Jerry Coker's Complete Method for Improvisation: For All Instruments (CD included)

Solo efforts on your instruments come out of chord progressions and inventive use of the various scales. This books shows you various chord structures like the blues 1 IV V or jazz II V I progression and how to work on it. A good overview of the process similar to the Gary Campbell Expansions books, but as in depth as The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine, which is a book all jazz people must have in their library. Jerry's book comes with a CD to help out as well. Good price good book good luck on playing and practicing.

I am an intermediate jazz saxophonist actively trying to acquire improvisation skills. This book is well written, replete with appropriate examples, and has been very helpful to someone at my level. I recommend it highly for the advanced beginner/intermediate

A fine practice aid, by great teachers.

I find jerry's Complete Method for Improvisation very interesting and useful. It should be what beginners, practising musicians and those interested in improvisation read to enhance their knowledge and skill. I find every chapter useful, practical and easy to understand. Good for any aspiring instrumentalist. Written in simple and practical manner which I am sure will be an effective tool when anyone needs to untangle the complexity of "improvisation". Give us more of such, Jerry. Thanks.

Solid text book for any level player. I think this will also work well in a jazz class. Coker, Aebersold and Baker have done all the work for us now we just need to past it on.

Great book.

Same info as many other Method books..even so useful

I search for books that lead a person and can encourage like this one. Just a great book and CD set.

Diese 111 Seiten zum Thema Improvisation kommen mit einer Play-Along-CD.Es gibt Ratschläge, wie man Improvisationen vorbereitet und in den Übungsalltag einbettet.Die Noten sind in verschiedenen Notenschlüsseln für verschiedene Instrumente vorbereitet.Der Weg zur Improvisation ist ein musiktheoretischer Ansatz. Der Autor untersucht die Verwandtschaft von Skalen und Voicings auf ihren Tonvorrat. Praktische Hinweise zum Spiel in einer Band runden die theoretischen Überlegungen ab.Zielgruppe: Musikstudenten.

Ho il Coker in lingua originale e devo dire che anche la versione tradotta è ottima, inoltre é revisionata. Ottimo volume