Pianists all know the benefits of playing the Two-Part Inventions of J. S. Bach. Now, world-respected jazz pianist and composer Bill Cunliffe has written his own inventions that will benefit every player's understanding and performance of jazz. These great-sounding etudes explore the specific harmonic, melodic, and technical challenges faced by jazz keyboardists, including the ii-V and ii-V-I progressions, outlining changes, chord-tone ornamentation, playing in octaves, tonic patterns, block chords, polytonality, stride piano, and left-hand walking bass. Pieces feature chord symbols, explanatory notes, and preparatory exercises, and each invention is performed on the CD by Bill Cunliffe. 123 pages. . . . perfect for daily warm-up, explores the harmonic and melodic intricacies of jazz, each etude targets a specific technical skill and includes performance notes, inventions gradually become more challenging and the harmonic progressions are varied and very musical . . . a musical feast. -International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Alfred Music Co INC International Concepts.,U.S.
ISBN-13
9780739035382
eBay Product ID (ePID)
177108900
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jazz Inventions
Author
Bill Cunliffe
Language
English
Topic
Music, Musical Instruments
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
124 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Bill Cunliffe
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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