Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. Bill Evans (1929-1980) is one of the highest regarded jazz pianists in the history of jazz. His harmonic and rhythmic language in combination with superb taste and technical perfection places him in a category by himself. His style of harmonization and improvisation has been an inspiration to countless pianists as well as other instrumentalists in the field of jazz. This book of original musical studies and analyses by Corey Christiansen and Per Danielsson is designed to help you develop your own personal improvising style. It presents numerous musical lines with chord symbols in the style of Bill Evans, grouped by the harmony they can be used against. The accompanying play-along CD provides a rhythm section backup for each of the exercises. To help the player master all keys, each section also has a play-along on the CD that modulates around the circle of fourths. Some of the techniques used in the style of Bill Evans are discussed and examples shown, helping musicians analyze each of the ideas presented, further insuring mastery of these ideas. When assimilated into the student's musical vocabulary, these ideas will help students create their own original jazz solos. Also available in Japanese from ATN, Inc. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Jazz - Improvisation / Recueil / Piano

With introductory text, performance notes, standard notation and chord names (does not include words to the songs). A must for Evans fans, this book presents note-for-note piano transcriptions and performance notes for six songs played on February 21, 1966 at Town Hall, Bill's New York concert debut. As his father had passed away shortly before, Bill played a requiem to him, which was repeated for TV in 1968 in memory of Bobby Kennedy. Nine songs in all, including Epilogue, One for Helen, Who Can I Turn To and more, as well as a foreword from project editor Jeff Sultanof.

Bill Evans the pianist is a towering figure acknowledged by the Jazz world fans musicians and critics.However Bill Evans the composer has yet to take his place alongside the great Masters of composition. Therein liesthe sole purpose of writing this treatise.Evans's compositions must be studied and played. They are rich and full of wondrous invention and genius. I get much pleasure from playing Chopin Brahms et. al. From Evans I geta great deal more. His music is a synthesis of all western classical music plus the many years of Jazz.He is America's Chopin.Jack Reilly.

Arrangeur: Bob Hinz. Par EVANS BILL. Transcriptions pour piano, par Bob Hinz, de 8 morceaux de Bill Evans. / Jazz / Recueil / Piano

Par EVANS BILL. Peut-être le pianiste influent plus unique dans l'histoire du jazz, compositions de Bill Evans sont étudiées par les pianistes et non-pianistes alike. Cette fidèles de fonctionnalités de folio solo piano transcriptions de ses performances de sept mélodies. / Rép International / Recueil / Piano

The artistry of Bill Evans a collection of pieces arranged for solo piano. Transcriptions by Pascal Wetzel. Includes Alfie A Time For Love and You Must Believe In Spring.

La collection ultime pour les claviéristes de jazz pour apprendre 40 classiques d'Evans avec des transcriptions exactes note par note. Comprend: Alice au pays des merveilles · Feuilles d'automne · Bill's Hit Tune · Bleu en vert · Jours de vin et de roses · Emily · Tout m'arrive · Cinq · Pour Nenette · Et toi' · Comment mon c?ur chante · Je t'aime, Porgy · Cela pourrait t'arriver · Juste toi, juste moi · Lettre à Evan · Mon c?ur insensé · Ma drôle de Valentine · Ma romance · Nardis · Nuit et jour · Un pour Helen · Paix Pièce · Portée de Peri · Silence maintenant · Re: Personne que je connaissais · Patinage à Central Park · Une abeille endormie · Une autre fois · Stella by Starlight · Chanson de M * A * S * H (Suicide Is Indolore) · 34 Skidoo · Temps rappelé · Le contact de vos lèvres · Démonter les étoiles · Très tôt · Valse pour Debby · Quel genre d'imbécile suis-je' · À qui puis-je me tourner (quand personne n'a besoin de moi) · Vous allez dans ma tête · Vous devez croire au printemps · et plus encore. Spirale liée.
Alice au pays des merveilles
Comment mon c?ur chante
Patinage à Central Park
Feuilles d'automne
La chanson à succès de Bill
Calme maintenant
Très tôt
Sortez les étoiles
Une autre fois
Bleu en vert
Emilie
Jours de vin et de roses
Tout m'arrive
Cinq
Et vous'
Je t'aime, Porgy
Ça pourrait t'arriver
Juste toi, juste moi
Chanson de M * A * S * H (Le suicide est indolore)
Mon c?ur stupide
Mon drôle de Valentine
Ma romance
Nardis
Nuit et jour
Une abeille endormie
Stella par Starlight
Temps rappelé
Le toucher de vos lèvres
Valse pour Debby
Quel genre d'imbécile suis-je'
Vers qui puis-je me tourner (quand personne n'a besoin de moi)
Tu vas dans ma tête
Vous devez croire au printemps
Re: Personne que je connaissais
Portée de Peri
Un pour Helen
Pour Nenette
Lettre à Evan
Morceau de paix
34 Skidoo
/ Partitions jazzandblues / Piano - claviers / Piano / HAL LEONARD

