About the Author: Olegario Diaz
Composer/pianist, Olegario Diaz was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in composition in 1978. Later, in 1986 he earned a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
Olegario Diaz has performed as a pianist in the East and West Coast with artists such as Tito Puente, Willie Bobbo, Celia Cruz, Mario Bauza Big Band, Paquito de Rivera, Louie Ramirez, Victor Paz and Daniel Ponce.
For his SteepleChase debut album, he recorded with renowned musicians in the New York jazz scene: Rich Perry (tenor Sax), Ron McClure (Bass) and Billy Hart (Drums).
For his second, third, fourth and fifth SteepleChase albums, he reunited with artists like Randy Brecker, Lewis Nash, Ron McClure, Rich Perry, Alex Sipiagin, Seamus Blake, Scott Colley, Jeff Tain Watts, James Genus, Nate Smith, Bob Franceshini and Bill Stewart.
This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.
The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Brecker, Berg, Mintzer, Coltrane, Henderson, etc.
These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve perfect coordination.
Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages.
There are none signature centers, so all these exercises will be worked accidentally.
This project is an extension of my last five books of improvisation:
* Improvise Now
* 240 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz Lines Phrases
* Herbie Hancock The Blue Note Years
* John Coltrane & Michael Brecker Legacy
* Chris Potter Jazz Styles
