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The Aspiring Jazz Pianist (Piano Method) Review

The Aspiring Jazz Pianist [Paperback]
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This book is well written and does a good job of explaining chord theory. It also introduces many styles of accompaniment, tips on improvising, how to play from lead sheets, and how to play solo and with others. Overall a great book, probably best suited for intermediate players, but great as a supplement for beginners as well.

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by Debbie Denke There is no joy like that of expressing yourself through musical improvisation. This book/CD pack will show you how to arrange and improvise to popular and jazz tunes in your own style, using a clear, step-by-step method developed over many years by successful jazz pianist and teacher Debbie Denke. It can be used for personal instruction or as a classroom text. The CD features both solo piano demonstrations and bass and drum accompaniments that let you practice playing with a rhythm section.

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Complete Blues Keyboard Method: Beginning Blues Keyboard (CD) Review

Complete Blues Keyboard Method: Beginning Blues Keyboard [Audio CD]
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This is one of the best beginning blues instruction books I've found. It teaches a bit of blues theory and provides the basic framework for the blues, but Tricia also provides the beginner with a few blues tunes to play. You can find books with advanced blues songs (from established performers) and you can find books with blues "riffs"....but you won't find many bookes for beginners that have good sounding, playable, blues tunes. Ms. Woods delivers on all fronts.

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Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning blues right away. Learn what it takes to create the distinctive sound of the blues, including basic chords and scales, blues melodies, improvisation, turnarounds and intros. Other topics include the 12-bar blues form, walking bass and playing in a band.Full of fun blues tunes to play, Beginning Blues Keyboard provides a step-by-step enjoyable way to learn the blues. 96 pages.

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Blues & Jazz Complete Review

Blues & Jazz Complete [Paperback]
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Dr. Konowitz presents a thorough, pedagogically sound introduction to blues and jazz. The book is spiral bound, so it lays flat on your music stand. A variety of blues and jazz techniques are meticulously illustrated. New chords are introduced with a nice full page guide to the keyboard fingering. It is a bit cookie cutter, but having the fingering written out below and above the staffs is a plus. My only complaint is that the "band" seems to be a cheesy concoction of General MIDI instruments played through an inadequate sound engine. The CD sound quality is irritating. One word of extra advice: You will not need the CD for the companion book, Chords Complete, because it only contains incidental backing rhythm tracks for the chord exercises. I have four books authored byKonowitz. The sound quality of the CDs are uniformly cheesy except for the Listen and Learn Blues Book published in 2002.

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Save lots of time searching for ways to play Blues and Jazz.All you need to know to begin playing these great styles is carefully organized here by master teacher and performer Bert Konowitz.Learn to play blues scales, chord voicing, progressions, left-hand accompaniments and improv techniques.Unlock the basics of Latin, Rock, Bebop, Pop Ballads and Fusion styles. Start playing Blues and Jazz now!

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Thelonious Monk for Guitar (Personality) Review

Thelonious Monk for Guitar [Paperback]
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No longer is the idiosyncratic style of Thelonious Monk inaccessible to the guitarist.
For the guitarist who has ever spent time listening to the genius of Monks music - feeling at the same time enlightened by it's wisdom, and saddened by the ever nagging feeling that you, as a guitarist, could not truly benefit, this book is the answer to your unspoken wish.
If you have a desire to go beyond the limitations of the instrument - which turn out to be false - and are looking for your own unique voice, this book can be part of that journey for you. Somebody has finally done it for us. Gary has put in much time and effort, and he has found all the essential notes - those required to express Monk's style, and he's figured out how to put them on the fretboard. Every measure brings awe and surprise to the player. You won't believe that the sounds are coming from your guitar!
The book is well written, and each piece is a distillation of the essentials from numerous recordings. Gary Wittner has an encyclopedic knowledge of Monk's music, which is apparent in this book. There are extensive performance notes for each piece, some detailing almost every measure. These are essential, as they point out points that may not be obvious to you on first or even subsequent reading. For example, the duration of certain notes are very important to bring out the melody which is sometimes "hidden" in the chord voicings. The chord names are included at each measure. Fingerings are included when necessary, and everything is in TAB as well as standard notation. It couldn't be clearer.
It's not an easy journey - Monks' wasn't, and I don't imagine Gary's was either, but when you begin to work through the material you will start to see the connections. You'll start learning that wisdom that Monk was trying to pass on to us. It was meant for all of us.

