Page numbers may refer to music as well as text.
Page references in bold type indicate the main
appearance of a tune, a photograph of a pianist,
based on four-note chords in key of F 140
or an entry in Appendix I, ‘Suggested Listening’.
dominant sevenths/ninths 103, 112, 187in left hand 214–217in right-hand improvisation
‘A’ Train Improvisation 66, 68, 69
in walking basslines 25, 70, 96, 118–119
Dominant Seventh Workout #1 119, 120
over minor II – V – I sequence 158–159
practice routine (five main chord-types) 134
II – V Cycle with Dorian Scales 174
Art Blakey’s ‘Jazz Messengers’ (group)
Adding II chords to dominant seventh cycle 166
Alexander, Monty 72, 230
Allen, Geri 233
Alternating inversions See: Inversions
in major seventh chords 139–140, 176, 215
triads 18, 21, 32–33, 78–79, 84, 87, 88
Autumn Leaves 150, 154–155
Anticipated chords See: Pushed chords
Anticipating notes in Autumn Leaves pick-up 151
Avoiding finishing phrases on the fourth 15, 35, 40
Index Avoiding the thumb on black notes 51, 94
Blue third (b3) 13, 14, 15, 19, 30, 63, 116, 125
Blue Trane 106Blues 106 See also: Vol. 2 pp. 158–166, 180–181
influence 171, 201, 230, 232, 233, 234, 237
Barron, Kenny 232
Basie, Count 106, 228, 234, 237
Bass/bassist 153, 167, 171, 192, 198, 212 on CD 9
Bass lines See also: Latin, Syncopated, Two-feel
using R and 5 only 42, 47, 64–66, 73, 75, 145,
Blues in Fourths 107, 211 See: Vol. 2 p. 266
Blues in Three 211 See: IBP p. 220
Bebop Bridge 166 See: Vol. 2 p. 103
Beck, Gordon 232
Blake, Eubie 228 Bossa Nova Comping #1 145, 147, 148, 161, 203
pianists featured with ‘Jazz Messengers’
Brackeen, Joanne 234
Brand, Dollar See: Abdullah Ibrahim
Bley, Paul 231
George Shearing’s 219, 221, 223–224, 230
Blue and White 56, 58 Blue Bossa 176 See: Vol. 2 p. 224
Blue in Green 230 See: Vol. 2 p. 172
Blue Monk 106, 228 See: IBP p. 108
Blue Note (record label) 152, 156, 201, 204, 231
See: Four-note voicings (single-handed)
Brubeck, Dave 230 Cloud Nine 54, 195, 196, 198, 207 Cloud Nine Improvisation 199
Bud Powell voicings 153 See also: Shells
Co-ordination exercise (chords in left hand)
Coda (definition) 237Coda sign (explanation) 236
Coincidence Calypso 28, 30–31, 41 C Jam Blues 106 See: IBP, pp 56 and 216
Cole, Nat ‘King’ 234
Calypso 28, 237 See also: Vol. 2 p. 127
Carmichael, Hoagy 234
Combining bass and chords in the left hand 66
See also: Stride piano, Pseudo-stride
Comping 9, 30, 237 See also: Accompanying,
for II – V and II – V – I chords 192–193
Charles, Ray 234
with bass line in left hand, chords in right
Chord/scale relationships 134 See also: Modes
Connick Jr, Harry 234
Corea, Chick 36, 39, 171, 231
Cullum, Jamie 234
Clark, Sonny 228
Cycle of fifths 22, 162 See also: Diatonic cycle
Drifting 131Funky Two-Five 191
Double notes (right hand) See also: Top harmony
Down the Line 103, 104, 213
Dr John 234 Dream Improvisation 185 Dream On 92, 95 Drifting 130
Diminished fifth 71, 111, 236 (definition)
Ear-training 15, 19, 20, 80, 85, 90, 170, 191
Dominant ninth chords 187–193, 203–206
Electric piano (on records) 231, 232, 234
Elias, Eliane 234
