Jazz Improvisation

Jazz Improvisation

Jazz Improvisation by David Baker 

Alfred Music | 2nd edition | 1988 | English | ISBN-10: 0882843702 | 132 pages

I have colossal admiration for what David Baker has accomplished for jazz training and at one point in my extemporizing life I thought his methodology was the be-all/end-all. Despite everything it has much to offer the early understudy, especially the accentuation on preparing the ear and creating instrumental ability taking into account extricated examples taken from the vernacular of genuine playing.



Thinking back, nonetheless, the endeavor to systematize a way to deal with learning tunes tends to deliver players (very much a couple of whom I've met throughout the years) who identify with jazz as an accumulation of outlines as opposed to admiring the numerous inconspicuous contrasts in mood, melodic expressing, and utilization of concordance that portray different tunes and distinctive players' methodologies crosswise over jazz periods. Pastry specialist's examples additionally have a tendency to be extremely "one-arranged" which denies huge numbers of them of a bona fide swinging quality and favors playing inside of bar lines as opposed to over. Players who've developed musically can alter or improve a considerable measure of this material to express all the more forward movement and suit their taste. At the same time, shockingly its the less-experienced players who are more inclined to be utilizing books, for example, this and they may discover themselves years after the fact with an inclination they're deficient with regards to something.

In a few ways I feel different scholars, for example, Bert Ligon, Hal Crook, Jimmy Amadie, and Hal Galper have based upon and moved past Baker's methodology, especially with respect to communicating cadenced and consonant stream.