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Explore the songs of one of the greatest jazz composers with this collection of 11 solo guitar arrangements in standard notation and tab. Songs: Bemsha Swing * Blue Monk * Little Rootie Tootie * Monk's Dream * Nutty * Played Twice * Reflections * Round Midnight * Ruby, My Dear * Ugly Beauty * We See. Includes in-depth performance notes, an introduction, and a discography.

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The Beatles For Jazz Piano (Piano Solo Personality) Review

The Beatles For Jazz Piano [Paperback]
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If you are used to the standard arrangements in Beatles Songbooks and want something new this is a good book to try.This is a piano solo book, with chord symbols, no lyrics.The songs are arranged with more extended chords and some substitutions, as compared with the usual arrangements. Not all the songs are in the keys the Beatles played them in. However, the arrangements are complete and you can play them as is.They do not include any written out improvisation; however, you have some fresh chords to improvise over.Some of the songs sound good adding a jazz swing feel others don't.Some of the songs sound a little strange at first with the extended chords but grow on you.This book is at an intermediate level.
The following songs are included: Get Back, All My Loving, And I Love Her, Eleanor Rigby, The Fool on the Hill, Here There and Everywhere, Michelle, Nowhere Man, Strawberry Fields Forever, With A Little Help from My Friends,

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11 classic Beatles songs specially arranged in jazz-style for piano solo...complete with guitar chord symbols. Songs include: All My Loving * And I Love Her * The Fool on the Hill * Here, There and Everywhere * Michelle * Yesterday * and more.

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The Real Book: Sixth Edition Review

The Real Book: Sixth Edition [Plastic Comb]
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Take note, this book contains no lyrics, thankfully.

Like many musicians I have owned a copy of the, "Real Book 5th Edition" for a long time.I use it at rehearsals, I take it to gigs, and over years of use it has received a lot a wear and tear.As you may know the, "Real Book 5th Edition" is a home made publication, it is not available to the general public it is sold by musicians to musicians.Consequently finding a copy is very difficult, and replacing a worn out copy is just as difficult.Despite its limited availability it is used by musicians all over the world and has become a standard piece of equipment any jazz gig.

Hal-Leonard's "Real Book 6th Edition", at first glance, appears to a fully licensed duplicate of the, "Real Book 5th Edition" however, it is NOT.

The cover is the same, the type set is the same, many of the songs are the same, and most of the keys match the, "Real Book 5th Edition."Unfortunately, many important songs are missing including: "Gentle Rain", "Pennsativa", "Green Dolphin St.", "Days of Wine & Roses", "Spain", "A Foggy Day", and all frank Zappa songs.Some great songs have been added including: "Whispering", "Nuage", "Topsy", "That's Amore", "Easter Parade", "When You Wish Upon a Star", and many more.A few songs appear in a different key than the, "5th Edition" including: "Windows" and "Here's That Rainy Day."There are also some corrections including: "Blue Train" changed from Cm blues to Eb blues; "Equinox" changed from Cm to C#m; the chords to "Four" have been 'corrected'; the bass lines of "So What" and "Maiden" have also been corrected.

The result of Hal-Leonard's efforts gives us a great fake book which is easy to read and easy to buy.The song selection is great, but it is different form the, "5th Edition" this will present a problem when someone on a gig calls, "Conference of the Birds" or any other song not in this book.

What made the, "Real Book 5th Edition" a standard for so many years was the fact that it was one of a kind.Each song had it's own page, the type set was large and clear, the chords were simple and to the point, the songs listed were ones that musicians played, and the arrangements were streamlined (but accurate), for years this was the only book that used this style.

Today, however, many fake books published by Warner Brother, Sher Music, and Hal-Leonard use this style.Consequently great music and quality arrangements are easily accessible to all musicians.There is no longer a need for the, "Real Book 5th Edition" it has been replaced by fully legal and more accurate publications.Hal-Leonard's, "Real Book 6th Edition" is another one of the new generation fake books.

I hope all the songs missing from the, "Sixth Edition" appear in books 2 or 3 which are due out soon.

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The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed without any copyrights or royalties paid to the master composers who created these musical canons. Hal Leonard is very proud to present the first legitimate and legal editions of these books ever produced. You and your customers won't even notice the difference...the covers look the same, the engravings look the same, the songlist is nearly identical, and the price remains fair even on a musician's salary! But every conscientious musician and music store owner will appreciate that these books are now produced legally and ethically, benefitting the songwriters that we owe for some of the greatest music ever written! 400 songs, including: All Blues * Au Privave * Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) * Black Orpheus * Bluesette * Body and Soul * Bright Size Life * Con Alma * Dolphin Dance * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Easy Living * Epistrophy * Falling in Love with Love * Footprints * Four * Four on Six * Giant Steps * Have You Met Miss Jones? * How High the Moon * I'll Remember April * Impressions * Lullaby of Birdland * Misty * My Funny Valentine * Oleo * Red Clay * Satin Doll * Sidewinder * Stella by Starlight * Take Five * There Is No Greater Love * Wave * and more!

