Composing Blues For Jazz Performance

Digital Edition. Learn to write Blues tunes that showcase your strengths as a musician and express yourself in a variety of Blues genres. Blues provides an endlessly fascinating vehicle for improvisation and Blues can be approached stylistically in many ways. Blues underlies much popular music and is a foundational skill for jazz musicians. The book features 11 of John's compositions. The lessons in the book were originally published in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. John Stein is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Hardcopy edition features an audio CD with recorded performances of all the musical examples, available separately.