The New Guide to
Harmony with LEGO® bricks
the best way to remember jazz changes
by
Conrad Cork
®LEGO is a registered trade mark belonging to the LEGO group and is used here by special permission
Copyright
Conrad Cork 1985-1996
The right of Conrad Cork to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved
ISBN 0 9515795 3 3 Published by: Tadley Ewing Publications 47 Belvoir Drive, LEICESTER, LE2 8PB, UK Phone + (44) (0) 116 283 9664. Fax + (44) (0) 116 283 9664 Email
[email protected] Web site www.tadleyewing.co.uk Originally published 1985 Revised and extended edition 1988 Revised and extended edition 1990 Revised and extended edition first published 1996 Reprinted 1996 (twice), 1997, 1998, 1999 (twice), 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 This revised edition first published 2004 Editorial/production supervision and interior design: Alison Cork All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Notice to all readers of this book The Harmony with LEGO Bricks Playalong is now formally out of print. We had hoped to record a new CD version but this has so far not proved possible. However, if you are prepared to put up with a few technical imperfections, the original Playalong can be yours in a CD version, so that you can use the great music on it to help improve your playing.
Just give us your postal address and we will send it to you! What has happened is that, although the original masters were accidentally damaged some years ago, the Playalong has been 're-mastered' by dubbing the best copy we could find of the tape onto a digital recorder, and making some attempt to clean it up. Not perfect, but still really usable, and with the advantage of instant access to any track, as well as things like automatic repeating of sections. You are free to copy and distribute this material as you wish.
Printed by in the UK by De Montfort University Leicester Printing Unit
In loving memory of Lionel Grigson
I feel that in improvisation, the tune should serve as a vehicle for musical variations - and that the ultimate goal is to have as much freedom from the harmonic, melodic and rhythmic restrictions of the tune as possible - but that the tune must serve to hold the chords and variations together. For this reason, I have never been concerned with finding new tunes to play. I often feel that I could play and record the same tunes over and over and still come up with fresh variations. Lee Konitz, in his liner notes to The Real Lee Konitz
The more ways you have of thinking about music, the more things you have to play in your solos. Barry Harris.
