Ab Major = One of the things you might find if the roof collapsed on the officers’ quarters. Cb Major = What the search and rescue team observed while...
Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep en...
A Married couple are driving along a highway doing a steady forty > miles per > hour. The wife is behind the wheel. > >...
Did anyone else catch the TV show about Sun Ra on UK Channel BBC4 last Friday? It was hilarious and sad at the same time. He seemed to me to be a kind of...
The couple is in action, great activity, hot summer nights ... Her : Go on wildly !! Him : Oh Yes !! Her : make it happen !! Her : Oh Yes, yes...
the new sax player in town has been attracting many fans as his playing was widely acclaimed. he plays a beautiful ballad then goes to the bar, where a pre...
I like it! Especially as I've owned some parrots & they liked to play with items, such as beads.
A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, "Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing."...
Last weekend I did a Jazz gig with a great Tenor Sax player. He forwarded this joke(?) that's been making the rounds (author unknown): [...
I was reading Readers Digest this morning (ok, I'm an old guy) and read this joke: "Three notes walk into a bar: a C, an E-flat and a G. The ...
A man was standing next in line at a checkout, when the attractive blonde woman in front of him turned around and gave him a big smile. "Hello," ...
What do you call it when you change your sex life? ........Turning over a new fig leaf!...
Hmmm, just one, but all the rest say they could do it better?...
Yeah, I've played with some pretty great lead players, but they always seemed to leave their last hight note hanging a little past the conductor's cut-off:...
The power behind leading trumpet section was nice. If someone in the band pissed me off I would point the trumpet at them for some of the screamers, but t...
~just kidding of course...some of my best friends are lead players:)...
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.
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:
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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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