Developing the Language of Jazz

Par COCKER JERRY. Revised edition. Since 1900, when jazz - a uniquely American music form - began to evolve, much of its allure and artistic growth has depended on the creative freedom and expressive force that improvisation allows its performers. Jerry Coker, himself a teacher, composer/arranger, and noted saxophonist, has written How To Listen To Jazz to fill the need for a laymans guide to understanding improvisation and its importance in the development of this artistically rich yet complex musicform. Without relying on overly technical language or terms, Jerry Coker shows how you can become a knowledgeable jazz listener - whether you are an aspiring musician, student, jazz aficionado, or new listener. In addition to looking at thestructure of jazz and explaining what qualities to look for in a piece, the author provides a complete chronology of the growth of jazz, from its beginnings in the rags of Scott Joplin, the New Orleans style of the 1920s made famous by Bessie Smith, Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong, the Swing Era with Benny Goodman, and Art Tatum, Be-Bop, post Be-Bop, to the greats of Modern Jazz, including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, and Wes Montgomery. Also including a list of suggestedrecordings, a section on the improvised solo, and a complete glossary of jazz terms, How To Listen To Jazz offers you a complete introduction to the entire jazz experience. . . the music and those who make it. / Librairie en anglais / Théorie / Livre

5 Simple Strategies for Developing Jazz Language and Fluency. Par GABRIC LUKAS. According to musician and musicologist Gunther Schuller, 75% of all harmonic movement in jazz consists of ii-V-I progressions. Consequently, for the jazz improvisor, it is extremely important to be capable of playing a coherent phrase based on any member note of the ii chord and its extensions, in any key. In this book, music educator and world-renowned jazz saxophonist, Lukas Gabric focuses on helping you develop this essential skill.The five strategies outlined in Jazz Course for All Instruments are specifically designed to enhance your vocabulary and fluency as a jazz improviser. In a key segment, Gabric explains how longer phrases can be generated by combining minimal source materials. He also seeks to further your transposition and memorization skills as well as instrumental technique?all of which are required for effective improvisation. For those familiar with other styles of music, this reasoned, incremental approach could well open the door to the exciting world of improvised jazz. / Date parution : 2022-02-03/ Théorie / Tout Instrument

Perfect for the student of Jazz. --Michael Brecker 'I encourage the jazz guitar students at the University of North Texas to emulate tenor saxophonists. Greg Fishman's book, Jazz Guitar Etudes, contains idiomatic bebop lines and will be a great tool for any guitar teacher with aspiring jazz guitarists. Thanks, Greg!' Fred Hamilton, professor of jazz guitar, University of North Texas 'These are great solos and etudes! I'm always telling my guitar students to learn lines and phrasing from horn players, and Greg Fishman's book is perfect for this approach. The book is nicely done and very well laid out.' Corey Christiansen Professor of Guitar, Utah State University, Visiting Professor, Indiana University This book is very well put together and very thorough. It gives guitar students the information necessary to obtain a vocabulary based on the bebop tradition, yet ultimately encourages them to improvise on these structures, creating their own lines and ideas. I commend you on meeting this challenge head-on, and for effectively clarifying these concepts in your liner notes. --Steve Cardenas Professor of Guitar, The New School, New York City, member of the Paul Motian Band and Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchesra. The lines are great, the rhythm section is terrific, and I really love the fact that the student guitarist working out of this book gets to play along with both the guitarist on the CD and with your tenor. This book is incredibly well thought out. Congratulations on a fantastic book! --Jack Peterson, legendary jazz guitar professor (retired) from Berklee and North Texas State Just Jazz Guitar's rave review of Jazz Guitar Etudes by Greg Fishman: Jazz Guitar Etudes is an excellent resource for all guitarists and teachers. After releasing a very popular etudes book for jazz saxophone, Greg Fishman collaborated with guitarist Mike Allemena to do a guitar version of the book. The book includes standard notation and tablature. The studies in the book are great written improvised solos over familiar chord progressions such as the blues, rhythm changes, and standards. The book comes with a CD that features a guitar version, a saxophone version, and a rhythm section version of each etude. In addition, Fishman begins the book with concepts in developing jazz lines such as proper voice leading and sequences. The melodic lines are very well designed phrases using the the bebop language. Guitarists can gain so much by playing and analyzing these etudes --Just Jazz Guitar Magazine Endorsed by Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Phil Woods, James Moody, Plas Johnson, Mark Colby, Bob Sheppard, Jerry Coker, Gary Campbell, Tim Price, Gary Keller, Chip McNeil and many other teachers and players around the world, this series of saxophone etude and duet books will immediately help you take your playing to the next level. Click a cover and hear a sample... New book release for Jazz Guitar: Jazz Guitar Etudes book and CD Play-along set is now in stock and shipping! This book features master jazz guitarist Mike Allemana playing twelve bebop style etudes. Also includes Greg Fishman playing each etude on tenor saxophone. This allows the guitarist the choice of playing with Mike (guitar) or Greg (tenor). Book also features tablature with Mike's own fingerings! 52 pages, 8.5 x 11 format, ISBN 978-0-9766153-7-8

