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Jazz for Piano by David Sharp
Whether you're a pianist, guitarist, saxophonist, bassist, or drummer, this comprehensive resource offers deep insights into the harmonic structures, rhythmic concepts, and chord progressions that define jazz. While many examples include piano voicings, the analytical approach applies to any instrument and any musician seeking to understand the language of jazz at a deeper level.
Explore detailed analyses of compositions and solos by masters including Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols, McCoy Tyner, and many others who shaped the evolution of jazz from the 1940s through the 1970s and beyond.
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Angelica
admin April 8, 2012
Today our warm up was in the Mingus blues composition called” Noddin Your Head Blues.” It’s a slow blues using […]
Duke Ellington
admin April 7, 2012
When I showed up to class we had a violinists and a new pianist. The pianist Bob told us he […]
Interview on Critical Jazz website.
admin April 7, 2012
Hi! I wanna share with you an interview that I had with journalist Brent Black from Critical Jazz. I think […]
I’ll Remember April
admin April 4, 2012
There’s a good discussion about chord subs on this tune on website all about jazz, including this contrefact (new melody) […]
new tunes
admin April 3, 2012
Back to some warmups involving the modes in major and scoped out the locrian natural 2, 6th mode of melodic […]
tunes
admin April 3, 2012
Today we worked mostly on originals. Two tunes of Clement, one in 5/4 and one with a cycle of 3/4 […]
My Foolish Heart
admin April 3, 2012
What does My Foolish Heart have in Blue Moon and Heart and Soul, and with many hits from the 1950’s […]
More Airegin
admin March 21, 2012
Here’s a transcription of Grant Green’s solo on Airegin. And Craig Buhler dedicates a post on his website to a nice […]
Just friends in the West Coast?
admin March 4, 2012
In our last class we welcomed Shri who plays bass and sat in with us. There was an immediate connection […]
Anthropology, line 14
admin February 29, 2012
Check out this now-classic phrase from Parker’s Anthropology solo (line 14, Omnibook transcription), here, in all keys and with a […]
Bird Like
admin February 20, 2012
This is the video of our class performing Freddie Hubbards’s “Birld Like” at Smalls.
Sing the Way you Speak!
admin February 18, 2012
This past session of the Jazz Vocal Workshop was super fun! I think we’re beginning to hit our stride as […]