The Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series

The Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series offers five serious books by five different authors - for the keyboardist at the early-advanced level or above. The first book, "BeBop Jazz Piano" by John Valerio provides essential, detailed information for bebop and jazz pianists on the following topics: chords and voicings, harmony and chord progressions, scales and tonality, common melodic figures and patterns, comping, characteristic tunes, the styles of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and much more. The accompanying CD features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band. Also included are combo performances of five of the tunes featured at the end of the book.