Materials
The trend in colleges is now increasingly towards providing study materials online. This includes book extracts, scores and audio files.
This means that the only essential tool required by the student is a laptop computer, or preferably a tablet.
Books
Below are some books that will be useful in completing your assignments
- The Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine
- The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine
- The Real Book (6th edition)
- Jazz LTD (this complements the Real Book)
- The Oxford Companion to Jazz by Bill Kirchner
Scores
Below are some links to websites that provide free music scores:
- www.rowy.net - Classical music scores
- Solo Transcriptions - Scribd
- Solo Transcriptions - DoscSlide
Audio Files
Most records and CDs are available for listening on YouTube. Here is what I consider some essential listening: