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The most comprehensive Jazz Theory book ever published!Over 500 pages of text and over 750 musical examples.Written in the language of the working jazz musician, this book is easy to read and user-friendly. At the same time, it is the most comprehensive study of jazz harmony and theory ever published.The Jazz Theory Book takes the student from the most basic techniques such as chord construction and the II-V-I progression through scale theory, the blues,"I've Got Rhythm" changes, slash chords, the bebop and pentatonic scales, how to read a lead sheet and memorize tunes and a study of reharmonization that is almost a book in itself.Mark Levine has worked with Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, and many other jazz greats.
I am very happy with the book and content:-) and the seller......... Years ago when I was in high school I wanted to play jazz piano but realized my music instructor was just milking it for every thing she could get and was extremely bored and she was really bad musically! I would just play anything not realizing that I was playing what they call free, no body realized was I was doing, it was a way of making music more interesting. The teach rather than admit she couldn't provide a jazz aproach dumped me saying that I was late after years of lessons and she had better things to do with her time. She created such a resentment I never touched the piano again, not to mention their were not any known instructors in my area at that time for jazz. But after 30yrs I picked out a alto sax Rampone &Cazzani silver, (get an anti tarnish clothe they use for covering sterling silverware and that will keep out the tranish, it is sold by yard in faberic stores) so, if you like silver horn thats the way to go. And so started pecking away at it, then truly realizing how awful an instructor I had, the more I started digging the more questions I had, and the first pages answered a lot of them from this Jazz Theory book. I also think any book should get reviews from not only masters but also the the novice because this is what the book is written for... This book is to give an understanding of all the scales and how the scale is derived etc...and what can be done with a scale. The only thing I think I retained from my past music intructor was how to read notes and then I had to write them in to jar my memory so they would become second nature to me. Now the real work begins, my hope is to get past the theory to create. And there is a jazz piano book theory written, so as I go through this book I may consider the piano againI had the cd rom for this theory book from pennylanemusicbooks, they are not nice...and have awful customer service I will never try to be a customer of them again.
