Modern Jazz Theory and Practice

Learn to use and understand advanced jazz harmony! This book reveals the post-bop jazz innovations established by such iconic jazz artists as John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Clare Fischer, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea, as taught at Berklee College of Music. You will learn techniques such as multitonic systems, the principles of non-functional pattern development, unusual use of deceptive motion and resolution of dominants, frequent modulation, use of specialized voicing techniques, and tension-driven melody/harmony relationships.

You will learn to: construct advanced jazz sonorities and contexts; build sophisticated, expressive melodies based on advanced chord progressions; understand how chord progressions relate to the psychology of musical expectation; articulate nuanced musical sensibilities for harmonic obscurity, surprise, and ambiguity; use characteristic post-bop conceptual approaches to harmonic progressions, such as multitonic systems and the Axis System; create non-functional chord patterns, with depth and clear contour; and more!