Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron - the Book

PART ONE - THE LANGUAGE OF KENNY BARRON
I - Pianistic influences
Tommy Flanagan - Thelonious Monk - Bud Powell - Art Tatum Bill Evans - McCoy Tyner
II - The right hand
Stylistic Influences
The Blues - Be bop - Confirmation - Be bop scale, chromaticisms - Other scales - Playing 'out' - All The Things You Are - Exemples of 'out' phrases
Personal Language
Melodic phrases - Triads - Pentatonic - 3 and 4 note motives - Approaches to octaves and tremolos - Rhythmic approach
Analysis of a solo : Straight No Chaser
Tetrachords, Patterns, Motives, Arpeggios - Phrases - Analysis
III - The left hand
Walking bass
Bb Blues - East Of The Sun - Like Someone In Love
Stride
Rootless and shell voicings
IV - Introductions
Ballad - Medium swing - Up tempo - Bossa - Latin
V - Comping
Ballad : You Don't Know What Love Is
Waltz : Up Jumped Spring
Medium swing : Blue Monk - Satin Doll
Up tempo : I Got Rhythm
Bossa : Manha De Carneval - Triste

PART TWO - TRANSCRIPTIONS OF SOLOS
I - Leader
Transcriptions of solos from Kenny Barron's recordings as leader
Recordings : Oleo (piano solo) - Dig - Maiden Voyage - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - There Is No Greater Love - Straight No Chaser - In Your Own Sweet Way - The Man I Love - Beautiful Love - Embraceable You - Voyage - On The Sunny Side Of The Street - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (piano solo) - Invitation - An Afternoon In Paris - Ask Me Now - Minority - Take The Coltrane - Solar - All Of Me - Bye Bye Blackbird - Very Early - Memories Of You (piano solo)
Complete discography as leader and co-leader
II - Sideman
Main collaborations
Dizzy Gillespie - Freddie Hubbard - Yusef Lateef - Ron Carter - Stan Getz - Sphere
Transcriptions of solos from Kenny Barron's recordings as sideman
Recordings : Be Bop - Fly Me To The Moon - Fiesta Mojo - Nardis - Wave - But Not For Me - When You Wish Upon A Star - A Beautiful Friendships - Scrapple From The Apple - There Will Never Be Another You - I Remember You - All The Things You Are - East Of The Sun (piano solo) - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Body And Soul - Summertime - So What - How Deep Is The Ocean - Salt Peanuts - A Night In Tunisia - Confirmation
Complete discography as sideman
Annexe
Kenny Barron's repertory
Kenny Barron's standards
Kenny Barron's compositions
Kenny Barron's biography