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Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation by Paul F. Berliner

ISBN-10: 0226043819

ISBN-13: 9780226043814

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press⁠

Published: 1994

Pages: 883 pages

Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Language: English

Category: Jazz, music studies, improvisation

Book description:

This is an in-depth study of how jazz musicians learn, practise, and create improvisation. Paul F. Berliner combines music analysis, his own experience as a jazz trumpeter, and interviews with more than 50 professional jazz musicians. The book explores how musicians develop their musical vocabulary, build solos, work with rhythm sections, rehearse, communicate within a band, and respond creatively during live performance. It also includes musical examples and transcriptions connected to recordings.

It is suitable for jazz musicians, music students, educators, ethnomusicology students, and readers interested in the creative process behind jazz performance.