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The Method: Linear Jazz Improvisation Book 1
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This text-only volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts and techniques of the Linear Jazz... More > Improvisation Method. Using a wealth of examples from the jazz repertory, the book avoids theoretical terminology and focuses on the four essential elements present in every composition: melody, guide-tone lines, root progression, and rhythm. Understanding these "building blocks" of improvisation, you will be ready to put them into practice throughout your course of study. < Less
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Functional Jazz Guitar: Linear Jazz Improvisation Series
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Functional Jazz Guitar (Perfect Binding) Learn the skills needed for playing in a jazz group with this fun 255-page method.... More > Practice specific cadence & blues comps; guide-tone & bass lines; rhythms, voicings and licks in major & minor, in all 12 keys - with 185 pages of inter-related sound files. < Less
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Speaking of Jazz: Essays & Attitudes
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These thoughtful essays constitute an extensive exploration of Ed's entire life work in jazz. Written extemporaneously in... More > response to questions asked by students and teachers, the hundreds of topics addressed in this book cover everything from effective practicing to composing and arranging to preparing for gigs-with detours along the way into discussions of the history of jazz and lessons drawn from memorable sessions with jazz greats. Think of it as a long late-night session with one of the best-known musicians in the business! < Less
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The Method: Linear Jazz Improvisation Book 1
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This text-only volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts and techniques of the Linear Jazz... More > Improvisation Method. Using a wealth of examples from the jazz repertory, the book avoids theoretical terminology and focuses on the four essential elements present in every composition: melody, guide-tone lines, root progression, and rhythm. Understanding these "building blocks" of improvisation, you will be ready to put them into practice throughout your course of study. < Less
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Linear Jazz Improvisation Method Book I
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This text-only volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts and techniques of the Linear Jazz... More > Improvisation Method. Using a wealth of examples from the jazz repertory, the book avoids theoretical terminology and focuses on the four essential elements present in every composition: melody, guide-tone lines, root progression, and rhythm. Understanding these "building blocks" of improvisation, you will be ready to put them into practice throughout your course of study. < Less
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Functional Jazz Guitar
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Functional Jazz Guitar (Perfect Binding)

Learn the skills needed for playing in a jazz group with this fun 255-page method.... More > Practice specific cadence & blues comps; guide-tone & bass lines; rhythms, voicings and licks in major & minor, in all 12 keys — with 185 pages of inter-related sound files. Print and e-book formats available. < Less
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Linear Jazz Improvisation Hot Lines - Bb
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New! LJI Hot Lines ~ Jazz Standards
This 36-page collection of hip, polished melodic lines applies the Linear Jazz... More > Improvisation Method to well-known standards in a rewarding and fun way. Use these lines on gigs! < Less
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Linear Jazz Improvisation Book 5 - Concert Instruments
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LJI Book 5, entitled "Polytonal Triad Etudes," offers enough advanced modern vocabulary to keep you occupied for at least a... More > year! It begins with an 8-bar pantonal line, and then develops it in a variety of mind-blowing ways. Learn to sing and play it ~ along with its sound files.

You will find many developments of an angular 8-measure line comprised of major (Part 1) or minor (Part 2) triads, both of which are transposed pantonally.

Several methods of motive development are also employed here, including various forms of transposition, non-functional chord succession, retrograde, retrograde inversion, mirror, fragmentation, sequencing, and mixing and matching. < Less
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Linear Jazz Improvisation Book 5 - Bass Clef Instruments
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LJI Book 5, entitled "Polytonal Triad Etudes," offers enough advanced modern vocabulary to keep you occupied for at least a... More > year! It begins with an 8-bar pantonal line, and then develops it in a variety of mind-blowing ways. Learn to sing and play it ~ along with its sound files. You will find many developments of an angular 8-measure line comprised of major (Part 1) or minor (Part 2) triads, both of which are transposed pantonally. Several methods of motive development are also employed here, including various forms of transposition, non-functional chord succession, retrograde, retrograde inversion, mirror, fragmentation, sequencing, and mixing and matching. < Less
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Linear Jazz Improvisation Book 5 - Bb Instruments
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This book offers enough advanced modern vocabulary to keep you occupied for at least a year! It begins with an 8-bar... More > pantonal line, and then develops it in a variety of mind-blowing ways. Learn to sing and play it ~ along with its sound files.

You will find many developments of an angular 8-measure line comprised of major (Part 1) or minor (Part 2) triads, both of which are transposed pantonally.

Several methods of motive development are also employed here, including various forms of transposition, non-functional chord succession, retrograde, retrograde inversion, mirror, fragmentation, sequencing, and mixing and matching. < Less
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About Ed Byrne

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Born December 30, 1946 in Philadelphia, Ed Byrne is a Grammy Award winning trombonist, composer, arranger, educator, author and self-publisher who has performed and recorded with a great many of the jazz world’s leading musicians, in a career that has spanned four decades.

A Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music, Ed is the recipient of many honors. He was nominated Best Trombone Soloist by Latin New York magazine; his composition "Fenway Funk" was nominated for a Grammy Award; and won a Grammy Award the following year for Eddie Palmieri’s 1974 album, Unfinished Masterpiece, on which Ed played lead trombone.

Ed performs his original compositions with his bands Eastern Standard Time and Latin Jazz Evolution, and as a solo jazz trombonist, using the latest looping and electronic effects technology.