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A Jazz Improvisation AlmanacWithin a few years after completion of my online text, A Jazz Improvisation Primer, I started working on expanding the material into a multimedia CD-ROM. The project contains enough information to cover college courses in jazz appreciation, jazz history, and beginning, intermediate, and advanced improvisation. It spans topics from the role of creativity in improvisation to the differences between hard bop and cool jazz; from the use of the tritone substitution over dominant seventh chords to tips for accompanying when there is both a pianist and a guitarist in the band; from how to practice to how to organize a jam session. Because I am having difficulty finding enough time to devote to this project to complete it as quickly as I would like, I have decided to put it online as is. Most of the text is completed; for the most part, it is the examples that are missing. You are free to browse the Almanac and learn what you can from it. While I have temporarily stopped active work on the project, I have not given up on it, and hope to be adding to it in the future. As I envision it, the CD-ROM will essentially be a Web site on a disc. You will therefore be able to run it on any computer that has a CD-ROM drive and a Web browser. This includes PC, Macintosh, Unix, and many other systems. An internet connection will not be required. But in order to view the project as it stands now, you will of course need to be online. To receive updates on the status of this project, sign up for the email newsletter (no need to enter any subject or message body). |
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