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Picnic Suite (Transcribed) Review

Picnic Suite [Paperback]
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This suite with excellent orchestration and catchy melodies is an excellent addition to the repertoire of your combo, IF you have a skilled flute player.

The book contains 5 separately bound volumes with an unattached paper cover (pictured): parts for drumset, guitar, bass, flute, and piano. The drumset, guitar, and bass parts are straightforward, western style musical notation, with cues. Flute is the same, but Part 6 (Tendre) is scored for Alto Flute in G. The piano part is completely written out just as heard on the recording, except there is minor simplifying in the more complex passages of Gaylancholic and while the gist of the solos are provided, Bolling urges the player to embellish with "Improv" commands. The piano part includes, for the most part, the flute and guitar parts written above the main staff, and occasional bass cues.

Picnic Suite is moderately advanced music, but nothing too complex for an advanced high school or college-level combo can't handle. The peripheral movements: Rococo, Madrigal, Canon, Tendre, and Badine (1, 2, 5, 6, 7) are simple in that a classical pianist could pick it up and read it straight from the score, not winning any style points of course, but are easily accessible. Part 3 and 4, Gaylancholic and Fantasque are nasty movements that provide amazing music, but also major difficulties. The main difficulties in Gaylancholic are for the flute and the piano, who have to navigate tricky runs in harmonic E minor and long solos of increasing detail. Fantasque is very difficult for the piano given its heavy jazz rhythms and 5/4 meter. I'm not a guitarist, but Tendre and Badine look like nightmares for the guitarist of those movements.

Highly recommended product. The only reservation I have against the music is that it's not a particularly common combo; at least for me it's hard to find musicians (esp. flautists) of this caliber that are able to play jazz and in these many varying styles of it. Definitely check out the CD first to see what kind of music this is.

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Transcriptions to the suite featuring the jazz piano of Claude Bolling as well as parts for flute, guitar, bass and drums.

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Horace Silver Collection: Piano (Artist Transcriptions) Review

Horace Silver Collection: Piano [Paperback]
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This book is really worth it for "Song for my Father" alone....it is the exact piano transcription written in the same key. Good selection of songs - even has the lyrics for some of them.

Recommended if you are a Horace Silver fan.

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Note-for-note piano transcriptions for 15 songs: The Cape Verdean Blues * Come on Home * Filthy McNasty * Funky Bunky * Home Cookin' * Nica's Dream * Nutville * Peace * Que Pasa * Senor Blues * Sister Sadie * Song for My Father * Soul Mates * Strollin' * The Tokyo Blues.

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Voicings For Jazz Keyboard Review

Voicings For Jazz Keyboard [Spiral-bound]
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This book explains away all the mysteries involved in quartal jazz harmony, as well as provides great insight into using triads over dominant sevenths and voice leading.Frank gets right to the heart of the matterand presents it in a straight-forward, easy to understand manner, which isthe way it should be.Great for ANY instrumentalist and a great resourcefor jazz arrangers.

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A respected soloist, clinician and writer, Mantooth has written this book for any keyboard player interested in developing better jazz chord voicing. Written more as a Õhow-toÕ book than a textbook, Voicings will make a valuable addition to the library of any performer, arranger, teacher or jazz theorist.

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Scales for Jazz Improvisation: A Practice Method for All Instruments Review

Scales for Jazz Improvisation: A Practice Method for All Instruments [Paperback]
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I just started to work with this book.It tells you where you can play these scales...over what cords. I have to work on my execution but this looks like the right route for me.

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Haerle presents the scales used in improvisation and explains applications. Scales shown in all keys and treble and bass clefs include blues, ionian, dorian, phrygian, locrian as well as whole tone, chromatic, augmented and many more. Great aid to memorizing.

