Jazz, Blues

The only book that shows how the Blues Scales (Major and Minor) are used to create jazz solos. Designed to help beginners quickly learn how to create meaningful solos without having to first master a …

Taking inspiration from a class room assignment and John Coltrane’s interpretation of Mongo Santamaría’s Afro Blue, Earth, Wind, Water, & Fire is a jazz composition for sextet composed by Andrew Hann …

This practical and enlightening book gives insight into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship—scale/chord theory, composing techniques, analyzing tunes, practice strategies, etc. For any level o …

This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phr …

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed—chord construction, II-V-I p …

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz. These exercises were made as an extension of my book ‘240 Chromatic Exercises + …

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music–Certificate of Merit (2013) The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big …

A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time. Pepper Adams is more …

This book is designed to teach the fundamentals of bass playing to anyone, regardless of the style of music or level of the player. For electric or acoustic bass, it shows how to practice scales, arp …

‘Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that, ‘ Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews g …