Ellington, Duke 228 See also: Augmented dominant sevenths
Dominant Seventh Workout #1 118, 173
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore 228
Don’t Stop the Carnival 29 See: Vol. 2 p. 127
Dorian mode (definition) 129, 134, 176–177
Dorian scales 130, 141, 143, 154, 161, 173
as two minor seventh chords a tone apart 132
Evans, Bill 198, 224, 230
pianists influenced by 175, 231, 232, 233
Foot tap on ‘one’ and ‘three’ 109
Four On Six 157Four-bar phrases 199
Feldman, Victor 230
Fender Rhodes 231 See also: Electric piano
Four-note voicings (single-handed) 134–136, 139
Fifths (double notes) See also: Perfect fifths
Fills (right-hand) 110, 207 See also: Ending fills
for sixth and minor sixth chords 148–149
for II – V – I chords (all inversions) 143
First and third inversion chords (alternating)
in left hand (root position or 2nd inversion)
minor ninth chords 195–196, 199, 203–206
in improvised line See: Perfect fourths
Fragments, three-note (935) 198–199, 209–210
Five-note voicings See: Block chords
Flanagan, Tommy 230 Funky Two-Five 188, 190, 191, 192
Galper, Hal 232
minor seventh See: Half-diminished chords
Garland, Red 106, 194, 229, 230
Garner, Erroll 155, 228, 232
Flattened fifth chords See: Flat 5 chords
Fly Me to the Moon 144, 146, 148, 149, 161
Hawes, Hampton 153, 155, 228 Index Gilberto, Astrud 144
Hines, Earl 22, 228
Horace Silver’s piano solo on Song for My Father 204
b3 (blue third) 12, 13–14, 19, 63, 86, 197
Horizontal improvisation (in the key) 29, 38, 235
Green, Benny 230, 232
in The Theme (‘Rhythm Changes’) 123, 218
over minor II – V – I chords 147, 155, 235
over I – VI – II – V chords 218, 221, 222
over II – V chords 84, 87, 172, 189, 190
with harmonic minor scale 74, 76, 147, 215
with minor pentatonic scale 82, 84, 87, 235
Hancock, Herbie 231 Hot and Cold 75 See: Vol. 2 p. 31
Happy Blues 29 See: IBP p. 40
Hardin, Lil 233
Harlem school 228Harmonic minor scale 76, 77
in melody of White Russian 214, 216
Ibrahim, Abdullah 59, 60, 231 I Got Rhythm 122, 124, 157, 166, 218, 229
Harris, Barry 229 I Wish I Knew (How it Would Feel to be Free) 229
Harris, Gene 230, 232 Impressions 231 See: Vol. 2 p. 38
Improvisation See also: Horizontal improvisation,
samples 25, 27, 30, 40, 41, 47, 52, 63, 69,
Just a Closer Walk with Thee 88 See: IBP p. 194
tips 15, 63, 100, 127, 141, 212using notes of the chords (arpeggios)
27, 47, 69, 105, 120, 133, 147, 158–159
Improvising Blues Piano (book) 8, 106
In a Sentimental Mood 218, 220, 222–225, 227
Keezer, Geoff 232
Kelly, Wynton 125, 155, 229, 230
alternating first and third (rootless shapes)
Kirkland, Kenny 171, 232
definitions and notation 17, 95, 198, 236
Krall, Diana 234
of dominant seventh chords 105, 107, 117of half-diminished chords 148–149
Ladybird 88, 157 See: Vol. 2 p. 78
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) 167
Latin comping 42, 145, 180, 196, 203Latin music 18, 29, 39, 188, 231, 237
Latin rhythms (right hand) 73, 75, 94, 145, 203
Jamal, Ahmad 155, 194, 230, 232
Jarrett, Keith 89, 155, 231
‘Jazz Messengers, The’ (group) See: Blakey, Art
