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Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players: Complete

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This is a great book written by a great jazz player. It is easy to understand for the beginner, yet at a high enough level for the more advanced player. An excellent reference for scales, modes, or any other jazz techniques. I found that if I studied this book, it helped me out memorizing and remembering QUICKLY how to apply them to the piano. A must buy!

I was a student a Berklee when this first was published.
After I had bought it, I was talking to my piano teacher. He commented that this book encapsulates everything that they were trying to teach in the piano program.
Hyperbole? Perhaps, but it's still a ringing endorsement.

"Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players" is just what I needed! As a professional cellist, and as a pianist of relatively modest skills, I have been looking for something that already assumes I know the basics of music theory. I don't need all of the chords spelled out in every key, nor do I have the time to read a 500-page tome. The book goes straight to practical suggestions, and the text, examples and exercises are well integrated. I wish I had known about this book years ago!