Publisher Desc.  The layout of the black and white keys on the piano creates a fixed, rectilinear pattern that can be exploited for maximum effectiveness in fingering and creating improvised melodic lines. This book is the result of several years of research into the clearest and most direct ways to finger and thus to internalize the jazz vocabulary for the piano. Other instruments can and should get good use from this material, but it is, first and foremost, pianistic in its emphasis on shapes for each chord, scale, and key. Over 100 pages of licks designed to keep your R.H. thumb on a white key, and off the black ones, where your 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers are most effective. ALL chord and scale types have multiple examples, for a comprehensive method for practise as well as direct application to tunes and vamps.