chord rhythms 118, 131, 133, 146, 199, 200, 217
Johnson, James P. 228, 234
Jones, Hank 230
relationship with minor pentatonic 82, 235
Left-hand tenths See: Tenths in left hand
over I – IV left-hand chords 32–33, 97
over II – V – I chords 141, 161–163
Long and short II – V sequences 161–169
See also: II – V – I sequences
Lower neighbour note 151 See also: Vol. 2 p. 218
avoiding the thumb on black notes 94two octaves 94
Major Seventh Workout 95, 96
Major sixth chords See: Sixth chords
based on fifth of major chord 182, 185, 235
Major third interval (definition) 20, 236
In a Sentimental Mood (bridge) 221, 222
over ‘Rhythm Changes’ ‘A’ sections 125
Major Triad Cycles 24 Major Triad Workout 32, 35, 80 Mannenberg 29, 59, 60, 231
relationship with half-diminished chords 149
Minor third interval (definition) 20, 55, 236
McKenna, Dave 230
Mehldau, Brad 175, 232
Melodic minor scale 77 See also: Vol. 2 p. 249
Metronome 15, 37, 147 See also: Vol. 2 p. 200
Middle section 13 See also: Bridges
Miller, Mulgrew 171, 228, 232
Minor blues 211 See also: Vol. 2 pp. 264–273
in bridge of A Night in Tunisia and
Minor five-finger position 56–58, 74, 76
Minor Δ7 or Δ9 chords 213, 214, 217, 220, 236
Minor modes 177 See also: Aeolian, Dorian, and
Misty 85, 222, 225 See: Vol. 2 p. 106
Mixolydian mode (definition) 110, 134, 176–177
in melody of In a Sentimental Mood 223
in melody of Song for My Father 203
relationship with major pentatonic scale
Mode (definition) 77 See also: Modes
See also: Aeolian, Dorian, Ionian, Locrian,
Monk, Thelonious 103, 111, 113, 152, 153, 228, 237 On Green Dolphin Street (part 1) 42
solo on Straight No Chaser 114
Montoliu, Tete 233
Montuno 73 (definition) See also: Vol. 2 pp 31–32
On-off chords See also: Vol. 2 p. 82
Montuno for Monty 67, 73, 77, 83
Moore, Dudley 232
Morton, Jelly Roll 228
I – IV – V – I sequences 28–29, 76
in bridge of In a Sentimental Mood 222
Open Triad Workout 83, 84, 88 Open triads 83–88, 151 Open Up! 138, 144, 153, 160, 192 See also: Tenths, Two-handed voicings
Natural Minor Workout 77, 78, 81
Mary Lou Williams’ ‘salon’ in 103, 233
Newborn Jr, Phineas 230, 232 Orinoco 176, 209, 210 Ornithology 156, 170, 228 See also: Dominant, major and minor
No Problem 18, 40
Passing notes 116 See also: Blue third,
Patterns See: Scale patterns, Pentatonic scale
Powell, Bud 142, 152, 153, 156, 228, 237
pianists influenced by 128, 228, 229, 233
Pentatonic scales 231, 235 See also: Major, minor
Practice routines See also: Vol. 2, pp. 282–283
four-note chords based on major scale 136
double notes (right hand) 36, 37, 38, 207
Practising in two- and four-bar sections 160
Peterson, Oscar 155, 230, 233
Pullen, Don 232
Petrucianni, Michel 233
Pure minor scale 77 See also: Natural minor scale
short and long 35, 81with forward motion 47, 196, 207
Raising the fifth of minor triad 216–217
Rosnes, Renee 234
across II – V – I sequence 141, 161–163
based on chords from scale of F major 140
Rikki Don’t Lose that Number 203
in III – VI – II – V sequence 158, 169
in bridge of In a Sentimental Mood 222
See also: Major, Minor, Dominant and
