Author: Michael BlumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
What is the Process by which Jazz Vocabulary is Acquired?
Author: Michael BlumThe Jazz Language: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation
Author: Dan HaerlePublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457494086
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
This text presents all of the materials commonly used by the jazz musician in a logical order dictated both by complexity and need. The book is not intended to be either an arranging or improvisation text, but a pedagogical reference providing the information musicians need to pursue any activity they wish.
The Diatonic Cycle
Author: Laura De CosmoPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476840849
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
(Jazz Instruction). Renowned jazz educators Emile and Laura De Cosmo provide more than 300 exercises to help improvisors tackle one of music's most common progressions: the diatonic cycle. This book is guaranteed to refine technique, enhance improvisational fluency, and improve sight-reading!
The Cycle of Fifths (Music Instruction)
Author: Laura De CosmoPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476840814
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
(Jazz Instruction). This updated and expanded edition of the essential instruction book provides more than 450 exercises, including hundreds of melodic and rhythmic ideas. The book is designed to help improvisors master the cycle of fifths, one of the primary progressions in music. Guaranteed to refine technique, enhance improvisational fluency, and improve sight-reading!
Jazz Anyone... . . ?, Bk 2
Author: Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9781576235010
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Blues and More is the second book in the Jazz Anyone.....' series, an exciting method to learn the art of jazz improvisation that's ideal for either individual study or classroom use with an entire jazz ensemble. Through the use of structured lessons and sequenced concepts involving exercises, licks and mini-charts, as well as recorded jazz tracks on the accompanying CDs, a student can acquire invaluable improvisation skills.
Developing a Jazz Vocabulary
Author: Joe RiposoPublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781562242848
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Much has been written about the jazz language or the jazz vocabulary. Linguistic references are sensible and proper because, just as we speak in words and phrases derived from the alphabet, so do we improvise jazz in musical phrases derived from notes. In speech, choosing the right words is essential to expressing ourselves properly and making a statement. Likewise, choosing the right notes is essential to properly expressing ourselves and making a musical statement.
Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony
Author: Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476863121
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
(Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists.
Thinking in Jazz
Author: Paul F. BerlinerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044521
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
Jazz Education Journal
Author: Personalizing Jazz Vocabulary
Author: Davy MooneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781513464329
Category : Improvisation (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This method book is designed to help intermediate to advanced jazz students incorporate classic jazz vocabulary into their original improvisations. Using a series of standard and modern chord progressions, guitarist Davy Mooney provides several short passages that are meant to be played exactly as written within an otherwise improvised solo; students are expected to adapt this written material to their own purposes by improvising into and out of it.In an effort to overcome the disconnect between developing a unique sound and learning the language of past jazz masters, the author eloquently analyzes several phrases and chord changes and comments on various aspects of improvisation, referencing the styles and specific recordings of many outstanding jazz artists. This is the method that Mooney used as a student to personalize his own jazz vocabulary and learn to express himself within the context of the jazz tradition.Mooney proves he has both the vocabulary and the chops to deliver generously repeated guitar/bass/drums backup tracks for student use; he then demonstrates the method by providing transcriptions of his own improvisations, incorporating the same phrases and chord progressions required of the student. The firm message conveyed by this book is that, you can do it too. Written in standard notation only. Includes access to online audio.