What is your favorite Blues/Jazz lesson book?

[Blueblue]

What helped you out in the beginning and still is:

your favorite Blues/Jazz lesson book?

[tommy t.]

I've been playing for about 60 years.

My favorite lessons and workout material have always been Louie, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy and Miles. (And, my Dad.)

Frankly, nothing in writing has contributed much.

It's 99.99% context and sound.

The other 0.01% is getting out and trying it in public.

I have method books, but they are material with notes -- OK to have something to practice from, but jazz is notes with feelings and I've never seen feelings put down in manuscript very well.

Tommy T.
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[trumpetdiva1]

What helped me out the most in the beginning were lessons with John McNeil.

Here’s the lesson:

Turn to page 74 in Aebersold’s Volume 1 or any recording of the twelve-bar blues. In Aebersold’s book, this would be Track 7, Blues in Key of Bb Concert. Here are some exercises taken from my lesson notes with John McNeil to apply to this page:

-Approach root, 3rd, 5th from a half-step below (example for root: C7: with b as a pick-up eighth note before the first bar and c on the & of 4 and hold until the & of 3 and play e on the fourth beat). 1-2-3-b-c (1-2-3 &)-e(4)-f(&)....
-Approach root, 3rd, 5th from a half-step above using the same rhythm

-Approach root, 3rd, 5th, from 2 half-steps below (example for root: pick-up before first bar: 1-2-3-a -b-c (eight notes; c as & 1-2-3), d (&)-e(4)-f(&)…
-Approach root, 3rd, 5th from 2 half-steps above, same rhythm as below
-Approach root, 3rd, 5th, from 1/2 step above, 1/2 step below, with rhythm same as last example.

Practice the 3rd a lot and the 5th as well. Continue to go through other Blues keys with Track 8, Blues in Key of F Concert.

Janell
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Listen to this sample: Michael Haydn Concerto for Trumpet - II (Allegro) -
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[Billy B]

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[Matthew Anklan]

Listening, transcribing, and the ideas shared above are my favorites, and have proven to be the most helpful tools in my learning. To answer your question directly, here are the books that I've used/loved the most over the years:

1) Trumpetology by Pat Harbison
(I only began seriously pursuing jazz when I was a junior in college. This book was very helpful in learning how to play with a rhythm section and in getting some fundamentals in jazz together.)

2) Amazing Phrasing by Dennis Taylor and Steve Herrman
(Lots of fun practice ideas.)

3) 28 Modern Jazz Trumpet Solos, Books 1 & 2 by Ken Slone
(Lots of great transcriptions of solos by the masters)

4) Bobby Shew's Exercises and Etudes
(Jazz idioms and fundamental harmonic sequences presented as trumpet exercises.)

5) Creative Jazz Improvisation by Scott D. Reeves
(Many of the exercises are correlated to Jamey Aebersold play alongs.)

6) Jazz Keyboard Harmony by Phil DeGreg
(This book is the most important one on the list for me. Learning some basics of jazz piano and being able to comp any tune has been an invaluable skill throughout my career.)

Listen, transcribe, and shed every day. Have fun!
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