Peterson, Oscar: Jazz Licks (Book & CD)

Welcome to Jazz Licks. One of the most important goals for the jazz musician is to develop a vocabulary of ideas that can be used to create and shape an improvised solo. This vocabulary is usually based on the chords and chord progression formulas that make up songs from the jazz repertoire. The basis of developing a vocabulary, along with knowing scales, modes, arpeggios, etc, comes from learning and experimenting with licks.