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This work offers useful information on how jazz music can be improvised.
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Five factors are chiefly responsible for the outcome of the jazz player's improvisation: intuition, intellect, emotion, sense of pitch, and habit. Read the first page
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Five factors are chiefly responsible for the outcome of the jazz player's improvisation: intuition, intellect, emotion, sense of pitch, and habit. Read the first page
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have to admit, when I first got this book I thought, well, it's sort of small, so it must not have very much in it. Boy, was I wrong. What I found was a pretty comprehensive summary of jazz theory and how it can be applied to various situations, from the solo performer to the band. Coker is very concerned with the "education" of jazz and strives to make the reader put together pieces of the musician (thought, intellect, practice, etc.) to make a coherent whole. What I found partically helpful were the chapters on motifs, superimposition, and altered extenstions. Although this can be found in almost any good jazz book, Coker's book uses understandable charts and clear idea presentation. He helps develop ideas for motifs and how they can be modified in improv, gives good information on how polychords work and some possible superimpositions, and a great summary of what good tone extensions are for various chord types. Also, there are chapters on rhythm, partically in band settings, basic theory such as chords and scales, and ideas for transcription off records. Each chapter has practice ideas (which of course I'm way too lazy to do), and there is a big appendix at the end of all types of chord progressions to practice, or at least in my case, look at. Definitely a book to check out if other theory books don't seem to "sum it up" well.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Being a "classical" musician, I decided that I'd like to start playing some jazz. I found this book (that had already had three 5***** ratings) and thought that this might be the one to get me on my way. I was right. This book is fairly short, however, Jerry Coker has marvellously managed to fit in all the basic principles to playing and understanding jazz music.
For £6(ish), you can't go wrong, can you?
For £6(ish), you can't go wrong, can you?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Well, another example of a book which cannot be read properly on the kindle. The musical scores in the kindle version are simply too small to read. I suspect that the original book is great but the Kindle version is simply not worth buying because you cannot read the music scores. Why do they create kindle versions of some books - if I were the author I would be so upset by the kindle version - rubbish.
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