Playing & Learning Jazz Piano
The piano offers a wealth of improvisation opportunities, which is why it is so popular in jazz. Within jazz itself, there is a wide range of styles, from blues for piano and bar piano to experimental jazz. Whether you play jazz on the piano solo, four-handed, or in an ensemble, you will find a variety of sheet music and method books for jazz piano. We present a selection of these here:
Method Books for Jazz Piano:
The Jazz Piano School
In The Jazz Piano School, Michael Gundlach shows step-by-step how to build simple to complex jazz chords and incorporates them into the typical chord progressions of jazz. Additionally, it provides an introduction to jazz improvisation using some of the most important scales.
Jazz Ahead – Piano Basics for Jazz & Pop
Reiter provides a practical foundation for understanding and applying jazz harmonies and pop accompaniment styles. Harmonic and rhythmic basics are explained in a way that allows for independent and skilled handling, inviting experimentation and creating room for creativity.
Tim Richards: Jazz Piano 1
The new book Jazz Piano Volume 1 by the English bestselling author Tim Richards builds on the basics of blues piano. It introduces the principles of jazz harmony and improvisation from the start and guides the advanced pianist through the various types of typical jazz chords, from major and minor triads to seventh and ninth chords, using all jazz styles from the 1940s to today.
Tim Richards: Jazz Piano 2
Volume 2 builds on the first volume and deals with advanced chord structures as well as other chord connections. In addition to focusing on comping, scales and improvisation are further developed. The volume also includes many standards (Misty, Summertime, Caravan) as well as original transcriptions by Oscar Peterson, Hampton Hawes, and Wynton Kelly.
Modern Bar Piano
Like the ingredients for a gourmet meal, bestselling author Carsten Gerlitz presents the right ingredients for stylish bar piano playing. Using well-known pieces, his own creative ideas, exercises, and many listening examples, you will find your way to your personal bar piano style. A lively, motivating course, designed with great attention to detail.
Blues Piano 1
Tim Richards explains the harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic aspects of blues piano in an easily understandable way. All styles, from early boogie pioneers through swing, gospel, jump-jive, New Orleans, Chicago, and Kansas City styles to the more complex jazz and funk blues of today’s scene, are covered.
Jazz Improvisation
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Can you learn to improvise? German jazz pianist Julia Hülsmann provides an easy and inviting introduction with Modern Piano Improvisation. With simple pieces, she shows how to develop your own ideas and motifs with just a few notes and how to shape improvisation.
Julia Hülsmann: Modern Piano Improvisation 1
Improvisation 101: Major, Minor and Blues
With easy music pieces and example solos, pianists explore improvisation. Also suitable for ensemble play, thanks to simple chord grips and suggestions for accompaniment rhythms. The textbook is also applicable in a band context at school or music school.
Jazz Piano – Voicing Concepts
The book for improvisational interpretation of jazz standards using well-sounding voicings and stylistically diverse grooves.
Thelonius Monk and Jazz Standards
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Chick Corea
He was one of the most influential jazz pianists: In his decades-long career, Chick Corea (1941-2021) had a boundless impact on many musical styles. With dozens of albums and a remarkable 23 Grammy Awards, he was always a trailblazer in music.
Chick Corea - Spain
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This collection honors Chick Corea with 26 note-for-note transcriptions in easy-to-read notation, chord symbols to aid in analyzing the solos, exercise letters, rhythmic styles, and metronome markings, as well as a transcription reference included with the song title.
Chick Corea - Omnibook
