Bert Jansch Foundation
  

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  In 2015, the Bert Jansch Foundation convened the Bert Transcribed group, a number of accomplished and talented guitarists from around the world. The group included professionals who knew and worked with Bert in the 1960s and ’70s, compilers of previous books and internet tabs, and also skilled enthusiasts who had contacted the Foundation about their own transcriptions.

  Between them, they transcribed, reviewed and verified over 100 of Bert’s pieces. They have revisited and compared their own and each other’s work, sharing their insights and skills. The result is Bert Transcribed: The Bert Jansch Songbook, a compilation of 24 of Bert Jansch's songs, transcribed in excellent detail.

  This first volume of the songbook includes:

  • Guitar tab, standard notation, chord symbols, guitar chord boxes, melody line and complete lyrics for 24 songs spanning his entire career
  • Extensive background notes and performance analysis for every song
  • A comprehensive introduction giving insight into Jansch’s unique sound
  • Album-by-album discography
  • Exclusive colour section with new photography showing Bert’s guitars

• Dazzling Stranger

  2006 • Colin Harper
  

  Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival can be seen as perhaps the most complete narrative of Bert Jansch's life, through from his early days as a teenager living in Edinburgh to the resparking of his musical career in the mid-late 1990s.

  Whilst Bert Jansch is clearly Dazzling Stranger's focal point, author Colin Harper also excels in establishing the environment in which Jansch's talent flourished, taking time to cover the musicians, artists and locales that made up the energetic folk scene of the 1960s.