Compilations regroupant les plus grands titres d'un genre musical spécialement regravées en piano, voix et diagrammes d'accord guitare ou en piano solo en format A4 spiralé afin qu'il reste 'plat' sur le support du piano.Titres : Alfie [Bacharach, Burt] - And I Love Her [Beatles, The] - Arabesque #1 [Debussy, Claude] - Black Hole Sun [Soundgarden] - The Blue Notebooks [Richter, Max] - Bouncing With Bud [Powell, Bud] - Dance Of The Floreadores [Ellington, Duke and Billy Strayhorn] - Divenire [Einaudi, Ludovico] - Do I Do [Wonder, Stevie] - Excursions II [Bennett, Richard Rodney] - Eye Of The Tiger [Survivor] - A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing [Strayhorn, Billy] - Gnossienne I [Satie, Erik] - Handful Of Keys [Waller, Fats] - Here, There And Everywhere [Beatles, The] - How My Heart Sings [Evans, Bill] - I Want You (She's So Heavy) [Beatles, The] - I'm Just A Lucky So And So [Krall, Diana] - Johnny Come Lately [Strayhorn, Billy] - Lazy River [Carmichael, Hoagy] - London Calling [Clash, The] - Midnight Sun [Burke, Sonny] [Hampton, Lionel] - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs [Corea, Chick] - Nowhere Man [Beatles, The] - Once Upon A Summertime [Legrand, Michel] [Barclay, Eddie] - One At A Time [Legrand, Michel] - Passion Flower [Strayhorn, Billy] - Peau Douce [Evans, Bill] - Pinball Wizard [Who, The] - Prelude In G, Op.32 #5 [Rachmaninoff, Sergei] - Prelude #2 (Blue Lullaby) [Gershwin, George] - Rhapsody In Blue (Slow Theme) [Gershwin, George] - Rosemary's Waltz (From Tender Is The Night) [Bennett, Richard Rodney] - Soho (from The London Suite) [Waller, Fats] - So Real [Buckley, Jeff] - Someday (You'll Be Sorry) [Armstrong, Louis] - Somethin' Stupid [Sinatra, Frank] - Sophisticated Lady [Ellington, Duke] - Turn Me On [Jones, Norah] - When Sunny Gets Blue [Sinatra, Frank] - With A Little Help From My Friends [Beatles, The] - Yesterdays [Moore, Dudley] - Your Love Has Faded [Ellington, Duke and Billy Strayhorn] / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Noted jazz pianist, composer, recording artist and educator Andy LaVerne has drawn from his decades of experience playing with master musicians from Getz to Lovano to create this comprehensive compendium of contemporary moving voicings. Quartal, quintal, drop 2, dominant 7b9/diminished, triadic, whole tone and chromatic performance proven voicings pioneered by McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Andy himself are presented and fleshed out in all twelve keys. This book picks up where others leave off, enabling you to replace static chords with voicings that move melodically, dramatically, and gracefully over the entire range of the keyboard. Firmly rooted in contemporary jazz theory, the emphasis is on practical performance applications. Andy ties it all together with illustrations of comping choruses for five standard jazz tunes. Chords in Motion satisfies a long awaited need in actual comping situations, and shows you how to move chords through varying harmonic rhythms. FINALLY ' a book that gives you moving voicings, and sets them in motion in all twelve keys. Chords in Motion is a valuable resource for all keyboardists, arrangers, and instrumentalists. Activate, animate, and energize your comping with this encyclopedic volume. 156 pages, spiral bound for easy opening. Andy carries the flame of jazz piano tradition and just great music. He always inspires me. Chick Corea This is a great book! I am going to sit down and play through this!! I am always telling my non-piano playing students how important it is to work with (and internalize) the sounds that we live with all our lives as Jazz musicians. Coltrane spent years sitting at the piano and so should all of us!!! John Patitucci Berklee College of Music One thing about Andy'he is complete as can be and has been consistently so for years in both his teaching materials and playing. He is completely knowledgeable in such a way that when I play with him, I know he KNOWS!! Plus he is one of the smoothest and polished of players around. Great book'encyclopedic in content. Dave Liebman Founder, Artistic Director, International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) I've played and recorded with Andy LaVerne many times over the years and in many different settings and he's always come up with the hippest, most interesting chords in the most musical way! His way of playing and looking at chords inspires me as a drummer and his rhythm section partner to play things that are in turn inspiring to the rest of the band. This book, helps musicians, understand, in a clear thoughtful presentation, how to go about getting this together. Billy Drummond Jazz Drummer, Educator, Juilliard, NYU Chords in Motion is an outstanding and comprehensive guide by Andy LaVerne, whose encyclopedic knowledge, decades of experience and brilliance as a performer and educator make this an invaluable handbook of modern jazz piano harmony. Its user-friendly, intelligent design enables musicians to expand their harmonic palette and potentially transform their playing, writing and arranging. Chords in Motion is an invaluable contribution to jazz musicians! Lynne Arriale Jazz Pianist, Composer, Educator, Associate Professor of Jazz Piano, Director of Small Ensembles, University of North Florida Chords in Motion is exactly the book I'd expect from Andy LaVerne. It's clear, openhearted and inspiring, as has been every conversation I've had with Andy over the years. Long a fan of his playing, I have enjoyed this look behind the curtain at how Andy LaVerne formulated his signature style. One other thing -- any pianist, no matter his/her approach, will gain insight into what will surely be new and exciting musical directions. Pete Malinverni Jazz Pianist, Educator, Director of Jazz Studies, SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music What a great resource for expanding the harmonic palette! Chords in Motion is a must have for the aspiring young jazz pianist as well as the seasoned veteran. Another winner from Andy! Paul Schmeling Jazz Pianist, Educator, Chair Emeritus, Piano Department, Berklee College of Music In Chords in Motion, I recognize chords and sounds that have inspired me to compose and play: harmony from the music of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. This book is well organized, and from the beginning gets you playing. Each chord structure is explained and developed. There is plenty to practice. I especially like the exercises using contrary motion, arpeggiation and pivot, and the application to tunes. The reader will be tempted to stop on every page and compose. I found the Lost Chord, but won't tell you the page number. Bert Ligon Jazz Pianist/Guitarist, Composer, Arranger, Educator, Director of Jazz Studies, University of South Carolina Ever wonder how to move harmony around instead of repeating the same chord voicing over and over' Then Chords in Motion is a must have book for you! Andy has included a ton of information that will open up your comping and should keep you busy with new ideas for a long time! I highly recommend it! Dan Haerle Jazz Pianist, Composer, Author, Educator, Professor Emeritus, University of North Texas Chords in Motion is an essential guide to expanding one's conception of modern Jazz Piano Harmony. Andy LaVerne has managed to outline in a very practical and concise way, modern principles of piano chord voicings, as they pertain to the Jazz Pianist's primary group function of comping. David Hazeltine Jazz Pianist, Composer, Educator, SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music Chords in Motion should be fun to take into the practice room to explore new ways of sustaining harmonies over the entire register of the piano. It is encyclopedic and thorough in its content. No stone is left unturned! Stephany Tiernan Pianist, Composer, Educator, Chair, Piano Department, Berklee College Of Music Chords In Motion is an excellent practicing resource that provides a garden of harmonic sonorities for a musician to choose and explore at the piano. I like the way that Andy has made the information accessible to any level of student. I look forward to discovering some different sounds with this book. Phil DeGreg Jazz Pianist, Author, Educator, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music I am delighted to recommend Andy LaVerne's Chords In Motion to aspiring jazz pianists! Andy is a superb pianist, very capable of addressing this topic. Prior to pianists like McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, and others, most pianists were content to have acquired a small handful of chord voicings, generally with the chord roots on the bottom of the voicings. Though 'rootless voicings' were adopted in later years, they were primarily for the left hand and generally only used the 3rd or 7th on the bottom. But now the serious jazz pianist needs to be able to move his or her voicings in a more diatonic manner, as shown in Andy's book. Jerry Coker Jazz Saxophonist, Author, Educator Andy LaVerne's Chords in Motion is a study of encyclopedic scope on the use of harmonies based on fourth intervals in the context of jazz harmony. There is a wealth of information in terms of voicings, voice leading and chord/scale relationships and their application to common harmonic formulae (ii-V, etc.) and the chord progressions used in blues and common standard tunes. Jazz musicians interested in this vocabulary should find this book to be a useful launching pad for exploring this important corner of the world of jazz harmony. Bill Dobbins Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Author, Educator, Professor of Jazz Studies, Conductor, Coordinator Jazz Composition and Arranging, Eastman School of Music Chords in Motion is a highly detailed, informative and filling-in-the-gap text. It's an important and welcome addition to the jazz piano literature, which can be applied to any level of proficiency. Stefan Karlsson Jazz Pianist, Educator, Professor/Jazz Studies Division, University of North Texas Fantastic pianist Andy LaVerne has put together an amazing, detailed, and incredibly comprehensive guide for effectively implementing quartal and related voicings. He has honed in on the 'secret' to using these structures musically and creatively: moving the voicings through changes in logical and interesting ways. Clearly presented, extremely thorough, and loaded with information, Chords in Motion is a must-have for any pianist! Martin Bejerano Jazz Pianist, Composer, Educator, Assistant Professor, Jazz Piano, Frost School of Music University of Miami Chords in Motion is an in-depth look at fourth and related voicings that give an atmosphere that you want to improvise on. We play over the voicing, not the chord symbol. Chords in Motion targets that modal atmosphere that horn players love playing over. Love this book - can't wait to start practicing it! Jerry Bergonzi Jazz Saxophonist, Composer, Author, Educator, New England Conservatory I was thrilled when Jazz Piano Great Mulgrew Miller agreed to write a quote for this book. I was deeply saddened to hear of Mulgrew's passing just days before publication. All who loved Mulgrew and his music will sorely miss him, and are grateful for the rich musical legacy he left us. Rest easy, Mulgrew. Andy LaVerne

I .Stride Piano Styles Cantankerous Chromatics Blues for Fats Basie's Beat Blood Brother II. Boogie Woogie Piano Basie's Boogie Prickly Pete Wobbly Waltz III. Gospel Piano Sanctified I'm In His Hands Holy Roller IV. Bebop Piano Styles A 624 Red's Blues T Time The Thing Yardbird Conversation V. Solo Ballad Styles For Art's Sake Song for Bill Evans Ballad VI. Harmonic Styles of 1960's and 1970's Centrifuge Waltz for Clare Memories Liberation VII. Latin and Ostinato Styles of the 1970's Autumn Song Winter Song Spring Song Summer Song VIII .Free Jazz Bent Vortex Mobile Anticipation Conclusion Appendix I Solo Piano Recordings of Interest Published Solo Piano Jazz Music Appendix II Publihsed Solo Piano Jazz Music

Book and CD. The Drop 2 Book is the first publication to explore the 4-note block chord approach to jazz Piano playing- as used by Piano masters like Kenny Barron, MyCoy Tyner, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton and Bill Evans. World renowned educator and pianist Mark Levine gives the reader a comprehensive, step-by-step, beginner to advanced Masterclass on this approach to voicing chords. This book includes chapters on: The basic Drop 2 approach Advanced techniques soloing and 'comping in Drop 2 Practice techniques Plus a CD of Levine demonstrating all the exercises This is an invaluable insight into the harmonic minds of some of the world's greatest Piano players.

At last! A simple, easy-to-learn method for playing the melodies of your favorite tunes, using hip voicings as played by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, etc. Famed jazz pianist and author of 'The Jazz Piano Book,? Mark Levine has created 'The Menu? - a succinct guide to learning a multitude of voicings so you can harmonize melodies on the spot.'So What' chords, upper structures, 4th chords, etc. are not only good for 'comping,' but are also ideal for voicing melodies. For example, the note G in the melody on top of a D-7 chord is the 4th of the chord. Did you know that a 'stacked 3rd' voicing, as well as the 'Kenny Barron chord' would be perfect for that? This book explains all of that, so you can instantly play jazz songs with the best available voicings. Using two standards and a bebop melody as examples, Mark breaks each tune up into four-bar sections, then shows the best voicings to use on each chord and why those choices were made. These voicings are all drawn from a one-page 'Menu' that, once internalized, will allow you to spontaneously create your own style of playing jazz piano, based on the masters of the art form. / Piano