Jazz Performance Books & Scores
Here is a link to items in the Music and Dance Library on jazz performance or improvisation. A couple of representative titles are listed below.
- Music theory through improvisation : a new approach to musicianship training / Edward Sarath
Call Number: MT6 .S2547 2010
Publication Date: 2009
This book "examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic harmony in conventional approaches, but integrates improvisation, composition, keyboard harmony, analysis, and rhythm ... The author’s entirely new pathway places the study of harmony within improvisation and composition in stylistically diverse format, with jazz and popular music serving as important stylistic sources. Supplemental materials include a play-along Audio CD for improvisation and a companion website with resources for students and instructors."
Printed Scores
The Music and Dance Library has hundreds of printed jazz scores. Here are the results of an ALICE search for Jazz Scores. A couple of the individual titles are featured below.
- Not just another jazz book : book 1, early intermediate / Mike Springer
Call Number: M22.S76 N68 2013x
Publication Date: 2013
Contains graded arrangements for concerts, parties and recitals, along with an accompanying CD that features bass and drum parts to create the sense of playing in a jazz trio. - Jazz Hanon play-along / by Peter Deneff
Call Number: MT239 .D46 2011x
Publication Date: 2011
Features 50 exercises for the beginning to professional jazz pianist, covering: angular lines, large intervals, pentatonic patterns, blues scales, irregular chromatic melodies, double-note patterns, suggested fingerings, suggestions for practice, and more. Has an accompanying CD.