How to improvise jazz melodies bob keller harvey mudd. Pete is available as a jazz or trumpet clinician, festival judge, and featured soloist at the high school and community college level. Art of jazz improvisation free ebook download as pdf file. Stylistically, this is a book about jazz improvisation, both because that particular. If you play a bb instrument like trumpet, clarinet or tenor sax, then the list looks like this. How to improvise jazz melodies bob keller harvey mudd college january 2007 revised 4 september 2012 there are different forms of jazz improvisation.
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