Jerry Coker's Complete Method for Improvisation

A definitive and comprehensive book by Jerry Coker, author of ‘Patterns for Jazz’, ‘The Jazz Idiom’, ‘Improvising Jazz ‘ and ‘Listening to Jazz’. This is an uniquely organised method that devotes a thorough chapter to each of the prevailing tune types of jazz: Standard, Be-bop, Modal, Blues, contemporary, ballad and free form - listening and discussing their characteristics and illustrating approaches to understanding and performing each type of tune. The accompanying cassette created with Jamey Aebersold, includes accompaniment tracks for five tunes, a demonstration track for each tune by the author, and a very useful demonstration track of the Chord Scale Compendium.