Skills for the Poetic Language of Jazz Improvisation With School and Career Guidance |
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| Author:
| Sherman, Mark |
| Editor:
| Ross, Brian |
| Cover Design by:
| Ross, Brian |
| ISBN: | 978-0-692-38699-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
| Publisher: | Miles High Music
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| Imprint: | Miles High Music Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.44 |
Book Description:
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Jazz is a musical language whose mastery is a life-long pursuit of both the truth of the music and the career that enables that journey. "Skills for the Poetic Language of Jazz Improvisation" is perhaps the first music education book of its kind that holistically mentors the aspiring artist in both the musical and the professional aspects of a career that seeks out that truth and brings that artist's voicing of the "poetic language of jazz" to the public. One of the premiere Jazz...
More DescriptionJazz is a musical language whose mastery is a life-long pursuit of both the truth of the music and the career that enables that journey. "Skills for the Poetic Language of Jazz Improvisation" is perhaps the first music education book of its kind that holistically mentors the aspiring artist in both the musical and the professional aspects of a career that seeks out that truth and brings that artist's voicing of the "poetic language of jazz" to the public. One of the premiere Jazz performers and music educators of our time, vibraphonist Mark Sherman has transformed his decades of that personal pursuit, and lectures to his students at the Juilliard School, to a book that brings wisdom, perspective and balance to that elusive search for an ideal of musical expression in Jazz improvisation.