The Jazz Piano Book

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It ranges from legends of the swing era like Jimmy Blanton and Milt Hinton, through to 1950s favourites Paul Chambers and Sam Jones, and fusion players like Stanley Clarke. The transcriptions, written in bass clef, are on essential standards like ‘Body and Soul’, ‘Stardust’, ‘Confirmation’ and ‘All The Things You Are’. Ray Brown’s Bass Method: Essential Scales, Patterns and Exercises by Ray Brown They will teach you everything you need to know about playing jazz on the piano, from basic chords and progressions to advanced techniques and soloing strategies. Jazz piano books for beginner to pro

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Each book contains concert pitch, bass clef, E flat and B flat parts, while the CDs are panned so that the bass or piano parts can easily be removed from the mix, making them useful for nearly all instruments. A more modern step-by-step method book, this brings together four existing texts to create a comprehensive guide to learning jazz guitar. This clearly written, well-paced book contains challenging exercises to help the student soak up the language of bebop rhythm, and is accompanied by a play-along CD. Peter Erskine (who made our list of best jazz drummer of all time) calls it “the definitive book on bop drumming”. What’s more, they are accompanied by phrase-by-phrase analysis, to help the student understand and apply the techniques used by the soloist.Read on for our in-depth guide to some of the best jazz education materials out there, whether you want to develop or learn jazz guitar, drums, bass, saxophone, piano or just general theory and improvisation… Jazz Theory Books The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine

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As mentioned already, transcribing great jazz solos is still the best way to make progress on this topic, and we’ve put together this list of 10 essential solos that every musician transcribes. Learning jazz piano can be a daunting task for any pianist, intermediate or otherwise. Jerald Simon’s book, “Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know” takes a more practical approach to learning the genre. Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know By Jerald Simon The listening guides! The book has an exhaustive appendix of great records of pianists as leaders or sideman/sidewomen, sometimes with examples of particular tunes and what to listen for. Even better, throughout the book, after Levine discusses a style or technique, he'll include footnotes of particular recordings to listen to for examples. If you love jazz, even if you never plan to play jazz piano, this forms an amazing listening guide to the world of jazz.Kenny Washington, the New York drummer, is another current prominent advocate of Wilcoxon’s method. Wilcoxon’s books were originally hand-written teaching aids, often dedicated to specific students. The Art of Bop Drumming by John Riley The book is well-written and easy to follow, and the accompanying audio CD is a great way to learn how to apply the concepts in real life. Overall, I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn how to play jazz piano. Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know By Jerald Simon The book covers several solo jazz piano styles and topics such as stride, swing, various techniques, and modern jazz piano approaches. A newer addition to the jazz education syllabus, this book by British educator and saxophonist Ollie Weston is perfect for the intermediate instrumentalist who wants to start delving into the world of jazz and improvisation.

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Patton is a highly respected New York pianist, who has played with Jimmy Heath, George Coleman and many others. Assumed knowledge of musical notation is required, but otherwise this book is accessible to late-beginner pianists and up. If you want to explore everything that jazz piano has to offer, then this is the book that will take you there. The best jazz piano books for intermediate players Practical explanations about how jazz musicians think and talk about performing. For example, I thought the chapter on "comping" (jazz term for accompanying a singer or soloist) gave a lot insight into how to *think about* doing it, how to listen, how to comp on an unfamiliar tune, etc. Perfect for the bassist who wants to develop their authentic jazz vocabulary, this is a collection of 36 transcribed solos and walking bass lines from 18 of the greatest bass players of all time. A follow-up, Beyond Bop Drumming, was published in 1997. The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary, as Taught by Alan Dawson by John RamseyAlthough often thought of as a complex and difficult genre, jazz can be surprisingly easy to learn with the right resources. Jazz Exercises, Minuets, Etudes & Pieces For Piano By Oscar Peterson As the title suggests, it focuses on the development of independent limb coordination, but Chapin was also one of the first people to write down the comping figures of early bebop masters like Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, and this book is a required study topic with many top jazz drum teachers. There are transcriptions here of solos by many of the jazz guitar greats, including Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, Barney Kessel, Pat Martino, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Johnny Smith and others.