Jazz, Blues

This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance Intervalic Improvisation. The book covers scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz line phrases from transc …

Greetings Readers,   It’s warming up everywhere and the scent of summer is in the air! The world is changing right before our very eyes. A new normal is upon us . We just hear of the challe …

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature. Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of sm …

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz.The book is divided into scale exercises, arpeggio exercises, jazz line phrases a …

2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year—Honorable Mention Recipient On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score …

Who am I? I am time. Time never ceases to stop. It continues to move forward spearheading us into what comes next. The ‘time’ is now. It is time to enlarge your thinking into a new world of time. A n …

Playing Solo Jazz Piano is an essential new book for creative jazz pianists. The second edition adds two new chapters and audiovisual content to the original. Readers will learn essential solo jazz p …

Fourteen interviews with distinguished jazz writers that explore the exciting challenges of writing about jazz. Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Bal …

Starting where he left off with his ‘Serious Jazz Practice Book, ‘ guitar legend Barry Finnerty has created another woodshed classic for all jazz soloists. Recording artist with Miles Davis, the Brec …

The most comprehensive book ever written on how to create the 4-note, block-chord approach to jazz piano playing used by masters like Mc Coy Tyner, Bill Evans, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton, etc. In thi …