Improvising Jazz
by Jerry Coker
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Both the beginning performer and the curious listener will gain from this book, as Coker explains the major concepts of jazz, including blues, harmony, swing and the characteristic chord progressions. A self-teaching guide is included, and gives the aspiring improviser help in employing fundamental musical and theoretical tools.Tags
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Jerry Coker, a tenor saxophonist and a noted jazz educator who has developed jazz curricula for a number of universities, is a professor at the University of Tennessee
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- Canonical title
- Improvising Jazz
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- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 785.42 — Arts & recreation Music Ensembles with only one instrument per part [formerly: instrumental ensembles and their music] Ensembles without keyboard {formerly: Music for small ensembles} Ensembles of woodwind, brass, strings [formerly: Jazz]
- LCC
- MT68 .C64 — Music Instruction and study Instruction and study Improvisation. Accompaniment. Transposition
- BISAC
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- 163
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- Languages
- English, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 5
