Oriental Jazz Improvisation (Arabic & Indian)

An Oriental Approach to Jazz Improvisation is a comprehensive study on setting Arabic, Turkish, and Northern Indian scales and modes into context and about blending and employing them in jazz improvisation. It contains about two dozens of the above-mentioned music cultures' scales and modes each as well as their transpositions. Scales and modes which any jazz musician interested in South-Western Asian or Northern Indian music should be familiar with. It explains how important the tetra- and pentachords are and what you can actually do with them. You also get many scales and modulations from other countries that also use Makamlar because they once belonged to the Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria & Greece). With theese tools in hands, you can build an infinite number of scales and rows. There is also a big focus on pentatonics (some Indian ragas are pentatonic) and it is shown how to create a relationship between two (or even more) scales by stripping them down to pentatonics.