A place to discuss Jazz Theory, and its applications in music.

So I can remember playing this one hit in my high school jazz band but I just don’t remember the name. I think I remember it had something to do with the Jungle Music style and Duke Ellington. Also in the hit, I remember that the piano starts off sounding like a junction bell ringing, the saxophones are playing singular whole notes with vibrato to sound like a train, and the trumpets are playing with plunger mutes with a trumpet soloist drilling with the plunger mute.

I need help 😭

Thanks!!!

Are there any books, video courses, etc. that you would recommend for learning about chord melody? Not specifically jazz. Just guitar chord melody, or chord melody more generally.

Thanks!

im looking to get new studio monitors and i was curious if theres a reason to get one considering the frequency of upright bass since thats probably the only instrument that will be that low(20-40hz)

Any recommendations for a book of important line cliches? Ideally I’d like have between five and ten of them for each chord type (M7, m7, Dom7, half-diminished 7 and fully diminished).

I’m still in the “imitation” phase and I think having some essential/basic language as a springboard would be helpful. I think it would also help with my listening as it might give me a clue what to listen for.

Thank you for any assistance.

As the title suggests I need some help with my theory hw. Its a lot of solo analysis that I’m having trouble with. I can dm the photos of the hw and I don’t know if this is against the rules but I would be willing to do an art commission in exchange for some hw help!

I'm trying to learn to play the piano with No background in music other than theory and I have been interested to trying learn to play. What advice would you give for someone trying to learn jazz piano from scratch

Hi everybody, I just released a new free app to aid with jazz practice.
I give you "Practice Flashcards" - a metronome that displays a note name (tonic) flashcard for the player that changes every bar (or how much you set it to).
With these Practice Flashcards the player can now practice chords/scales/licks/harmonic progressions, or any exercise you can come up with.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/practice-flashcards/id6480441352?platform=iphone

Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reameir.flashcards

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I know it is a stupid question, and I know this isn't necessarily a jazz thing, but idk what it means? Im new to jazz so...

What make a solo 1 chorus or 2 chorus long mean?

Hi everyone, how are you? I apologise for coming here to ask this, but I have a good explanation. I want to give the George Benson Method books as a gift, but they're not available in my language (PTBR) and they're extremely expensive. As well as the books, I'm going to translate them myself to give to a very special person, my father, who is a great musician. I wonder if one of you has one and could share it? I'd be very grateful, thank you!

Although I'm classically trained and have no interest in changing to a different genre as I love classical music over all else, I have developed over the past let's say 2 years a love for jazz as well. I particularly love Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, etc. Anyway onto the point. I've wanted to learn to jazz theory for a while just for fun and I'm definitely in no hurry but there is no harm in asking what the best way for me to study jazz would be. My fear is that I accidentally read a book meant for complete beginners to music theory or accidentally read a book intended for experts. Help?

Thank you!

Hey everyone! I know this is my second question in less than a month... Jazz is quite new to me... 'just starting to explore the album "Inception" by the McCoy Tyner Trio. I didn't find it to be that complex and inaccessible, but I still can't understand why he plays Cb (Bnatural?) and Db (Cm6b9?) in bars 14 and 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptY4slbxco

I've gotten to the point that I can play with no mistakes, but I still can't identify solfege as quickly as I hum, so I listen to songs and try to play them realtime. I pause it a lot though cus someone told me making mistakes is like practice doing it wrong. Should I not pause and just force myself to go as quick as possible, or does speed just come with doing it a lot. Also, I always see advice about humming to practice. Should I ONLY practice with humming (I don't do it w/ singing cus it's distracting) until I'm super good where I only have to focus on technique, or should I occasionally switch it up?

So Ive been studying the tunes of " Thelonious Monk Quartet · John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall " album and I came across with Epistrophy. ive been struggling with analysis the chords of the tune. If someone could give some hints on whats going during the chord progression I would be really grateful. Thanks in advance.

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These are the chords of the first 8 bars (the "/" indicates the end of a measure and the start of the next one)::

C#7 D7 / C#7 D7 / C#7 D7 / C#7 D7 / D#7 E7 / D#7 E7 / D#7 E7 / D#7 E7 /

I'm puzzled by a chord in Ellington's Solitude on Irealpro. Why would there be a sharp fourth, i.e. a flat fifth (it's actually a sharp 11) on an E flat chord since there is no sharp in the melody and that the B flat/A sharp is already in the E flat chord? What am I missing?

I'm about to go on a vacation and would love some jazz theory book recommendations which aren't too dense and easy to read.

I already use the Jazz Piano Book as more of a reference guide. Would love some books which talk about chord theory in more depth, even going into different genres like funk, soul etc.

Open to anything! Thanks :)