Beyond Time and Changes (book/CD)

Publisher: Advance Music
A Musician’s Guide to Free Jazz Improvisation
Improvisation / Play-Along

In Beyond Time and Changes, acclaimed jazz trombonist, pianist, composer, arranger, teacher and author Hal Crook offers a methodology to guide the advancing improviser through the un-chartered musical territory known as free jazz.

Beyond Time and Changes shows improvisers how to prepare for soloing and comping in free settings by exploring the issues of musical accuracy, musicality and continuity (motive development) on form, and then reveals how to create structure and order within free settings by using the known to navigate the unknown.

With the aid of lucid explanations, concise musical examples, practical exercises, solo transcriptions and a compelling demonstration CD featuring 17 performances by the author and a stellar rhythm section, Beyond Time and Changes solves the mystery long associated with how to make free improvisation make sense—without losing your freedom in the process.

Sample Pages

• How To Comp: A Study In Jazz Accompaniment (English Original)
• How to Comp: Uno studio sull'accompagnamento jazz
• How to Improvise (Edizione Italiana)
• Ready, Aim, Improvise (Edizione italiana)
• Beyond Time and Changes
• The Music of Hal Crook