Basic Skills for the Jazz Band Pianist

Basic Skills for the Jazz Band Pianist
Author: Jeremy Siskind
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480397474

(Educational Piano Library). A perfect primer for a middle-school or high-school age pianist interested in joining their local or school jazz ensemble, this book consists of step-by-step instruction, review exercises, and practice pieces and includes play along audio featuring top New York-based jazz musicians. Through clear, unintimidating instruction and fun pieces composed by jazz pianist Jeremy Siskind, students learn how to read chord symbols, "comp," and form chord voicings.

Jazz Band Pianist

Jazz Band Pianist
Author: Jeremy Siskind
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781476805955

Piano/Keyboard Methods/Series

Introduction to Jazz Piano

Introduction to Jazz Piano
Author: Jeb Patton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997661750

All the information needed to become a functional jazz pianist

A First Book of Jazz

A First Book of Jazz
Author: David Dutkanicz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486481301

Offers twenty-one easy-to-play melodies for the piano including George Gershwin's "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Irving Berlin.

Tons of Runs

Tons of Runs
Author: Andy LaVerne
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781562243173

Tons of Runs is a wide-ranging compendium of runs, licks, and lines found in the jazz vernacular, each written in three different keys, and presented in a straight-forward style without ponderous analysis. This book contains useful phrases derived from chord tones, passing tones, resultant scales, and scale-tone chords that piano players can use right away as "vocabulary enhancers." These are the raw materials and tools that piano players everywhere can use to polish their performance and improvisation skills, and even create new and more interesting ways to play the music they already know!

Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn

Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn
Author: Pops Coffee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973270836

Now updated to 2020, this is an account of the development and output of the great young traditional jazz band Tuba Skinny, which is based in New Orleans. Many recommendations are included of videos to watch and recordings available for purchase.

The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time

The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time
Author: Gene Rizzo
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780634074165

Handy resource for jazz listeners and hardcore fans. Spanning players from eighty years of history, this bold book steps forward and claims who are the greatest. Compiled from an extensive survey conducted with the best jazz minds in the education, publishing and entertainment worlds, noted jazz journalist Gene Rizzo summarized the chosen and presents a concise bio on the essence of these jazz giants. Choices were made on the basis of chops, originality, creativity, and degree of influence. This book will either confirm some readers' opinions or open debate with others, but ultimately the book provides an impressive summary of the greatest jazz piano players of all time. A photo accompanies each listing * Landmark recordings are listed * Extra lists include the next twenty to be selected, the top women players and an alphabetical list of all the other players considered

Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method

Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method
Author: Mark Davis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1495051293

(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory, chords and voicings, improvisation ideas, structure and forms, scales and modes, rhythm basics, interpreting a lead sheet, playing solos, and much more!

The Creative Director

The Creative Director
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1991
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780962430800

(Meredith Music Resource). A new dimension in band performance! Improve rehearsal efficiency through a more effective learning environment with access to the students' fullest musical potential. Emphasis is placed upon auditory and visual imagery techniques. Thinking skills and internal pulse are synchronized to assure consistent performance qualities throughout all types of literature demands.