Inventions and Dimensions: Michael Brecker Jazz Styles

This book offers exercises and improvisation techniques to master the Michael Brecker saxophone style. It includes scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises, and jazz phrases from his solos, advising players to transpose them into all twelve tones for improved skill. Covering major, minor, and dominant chords with extensions, and featuring non-signature centered exercises presented in an accidental format, it's a comprehensive guide for advancing saxophonists.

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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.

Piano and Ensemble Faculty at the New Jersey City University since 2019.
This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance Michael Brecker Style of playing. The book covers scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz line phrases from transcribed solos. These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones in order to achieve perfect coordination.

Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages. There are none signature centers, therefore, all these exercises will be written accidental way.

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