Jazz has several stages of evolution: New Orlean, swing, bebop, cool jazz, post-bop, free jazz, regional varieties and fusions.
Main topics on jazz are:
- Mark Levine. The Jazz Piano Book and also Mark Levine. The Jazz Theory Book, see a review
- Oscar Peterson. Jazz Exercises, Minuets, Etudes & Pieces for Piano
- Charlie Banacos
- John Valerio. Post-bop
- Modern Jazz Theory and Practice: The Post-Bop Era - Book with Online Audio by Steve Rochinski
- Andrew Lilley. The Artistry of Bheki Mseleku
- Henry Martin. Charlie Parker, Composer
- Peter Freeman. The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Kasper Sloots. Frank Zappa's musical language
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Ed Friedland. Building Walking Bass Lines and Ed Friedland. Expanding Walking Bass Lines and many other books - the book should contain the code to access audio examples at the publisher's website
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Joshua Wayne Skinner. A Comparative Analysis of Three Jazz Bassists’ Walking Bass Lines
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John Goldsby. The Jazz Bass Book: Technique and Tradition
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Xavier Riley, Simon Dixon. FiloBass: A Dataset and Corpus Based Study of Jazz Basslines
- Fred Sturm. Changes Over Time: The Evolution of Jazz Arranging
- John Wriggle. Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era
- Bob Keller's Jazz Page
- Barry Harris videos https://youtube.com/@BarryHarrisVideos
- Visualizations of jazz solo
- Visualizations of jazz harmony
- Douglas R. Abrams. Rhythmic Complexity in Jazz: An Information Theory Approach
- Ron Miller. Modal Jazz Composition & Harmony
- Михаил Митропольский. Краткая история джаза для начинающих
- Greg Fishman. The Lobster Theory
- Benjamin Givan. Rethinking Interaction in Jazz Improvisation
- Henry Martin, Keith Waters. Jazz: The First 100 Years