SKU: M7.AHW-3027
English.
This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz. We will divide this book into scale exercises, arpeggio exercises, jazz line phrases as well as contemporary chord progressions. Exercises consist of diatonic and chromatic exercises; and, line phrases, consist of jazz solos by great musicians such as Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Freddy Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Joe Farrel, Dave Liebman, Bob Berg, Michael and Randy Brecker, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Tom Harrel, Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, Joey Calderazzo, Kenny Garrett, Branford Marsalis, Walt Weiskopf, Rich Perry, Seamus Blake, Alex Sipiagin and many other well known musicians these days. The majority of these exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve perfect coordination. Major chords, Minor chords and Dominant chords will be extended to their highest level, in scales, arpeggios and chromatic form. There will not be key signature centres, so we will work all exercises in accidental way. These exercises were made as an extension of my first book 'Improvise Now'. There are as well many improvisational lines transcribed from some of the previously mentioned musicians.
SKU: M7.AHW-3021
Most people consider improvisation to be an essential element of Jazz, and musicians occasionally use the word 'Jazz' as a synonym for improvisation. To improvise is to compose and perform simultaneously. A great deal of improvised music is spontaneous, unrehearsed, not written down beforehand. This particular book will contain exercises that have been written and formalized to determine the degrees of the scales, 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. We will study carefully the subdivision of every scale according to two tetrachords. The first one is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and the second is 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. We will also play arpeggios of all kinds to extend the scale to its maximum degree. This book will explain to the student how to start a phrase of improvisation from any starting point of the scale (major, dominant, minor, diminished, etc.) Any individual or class using this book should listen to as much jazz, recorded and live, as possible. Good luck, and remember, 'JAZZ. IS ALIVE!'.
SKU: M7.AHW-3020
This second Volume by Diaz provides real Latin piano forms for comping and playing montunos. Voicings/rhythms/chords over 17 Standards including All The Things You Are, Green Dolphin Street, How High The Moon, On A Clear Day, and What Is This Thing Called Love.
SKU: M7.AHW-3002
A comprehensive approach to keyboard improvisation.
SKU: BT.MAUEJM1523
SKU: BT.ZMRL22470
French-English-German.
SKU: M7.AHW-3003
SKU: M7.AHW-3001
SKU: M7.AHW-3022
Olegario Diaz is a renowned pianist from Caracas, Venezuela. He has recorded and performed with some of the most acclaimed Latin Jazz artists, including Tito Puente and Paquito Rivera. Diaz leads an active life as a performer and educator, frequently traveling to New York City. This book is designed to improve the student's facility at reading and improvising over chord changes. Essential Tools for Jazz Piano addresses improvisation in both single and block texture, as well as discussing chord inversions in the right and left hands. This book makes a perfect addition to the library of anyone wishing to improve their improvisation and jazz comping skills.
SKU: M7.AHW-3019
A good introduction to Latin rhythms for the pianist. Contains simple voicings (1-2 notes in the right hand, single bass notes in the left) of a variety of standard Latin chord progressions.
SKU: M7.AHW-3028
This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles and techniques for all players of modern jazz. This study investigates jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock's seven albums recorded as a bandleader for Blue Note Records between 1962 and 1969. Recorded during Hancock's tenures with Donal Byrd and Miles Davis, his early works are highly mature musical conceptions, with all the major elements of Hancock's personal musical style already present. A mixed-methods approach combining sever forms of qualitative data analysis is used to identify the formal construction, the musical meanings, and the cultural significance of this body of music. The study surveys the thirty-six compositions that comprise these seven albums, and selects for in-depth analysis seven pieces that are proportionally representative of the formal characteristics of this larger repertoire: The Maze, The Pleasure Is Mine, Jack Rabbit, One Finger Snap, Little One, Toys, and I Have A Dream. Hancock's improvisations on these repretative compositions are transcribed, and each improvisation and composition is analyzed for its historical context and significance of each recording is examined through interviews with persons involved in the original recording process, as well as other jazz musicians and scholars with deep knowledge of Hancock's life, music and oeuvre. Aesthetic analyses, informed by the theories of of Kivy and Elliot, investigate the expressive or representational qualities of each composition, and examine how formal musical elements contribute to these expressive or representational qualities. Formal analyses examine elements of Hancock's compositional and improvisational style. The study concludes the Hancock's compositions and improvisations of the period exhibit a number of consistent style elements, such as sophisticated harmonic and rhythmic superimposition, that were very important influences on jazz pianists of the following generation.
SKU: BT.ZMRL32730
Jean Sibelius' Pelleas And Melisande Suite Op.46 for solo Piano.
SKU: M7.AHW-3008
Eine einmalige und informative Stilstudie von 24 der einflussreichsten Pianisten der Jazzgeschichte.A comprehensive approach to keyboard improvisation.Both a continuation of the study of styles in Volume 3 and a representation of these style as developed by 24 of the most influential soloists ever, including Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Monk, Cecil Taylor, Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett.
