New Conceptions for Linear & Intervalic Jazz Improvisation

Improve your jazz skills with this guide, focusing on exercises & improvisation to refine your technique. Covering scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises, & jazz phrases from solos, it pushes you to transpose these elements into all 12 tones for perfect coordination. Dive into major, minor, & dominant chords, exploring their fullest extent through scale exercises, arpeggios, & chromatics, presented in an accessible, accidental notation for comprehensive learning.

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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.
This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance contemporary jazz style techniques. 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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