Modern Jazz Piano: A Study in Harmony and Improvisation

by Music Sales Corporation

(Music Sales America). Based on the author's experience in teaching in jazz workshops, this text explains the principles of the jazz art form. Useful for teachers wishing to include jazz in the music curriculum.

Genres: Music

128 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1987

About the author

Music Sales Corporation was rebranded as the Wise Music Group in 2020.

MSC was an American music publishing house and their imprints included Associated Music Publishers, Bosworth Music GmbH, Campbell Connelly, Le Chant du Monde, Chester Music, G. Schirmer, Éditions Alphonse Leduc, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Novello & Co, Première Music Group and Unión Musical Ediciones.

Reviews

[Ruud · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an ok book, just don't expect practice recipes. You'll have to create these yourself from the given material, which is not too hard.
The book gives a nice overview of quite a few techniques from the trade. Not in detail, but it's a good introduction if you want to know what's out there. From there on you can find more detailed information on the things you would like to learn more about.

It's not a method book, more a reference of what is being used in jazz. Reasonably mainstream and skips on things like negative harmony, Barry Harris 6th approach, and in fact points out errors in fake books that might not be errors really, but just perfectly ok reharmonizations.