Jazz is a musical language whose mastery is a life-long pursuit of both the truth of the music and the career that enables that journey. "Skills for the Poetic

A comprehensive book on jazz analysis and improvisation. Elements used in jazz improvisation are isolated for study: they are examined in recorded solos, sugges

Materials and Concepts in Jazz Improvisation is a comprehensive and concise compilation of the various harmonic and melodic devices used by jazz musicians. It a

This text presents all of the materials commonly used by the jazz musician in a logical order dictated both by complexity and need. The book is not intended to

(Meredith Music Resource). If grading music students in any creative course for credit is a challenge, how much more difficult is it to grade something as perso