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Four Lives in the Bebop Business Review

Four Lives in the Bebop Business [Paperback]
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Spellman, a lucid analyst of the avant garde jazz movement in the '60s (see his liner notes, for example, on the original release of Coltrane's "Ascension"), has contributed with this book four compellingportraits of musicians who gave and have given their lives tojazz.
"Four Lives in the Bebop Business" profiles two altoists,Jackie McLean and Ornette Coleman; and two pianists, Cecil Taylor andHerbie Nichols. Spellman skillfully crafts the narratives, while wiselyallowing his subjects to tell large chunks of their stories in their ownwords.
It becomes clear as one reads the book that it took a lot of gutsto be a jazz musician during the '50s and '60s (and still does). All fourof the musicians faced major obstacles in pursuing their art.
McLean,who enjoyed the greatest amount of commercial success of the four,especially early on, battled drug addiction. Taylor and Coleman faced openhostility because of their challenging, groundbreaking approaches toplaying their instruments. Nichols (the only one of the four who is notstill alive) was just plain ignored, despite his brilliantly originalplaying (check out the two-disk Blue Note compilation of his music), andspent much of his all-too-brief career playing in Greenwich Villagedives.
In spite of bad accommodations, poor pay, public indifference,critical hostility and difficulty finding gigs, these artists, the bookmakes clear, would never play anything other than jazz. In this sense, thebook has an underlying inspirational message. Still, it remains for Americato fully embrace its only true indigenous art form, something which to thisday has not occurred.
The book also offers insights from the musicians onthe creative process and about the historic changes in jazz that occurredduring the '60s, from the perspective of men who were on the front lines ofthe battles between critics, musicians, and the listening public.
Required reading for the serious jazz listener.

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This book offers biographical sketches and quotations from four black musicians: Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and Jackie McLean. Photographs.

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The Brad Mehldau Collection Review

The Brad Mehldau Collection [Paperback]
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This book is a must-have for any serious fans of Brad Mehldau who have the ambition to learn how to play like he does.These are full transcriptions of the piano parts, with no "repeat ad-lib" prompts; it's all here.It's a great way to see how he works his magic, and a great starting point for learning his technique.

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Awarded Berklee College of Music's Best All-Around Musician award while still a junior in high school, young star Brad Mehldau has been rising ever since. This collection features note-for-note transcriptions of six songs brilliantly interpreted by this jazz piano man: Bewitched * I Didn't Know What Time It Was * Nobody Else but Me * Prelude to a Kiss * Sehnsucht * Unrequited. Includes a biography and a discography.

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Jazz Theory and Practice Review

Jazz Theory and Practice [Paperback]
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This is a great book, a comprehensive survey of many aspects of what I (not really being a jazz musician) would rather call "contemporary commercial music theory." This area of study is typically lacking in classical musicians' training, and any classical musician who would like to expand his or her musical horizons, in order to compete better in the "real world" of music and be able to work fluently from lead sheets, would do very well to buy this book and study it from cover to cover.

I have to agree with fellow reviewer Stephen Apple that this is one of the most useful - and well-loved - books in my library. "Jazz Theory and Practice" was written as a college-level text, and assumes familiarity with music reading and some elementary music theory concepts. Nevertheless it begins with (for review purposes, assuming that some students may need brushups) the common material on intervals, scales, basic chord construction, etc. which are the nuts and bolts of "Music Theory 101". Then it goes on to cover the entire gamut of 20th century commercial music harmony, with great sections on melody construction, rules of chord substitution, the two great short forms of 20th c. song: 12 bar blues and 32 bar song form, modal jazz practices, etc. Pretty much all of the practical musical tricks and devices that a working musician should be aware of are covered.

For the reader, the important prerequisite is to be able to read the "grand staff", or piano notation with both treble and bass clef, as the examples are often in this form (most are in simple treble clef.)

This is not a book about improvisation per se, but it contains the necessary practical tools that a musician needs to develop an intelligent (rather than "intuitive") improvisation practice.

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Jazz Theory and Practice is the most modern introduction to jazz theory ever published. Rich with examples from the repertoire, it gives performers, arrangers and composers an in-depth and practical knowledge of the theoretical foundations of jazz. A CD-ROM is also available, providing supplemental exercises for ear-training and sight-reading practice, as well as tutorials that correspond to topics and examples in the text.

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The Jazz Language: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation Review

The Jazz Language: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation [Paperback]
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This book is written by Dan Haerle of the University of North Texas.Ifyou have yet to hear of the great jazz program there then perhaps you havebeen asleep the past several years.Haerle sets forth a comprehensivemusic theory and musicianship program for musicians of all levels.Thefirst chapter begins with a basic presentation about intervals and by thetime you are done with this tome you will have a good grasp of the manyharmonic and scalar concepts that drive jazz.These are fundamentals, asthe title suggests, that need to be in place if you wish to compose orimprovise in the jazz idiom.There are study questions and excerises atthe end of each chapter that are an invaluable aid for both the teacher andthe student alike.If you consider yourself a 'serious' musician in anysense of that word then you ought to be ashamed if you don't own this book.

