The contemporary Jazz Pianist vol.4 Bill Dobbins

A comprehensive approach to keyboard improvisation

Pianist Bill Dobbins is a professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music. He has been the recipient of jazz composition grants from the Ohio Arts Council as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. Dobbins was instrumental in designing the graduate and undergraduate curricula for Eastman's jazz studies program, and many of his students have become successful recording artists, having been heard in the big bands of Maynard Ferguson, Chuck Mangione, Buddy Rich, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, and Maria Schneider.

Dobbins has performed and recorded with such jazz artists as Clark Terry, Al Cohn, Red Mitchell, Phil Woods, Bill Goodwin, Dave Liebman, Paquito D'Rivera, Peter Erskine, and John Goldsby.

This enormous 4-volume series is designed as a comprehensive method to help jazz pianists learn and refine their improvisation skills. The set covers topics including harmony, voicing, melody, rhythm, musical development, and various jazz styles, as well as providing transcribed solos for the students to study and imitate.

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Variation I: Scott Joplin
Variation II: Jelly Roll Morton
Variation III: James P. Johnson
Variation IV: Willie "the Lion" Smith
Variation V: Earl Hines
Variation VI: Fats Waller
Variation VII: Teddy Wilson
Variation VIII: Duke Ellington
Variation IX: Art Tatum
Variation X: Meade Lux Lewis
Variation XI: Pete Johnson
Variation XII: Jimmy Yancey
Variation XIII: Thelonious Monk
Variation XIV: Bud Powell
Variation XV: Oscar Peterson
Variation XVI: Erroll Garner
Variation XVII: Lennie Tristano
Variation XVIII: Bill Evans
Variation XIX: Clare Fischer
Variation XX: Jimmy Rowles
Variation XXI: Cecil Taylor
Variation XXII: Chick Corea
Variation XXIII: Keith Jarrett
Variation XXIV: Richie Beirach