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Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention

Our list of some of the best Jazz Piano books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.

Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method – Book 2: The Player’s Guide to Authentic Stylings (2019)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method Book 2 is a detailed, easy-to-use guide for anyone interested in furthering their jazz piano skills. There are many harmonic concepts, useful licks, and comping techniques for you to absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book.
Author(s): Mark Davis

The Best Jazz Piano Solos Ever: 80 Classics, From Miles to Monk and More (2014)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Piano Solo Songbook). Over 300 pages of beautiful classic jazz piano solos featuring standards in any jazz artist’s repertoire. Non-jazz pianists will also find these well-thought out arrangements very beneficial.
Author(s): Hal Leonard Corp.

Jazz Piano Technique: Exercises, Etudes & Ideas for Building Chops (2013)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Keyboard Instruction). This one-of-a-kind book applies traditional technique exercises to specific jazz piano needs. Along with warm-ups, etudes isolate each technical problem within a jazz context. This allows for improvisation, directly addressing the needs of the jazz player. Practicing is not only pragmatic, it’s fun!
Author(s): John Valerio

Oscar Peterson – Jazz Exercises, Minuets, Etudes & Pieces for Piano (2005)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Keyboard Instruction). Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has long been devoted to the education of piano students. In this book he offers dozens of pieces designed to empower the student, whether novice or classically trained, with the technique needed to become an accomplished jazz pianist.
Author(s): Oscar Peterson

Jazz Ballads: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 10 (Jazz Piano Solos (Numbered)) (2009)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Jazz Piano Solos). Fresh solo piano arrangements with chord names of 24 favorite ballads in a jazz style, including: Body and Soul * I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry * Misty * My Funny Valentine * The Nearness of You * When I Fall in Love * and more.
Author(s): Brent Edstrom, Hal Leonard Corp.

Jazz Standards: 40 Sheet Music Bestsellers Series (2011)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 40 enduring favorites are featured in each volume of this series. Due to their popularity and their playability on piano, these songs rank among the top-selling sheet music titles of all-time.
Author(s): Hal Leonard Corp.

Christmas Songs: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 25 (2012)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Jazz Piano Solos). 21 holiday classics arranged for jazz piano. Includes: Blue Christmas * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * I’ll Be Home for Christmas * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * My Favorite Things * Santa Baby * Silver Bells * White Christmas * and more. Includes chord names.
Author(s): Brent Edstrom, Hal Leonard Corp.

Intro to Jazz Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series (2011)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your AttentionThis comprehensive book/CD is the perfect Intro to Jazz Piano. If you want to learn how to play the enduring standards that make up the Great American Songbook, then you’ve come to the right place! Whether comping, playing the melody, or soloing, you’ll learn the theory, the tools and the techniques used by the pros. The accompanying CD demonstrates almost all of the music examples in the book.
Author(s): Mark Harrison

Piano Scales, Chords & Arpeggios Lessons with Elements of Basic Music Theory: Fun, Step-By-Step Guide for Beginner to Advanced Levels(Book & Streaming Video) (2013)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your AttentionPiano Professor Damon Ferrante guides you through 140 step-by-step lessons (for beginner to advanced levels) and 30 streaming video lessons.This easy-to-follow method, used by thousands of piano students and teachers, is designed to be interactive, engaging and fun.The lessons will greatly improve your piano technique, creativity, and understanding of music.
Author(s): Damon Ferrante

Improvising Blues Piano (1997)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Schott). The basic principles of blues piano explained for the intermediate-level pianist in an easy-to-grasp fashion.
Author(s): Tim Richards

Berklee Jazz Standards for Solo Piano (2017)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Berklee Guide). Twelve arrangements for solo jazz piano of standard jazz tunes. These arrangements are fun to play, musically suitable for performance, and support the Berklee piano curriculum and other activities (e.g., auditions). They are organized by performance level, with examples from Levels 1 through 4, so this collection will support every pianist’s journey through Berklee and other jazz piano programs.
Author(s): Robert Christopherson, Hey Rim Jeon, et al.

Exploring Jazz Piano – Volume 1 (Schott Pop Styles) (2005)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention(Schott). Volume 1 introduces the intermediate pianist to the basic chord-types used in jazz, from major and minor triads to seventh and ninth chords.
Author(s): Tim Richards

100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know: Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways (2018)

 Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know (Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways) by Music Mentor Jerald Simon, is one of the books from the Music Motivation® Series.
Author(s): Jerald Simon

Best Jazz Piano Books Worth Your Attention

We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some jazz piano books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.

Singer's Jazz Anthology - Low Voice with Recorded Piano Accompaniments Online

Author(s): Cole Porter
ID: 2556316, Publisher: Hal Leonard, Year: 2020, Size: 43 Mb, Format: epub

Pat Metheny: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 57

Author(s): Pat Metheny
ID: 2792849, Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, Year: 2019, Size: 49 Mb, Format: pdf

Disney Favorites: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 51

Author(s): Hal Leonard Corp. Staff
ID: 2654555, Publisher: Leonard Corporation, Hal, Year: 2018;2017, Size: 36 Mb, Format: epub

Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely hot items according to USA Today, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.

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