Jazz Piano (Evans, Bill)

Bill Evans Omnibook for Piano. The ultimate collection for jazz keyboardists to learn 40 Evans classics with exact note-for-note transcriptions. Includes: Alice in Wonderland · Autumn Leaves · Bill's Hit Tune · Blue in Green · Days of Wine and Roses · Emily · Everything Happens to Me · Five · For Nenette · How About You? · How My Heart Sings · I Loves You, Porgy · It Could Happen to You · Just You, Just Me · Letter to Evan · My Foolish Heart · My Funny Valentine · My Romance · Nardis · Night and Day · One for Helen · Peace Piece · Peri's Scope · Quiet Now · Re: Person I Knew · Skating in Central Park · A Sleepin' Bee · Some Other Time · Stella by Starlight · Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) · 34 Skidoo · Time Remembered · The Touch of Your Lips · Turn Out the Stars · Very Early · Waltz for Debby · What Kind of Fool Am I? · Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me) · You Go to My Head · You Must Believe in Spring · and more. Spiral bound.

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

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

Awarded the prestigious Music Industries Association Award in 2006 for Best Pop Publication Tim Richards' Exploring Jazz Piano was the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano also published by Schott. The overall level is somewhat higher and would suit pianists of Grade 4 standard and above. The book comes in two volumes comprising no less than 56 original pieces by the author together with special arrangements of 24 standards ranging from Autumn Leaves and Summertime to Straight No Chaser and Coltrane's Impressions.The two volumes also contain over 800 musical examples a veritable treasury of styles and techniques for the aspiring jazzpianist and refers to the work of Erroll Garner Art Tatum Duke Ellington Thelonious Monk Bud Powell Horace Silver Hampton Hawes Red Garland Wynton Kelly Bill Evans George Shearing Oscar Peterson Chick Corea McCoy Tyner and many others. Each volume has its own CD containing between them performances of all 80 pieces played by Tim alone or with his current trio of Dominic Howles (bass) and Matt Home (drums). Play-along tracks are also included in which the piano is panned to one speaker providing rhythm section accompaniment if desired by turning the amplifier's balance control. Copious examples of improvisation are accompanied by numerous assignments with guidance to hand on every page. The package is beautifully illustrated with many full-page photographs of piano masters past and present informative mini biographies and a comprehensive suggested listening section. The practical covered spiral binding protects the books as well as enabling them to lie flat on the music stand.Exploring Jazz Piano fills a vacuum in jazz piano instruction its comprehensive syllabus taking the reader from first principles in Vol. 1 to professional level in Vol. 2. Any student of jazz piano piano teacher or performing musician dipping into either volume will be rewarded with a wealth of ideas and practical information to keep them occupied for many

A silky-smooth fresh and funky collection of Jazz classics from across the years and styles all arranged as sumptuous Piano solos.These stunning arrangements allow you the Piano soloist to add a great selection of Jazzstandards to your performance repertoire without needing to learn countless pages of theory or spend months studying improvisation! Tunes by Thelonious Monk Nina Simone Fats Waller Duke Ellington Bill Evans and many otherswill add a sophisticated swing to your performances with such favourites as Ain't Misbehavin' and The Girl From Ipanema included.

Here's a tuneful jazz standard by the master of jazz piano Bill Evans. This creative and appealing medium swing chart features interesting counterpoint along with the classic melody. Tenor sax and trumpet share the solo duties.

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

150 des plus célébres standards de jazz, speciallement arrangés pour piano, chant et guitare (accords) / Variétés Internationale / Partition /