Paperback: 116 pages Publisher: Prentice-Hall (January 1, 1964) Language: English

Improvising Jazz

Arts & Photography

Coker, Jerry

Coker, J.

Music

PRENTICE/HALL

This book shows you how to develop a wide range of knowledge about jazz

The Jazz Idiom

Reference

Jazz Idiom (A Spectrum book) [Feb 01, 1976]

The jazz idiom (A Spectrum book)

Listening to Jazz

Provides a non-technical guide to becoming a knowledgeable jazz listener, explaining the structure of jazz and its distinguishing characteristics and providing a complete chronology of jazz, a list of recordings, and a glossary of jazz terms. Discographies

Prentice Hall Direct

Provides a non-technical guide to becoming a knowledgeable jazz listener, explaining the structure of jazz and its distinguishing characteristics and providing a complete chronology of jazz, a list of recordings, and a glossary of jazz terms. Discographies

Hearin' the Changes: Dealing with Unknown Tunes by Ear is the definitive study of chord progressions of hundreds of carefully chosen tunes from the jazz musician's repertoire, comparing them, linking them together by commonalities, and codifying harmonic traits that will clarify the reader's understanding of how progressions ""work."" It not only provides the means to learn and memorize tunes more easily, but also becomes the key to acquiring the skill to cognize progressions by ear! There is more. The preface explains how we hear and understand music, establishes the methods by which we can learn to develop our musical hearing more efficiently, and addresses the importance of attitudes, as they affect the learning process. The Afterword offers further encouragement, suggests ways to continue to study, and ways to personalize the materials beyond what is presented here. Appendix A reveals the valuable list of nearly 500 tunes used in this study, indicating which tunes contain more than one harmonic trait, which facilitates more efficient choices of tunes to learn. Appendix B renders valuable, ear-opening tips for ear training. Appendix C illustrates ""road maps"" for ten tunes, showing how progressions can be more easily understood, memorized, played, and transposed to any key!

Jazz Conception: Alto & Baritone Saxophone (21 solo etudes for jazz phrasing, interpretation and improvisation)

Knapp, Bob

Larry, Vincent

advance music GmbH

This uniquely organized method devotes a thorough chapter to each of the prevailing tune-types of jazz---standard, bebop, modal, blues, contemporary, ballad and free form---listing and discussing their characteristics and illustrating approaches to understanding and performing each type of tune. Includes CD.

Jerry Coker's Complete Method for Improvisation: For All Instruments (CD included)

Alfred Music

A new book from the man who has set the standard for jazz and improvisation learning materials. A compilation of 15 years of teaching jazz keyboard at several universities. The book also contains a Teacher's Supplement. Usable for classroom or individual study. If you are a pianist, or arrange, compose, accompany, play any instrument, read fake books, coach groups, teach, or earn a living in the music field, you need this 64-page book.

Jazz Keyboard for Pianists and Non-Pianists: Class or Individual Study

New, revised edition of Jerrys best-selling Listening To Jazz. 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 layman's guide to understanding improvisation and its importance in the development of this artistically rich yet complex music form. 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 the structure 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 suggested recordings, 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.

How to Listen to Jazz

Aebersold, Jamey

Baker,David

An essential book for every jazz musician wishing to organize their practice time and priorities. Ever feel like you have a million things to practice, but you don't know where to start? Jerry condenses his decades in jazz education into a usable, practical book that highlights some of the best ways of dividing your practice time so that you can FOCUS on the essentials, instead of just running over the same scales and tunes with no real direction. Includes a list of most of the Jazz play-a-long recordings available (by track) and analysis of each.

How to Practice Jazz: Paperback Book

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Improvising Jazz

The Jazz Idiom

The jazz idiom (A Spectrum book)

Listening to Jazz

Listening to Jazz

Jazz Conception: Alto & Baritone Saxophone (21 solo etudes for jazz phrasing, interpretation and improvisation)

Jerry Coker's Complete Method for Improvisation: For All Instruments (CD included)

Jazz Keyboard for Pianists and Non-Pianists: Class or Individual Study

How to Listen to Jazz

How to Practice Jazz: Paperback Book