Piano students thrive on experiencing a variety of musical styles and this series is an avenue for motivating elementary and intermediate level students, while opening them up to the vital musical tradition and artistic expression of jazz. Unique components include: Warm Up pages that focus on key concepts and technical aspects of each tune, Going Further pages build improvisation skills, Optional duets parts enhance practice and performance and includes a CD that features performances by the composer and demonstrates stylistic nuances of every tune.

"Wave Goodbye" Correlates with That's Jazz Method for beginninig jazz piano and provides additional opportunities for students to use their improvisational skills.

Introduces jazz piano playing from the very beginning! From chord symbols to comping, this book will get any player started and let them make sense of the jazz language.

16 short easy pieces in a variety of jazz-inspired styles providing a wide-ranging introduction to swing and rock phrasing, use of blue notes and pentatonic melodies, walking bass and syncopated rhythms, plus some more reflective pieces exploring jazz harmonies.

"Walk The Talk". Correlates with That's Jazz Method for beginninig jazz piano and provides additional opportunities for students to use their improvisational skills.

Brazilian Piano teaches elements of some of the most appealing Brazilian musical styles: choro, samba, and bossa nova. It starts with rhythmic training to develop the fundamental groove of Brazilian music. Next, examples build up a rhythmic and harmonic vocabulary that can be used when playing the original songs that follow. Besides providing audio for the examples in the book, the CD contains ensemble recordings that allow you to improvise through the middle chorus. Additional versions of the ensemble tunes are included on the CD-ROM section of the disc, accessible via computer. Features artist interviews and bios.

16 original solo keyboard pieces for intermediate to advanced-level players based on country styles including country rock, ballads and bluegrass. Includes a playalong CD with orchestrated backing tracks and full performances by the composer.

Norton gives unique insight into his music and how best to teach it, based on his experience workshopping his compositions throughout Europe, USA, and SE Asia. Norton and Smith tackle all aspects of piano technique required to encourage authentic and stylistic performances of the vast microjazz output. Includes a CD of performances and backing tracks.

The sixth book in Peter Deneff's popular Hanon series, Jazz Chord Hanon provides 70 essential exercises in a variety of styles to benefit beginning to professional jazz keyboardist, all based on the requisite Hanon studies. The exercises address: comping, major and minor progressions, chromatic and diatonic workouts, altered chords, progressively complex voicings, the Circle of Fifths, and more. Doing these exercises is guaranteed to build fluency in all twelve keys! Includes suggested fingerings and practice tips.

Jazzin' About is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles, tailor-made for the intermediate player. This new edition features a fantastic accompanying CD, complete with performances, backing tracks and slowed-down backings for practice.

The groundwork you need to start playing jazz. Includes chapters on: Basic jazz chord voicings applied to comping, solo and melody playing; Voicings for II-V-I progres- sions written out for all major and minor keys; over 300 music examples to play and analyze.

Bill Cunliffe's arrangements are creative and filled with unique reharmonizations, yet maintain the integrity of the original compositions. Titles: But Not for Me (Gershwin) * Haunted Heart (Schwartz/Dietz) * How About You? (Lane/Freed) * Old Devil Moon (Lane/Harburg) * Old Folks (Robison/Hill) * Polkadots and Moonbeams (Van Heusen/Burke) * Pure Imagination (Bricusse/Newley) * Willow Weep for Me (Ronell) * You Must Believe in Spring (Legrand/Bergman) * Young and Foolish (Hague/Horwitt).

An excellent supplement for the late elementary to early intermediate piano student, Jazz Piano Projects introduces concepts not usually included in traditional studies. Ear training, a 'must' when playing jazz, is stressed as this unique volume incorporates the "experience before the symbol" approach. An extensive glossary gives both the student and teacher not only a valuable reference, but a starting place for further exploration into the fabulous world of jazz music!

Really Easy Jazzin' About is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles, tailor-made for the absolute beginner. This new edition features a fantastic accompanying CD, complete with performances, backing tracks and slowed-down backings for practice.

Features 50 patterns in Latin, Cuban, Montuno, Salsa and Cha-Cha styles.

"Get Your Groove On". Correlates with That's Jazz Method for beginninig jazz piano and provides additional opportunities for students to use their improvisational skills.

