A FEW JAZZ PIANO BOOKS I RECOMMEND
But below are a few I kind of recommend – get the first two for sure
The Jazz Piano Method – by Jean Robur (basic sight reading required – not too hard)
Worth buying just for the excellent progressions. Starts off like you are a beginner then suddenly jumps to advanced level – but worth buying never-the-less. You will return to this often over the years.
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Jazz Keyboard Toolbox – by Bill Cunliffe (basic sight reading required – not too hard)
This is a very good book with some simple yet nice little blues jazz pieces – will teach you the main left hand three note voicings used in a lot of Jazz
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Exploring Jazz Piano – by Tim Richards (intermediate sight reading required)
Exploring Blues Piano – by Tim Richards (intermediate sight reading required)
These two books are packed with great advice / tips in a step by step approach.
You need to have a fair bit of knowledge already and be able to sight read at an intermediate level. Well worth the price but you will have to put in a lot of work.
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Cool Jazz – (Jazz Piano Solos series) (intermediate sight reading required)
This book has three songs from the album ‘Kind Of Blue’ by Miles Davis which sound great. These are ‘interpretation’s’ however and not note by note transcriptions. There is also a pretty easy (first half) version of Take Five by Dave Brubeck.
Not bad but not that easy either.
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Blues Hanon / Jazz Hanon (basic sight reading required – not too hard)
To look at them you would imagine these would be mediocre – actually they aren’t bad at all! Useable exercises that make sense in a further down the road kinda way.