Jazz Piano: The Left Hand: A Guide to Left Hand Jazz Piano Techniques from Ragtime to Contemporary Styles Paperback – August 6, 2020

A complete guide to Left Hand Jazz Piano Techniques, with almost 500 musical examples. Covering a span of time and styles ranging from jazz beginnings to some of the most recent developments, this book collects and analyzes many of the most frequently used jazz, blues, and Latin jazz left-hand piano techniques. Generally, each proposed technique is first introduced by a "model" figure derived from original sources, followed by an explanation of its pattern, and finally by some sample applications using well-known songs, harmonic progressions, or original pieces. For the sake of completeness, most of these left-hand applications are integrated with sample right-hand parts that validate the efficacy and concrete application of the left hand figures. Read more