100 Modern Jazz Licks For Piano

Bud Powell | Oscar Peterson | Thelonious Monk | George Shearing | Bill Evans | McCoy Tyner | Herbie Hancock | Chick Corea | Keith Jarrett | Brad Mehldau |

• Do you want to take your jazz piano playing to the next level?
• Want to improve your jazz vocabulary to create meaningful, personalized solos?
• Ready to discover a complete theoretical and technical breakdown of the jazz language?

100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano is so much more than a book of licks! It’s a doorway into the minds of the most innovative jazz pianists ever recorded…

• Learn the style of 10 modern jazz piano giants
• Master 10 genre-defining piano licks for each player
• Combine and personalize jazz vocabulary into your own unique style
• Discover extensive biographies and essential discographies for every player

100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano will lift your playing to new heights.

We can learn only so much from transcriptions, so this book goes one further by explaining the harmonic and melodic concepts used by the jazz piano masters. You’ll build an intimate knowledge of the theory and techniques that fuel their musical creativity. In fact, you’ll get years of insight condensed into one powerful resource.

Learn genre-defining piano lines in the style of:

Bud Powell | Oscar Peterson | Thelonious Monk | George Shearing | Bill Evans | McCoy Tyner | Herbie Hancock | Chick Corea | Keith Jarrett | Brad Mehldau |

• 100 jazz piano licks in the style of 10 essential jazz pianists
• Explanations of the theory and techniques that help you get behind the licks
• Playing advice and breakdown of every lick, from fingering to application
• A complete study piece in the style of Keith Jarrett that will help you to construct your own solos
• Perfectly notated examples with studio-quality audio to download for free

Bonus: Essential listening tips for each pianist – learn from their seminal recordings

Bonus: Tips on phrasing, articulation and how to make each lick your own

Each player in this book fundamentally changed the sound of jazz piano through their innovations. More than a collection of licks, you’ll receive a history lesson on the development of jazz piano – from the ground-breaking bebop of Bud Powell to the advanced contrapuntal harmonies of Brad Mehldau.

Along with mastering 100 exciting jazz piano licks, you’ll learn a complete solo in the style of arch-improviser Keith Jarrett. This is a master class in melodic improvisation for those who truly want to learn jazz piano.