Schott Music Jazz-Harmonielehre - Theoretische / Jungbluth, Axel

This book is aimed at everyone who is interested in jazz: instrumentalists, composers, arrangers and teachers. The aim is to provide a systematic introduction to jazz harmony theory. It is based essentially on the "chord scale theory" - as taught at the Berklee College of Music, the most famous jazz school - the method that has now become the epitome of jazz harmony theory for jazz musicians all over the world. The material used in the examples and analyses are the "jazz standards", which are usually only written as a melody with chord symbols ("lead sheets"). The book shows how to use these "lead sheets" to create a jazz harmony. makes good-sounding jazz pieces, initially through simple harmonies, later gradually through chordal extensions and more complex variations ("reharmonization").