Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as integral template for music, education, and society: by Contents: The AQAL framework -- Improvisation-driven growth of creativity and consciousness -- Meditation-driven growth of creativity and consciousness -- Integral evolutionary dynamics -- Jazz and the academy -- Invention -- Interaction -- Individuation -- Jazz -- The music school of the future -- Paradigmatic change and the 21st-century academy -- Planet earth takes a solo.
Music Theory Through Improvisation by Contains Improvisation across boundaries -- Music fundamentals -- Modality and rhythm I -- Modality and rhythm II -- Basic tonal materials -- Harmonic functions -- Swing -- Melodic line construction and harmonization -- Chord inversion present and past -- Non-diatonic harmony I -- Non-diatonic harmony II -- Figured bass realization at the keyboard -- Extended chords -- Altered extensions -- Diverse approaches to analysis -- Further creative horizons in jazz improvisation and composition.
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz by 
Australian Jazz on Records, 1925-1980 by 
The Permanent Underground: Australian Contemporary Jazz in the New Millennium by 
Playing Ad Lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia 1836-1970 by 
The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity by Exploring western music
Call numbers for jazz performance to assist browsing
SF781.371655 Arranging jazz
S781.65 Fake books
S781.65136 Jazz instruction and study
S786.2165193 Piano jazz methods (Oscar Peterson, Steve Sedergreen, Fats Waller etc.)
In addition to the general introductions below Matthew Butterfield's article "Jazz" from Oxford Bibliographies gives a good overview of reference works, books, discographies and journals.
Oscar Peterson - The Classic Trios by Aa step-by-step breakdown of the piano styles and techniques of a jazz virtuoso
Thomas "Fats" Waller by 
Ready, Aim, Improvise! by 
The All-Jazz Real Book by 
Just Jazz Real Book by 
Jazz Composition and Arranging in the Digital Age by Overview and basic information -- Arranging for small ensemble (3-6 horns + rhythm section) -- Arranging for large jazz ensemble (8 brass, 5 reeds, and rhythm).
The Contemporary Arranger by Basics -- Wind instruments -- Strings -- The rhythm section -- The synthesizer -- Voices -- Melodic considerations -- The importance of the lyric -- The recording studio -- General advice.
Jazz Arranging and Composing with CD by 
Composing and Arranging for the Contemporary Big Band with CD by 
Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz by 
Experiencing 'Flow' in Jazz Performance by Elina Hytönen draws on eighteen interviews conducted with professional jazz musicians from around the world and examines the fundamentals of the phenomenon of flow in jazz that has led to this genre's popularity. She also draws on how flow experiences are viewed and constructed by jazz musicians, "the meanings they attach to it, and the quality of music that it inspires."
Jazzology by Contains instrumental and theoretical exercises, analyses of compositions, and explanations of various topics pertaining to jazz theory, composition, and performance.
Pentatonic Scales for Jazz by This books explains the theory behind the use of pentatonic scales in jazz, and follows with 12 pages of transcribed solos and 40 pages of exercises.
The jazz theory workbook : basic harmonic skills and theory The book is intended to prepare the student for the serious study of jazz improvisation, arrangement and composition. The focus is on the harmonic language of jazz, especially the harmonic practices which coalesced in the Bebop and post Bop periods of the 1940's and 1950's when Bebop and standard tunes formed the core of the mainstream repertoire.
Creative Jazz Improvisation by Includes chapters on The Art of Improvisation,
Jazz improvisation a personal approach with Joe Lovarno Lovarno shows you how to: interpret the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic essence of a tune; create your own improvisational ideas; make the most of your solo practice time; interact with duets, trios and quartets.Please contact the following staff :
Jackie Waylen jackie.waylen@monash.edu
