This comprehensive textbook is ideal for Jazz Theory courses or as a self-study guide for amateur and professional musicians. Written with the goal of bridging theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation beginning with music fundamentals through post-tonal theory, while integrating ear training, keyboard skills, and improvisation.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART ONE BASICS
• 1 Music Fundamentals
• 2 Jazz Rhythm
• 3 Harmonic Function
• 4 Four-Part Chords
• 5 Five-Part Chords
• 6 The II-V-I Progression
• 7 Modes
• 8 Chord-Scale Theory
• 9 The Blues
• 10 Improvisation
• PART TWO INTERMEDIATE
• 11 Jazz Lead Sheets
• 12 Keyboard Textures
• 13 Idiomatic Jazz Progressions
• 14 Voicings
• 15 Bebop
• 16 Octatonic Scales
• 17 Bebop Blues
• 18 “Confirmation”
• 19 “Moose the Mooche”
• PART THREE ADVANCED
• 20 Pentatonics and Hexatonics
• 21 Phrase Models
• 22 The AABA Song Form
• 23 The ABAC Song Form
• 24 Extended and Unusual Song Forms
• 25 Jazz Reharmonization
• 26 “Line Up”
• 27 Post-Tonal Jazz
• Appendix A Play Along DVD
• Bibliography
• Credits