Here are some piano books and mags that I am using to help me in my research for easy piano lessons, piano scales, piano chords and information especially in jazz improvisation. These materials help me a lot in my quest for knowledge and to improve my craft as a music teacher and musician. * THE JAZZ IMPROVISATION SERIES by JOHN MEHEGAN 1. TONAL AND RHYTHMIC PRINCIPLES 
The fundamental musical concepts used by every great jazz musician from Buddy Bolden to Dizzy Gillespie. Here for students, professional and amateur musicians, and serious jazz enthusiasts are more than 70 lessons that define and clearly systemize the basic principles of jazz - using more than 60 jazz standards as examples....
2. JAZZ RHYTHM AND THE IMPROVISED LINE 
A brilliant analysis and schematic history of these two supremely important facets of jazz. Many figured bass lines and solos are given for dozens of well-known tunes of all periods as well as 29 transcriptions of performances recorded from 1923 to 1958 by such artists as Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Bix Biederbecke, Roy Eldridge, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Horace Silver...
3. SWING AND EARLY PROGRESSIVE PIANO STYLE
* THE COMPLETE JAZZ KEYBOARD METHOD by NOAH BAERMAN 1. BEGINNING JAZZ KEYBOARD 
Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to "Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way through 7th chords, pentatonic scales and modulating chord progressions, this book features a full etude or tune demonstrating every new concept introduced. "Beginning Jazz Keyboard" breaks the old-tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style.2. INTERMEDIATE JAZZ KEYBOARD 
This book is great for keyboardists who have learned the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation. Topics include a brief review of concepts and skills from "Beginning Jazz Keyboard", and continue with the modes of the major scale, chord extensions, making the changes, using chromatic tones and guide tones, chord substitution, "rhythm changes", the blues, altered dominant chords and more. Continuing the format of "Beginning Jazz Keyboard", new concepts are accompanied by etudes and songs for practice. Packed with hundreds of harmony and improvisation ideas, this book is essential for any serious student of jazz keyboard.
3. MASTERING JAZZ KEYBOARD 
The conclusion to this power-packed jazz method starts with a review of concepts from "Intermediate Jazz Keyboard" and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings, modal soloing, substitution, reharmonization, modes of the minor scales, diminished and whole tone scales, walking bass, stride piano technique, non-diatonic progressions and more. The perfect launching pad or a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music, this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist's journey into jazz.
* SALSA HANON by PETER DENEFF 
This book is intended as a sort of Latin sequence to Charles Louis Hanon's "The virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises". Piano players who want to learn the technique of Latin jazz, Latin montuno and salsa will benefit from this book with 50 essential exercises for latin piano. *THE CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARDIST STYLISTIC ETUDES by JOHN NOVELLO *THE CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARDIST by JOHN NOVELLO
*KEYBOARD MAGAZINE
*The PIANIST
*JAZZ TIMES
*PIANO TODAY |
