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# The Jazz Piano Book

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Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Jamey Aebersold, Richie Beirach, and more, this book presents all the information a student of jazz piano needs in an easy-to-understand, yet thorough, manner. For intermediate to advanced pianists, written by one of the acknowledged masters of jazz piano playing.

Review: I would buy this book again just to frame it and hanging it on the wall. The best! - I have purchased at least six jazz piano books before this one. I have wanted to study jazz for a long time and I just got bored with every single book that I have tried to study with. The thing is that most authors write endless pages of chord progressions without actual song applying method. I have fake books of course but I have no way of knowing how to voice the chords written in them. I got frustrated for the longest time. I tried to study with a few teachers who recommended me to practice more inversions and exercises without any musical reference, just drills. I got bored and stopped. Finally, this amazing book was recommended to me and I smiled again. Here's the thing: Levine talks about theory, as he should, and teaches you little by little how to apply that small portion of theory towards a chord progression. Then, he adds a nice standard and teaches you how to apply that voicing to the melody in two or three different ways. For instance, he'll show you the melody of "Infant Eyes" by Wayne Shorter with basic 7th chords in a lead sheet style. Then, he'll remove the melody and writes a three voice harmony. Next page he'll add that voicing to the melody and encourages you to come up with your own voicing. Next, the same melody with voicing that includes 13th, b9, #4, and suspensions. He notates where the 9th, 11th, and all 5th are so you know what is happening. This is very helpful when you read 7 different notes in an inverted chord. He explains why he is doubling the melody or how to substitute the 7th for the 9th or the 5th for the b13, how to play the same voicing in rootless position, etc. It's a complete study on how to approach a song from different angles. Then, he continues with more harmony and standards. This is the best approach because you are learning to voice along with actual songs and not just endless drills. You are forced to think how to add the 9th or whatever according to the inversion you are playing and what the melody is doing rather than just chord progressions without any musical context. This is the best way to learn anything, period. You don't learn a new language by memorizing every verb in that language. You learn a little bit and then try to write it, pronounce it, say it slowly and then fast, etc. You'll learn a lot from this book. Before studying from this book: you must have a very SOLID understanding of music theory. You must know how to read music. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am. EB
Review: A MUST-HAVE! - I wish I could give MORE than five stars, seriously. If you want a lifetime companion book for piano, this is IT. There's so MUCH here for a person to LEARN, really. There are other jazz piano books - I just bought "Voicings for Jazz Keyboard" and it's an excellent book - but "The Jazz Piano Book" is the most comprehensive, covering some of what the "Voicings" book covers (mostly fourth voicings), as well as everything else. Seriously, this is the most complete book you can get. The author is also an accomplished jazz pianist, having played with some of the greats and even losing a Grammy award, which is an accomplishment in itself. You start out in this book with a review of your basic triads in all intervals and in all keys. You next move on to the ii-V-I progression and a simple three-note voicing, which is followed in the next chapter by adding notes to the three-note voicing. The point is that you start basic and you progress. Levine also includes tunes in these lessons, so that you can apply what you're learning to actual tunes. There's no holding your hand in this book, either. You're simply told to practice in all 12 keys or given suggestions of tunes out of your Real Book that you might us to apply the concept to. If a person took their time with this book, I'm sure they'd wind up being a decent jazz pianist. I've never taken any lesson on piano but I've devoted much time to this book and I can say that even though I'm still into just the ii-V-I three-note voicing chapter I've learned a lot about the keyboard itself, learning it all in all 12 keys. When you get to the part of the chapter where you apply the voicings to actual music, you have a chance to play the melody on top of the chords - even if you have no pianistic skill, if you stick to it and play what's written, you can't go wrong, you WILL develop the hand independence. I often read ahead just out of intellectual curiosity, though, and I've read much of the book in advance - there's a LOT in here, easily enough to last a lifetime. This book is a must-have.

## Features

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #30,302 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5 in Jazz Songbooks #20 in Music Techniques (Books) #89 in Piano Songbooks |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,008 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I would buy this book again just to frame it and hanging it on the wall. The best!
*by E***R on August 8, 2013*

I have purchased at least six jazz piano books before this one. I have wanted to study jazz for a long time and I just got bored with every single book that I have tried to study with. The thing is that most authors write endless pages of chord progressions without actual song applying method. I have fake books of course but I have no way of knowing how to voice the chords written in them. I got frustrated for the longest time. I tried to study with a few teachers who recommended me to practice more inversions and exercises without any musical reference, just drills. I got bored and stopped. Finally, this amazing book was recommended to me and I smiled again. Here's the thing: Levine talks about theory, as he should, and teaches you little by little how to apply that small portion of theory towards a chord progression. Then, he adds a nice standard and teaches you how to apply that voicing to the melody in two or three different ways. For instance, he'll show you the melody of "Infant Eyes" by Wayne Shorter with basic 7th chords in a lead sheet style. Then, he'll remove the melody and writes a three voice harmony. Next page he'll add that voicing to the melody and encourages you to come up with your own voicing. Next, the same melody with voicing that includes 13th, b9, #4, and suspensions. He notates where the 9th, 11th, and all 5th are so you know what is happening. This is very helpful when you read 7 different notes in an inverted chord. He explains why he is doubling the melody or how to substitute the 7th for the 9th or the 5th for the b13, how to play the same voicing in rootless position, etc. It's a complete study on how to approach a song from different angles. Then, he continues with more harmony and standards. This is the best approach because you are learning to voice along with actual songs and not just endless drills. You are forced to think how to add the 9th or whatever according to the inversion you are playing and what the melody is doing rather than just chord progressions without any musical context. This is the best way to learn anything, period. You don't learn a new language by memorizing every verb in that language. You learn a little bit and then try to write it, pronounce it, say it slowly and then fast, etc. You'll learn a lot from this book. Before studying from this book: you must have a very SOLID understanding of music theory. You must know how to read music. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am. EB

