Reference Books and Videos

Basic/intermediate. Here's the DVD everybody's been waiting for. This nearly two-hour long DVD features Jamey at the piano explaining and demonstrating the fundamental techniques used by all great jazz improvisors. Topics covered include chord/scale relationships, keeping your place, patterns, the blues and pentatonic scales and their application, what and how to practice, articulation, memorizing songs and much more. This DVD not only provides t...

This DVD describes a simple and pragmatic approach to improvisation. While focusing on the jazz idiom, the techniques discussed are applicable to many styles of music and all imstruments, be it rock guitar, jazz sax, or fusion keyboard. The system presented in this volume offers a tangible pathway to inside the creative imagination by getting inside harmony, inside the changes. This is the perfect companion for his best-selling book by the same t...