Stylistic II/V7/I Voicings

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 Jamey Aebersold’s world-famous Play-A-Long
“Volume 1 Jazz: How To Play & Improvise”
has been completely re-written for

JAZZ PIANO
Includes:
• Voicings and Considerations
• Suggested Fingerings
• Scales/Chords

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• 12 Blues Scales
• Bebop Scales
• Pentatonic Scales

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• Melodic Development
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• Related Scales and Modes
• Practical Exercises
• Patterns and Licks
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• Dominant 7th Tree of Scale

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• Nomenclature
• Chromaticism
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“... (Music) should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a
person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise. It’s easy
to rediscover part of yourself, but through art you can be shown part of
yourself you never knew existed. That’s the real mission of art. The artist
has to find something within himself that’s universal and which he can put
into terms that are communicable to other people. The magic of it is that art
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Here is one way to apply the above progression to the “I Got Rhythm” bridge:

| Am b b
B m/E | A b C#m | Dm b
E m/Ab | D b F#m |

Abm/Db Gb
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| Gm | Bm | Cm C#m/F# | B Cm/F |
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 About the Author

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Photo by Mark Sheldon

Luke Gillespie is Professor of Music (Jazz Studies/Piano) at Indiana University’s Jacobs School
of Music. An active performer and teacher of jazz and classical piano, he has toured China,
Europe, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States and won numerous awards, including best
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performance from the Indianapolis Jazz Competition (1994); the Indianapolis Star (1993); and
the Copland Piano Concerto Competition at Indiana University (1990). Gillespie has recorded
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with Arts Center Jazz Collective, David Baker, Bruce Bransby, Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra,
James Campbell, Steve Davis, Everett Greene, Mike Hackett, Steve Houghton, Jazz Fables,
Sylvia McNair, Dominic Spera, Wanda Stafford, Tom Walsh, the Aebersold Jazz Play-Along, Vol.
76 (“How to Learn Tunes” by David Baker), a solo jazz piano CD, Footprints (RIAX Records,
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2003) and trio CDs, Live at the Station (Watercourse Records, 2008), and Third Base Line
(Watercourse Records, 2011), and has performed with Jamey Aebersold, Eric Alexander, Ron
Blake, Ralph Bowen, John Fedchock, Benny Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Bunky Green, Jimmy
Heath, Steve Houghton, Javon Jackson, Ingrid Jensen, Kelley Johnson, Pat LaBarbera, David
Liebman, James Moody, Ed Neumeister, Chris Potter, Rufus Reid, Arturo Sandoval, Smithsonian
Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Jim Snidero, Dave Stryker, Willie Thomas, Bennie Wallace, Bill
Watrous, Rodney Whitaker and Pablo Ziegler. He has published articles on the aesthetics of
jazz and classical music, and adapted the new Jamey Aebersold Play-Along Volume 1 for Piano
(2015). Gillespie also teaches summer jazz camps at the Shell Lake Arts Center (Shell Lake,
WI), Music For All/Bands of America (Ball State University and Illinois State University), and
Interlochen Arts Center (Interlochen, MI). [Link]
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This book is a welcome addition to the jazz keyboard
literature and offers a clearly presented, well-organized
approach to understanding and playing this most
essential harmonic formula.
DAVID BAKER

Luke’s book on chord voicings is a gem. The information

is not only relevant, Luke shows you how to put it
into practical “streetworthy” application. Particularly
impressive are the book’s “readability” and the various
practice routines which are offered...a great contribution
to that enigmatic netherworld of “How To Comp.”

FRANK MANTOOTH

I am sure that this compendium will be passed around

by musicians because it is so valuable as a resource for
the voicings we constantly hear. It is easy to read, fun to
play and extremely useful for all instrumentalists. Every
musician will get something out of this work from the
most basic to complex. Luke has done a great service
for the jazz community.
DAVID LIEBMAN

I’ve worked with Luke Gillespie in person and I find his

approach to be quite inventive and inspiring. Like any
great teacher, he can articulate very advanced concepts
into the realm of possibility for everyone, regardless of
level or experience. This is the stuff they don’t teach you
in school.
GEOFF KEEZER

This book is a wonderful contribution to the compendium

of jazz voicings for piano that not only will help the
student, but also will benefit the professional musician.
I wish Luke wrote this book years ago.

DANILO PEREZ

ISBN 978-1-56224-084-4
$19.95
USA

LUKE

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