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PATTERNS FOR JAZZ stands as a monument among jazz educational materials.Condensed charts and pertinent explanations are conveniently inserted throughout the book to give greater clarity to the application of more than 400 patterns built on chords and scales -- from simple(major) to complex (lydian augmented scales).

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Scat! Vocal Improvisation Techniques Review

Scat Vocal Improvisation Techniques [Paperback]
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Enjoyable yet slow down a little, Mr. Stoloff!Stoloff goes into a a brief history of how the scat style came about and then dives straight into jazz theory without giving well understood reasons on how it applies to his scat examples(e.g. Some Theory and then many examples, some more theory and then more examples.) The theory that's introduced with each chapter appears very academic and dry at times.Perhaps this is understood with Stoloff's educational background.However, I wish Stoloff would have kept in mind that the majority of singers out there who wish to delve into this subgenre of vocalization are not necessarilly theory-based and the text could have been adjusted accordingly.I would have liked the author to cover more of his personal philosophy and approach to vocal improvisation beyond the "just do what I've written and you'll be fine" mentality.
The big benefit and treasure of this book is the accompanying CD though.However, I do have two complaints: 1) it still purveys the "I'll do it and you copy me" approach and you just hope somewhere down the line, everything will come together 2) some of example melody lines he's flying by in lightning speed(I had to get a wave editor to slow down some of his jazz runs).The benefits: This CD is indeed great for loosening up your vocal chords, lips, nervousness and perhaps just to loosen up your entire 'soul' before a gig.I've been working with this book/CD for over six months now and have noticed a more relaxed approach to my melody lines in practice or performances after warming up with the CD examples.

The last part of the book covers vocal drumming for the Bobby McFerrin/ rap beat boxer types. He does an impressive job with the examples but it was only amusing at best.I feel that it takes a little too much real estate in the book and CD though.Again, I felt that he doesn't properly explain how this section connects with the rest of the material.
Overall, I am thankful that I ran into this book though for the sake of finding something to counter balance the regimen of scales and typical vocal exercises.I do know that I am a more confident improviser and not afraid to stretch out the melodies because of Stoloff's material. Recommended but be creative how you practice the material!

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A comprehensive approach to vocal improvisation with rhythmic and melodic exercises, transcribed solos, vocal bass lines and drum grooves, syllable articulationetudes, and more. The CD includes call response exercises, demonstration solos by the author and sing-along chord pattern in Latin, jazz and hip-hop styles with rhythm section accompaniment.

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The Best Chord Changes for the Most Requested Standards (Fake Book) Review

The Best Chord Changes for the Most Requested Standards [Plastic Comb]
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This is the best book for someone who wants to move up into the jazz arena.I was a musician for twenty years before I was brave enough to play solo jazz piano and this is one of the books that allowed me to get much better. I had bought everyother jazz piano book and I did not get anything out of them.Only this and one other Mantooth book did it,with a little help from one other book. Buy it, you'll never regret it.

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Includes: All the Things You Are * Button Up Your Overcoat * Chances Are * It's Only a Paper Moon * Just the Way You Are * Misty * On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) * Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * Tuxedo Junction * What a Diff'rence a Day Made * more.

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The Definitive Jazz Collection (Definitive Collections) Review

The Definitive Jazz Collection [Paperback]
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No "fake book", or "real book" this.You get full, well-thought-out harmonizations.This isn't how Jazz pianists acquire their numbers, but hey, this graduate of the weekly visit to the traditional read-the-music-and-play-it-exactly-as-written piano teacher likes it just fine this way.Having played through about 25% of the songs, I'll say there are no really bad arrangements, and quite a few very good ones.The technical difficulty is toward the higher end of the non-classical stuff you find in the music stores -- the average song is about as hard (if you want to play all the notes) as a Chopin Waltz or a Clementi Sonatina.

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A once-in-a-lifetime collection of 90 of the greatest jazz songs ever compiled into one volume. Includes: Ain't Misbehavin' * All the Things You Are * Birdland * Body and Soul * A Foggy Day * Girl From Ipanema * Here's That Rainy Day * The Lady Is a Tramp * Love for Sale * Mercy, Mercy, Mercy * Midnight Sun * Moonlight in Vermont * Night and Day * Skylark * Stormy Weather * Sweet Georgia Brown.

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