Bebop Jazz Piano (Book & CD) (Hal Leonard Keyboard Style): The Complete Guide with Audio

The content is good, easy to follow and informative but be prepared to create your own exercises. Learn the "changes" and the other style file pieces and play along to the backing. Not easy to start with, but a little each day....I am hoping to get onto post pop and stride ( by the same author). Good luck.The book's pages were coming apart at the bottom, so I used a quick bit of glue to sort that out.

If you’re interested in bebop get this book. It’s got all the foundational stuff you need: soround notes, triplets (various permutations), scales, chords and progressions & various exercises. Little chords (like Barry Harris likes to say —Bud Powell style), big chords. Left & right hand chord notes, how to put them together. Moving chords up in 4ths... phew !Get it man, just get it!

I just would like to have more time to practice at the keyboard, to really do justice to this fantastic introducion/handbook to the art of Bud Powell in particular and jazz piano in general. Great book and CD!

A short review:This book is not for beginners! Or it is, IF you play another instrument and/or you're friends with people who are competent musicians in this genre.Beginning with a first chapter on theory and chord voicings (EVERY Cm7, Cmaj7, Cdom7 and beyond - WAY beyond), you realise a lot of these fancy chords sound horrible but author Mark Valerio explains that Bebop players use them as arpeggios for playing melodies rather than straight right hand chordal accompaniment.The audio examples demonstrate this very efficiently and they're at quite fast tempos too. For the average player, this seems like an amazing resource on the Bebop Jazz piano genre. The author's summation of the style, technique, influence and impact of Thelonius Monk's playing on Jazz piano has me intrigued.The Hal Leonard Corporation piano books by the likes of Mark Valerio and Mark Harrison seem to me to be utterly essential. Luckily, they've been kept in print for a long time as I've bought several books by these authors in the early '00s and prices have remained consistent since then.Interested in playing Jazz piano? Buy this book before it ever goes out of print.

Fabulous book that explains the music theory, chords etc., behind all its riffs, motifs and ideas. I picked it up in a second hand bookshop and found it a great help with playing Tenor Sax.