Reddit mentions of Jazz Guitar, Complete Edition (Book & CD)

I'd recommend Jazz Guitar: Complete Edition by Jody Fisher. It covers all the important topics in a fairly straightforward way and comes with a CD of examples and backing tracks. It's aimed at intermediate guitarists, but your experience should be sufficient.

The old standard was Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar, but I'm not a huge fan. The learning curve is extremely steep and there's not a great deal of theory or explanation. It'd be a really useful companion to lessons with a teacher, but I think that most beginners would really struggle with it.

A good alternative to the Jody Fisher book is A Modern Method For Guitar by William Leavitt. The learning curve is fairly gradual, but it's tough going - everything is written in standard notation and there's no real instruction as such. It seems to be inspired by the Suzuki method. Everything is taught through progressively more demanding examples. You probably won't get stuck on anything, but you will need to do a bit of thinking to figure stuff out for yourself.

If you want to learn jazz theory in depth, I'd strongly recommend Jazzology by Rawlins and Bahha. It's the clearest, most elegant explanation of how everything fits together in jazz. It's not specifically written for guitar, but the theory is universal. The Jody Fisher book covers all the theory that you really need to know, but Jazzology would be a really good supplement if you like to understand things in detail.

In your jazz guitar journey, you'll probably come across The Real Book. It's an essential reference text, containing lead sheets for hundreds of the most popular jazz tunes. It's how most of us learned our repertoire and most of us still have a copy in our gig bag pocket. Today, you have a huge advantage in learning tunes because of the fabulous iReal Pro. It's an app version of The Real Book, but it can also play backing tracks for any tune in any key and at any tempo. It's an absolute boon when you're learning to play solos.

Finally, I'd suggest just listening to a whole bunch of jazz, not just jazz guitar. You should know Joe Pass, Ted Greene and Wes Montgomery, but you should also know Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie.

This Book is absolutely the bomb and will take you from zero knowledge to advanced by simply following it (Jody Fisher Complete Jazz Method)

Jody Fisher’s Complete Method for Jazz Guitar

I own around 20 guitar books. This one is the best for getting a comprehensive overview of what you should know to start and grow with jazz guitar IMHO. then other books are good for supplementing specific concepts that you find along the way.

I bought this book and have been slowly going through it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0739066374/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/177-1392342-1784740

It really gives you focus for practicing. It's not always fun and it seems like a lot of information to digest at a time but it's definitely worth it.

this is a great book. helped me learn a lot of different techniques.

Two other method books to look into are Jazz Guitar - Jody Fisher and A Modern Method for Guitar - William Leavitt

The Complete Jazz Guitarist

Even if you aren't a jazz person, this is a great set of books to expand your musical knowledge and forces you to actually read notation. It actually forces you to learn from the ground up, instead of just teaching you enough to get by. It might not be the most entertaining to a beginner, but it helped me immensely after I'd been playing for some time

Is it this one?

The Mickey Baker books are terrible without rooting around on the internet for supplemental material in the way of explanation. Shelve it and getting something that’s actually useful. Like this: Jazz Guitar, Complete Edition (Book & CD) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0739066374/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_jpuWAbXE3WE7X

If you ever want to get a little deeper, I'd recommend this book. It presumed a good bit of knowledge of guitar and basic theory, but it tells you right up front all of the shapes you need to know as a pre-req. Essentially just the basic majors, minors, and important 7ths built both off of the 5th and 6th string.

Beyond that, it really does get in deep on how to learn about your chord shapes anywhere. It has a great section and exercise specifically on building triads anywhere on the neck build from 6th, 5th, 4th, and 3rd string that basically will let you understand how those shapes work, and how to alter pitches to get from major to minor to diminished, etc. just like you might on piano.

It also gets pretty quickly into 7ths, and then rootless 9ths and such as well as tons of other stuff. It's mostly a lot of concepts for soloing, but it really does theory on guitar better than any other book I've looked at.

Edit: As a side note, knowing the scale that fits around a given chord and corresponds to it can really help with this too. It's easy to get into pure muscle memory with guitar scales, but as you're playing them, try to take note of where 3, 5, and 7 on. By extension you'll get a good vibe of where 2, 4, 6 are (and that means 9, 11, and 13 as well). Now when you play a chord in a certain place on the neck and know the corresponding scale, it actually makes it easier to be aware of subtle changes you can make for different colors (like adding a b9 to a dominant chord). It also will makes you a lot more aware of the fretboard beyond just your 6th and 5th string as roots for barre/power chords.