For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: · Melody cue with proper style and inflection · Professional rhythm tracks · Choruses for soloing · Removable bass part · Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: · An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) · Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) · Birk's Works · Blues for Alice · Blues in the Closet · C-Jam Blues · Freddie Freeloader · Mr. P.C. · Now's the Time · Tenor Madness · Things Ain't What They Used to Be.

For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: · Melody cue with proper style and inflection · Professional rhythm tracks · Choruses for soloing · Removable bass part · Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: · An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) · Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) · Birk's Works · Blues for Alice · Blues in the Closet · C-Jam Blues · Freddie Freeloader · Mr. P.C. · Now's the Time · Tenor Madness · Things Ain't What They Used to Be.

Includes Sections on Basic Theory, Harmonic Tricks, Rhythm, Arranging Skills, Jazz Improvisation and more. Tips and Tricks used by Professional Musicians to Create their Unique Sounds.

Ready to take your keyboard playing to the next level? This book will show you how. 101 Keyboard Tips presents valuable how-to insight that players of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams and accompanying CD provide an essential, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including: techniques, improvising and soloing, equipment, practicing, ear training, performance, theory, and much more.

Includes 30 terrific tracks representing various styles and forms of the blues. Advice on scale choices and a scale syllabus make this a valuable educational tool for the novice and a "just plain fun" workout for the more advanced player. Note: the C edition works for Bass Clef instruments.

Includes Sections on Exploring Song Forms, Intro And Endings, Writing A Lead Shet, Descriptivde Accompaniment, Transposition and much more. CD includes 50 Tracks.

Includes 12 advanced blues etudes, four-measure excerpts in all keys, jazz lines and exercises in all keys, and more.

Will help you learn the secrets of the Afro-Cuban Rhythmic Feel for Keyboard. Contains 48 Demonstration and Play-Along Tracks for all the Fundamental Afro-Cuban Rhythms.

Includes an introduction to pianos and keyboard instruments, step-by-step music reading instruction, how to improvise, background on various styles of music, including dozens of favorite songs and performing tips.

For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: · Melody cue with proper style and inflection · Professional rhythm tracks · Choruses for soloing · Removable bass part · Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: · An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) · Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: All the Things You Are · Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man · Dearly Beloved · A Fine Romance · The Folks Who Live on the Hill · Long Ago (And Far Away) · Pick Yourself Up · The Song Is You · The Way You Look Tonight · Yesterdays.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of how a variety of jazz musicians have handled the Jerome Kern standard "All the Things You Are." Artists include Oscar Peterson, Andre Previn, Ahmad Jamal, Hampton Hawes, Ralph Sharon, Dave Brubeck, Phineas Newborn Jr., Marian McPartland, and many more. The book includes details and transcriptions of key passages from each artist's version, along with references to the specific recording being discussed. The CD includes sound-alike examples of each of the passages to aid in the study and analysis. This unique book/CD pack will be of interest to jazz fans and historians as well as to musicians!

The Jazz Play Along Series features musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split track choices on CD. This volume features 10 standard classics: Autumn in New York · Bye Bye Blackbird · Georgia on My Mind · I'll Remember April · The Very Thought of You · and more.

Amazing Phrasing is for any keyboard player interested in learning how to improvise and how to improve their creative phrasing. This method is divided into three parts: Melody - From scales to arpeggios, from using licks, riffs and runs to playing outside, this section focuses on melodic strategies for improvisation; Harmony - Whether comping or soloing, harmony is essential to improvisation, and this section covers it in detail; Rhythm & Style - Swing, laying back, shaping your phrases with accents ... this last section puts the finishing touches on your improvisational technique. You'll learn approaches to working with and around other musicians, and you'll practice comping and soloing over progressions in various styles - from rock to bossa nova to swing to bebop. The companion CD contains 44 full-band demos for listening, as well as many play-along examples so you can practice improvising over various musical styles and progressions.

For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: · Melody cue with proper style and inflection · Professional rhythm tracks · Choruses for soloing · Removable bass part · Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: · An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) · Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune) · The Girl from Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) · Jazz 'N' Samba (So Danco Samba) · How Insensitive (Insensatez) · Meditation (Meditacao) · Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz) (Love in Peace) · One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) · Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) · Triste · Wave.

