Jazz Styles
Jazz Styles

Author: Mark C. Gridley

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13:

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Key Benefit: This broad and encompassing survey provides a rich, informative, and chronological study of jazz, with insightful commentaries on its origins, and full descriptions of the various styles of jazz and the personalities that have contributed to this innovative form of music. Key Topics: Discussions of benchmark styles with point-by-point differentiation cover early jazz, swing, bop, hard bop, cool jazz, "free" jazz, and jazz-rock fusion--highlighting the musical characteristics of each style and contrasting each successive era. Market: For musicians and non-musicians alike--to increase their appreciation and enjoyment of jazz.

Chris Potter Jazz Styles
Chris Potter Jazz Styles

Author: Olegario Diaz

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1456627392

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This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques. The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Chris Potter. These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve perfect coordination. Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages. There are none signature centers, so all these exercises will be worked accidentally. This project is an extension of my last three methods of improvisation: * Improvise Now *220 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz lines phrases *Herbie Hancock lines voicings and rhythms from transcriptions. *John Coltrane & Michael Brecker Legacy

Modern Jazz Guitar Styles
Modern Jazz Guitar Styles

Author: ANDRE BUSH

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1610658302

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A unique book and audio package including extensive chapters on soloing, chords, rhythm and effects. With in-depth exercises on modern scale applicationsand intervallic choices, developing individual chord voicings, incorporating rock and funk concepts, exploring elements from world music such as odd meters and polyrhythms, and ideas for developing your own sonic textures and approach to tonal manipulation. Each section features an essay illustrating the musical history and specific innovations of modern jazz guitar masters, with insightful commentary accompanying each concept and example. The last section thoroughly analyzes studio performances of two original compositions incorporating all the above materials. Modern Jazz Guitar Styles provides the serious student or professional seeking to broaden his palette with a comprehensive overview of the current state of jazz guitar. Extensive chapters on soloing, chords, rhythm and effects In-depth exercises on modern scale applications and intervallic choices Ideas for developing your own sonic textures and approach to tonal manipulation Covers developing individual chord voicings, incorporating rock and funk concepts and exploring elements from world music Provides seriousstudent/professional a comprehensive overview of current state of jazzguitar Includes access to online audio

Simplified New Orleans Jazz Styles - Later Elementary to Early Intermediate Level
Simplified New Orleans Jazz Styles - Later Elementary to Early Intermediate Level

Author: William Gillock

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1705131212

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(Willis). 15 songs from Gillock's classic "New Orleans Jazz Styles" series adapted for easy piano: After Midnight * Bill Bailey * Bourbon Street Saturday Night * Canal Street Blues * The Constant Bass * Dixieland Combo * Downtown Beat * Frankie and Johnny (Theme and Variations) * Mardi Gras * Mississippi Mud * Mister Trumpet Man * New Orleans Blues * New Orleans Nightfall * Taking It Easy * Uptown Blues.

Intro to Jazz Piano
Intro to Jazz Piano

Author: Mark Harrison

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1480387894

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(Keyboard Instruction). This comprehensive book with audio is the perfect Intro to Jazz Piano . From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the techniques used by the pros. The audio demonstrates most of the music examples in the book. The full band tracks feature the rhythm section on the left channel and the piano on the right channel, so that you can play along with the band. Covers: jazz chords and progressions; jazz swing and bossa nova comping; voicings and patterns; melodic treatment; soloing techniques; how to play from a fake book; and more. Get started today!

Jazz Styles
Jazz Styles

Author: Mark C. Gridley

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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This historically organized introduction to most styles that have been documented on records tells what jazz is, how it originated, and how to appreciate improvisation. Focusing mainly on recorded jazz history since 1940 and keyed to titles found in the Smithsonian Collection of Classical Jazz, Gridley offers a chronological presentation of styles in terms of the characteristics of key musicians associated with them. New to this edition are: listening guides for classics by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis; expanded coverage of 1920s giants Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Earl Hines, and of drumming throughout jazz history; and comparisons between Dixieland, swing, bop, free jazz, and jazz/rock. Appendixes cover the elements of music, a guide to record buying, examples of ride rhythms and of twelve-bar blues comping; and drawings and photographs of instrument comparisons. ISBN 0-13-509134-9 (pbk.) $17.95.

Jazz style and technique
Jazz style and technique

Author: Brian J. Kane

Publisher: Jazz Path Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780976097716

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Jazz Style and Technique offers detailed instruction on how to create a swing feel, use swing articulations, and integrate useful jazz inflections into compositions. 15 original jazz etudes are presented in multiple key signatures allowing readers to gain technical fluency in different key signatures while creating and authentic jazz style through the use of articulations and inflections. This workbook is for all saxophones.