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Jazz Inventions - Bill Cunliffe
Has anybody used this book. It is far superior to other books around, including Levine's Jazz Piano Handbook. Published by Alfred Publishing. He also won T...
Effortless Mastery - Kenny Werner
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Mark Levine - The Jazz Piano Book
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Review: The World's Greatest Fake Book (Sher Music, 1983)
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Tim Richards- "Improvising Blues Piano"
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'French chords' or" Les Grilles de Jazz" "Anthology or Jazz Chord Changes"
Hi One or two of you may remember my asking (years ago) about the French chords and needing to buy a set. Well, I finally made it. ...
Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano CD-ROM
Does anyone own this or has anyone worked with it? The several clips on YouTube taught me some nice stuff and I'm wondering if the whole CD is a...
The Jazz Piano Book vs The Jazz Theory Book
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Just Being At The Piano - Mildred Portney Chase
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Jazz Piano Concepts&Techniques (John Valerio)
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Sheet music: "The Genius of Andre Previn"
Was browsing through the sheet music in an "old-style" music store (think racks with dusty copies of "Groovy Mod Hits" for organ...
Jazz Keyboard Harmony - Phil DeGreg
Has anyone used this book? If so, was it helpful?...
Frank Mantooth - Voicings
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Fred Hughes-- The Jazz Pianist: Left-Hand Voicings
I'm your average beginner/intermediate level pianist who loves jazz piano. It's my passionate hobby and I am basically self-taught, but also play trombone...
The Lydian Chromatic Concept
A review of "The Lydian Chromatic Concept" with proofs that it is based on a false premise. http://www.Jeff-Brent.com/Lessons/LCC/LCCdiscrepanci...
The best jazz 'fake book' to buy- any ideas?
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Post-bop Jazz Piano - Valerio
You have to know about jazz harmony/voicings because the book start at an intermediate level. Not the book I prefer for a beginner.
Jazz Piano Notebook Series
Volume 1 of this educational jazz piano book contains 15 jazz piano exercises, tricks, and other interesting jazz piano techniques, voicings, grooves, and ideas Scot Ranney has picked up over decades of playing on stage.
Being a pro jazz pianist requires good ears, experience, and a bag of tricks that create the kinds of sounds people expect to hear from a jazz pianist. The entries in this book will give you some of those tricks.
"Latinesque"
Volume 2 has 14 jazz piano exercises and tricks of the trade, and quite a bit of it is Calypso jazz piano related material, including some Monty Alexander and Michel Camilo style grooves. Jazz piano education is through the ears, and books like this help connect what you're hearing to what you want to play.
Volume 3 contains 12 jazz piano exercises and explorations by the acclaimed jazz piano educator, pianist, author, and recording artist Tim Richards.
Tim wrote the well known "Exploring Jazz Piano" and "Improvising Blues Piano" books and has several others to his name.
Tim has a new book out Beginning Jazz Piano (Pts 1 and 2)
Many of Tim's books now come with free access to interactive sheet music ONLINE, which permits slowing down of the backing and performance tracks, as well as the option to loop passages for practice purposes.
Tim now also has online VIDEO courses for his books, including Beginning Jazz Piano, Improvising Blues Piano and Exploring Jazz Piano Vol 1:
buy pdf version Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Notebook Volume 3 -
Volume 4 is by Jeff Brent, a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and author of "Modalogy" and other acclaimed jazz theory and education books. In this book Jeff shares detailed analysis of transcriptions of live performances. He covers everything from the shape of the songs to the tricks and licks he uses in improvised lines to the ideas behind his lush chord voicings.
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