Helps musicians know what to do with specific chords in specific contexts. Lays out clear and objective guidelines on how to turn scales and chords into real music. Perfect for a college or high school improvisation class!

Shows you how to arrange and improvise to popular and jazz tunes in your own style.

Covers twelve blues etudes, four-measure excerpts in all keys, and jazz lines and exercises in all keys.

For beginning bassists, walking bass lines can be very confusing. This method is a quick way of learning to walk through changes. Endorsed by North Texas State band director Neil Slater.

For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: · Melody cue with proper style and inflection · Professional rhythm tracks · Choruses for soloing · Removable bass part · Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: · An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) · Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: Be-Bop · Bird Feathers · Blue 'N Boogie · Byrd Like · Cool Blues · Dance of the Infidels · Dexterity · Dizzy Atmosphere · Groovin' High · Tempus Fugit.

25 jazz classics from the '40s and '50s are featured in this second edition, which now also includes chord names. Songs include: Anthropology · Billie's Bounce · Dexterity · Doxy · Four · Godchild · In Walked Bud · Lady Bird · Oleo · Salt Peanuts · Well You Needn't · Woodyn' You · and more.

In this book in the Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series, author John Valerio provides essential, detailed information for bebop and jazz pianists on the following topics: chords and voicings, harmony and chord progressions, scales and tonality, common melodic figures and patterns, comping, characteristic tunes, the styles of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and much more. The accompanying CD features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band. Also included are combo performances of five of the tunes featured at the end of the book.

A dictionary of melodic ideas for improvisation. Written for the musician who is interested in acquiring a firm foundation for playing jazz, this unique book/CD pack presents over 800 licks. By building up a vocabulary of these licks, players can connect them together in endless possibilities to form larger phrases and complete solos. The book includes piano notation, and the CD contains helpful note-for-note demos of every lick.

For anyone with basic keyboard skills. Goes through major scale and basic triad theory all the way through 7th chords, pentatonic scales and modulating chord progressions.

For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection · Professional rhythm tracks · Choruses for soloing · Removable bass part · Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) · Additional choruses for soloing. Includes 10 songs: Along Came Betty · Are You Real · Blues March · Five Spot After Dark · Gypsy Jingle-Jangle · I Remember Clifford · Killer Joe · Stablemates · Step Lightly · Whisper Not.

Contents: Farewell Blues · King Porter Stomp · Miss Brown to You · After You've Gone · Who? · Nobody's Sweetheart · Sing Me a Swing Song · Down South Camp Meetin' · Dinah · Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day · Peckin' · Bugle Call Rag · Everybody Loves My Baby · Sugarfoot Stomp · Honeysuckle Rose · Sheik of Araby · I Can't Give You Anything But Love · I've Found a New Baby · Let's Dance · Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today.

Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi, one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music - and mentor to Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, and thousands of others - reveals the pedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels, Berklee Jazz Piano maps the school's curriculum: a unique blend of theory and application that gives you a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz. Concepts are illustrated by the accompanying practice CD, where you'll hear how one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time applies these concepts to both jazz standards and original compositions, and how you can do the same.

For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: · Melody cue with proper style and inflection · Professional rhythm tracks · Choruses for soloing · Removable bass part · Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: · An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) · Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: Anthropology · Donna Lee · Doxy · Epistrophy · Lady Bird · Oleo · Ornithology · Scrapple from the Apple · Woodyn' You · Yardbird Suite.

Learn the trademark piano styles and techniques of bebop pioneers such as Red Garland, Hampton Hawes, Hank Jones, George Shearing and others! Through transcriptions and recorded examples, Gene Rizzo teaches 16 classic tunes: April in Paris · Body and Soul · Cherokee · East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) · I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance · If I Were a Bell · Lullaby of Birdland · On a Clear Day · Prelude to a Kiss · Satin Doll · Thou Swell · and more.

A step-by-step breakdown of the piano styles and techniques of Bill Evans, Oscar Peeterson, Errol Garner, Nat King Cole, Ahmad Jamal and more.