Seventh Heaven 176 See: Vol. 2 p. 202
Shearing, George 219, 223, 230
Sheet music 151, 170 See also: Lead sheets
Shells 153 See also: Two-handed voicings
Starting scales on the upbeat 78, 126, 154, 172
Stenson, Bobo 233
Silver, Horace 153, 201, 202, 229, 237 Still Dreaming 179, 180, 182
solo on Song for my Father 204, 207–208
Singing 10, 191 See also: Ear training
Straight No Chaser 65, 106, 108, 110, 213
Monk’s piano solo 114, 116, 153 Summertime 157 See: Vol. 2, p. 130
Sustain pedal 83, 85, 110, 132, 155, 214, 215,
Svensson, Esbjörn 233
Syncopated bass lines 28, 29, 36, 42, 60, 74, 181
Smooth Blues 88 See: IBP p. 93
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise See: Vol. 2 p. 236
Solal, Martial 233 Solar 213 Take the ‘A’ Train 64, 161, 233
left-hand styles 67, 149–151, 214–215
Someday my Prince will Come 229, 230
Song for My Father 201, 202, 229
Tatum, Art 22, 142, 155, 183, 228
Horace Silver’s piano solo 204, 207–208 Song for Sally 40, 85, 86
Taylor, Billy 229
Taylor, John 232
for II – V chords 172–173, 187–189, 193
Tenths in Shearing block chord voicings 224
Three-note fragments (minor ninth chords)
The Lost Valley 48, 53 The Theme 122, 157, 166, 218
Thelonious Monk’s solo on Straight No Chaser 114, 116, 153 Threesome 12
Thickening the melody See also: Top harmony
Timmons, Bobby 128, 229, 233 Things Ain’t What They Used to Be 106
Third of chord See also: Blue third
Tracey, Stan 232
Traditional style left-hand accompaniment 67
Transcribing solos 10, 15 See: Vol. 2 p. 220
Triads 11 See also: Major, Minor, Augmented and
See also: Tenths in left hand, Triads
Trill Blues 85 See: IBP p. 35
Two-group fingering (scale in thirds) 208
Tumbao bass line 75 See: Vol. 2 pp. 31, 32
Tune Up 166 See: Vol. 2 p. 183
Turnaround Workout #1 218 See: Vol. 2 p. 112
Twelve-bar blues 106–116 See also: Blues
Tyner, McCoy 106, 132, 183, 184, 231 II – V Cycle with Dorian Scales 172, 193 II – V – I Arpeggio Workout 163, 164, 193
cycle 162, 164four-note inversions practice 143
in minor keys 144, 147, 149, 155, 157, 166
in Straight No Chaser (blues in F) 108, 112
over chords of Autumn Leaves 154–155
over chords of Song for my Father 207
for Take the ‘A’ Train 70–71
with chords in right hand 25, 96, 118, 119
Index Waller, Fats 167, 228, 234
Walton, Cedar 230 Waltz for Debby 231 Ward, Carlos 231 Washington, Dinah 231 Watermelon Man 231 Watts, Jeff 232 Wave 166 ‘Weather Report’ (group) 231 Webster, Ben 228 West Coast jazz 228, 237 Weston, Randy 231 What is this Thing Called Love 157, 230 What’d I Say 234 Wheeler, Kenny 233 When Harry Met Sally (film) 234 Whispering 157 White Russian 54, 77, 174, 213, 214, 216 Whole-tone scales 65, 110, 111, 116, 225 Wilbur, Bob 230 Williams, Jessica 234 Williams, Mary Lou 103, 233 Williams, Tony 232 Wilson, Cassandra 232 Wilson, Teddy 183, 228, 229 Windows 231 Winstone, Norma 232 Women jazz pianists 102, 233–234 Woods, Phil 232 World music 234
Y Y Todavia La Quiero 36
Yancey, Jimmy 29Yardbird Suite 157Yesterdays See: Vol. 2 p. 230
Z Zawinul, Joe 231, 232
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