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A MUST-HAVE!
*by B***Y on July 24, 2016*

I wish I could give MORE than five stars, seriously. If you want a lifetime companion book for piano, this is IT. There's so MUCH here for a person to LEARN, really. There are other jazz piano books - I just bought "Voicings for Jazz Keyboard" and it's an excellent book - but "The Jazz Piano Book" is the most comprehensive, covering some of what the "Voicings" book covers (mostly fourth voicings), as well as everything else. Seriously, this is the most complete book you can get. The author is also an accomplished jazz pianist, having played with some of the greats and even losing a Grammy award, which is an accomplishment in itself. You start out in this book with a review of your basic triads in all intervals and in all keys. You next move on to the ii-V-I progression and a simple three-note voicing, which is followed in the next chapter by adding notes to the three-note voicing. The point is that you start basic and you progress. Levine also includes tunes in these lessons, so that you can apply what you're learning to actual tunes. There's no holding your hand in this book, either. You're simply told to practice in all 12 keys or given suggestions of tunes out of your Real Book that you might us to apply the concept to. If a person took their time with this book, I'm sure they'd wind up being a decent jazz pianist. I've never taken any lesson on piano but I've devoted much time to this book and I can say that even though I'm still into just the ii-V-I three-note voicing chapter I've learned a lot about the keyboard itself, learning it all in all 12 keys. When you get to the part of the chapter where you apply the voicings to actual music, you have a chance to play the melody on top of the chords - even if you have no pianistic skill, if you stick to it and play what's written, you can't go wrong, you WILL develop the hand independence. I often read ahead just out of intellectual curiosity, though, and I've read much of the book in advance - there's a LOT in here, easily enough to last a lifetime. This book is a must-have.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ High quality, much content, but. . .
*by F***T on September 27, 2006*

I've dabbled in jazz piano for many years to augment my rock chops. Treating this as a sideline (Until recently - I've started accompanying a standards singer), I haven't had a lot of spare money to spend on it. I've run into several frustrations with learning jazz piano that this book addresses with varying degrees of success: 1. Buying bad materials - mistakes are expensive. Buying this book is not a mistake. It is much more generally applicable than the "jazzy" major scales, arpeggios and marginally useful patterns that some books throw at you. 2. Finding good materials - Some of the best hard-to-find materials/tips I have compiled over the years have been the result of long searching and sheer luck - a great find at a used book sale, an excellent teacher (trumpet player!!!) at the community college giving non-credit continuing ed to adults, isolated useful jewels on the web, and occasional inspirations from the ether. Most of those building blocks are laid out nicely in this book, particularly in early chapters. To think where I'd be now if I had found this book 20 years earlier. . . 3. Self-contained books - No book, standing alone, can take you from newbie to virtuoso. There are printing costs, size limitations, royalities to pay for reproducing songs, etc. and it gets expensive for publisher and consumer when a book tries to do too much. However, after years of staring at my almost unused Meheegan books, that are useless without expensive and (until recently) hard-to-find fake books, I am quite sensitive to jazz piano books like this one that say, "Go look in your fake book." Jumping between books is a distraction, and perfect matches between fake books and instruction books is unlikely unless the author draws from a specific book (On the bright side, the book recommends two popular fake books). Copyright laws need to be respected, but I prefer the approach of Solo Jazz Piano: The Linear Approach (Olmstead ISBN: 0634007610) to this issue - borrow chord progressions from a song like "Laura", and write a new tune ("Flora") to use for exercises/examples. As a bonus, the new tunes are useful resources for embellishing old tunes. Another minor frustration is when the book provides a pattern and merely says, "OK, do this in all 12 keys." I own Finale, and other books do the job for you, but it would be nice to have at least some of these exercises written out completely. I do like that the book provides a recommended list of recordings for supplemental study, so you know where to go for inspiration when you're not working through the book. 4. Density - I love to fly through books that give instant gratification. Who doesn't? However, such books do not stand up to repeated and extended study, so there is limited bang for the buck. This book is not that way. Some paragraphs can take a week or more to work through completely (The sentence, "Now go master this in all 12 keys," is contained in many such paragraphs). This appeals to my cheapskate side - for the price of one or two piano lessons, this book is packed material that will keep students busy and will reward repeated viewing. With this book, you're getting high quality and much content for a good price, but save up for fake books and a library of CD's in order to reap the full benefit of this book.

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- The Jazz Piano Book
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