Running the Changes: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Improvisation for All Instruments — Mike Steinel (Hal Leonard)

A 144-page jazz improvisation method for beginning and intermediate players by University of North Texas educator Mike Steinel. Topics include melodic paraphrase and quotation, using riffs, basic chord theory, ornamentation, chord-tone and scalar/modal soloing, bebop scales, altered harmonies, and pentatonic/hexatonic (triad-pair) approaches. Includes online play-along tracks with charts for C, Bb, Eb and bass-clef instruments plus vocal lead sheets.