Improvising Rock Piano [Paperback] Review

This is a brilliant book!
The focus here is on playing idiomatically in a number of "rock piano" styles, starting off in the fifties with Fats Domino-style triplet ballads and moving through Aretha-style gospelsoul, Fess-like early New Orleans, Dr John-ish later NO, Elton John, LeonRussell-y eights-time rock, Carole King soft rock...¨
Now, this is not,mind y'all, in the form of straight transcriptions, but rather after athoroughly analysis. Every style is related to earlier styles, rythmicallyand harmonically, and typical figures or runs is shown, together with thetypical basic rythms and accompaignement patterns. Then comes a wholepiece, either a transcription of a well-known song (f'rinstance "Mo'scocious") or an original in that particular style, where all thedifferent elements are put together and shown in context.
The result isthat one gets not only a few licks to pop off, but rather that one gets theidea of *how* to make a stylisticaly fitting lick, how to achieve the basicgroove, and how to put it all together as a cohesive song.Brilliant.
Criticisms: Well, it goes no further than 1978, obviously,since that was when it was published. However, to me at least, not muchimportant has happened in rock piano styles since, so I stand by my 5stars. Go Get!

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