The Jazz Harmony Book

Beginning with the most basic harmonic situations and progressing to contemporary jazz harmony, this book shows how to uncover and determine the best choices for chords to accompany any melody. Topics covered include: basic functional harmony, diatonic substitutes, secondary dominants, passing chords, diminished harmony, tritone substitutes, non-functional approaches to harmonizing melodies including quartal harmony, color chords, harmonizing bass lines, pedals, slash chords, unavailable tensions and much more! The included CDs contain the author playing many of the written examples in the book.  A must for every serious jazz player, composer and arranger!