Jazz Improv: How to Play it and Teach It - Softcover

An iconic text that has helped thousands of students learn how to play and teach this elusive art form. Large, spiral bound book based on the tonal concept of tension and release"" that will provide students, teachers and pros with important principles of improvising melodic ideas, culminating in a creative procedure for improvisation. Using a step-by-step approach resulting from the author's years of experience as a pianist, composer, teacher and artist-clinician, its pages will help each player to meet his full creative potential through the exploration of modal practices, target or goal notes, tonal-modality-tonality and bitonality.