1001 Jazz Licks: A Complete Jazz Vocabulary for the Improvising Musician (For treble clef instruments)

Yes there are actually 1001 'licks' in this book and they are all numbered and loosley categorized in the index. Most of these musical phrases are 4 measures in length. Since they are grouped together by similarity, you get a slightly different idea with every 4 measure passage. The harmony chords are given. The phrases that I've learned are very melodic and centered around the aeolian mode and harmonic minor scales which are often used in tandem in jazz. It would be a lot of effort to memorize everyone of these phrases and the author does not recommend it. He says to pick out your favorites and make them your own. To say Jack went the extra mile on this book would be an understatement. I especially love the licks inder Cmaj7#11 because they're challenging and translate so well.

Great! A marvel of a musical gem in writing creativity...

Here's a news flash for the editor of this book:musical notes come in more than eighth-notes.The book is an endless series of four-bar runs of eighth notes, usually minor variations on a simple riff.On any given page of about forty bars of music you'll be lucky to find more than 2-3 quarter notes, 2-3 rests, and maybe---oh the excitement!---a set of 16th triplets

sorry Jack, this is a loss for me.

This is an interesting book, although it only has ten examples per page if you take each example and play it up and down the frets and shift it over one string set you will have three hundred and sixty exercises per page.

It's not really for beginners. It's a selection of riffs, musical phrases in the various chords that a musician can play with: shift emphases, play in different ways, change chords. It's a series of ideas for messing about with and having fun. In passing, it also provides frameworks, or templates, for developing your own ideas. I wish he'd do a volume 2.

This is a JAZZ LICKS book. If you don't know the first (jazz), then you won't appreciate the need for the second (licks). Take note that this is not a pattern or technique book.The licks are well arranged and presented. The authors have gone over several jazz standards to dig out these licks. It is indeed a labour of love for jazz propagation. This book will keep you busy having fun for a long time to come and serve as a reference too. There are many licks books out there but this one is like a compressed encyclopedia of licks and cheap!The licks are arranged in groups of chords (Maj7, min7, dom7), separate various maj &min progressions (ii-V-I, ii-V-i, ii-V-I-VI, ii-V-I-VI, I-VI-ii-V, i-V-ii-V), modes (dorian, lydian, phrygian, aeolian), styles (swing, bebop, hard bop, post bop, fusion/funk) and licks over some standard jazz tunes.The licks are in a single key. A serious player will definitely practice each in the 11 other keys of course! Experimentation with different phrasings and articulations is left for the imagination of the player (who wants to be retarded by a spoon-feeding exhaustive book anyway?). Any level of skill (beginner, intermediate or advanced) player will enjoy the book. For those interested in improvisation, by the time you have (memorised/practised) as many as possible of these licks under your finger, you should be on your way towards improvisation! Truly 1001 licks!

It opens your ears to licks for playing over common chord progressions. It's a good book for Jazz newbies to reference and work from

This book has all those riffs that you want to make you sound like you have been doing it for decades.Even if you have been playing Jazz for decades, you might just lean a few variations form this book.

Absolutely fantastic, a must buy for any aspiring jazz musicians!