Playing Guitar In A Jazz/Big Band

I bought many books in an effort to get up to speed quickly on Big Band jazz guitar.Where this book fails spectacularly compared to another couple I bought, is in the voicings for the chords. The Freddie Green (Count Basie's strummer) style which should form the bedrock of any Big Band guitarist's approach got scarcely a mention.The arrangements in the book bear no resemblance to much I have to play as a new recruit to a bunch of inexperienced Big Band musicians (except the Band Leader).The voicings used in this book are not conducive to playing the many changes often encountered in a big band score - they are too cumbersome.Immeasurably superior to this book is the Charlton Johnson book (published by Hal Leonard) on Big Band playing. After a week on Section 1 I was already 70% equipped with everything I needed.There are some other good books I have taken a look at - All Blues for Jazz Guitar comping book published by Mel Bay is good and will take you into areas beyond the Freddie Green sound but it has less clarity on chord voicings. Still worth having though. There is another one by Bob Sneider which seems very complex. Perhaps it is one for those who really wish to broaden their comping horizons. My problem with it (I haven't gone through it in depth as yet) is that it doesn't offer much of a comping framework or system. Just a series of pieces with a few performance notes.To summarise: In my opinion, the book 'Playing Guitar in a Jazz/big Band' is a bad book on the subject. Big Band comping is a very specialised art - less about harmony, more about rhythm. This book doesn't seem to take into account that the chords it proposes you use will step on the toes of the other musicians in the big band.