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

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JERRY COKER

Music

PRENTICE/HALL

This 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!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. And Appendix C illustrates ""road maps"" for ten tunes, showing how progressions can be more easily understood, memorized, played, and transposed to any key!

JERRY COKER : HEARING THE CHANGES

Advance

This work offers useful information on how jazz music can be improvised.

Improvising Jazz

Touchstone

Legendary jazz educator Jerry Coker's newest contribution to jazz enlightenment, Clear Solutions For Improvisers identifies all of the most common problems Jerry has encountered in his many students over nearly 50 years as a master teacher. In clear, easy to understand instruction and concise musical examples, Jerry first defines the concept, explains its purpose and then presents its traditional usage. Concepts include guide tones, tri-tones, the jazz language, turnarounds, polychords, slash chords, II/V7/Is, vehicle types, keeping your place, and much more. This book will greatly increase your understanding of the most essential jazz concepts all improvisers need to master. 248 pages. Originally published in 2005.

Clear Solutions for Jazz Improvisers

Jamey Aebersold Jazz Inc

Jerry Coker's new 84 page pocket-sized handbook teaches you not only howto play in all 12 keys, but also why it is essential to play in all 12 keys. This book is dedicated to all musicians who recognize that jazz improvisation, at its highest level of achievement, requires a lifetime of growth, yet have chosen to respond to the challenge by working to close every gap in order to realize their fullest potential. Move to a higher level of confidence in any musical situation.

Keys Unlocked! For moving to a higher level of improvisation and confidence in any musical situation

Jamey Aebersold

The Teaching of Jazz is a help and inspiration for anyone involved in the study of jazz---teachers, students, administrators, etc. It reveals the author's time-tested process for sustaining a successful and highly-creative jazz program.

The Teaching of Jazz (Advance Music)

Alfred Music

The Teaching Of Jazz

ADVANCED MUSIC

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Listening to Jazz

JERRY COKER : HEARING THE CHANGES

Improvising Jazz

Clear Solutions for Jazz Improvisers

Keys Unlocked! For moving to a higher level of improvisation and confidence in any musical situation

The Teaching of Jazz (Advance Music)

The Teaching Of Jazz

JERRY COKER : HEARING THE CHANGES