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Author: Robert L. Doerschuk
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306564
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
Presents profiles of eighty-eight jazz pianists, from Jelly Roll Morton, born in New Orleans in 1890, to Wisconsin's Geoff Keezer, born in 1970, with interviews and critiques, photographs, and a sampler CD.

The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time

Author: Gene Rizzo
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780634074165
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Handy resource for jazz listeners and hardcore fans. Spanning players from eighty years of history, this bold book steps forward and claims who are the greatest. Compiled from an extensive survey conducted with the best jazz minds in the education, publishing and entertainment worlds, noted jazz journalist Gene Rizzo summarized the chosen and presents a concise bio on the essence of these jazz giants. Choices were made on the basis of chops, originality, creativity, and degree of influence. This book will either confirm some readers' opinions or open debate with others, but ultimately the book provides an impressive summary of the greatest jazz piano players of all time. A photo accompanies each listing * Landmark recordings are listed * Extra lists include the next twenty to be selected, the top women players and an alphabetical list of all the other players considered

The Jazz Style of John Coltrane

Author: John Coltrane
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457494140
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants. The Jazz Style of John Coltrane provides many transcriptions, plus discography, biographical data, style traits, genealogy, and bibliography.

The Jazz Piano Book

Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1457101440
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping ...and much more! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc.

The Jazz Theory Book

Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1457101459
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 725

Book Description
The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

The Great Jazz Pianists

Author: Len Lyons
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306803437
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and concluding with interviews that present twenty-seven pianists in their own words, is both wonderfully anecdotal and a serious piece of jazz history. Lyons has assembled a giant concert of piano voices—Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Randy Weston, Cecil Taylor, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Chick Corea, and many others. The pianists are candid, intense, and always opinionated. Yet their responses are infused with a keen appreciation for fellow musicians, their contemporaries, and those who came before—Walter, Tatum, Ellington. For pianists everywhere, whatever their individual style, this book will speak to and for you as it expresses the thoughts of its many great artists.

The Jazz Style of Miles Davis

Author: Miles Davis
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457494123
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants. The Davis book provides many transcriptions, plus discography, biographical data, list of innovations, genealogy, bibliography and comments.

The Library of Jazz Piano

Author: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Music Sales
ISBN: 9781785582400
Category : Piano music (Jazz)
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"This unique collection of some of the finest jazz piano pieces of all time includes songs written by Hoagy Carmichael, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jerome Kern among others. Here is a treasure trove of jazz piano that lets everyone play their favorites. Ain't misbehaving -- All the things you are -- Cantaloupe Island -- Fly me to the moon -- Georgia on my mind -- The girl from Ipanema -- Honeysuckle rose -- How sensitive -- Lullaby of birdland -- Maiden voyage -- Misty -- A night in Tunisia -- Satin doll -- So what -- Take the 'A' train -- The very thought of you -- The way you look tonight -- and many more..."--Cover.

Berklee Jazz Piano

Author: Ray Santisi
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1495032205
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
(Berklee Guide). Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi, one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music and mentor to Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, and thousands of others reveals the pedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels, Berklee Jazz Piano maps the school's curriculum: a unique blend of theory and application that gives you a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz. Concepts are illustrated on the accompanying online audio, where you'll hear how one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time applies these concepts to both jazz standards and original compositions, and how you can do the same. You will learn: * Jazz chords and their characteristic tension substitutions, in many voicings and configurations * Modes and scales common in jazz * Techniques for comping, developing bass lines, harmonizing melodies, melodizing harmonies, and improvisation * Practice techniques for committing these concepts to your muscle memory * Variations for solo and ensemble playing * Advanced concepts, such as rhythmic displacement, approach-chord harmonization, and jazz counterpoint

A Jazz Odyssey

Author: Oscar Peterson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN: 9780826476241
Category : Jazz musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An overview of the career of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, from the fame of his early years as the star attraction of Canada's renowned Johnny Holmes Orchestra to the 1970s and his role as a solo pianist and television personality.