LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Ted Pease and Ken Pullig - Modern Jazz Voicings

Scot -- 10/12/2004, 00:39:16 -- #7943

thelonius -- 04/26/2004, 13:42:03 -- #3905 Another harmony book that impressed me (although it isn't specifically geared to the keyboard) is "Modern Jazz Voicings" by Ted Pease and Ken Pullig (Berklee Press/Hal Leonard). This will also teach you something about arranging - as its subtitle proclaims - "for Small and Medium Ensembles". Good stuff! Official Plug: "The definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music, this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arrangers how to add color, character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting appropriate harmonic tensions, understanding jazz harmony, overcoming harmonic ambiguity, experimenting with unusual combinations and non-traditional alignments, and many more. The accompanying CD includes performance examples of several different arranging techniques. A no-nonsense, meat and potatoes source of basic and not-so-basic information about everything relating to jazz writing - covers several courses worth of information. - Kenny Werner Pianist, Composer and Author of Effortless Mastery"

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