The Jazz Theory Book
by Mark Levine · Mark Levine
A standard jazz theory text covering major, melodic minor, diminished and whole-tone scales and their modes, chord-scale relationships, voicings, reharmonization and tune forms. Readers learn to match scales to chords and hear how modes function in real jazz standards.
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