Unlock the Mysteries of Jazz with The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine & James Brown

JC M.: Great book - well written with a flowing and easy to read writing style. Profuse examples from relevant jazz material. Highly recommend.

United States on Sep 02, 2023

Marcio Andrade Dias: Muito abrangente, organizado e didático! A melhor publicação para estudos de Jazz que já li

Brazil on Jul 06, 2023

Pedro S.: Excelente livro

Brazil on May 18, 2023

Mr. A. Matthews: This book is indispensable to those wishing to understand the theory behind the language of jazz. Very well set out - it explains all the main rules and then gives you ideas to break them! Highly recommended.

United Kingdom on May 09, 2023

Atti: very good book - highly recommend….

Germany on May 05, 2023

Chris: An incredibly comprehensive piece of work. Contains everything you need to know for Jazz Theory. Helpful to have a keyboard/piano to hand.
It doesn't matter what style you play at minimum a basic appreciation of Jazz theory is a must.
(I'm a bass player)

United Kingdom on Mar 15, 2023

Kindle Customer: Coming from a self-taught background and having played keyboard/synth in rock bands for the past 10 years, I thought I would revisit the study of 'piano' properly and with due diligence. There were obvious gaps in my theory and my technique had disintegrated over the years, so when researching a methodology for approaching the piano I came across Mark Levine's 'Jazz Theory' and found the Holy Grail. At the time I even contemplated ironing out my 'education' by enrolling in a Bachelor of Music, however when I saw the content of this book and the robust approach it takes I knew that my plan was to devour this book; study it, apply it, absorb it, but above all, practice, practice, practice. This book is virtually a Music degree in itself. With the advent of Youtube, I can check out each jazz standard example given, played by a multitude of brilliant musicians; this also helps with technique as I can watch the pianists hands/fingers to see what they’re up to. Overall, the deal is this, and I'm applying this to myself at the moment and have done for the last 12 months; if you follow this book, page by page, review periodically, practise your butt off (3 hrs daily minimum) transpose...

United States on Jun 11, 2017

mary gonzales: I am very happy with the book and content:-) and the seller......... Years ago when I was in high school I wanted to play jazz piano but realized my music instructor was just milking it for every thing she could get and was extremely bored and she was really bad musically! I would just play anything not realizing that I was playing what they call free, no body realized was I was doing, it was a way of making music more interesting. The teach rather than admit she couldn't provide a jazz aproach dumped me saying that I was late after years of lessons and she had better things to do with her time. She created such a resentment I never touched the piano again, not to mention their were not any known instructors in my area at that time for jazz. But after 30yrs I picked out a alto sax Rampone &Cazzani silver, (get an anti tarnish clothe they use for covering sterling silverware and that will keep out the tranish, it is sold by yard in faberic stores) so, if you like silver horn thats the way to go. And so started pecking away at it, then truly realizing how awful an instructor I had, the more I started digging the more questions I had, and the first pages answered a lot of them...

United States on Jun 09, 2014

J.F. Quackenbush: Disclaimer: I learned Jazz Harmony at Berklee and unavoidably talk about it with that terminology. I don't mean to suggest by doing so that that is the only way that Jazz Harmony can be written about or talked about, and don't wish to leave the impression that my criticism of this book is sourced in it not being done the way Berklee does it. Part of my reason for reading this book was to try to get outside of the Berklee mindset to be able to better communicate with musicians who didn't go through that program. To that end this was a useful and good book, however my criticisms below remain.

I bought this book on the strength of Randy Vincent's Drop 2 Book for Guitar which was based on Levine's treatment of Drop 2 voicings for Piano book. In retrospect I wish I had saved my money. While there is a fair amount that is useful in this book, there are long sections that are inexplicably given over to subjects that have little to do with Theory. In particular the end of the book gives over dozens of pages to an index of standards that is both incomplete and self-serving to the publisher as it lists page numbers drawn from Sher Music's inferior series of fake "Real Book"...

United States on Aug 18, 2013