
Ready, Aim, Improvise!
by Hal Crook
★★★★⯨4.5A complete operating system for practicing jazz improvisation — restriction drills, self-recording, honest self-critique — buried in 350 dense, joke-strewn pages.
How to practice, how to perform, and how to get out of your own way.

by Hal Crook
★★★★⯨4.5A complete operating system for practicing jazz improvisation — restriction drills, self-recording, honest self-critique — buried in 350 dense, joke-strewn pages.

by Kenny Werner
★★★★★4.0The book that gave jazz musicians permission to stop hating themselves in the practice room — life-changing for players paralyzed by fear, frustrating for readers allergic to spirituality.
by Barry Finnerty
★★★★★4.0A brutally effective vocabulary gym for any instrument — hundreds of named melodic patterns through all twelve keys, if you accept that the creativity part remains entirely your job.