Bidirectional Contemporary Jazz Improvisation for All Instruments

Olegario Diaz

Description

This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.

The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Brecker, Berg, Mintzer, Coltrane, Henderson, etc.

These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve perfect coordination.

Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages.

There are none signature centers, so all these exercises will be worked accidentally.

This project is an extension of my last five books of improvisation:

* Improvise Now
* 240 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz Lines Phrases
* Herbie Hancock The Blue Note Years
* John Coltrane & Michael Brecker Legacy
* Chris Potter Jazz Styles

Sujets

• Musique
• Technique musicale
• Technique musicale
• Techniques musicales
• Jazz
• Music
• Genres
• Styles

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 06 décembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781456628680
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Bidirectional
Contemporary Jazz Improvisation
 
For All Instruments
By Olegario Diaz
 
 
 


Credits Music Editor: Carlos Peña Negron - Copy Editor: Hector Becerra - Art: Gustavo Weber


Preface
This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.
The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Brecker, Berg, Mintzer, Coltrane, Henderson, etc.
These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve perfect coordination.
Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages.
There are none signature centers, so all these exercises will be worked accidentally.
This project is an extension of my last five books of improvisation:
• Improvise Now
• 240 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz Lines Phrases
• Herbie Hancock The Blue Note Years
• John Coltrane & Michael Brecker Legacy
• Chris Potter Jazz Styles
Introduction
Bidirectional means travel or movement in two different directions. Most roads are bidirectional and allow traffic to travel in two different directions. Likewise, the human nervous system is bidirectional and capable of carrying information both to and from the brain and body.
For example, if you put your hand on something hot, this information will go to the brain which will send back the message to remove your hand from the heat source.
In music, especially jazz scales, can move on a bidirectional way up and down. In nature, higher pitched sounds are usually made by smaller, lighter objects. Lower pitched sounds are made by bigger, heavier objects. Little things are likelier to be above you, and bigger things are likelier to be below you. Thus the metaphor of spatially higher and lower notes on scores. Note that the metaphor isn’t universal; some cultures conceive of higher and lower pitches as being closer and further away. There’s a physical basis for that too; higher pitched sounds are more attenuated by distance.
Scales are the building blocks of music. There are thousands of different scales (sometimes called modes) and each one has its own peculiarities and functions. Having grown up on what we call “Western” music (music that had its origins in the European countries), the major and the minor scales are the ones most recognizable to our American ears. But the blues scale, the dorian scale and the mixolydian scale are also use extensively in our music (especially jazz) whether or not we know anything about them!
History
Anyone who hears jazz musicians performing today will notice that, in addition to standards, they often play their own original compositions as well as those of their contemporaries and recent predecessors. These tunes, while often derived from or inspired by the old standards, are significantly different in several ways. Current jazz composers have been greatly influenced by the modal movement that began in jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and most of the modern tunes have their roots in compositions by Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, and others in that time period.
Due to the abstractness and the free form of post bop music it influenced fusion music in the 1970s. It transformed Jazz music to another level that incorporates much more creative freedom and playing. The form free, harmonically free, and abstract post bop had influenced artists to move away from the diatonic approaches and opened up the creative aspects of Jazz music.
According to the book Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop. The book states that, Miles Davis is really the one who started Post Bop and continued on the legacy of his own creation towards fusion and hard bop.
About the Author
Composer/pianist, Olegario Diaz was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in composition in 1978. Later, in 1986 he earned a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
Olegario Diaz has performed as a pianist in the East and West Coast with artists such as Tito Puente, Willie Bobbo, Celia Cruz, Mario Bauza Big Band, Paquito de Rivera, Louie Ramirez, Victor Paz and Daniel Ponce.
For his SteepleChase debut album, he recorded with renowned musicians in the New York jazz scene: Rich Perry (tenor Sax), Ron McClure (Bass) and Billy Hart (Drums).
For his second, third, fourth and fifth SteepleChase albums, he reunited with artists like Randy Brecker, Lewis Nash, Ron McClure, Rich Perry, Alex Sipiagin, Seamus Blake, Scott Colley, Jeff Tain Watts, James Genus, Nate Smith, Bob Franceshini and Bill Stewart.
Contents
Ascending and Descending Scale Exercises
Ascending Arpeggio - Scale Combination, Minor, Mayor & Dominant Chords
Contemporary Jazz Line Phrases