Developing a Jazz Language

Developing a Jazz Language

VOL. 6 DEVELOPING A JAZZ LANGUAGE - JERRY BERGONZI (172 page book w/ CD) Developing a Jazz Language, is the sixth volume of Jerry Bergonzi's series, Inside Improvisation. Learning a language requires listening on many levels to the meanings, the sounds, the intentions, and the inflections or nuances of the language. The first chapters of this volume on learning the language of jazz focus on the prerequisites of chord scales, approach notes to chord tones and target notes, scale motives and sequences, and lines. Part two qualifies improvisational techniques into three areas; melodic, harmonic and sonic (rhythmic devices are the focus of Vol. IV, Melodic Rhythms) and it is designed as a menu of soloing devices from which you can select your personal course of study. Over 100 specific devices are discussed and conceptualized so as to give the improviser more depth of expression and a greater well from which to draw ideas. Among the numerous topics presented are: guide tones, voice leading, chord substitutions, three tonic system for composition, tritonics, hexatonics, tonal expansions, whole tone playing, augmented symmetric scales, double diminished scales, limited range and large range playing, shapes, blues melodies, accents, comping as a soloing device, common tones, articulations, laying back on the... The CD contains twelve standard chord progressions, each played in two different tempos.
Country USA
Author Jerry Bergonzi
Binding Paperback
Label Advance Music
Manufacturer Advance Music
PublicationDate 2003
Publisher Advance Music
Studio Advance Music
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Author	Jerry Bergonzi
Binding	Paperback
Label	Advance Music
Manufacturer	Advance Music
PublicationDate	2003
Publisher	Advance Music
Studio	Advance Music
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Developing a Jazz Language

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