The Harmony of Bill Evans (keyboard instruction)
by Jack Reilly, Bill Evans
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Author: Bill Evans, Jack ReillyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-05-01
ISBN: 0793531527
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780793531523
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Book Reviews of The Harmony of Bill Evans (keyboard instruction)
Book Review: Best suited for academics
Summary: 3 Stars
This book, though well done, reads more like an academic Master's thesis than a truly "helpful" book. If you've been schooled in jazz theory, it won't be hard to follow the logic of the tunes' analyses; without a strong theory background, however, you'll probably get lost rather quickly. But at some point with these kinds of (academic) books - and there are WAY too many of them out there - you have to wonder how much of this stuff is helpful, how much of it is MUSICAL, and how much of it is academic simply for academic sake. "How many ways is it mathematically possible to dissect this particular tune?" For example, if Wes Montgomery begins a musical phrase with an Eb note over a C minor chord, is Wes "thinking" of it as the third of the C minor chord, or the ninth of a tritone substitution for the G7 chord, or the fifth of an Ab Major 7 chord? Does it matter... as long as it's "musical" and sounds good, as long as it "works?" I found Jack Reilly's book to be a little too immersed in hero worship, and despite his best intentions, more of an oddity than the helpful book I was expecting. If you really want to understand reharmonization, etc., in a way that is both musical AND helpful, try Mark Levine's "The Jazz Piano Book." By the way, I'm a guitarist.
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