Recommended books

[William]

Here are two books that may be of interest to Sudnow students:

1) “The Listening Book: Discovering your own music”, by WA Mathieu. loaded with tips, tricks, inspiration and exercises that will help you get in touch with your musical self, as listener, musician and composer. Suitable for students at all levels.

2) “Jerry Coker’s Jazz Keyboard:For pianists and non-pianists (class or individual study”. A different approach to blues, voicing, accompaniment, modes, vamps and related aspects of jazz playing. Designed for the beginner, but builds in a few months to intermediate level topics such as modal jazz, rootless II-V-I progressions, etc. Should help the student get a grasp of keyboard notation.

Bill Michell

[David Haynes]

Thanks William. I don’t know the Mathieu book but it looks very interesting. I’ve downloaded the “sample” from iBooks (it’s also available for Kindle and via Amazon among other places) – I’m intrigued.

I have Coker’s “Improvising Jazz” sitting among a pile of other good tomes on jazz improvisation – none of which I’ve spent much focused time with. The truth being that I just haven’t committed myself to going down that particular path in any depth – yet.

[David Haynes]

Thought I’d add a note about Ted Gioia. All of his writing is worth spending some time with. You can find him on Twitter as well – catching up on things musical you wouldn’t know you’d missed.

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