Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is an excellent book on the music language of jazz.It's not a method book on improvisation but it can be used as one.Jerry Coker points out that all of the jazz great musicians are not pulling musical notes out of the air to improvise.Their solos are truly well thought out music compositions.Jerry Coker points out that in order to create or play an improvised solo you do need to know what you aredoing.Throughout the book he has shown excerpts from various solos of very great jazz musicians, such as Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham just to name several.He has also shown analyses of full solos by some of these great musicians.What Jerry Coker has done is taken this book to explain the various elements of any jazz solo and presented them in a way that any intermediate level musician (possibly a beginner) could understand.I think this book is for the musician that is at an intermediate level in music or jazz music theory to benefit from it.Mr. Coker has identified many improvisational elements that goes into creating musical jazz solos from aural and written analyses of solos.For example, the number patterns, scalar patterns, 3-b9 melodic motion, target note enclosures, 7-3 melodic resolutions, linear harmonic generalizations, the difference between musical quotes and musical licks, bebop scales and more chord related scales and why they work for certain types of chords, bar-line shifts of linear harmony.Mr. Coker tactfully explains each element and how they can be connected to make good melodic sensical jazz music.He has created exercises along with a play-along CD to help the aspiring jazz musician.
This book takes the mystery or mystique out of the solos of the jazz greats.It IS possible and probable for any dedicated musician to reach that stature.In the past my lesson teacher would always tell me to play my scales and chords for solos...and I did.But nothing was making any musical sense.After studying this book, my solos now make jazz musical sense because it has musical shape and substance.
My final word is that I believe that no musician will be disappointed after studying this book.

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A comprehensive book on jazz analysis and improvisation. Elements used in jazz improvisation are isolated for study: they are examined in recorded solos, suggestions are made for using each element in the jazz language, and specific exercises are provided for practicing the element.

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