This book is intended for the flute player who already knows a good deal about how to read music but would like to explore a new route of expression through the nature of improvisation in jazz music. Through this book you will be exposed to the pioneers of jazz flute and how they approach jazz improvisation. This book will also teach you to improvise through the many genre of jazz. This guide will take you step by step through everything from the blues to the traditional styles of improvisation.

You will improve dramatically on your technique and your tone will be enhanced as well. Through scales, patterns and other jazz improvisation techniques you will gain control of your playing.

I took all the tools that you would find scattered in many texts and combined the techniques, theory, and history and put them into one big book for your convenience. I had the chance to talk first hand with some of the greatest masters of the jazz flute. I hope that when you read the interviews with these artists it will inspire you as it did me.

Foreword

Chapter 1 - All about the flute
The History Of Jazz Flute
The Flute Embouchure
The Fingering Key
The Fingering Chart
The Practice Journal
Knowing The Terms

Chapter 2 - All about Rhythms
The Rhythm Tree
Learning The Dot
Phrasing
The Dot Exercise
Phrasing Examples
Practice Jazz Rhythms
Popular Rhythms Of Jazz
Syncopation At its Best

Chapter 3 - All about the theory
Circle Of Fifths
Learning To Improvise
The Major Scale Family and the Chords To Go With Them
Let's Take An Idea
Using Chord Tones To Improvise
Jazz Flute Etudes (Studies)
One More Warm Up
One More Pattern

Chapter 4 - All about the types of jazz
1. The Blues
Some New Jazz Heads For Improvising Over
2. Funk-Give Me That Funky Old Soul Any Day
It Takes Two To Get Funky
3. Mitch's Mode
Modal Tunes
Freeze Bop
4. The II-V-I Progressions
5. John Coltrane and His Method
6. Rhythm Changes

Chapter 5 - All about the artists
Wendy Klein Interview
Just A Note To The Reader
Master Class With Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann - Solo
Master Class With Dave Valentin

Solo Examples/Exerpts from Dave Valentin
Joe Farrell History Lesson
Solo Examples/Exerpts from Joe Farrell
Thank you!
Discography
Bibliography