Jazz Inventions for Keyboard: 50 Etudes That Will Improve the Way You Play Jazz, Book & Online Audio

By Bill Cunliffe

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 recording 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)"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073903538X
• ISBN13: 9780739035382
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.3" x 0.3" x 9.3"