Chris Potter Jazz Styles

This concise guide offers a collection of exercises and jazz improvisation lines to enhance contemporary jazz techniques, featuring scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises, and phrases from Chris Potter. Aimed at perfecting coordination by transposing to all twelve tones, it covers major, minor, and dominant chords to their fullest. With no fixed signature centers, it encourages practicing in a variety of keys. Building on three previous methods, it includes improvisation insights inspired by Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, and Michael Brecker.

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About the Author: Oelgario 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 and fourth 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 and Bob Franceshini.
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 Chris Potter.

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 three methods of improvisation:
* Improvise Now
*220 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz lines phrases
*Herbie Hancock lines voicings and rhythms from transcriptions.
*John Coltrane & Michael Brecker Legacy

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