This volume explores a musical approach to developing jazz vocabulary around the drumset, featuring 60 exercises ranging in duration from short passages to extended solos. The book aims to teach a fundamental understanding of the jazz language, with an emphasis on musical components, such as melodicism, articulation, phrasing, texture, dynamics, and much more. Whether a beginner or seasoned pro, rock drummer or classical percussionist, the book will enhance every drummer's ability to play more musically. / Batterie

A Guide To Jazz Improvisation by John LaPorta is an invaluable touchstone for every aspiring jazz musician. This method will help you develop a natural and intuitive approach to improvising. This method includes jazztheory with practical explanations and applications of the jazz language rhythm training with exercises on CD performance ear training opportunities to improvise with a Berklee Jazz faculty band on CD.

A Guide To Jazz Improvisation by John LaPorta is an invaluable touchstone for every aspiring jazz musician. This method will help you develop a natural and intuitive approach to improvising. This method includes jazztheory with practical explanations and applications of the jazz language rhythm training with exercises on CD performance ear training opportunities to improvise with a Berklee Jazz faculty band on CD.

To become fluent in the language of jazz and music in general musicians must develop equality of all twelve keys.The goal of the Jazz Guitar Chord Thesaurus is not only to provide a reference for learning chord fingerings but to offer a daily practice routine to increase the guitarist's vocabulary of chords. The Jazz Guitar Chord Thesaurus will provide a clear cut path to learning all the inversions of seventh chords by using the two main building blocks of jazz harmony: major and minor ii-V-I chord progressions. The accompanying CD includes backup tracks to 10 jazz standards to allow guitarists to applytheir new chord vocabulary.

From Bach to Bebop-In Jazz Guitar Fretboard Navigation Mark White will help you to develop a fingerboard facility that fuses the great navigational conception of the classical Guitar tradition with the improvisational on-the-fly solo content/language of the modern jazz guitarist to create an overall fingerboard concept that is flexible and rich. The result is a complete approach to the Guitar fingerboard that combines vertical orientations mixed with side-to-side and diagonal phrasing. Each Bach/bebop pair of arrangements presents similar fingering concepts so that you can see how they are applicable across styles. This comprehensive BerkleeGuide teaches a continuity in fingering concepts that you can apply to all Guitar traditions. The accompanying online recordings include demonstration and play-along tracks such as Guitar duets and jazz combos. Traditional fingering and tablature are included.

Improvise more creatively and develop your personal style of improvisation. Master drummer and educator Yoron Israel will help you to enhance your improvisational language and lead you to more musical concise dynamic andstructurally sound drum set solos and comping.

French Language version of Tommy Igoe's groove encyclopedia for the 21st Century! With over six hours of music and 88 play-along tracks for drummers of all abilities.Groove Essentials represents a quantumleap in play-along packages for the developing drummer. Tommy Igoe provides a comprehensive guide to over forty beats rhythms and styles ranging from Rock and Funk through Jazz Hip-Hop and R&B to world and specialitygrooves including Calypso Baiao Samba Batucada and lots more! Every rhythm is explained in detail with all required techniques a full musical context and two professionally recorded backing tracks featuring some of thehottest musicians of New York City.Beginner drummers will enjoy playing the simple rock beats with a real band giving you a chance to play the drums with good solid time utilizing four-waycoordination.Intermediate drummers will have a chance to tackle some syncopated 16th-note grooves in the funk and R&B sections and also start playing some good swinging Jazz.Advanced and professionaldrummers will find twenty challenging world grooves to master as well as the opportunity to try an infinite number of different feels on Jazz shuffles waltzes and more.Each example is supported by professional-standardcharts and the backing tracks are presented in MP3 format allowing them to be used on Mac PC iPod and portable MP3 systems.