Has anyone got any suggestions for good jazz piano books?

Jazz Piano From Scratch (Charles Beale) and Exploring Jazz Piano parts 1 & 2 (Tim Richards) are on my radar - what do people who've used them think?

Are there other books that you'd recommend?

If it makes any difference, it's for someone with g5 piano and a decent grasp of higher theory (classical and otherwise) but very little experience of playing non-classical stuff. So an emphasis on how to play that type of music and how to apply the theory would be more useful than something that focuses more on explaining the different types of scales or that assumes no prior keyboard facility.

Thanks,
T.

Teach Yourself Jazz Piano by jazz genius Eddie Harvey is clear and methodical, and can be tackled at Grade 5. I think it is out of print but it is easily available second-hand

Don't know of any books about how to play jazz piano, but a friend showed me a book she bought recently that looks really good if you want some good repertoire pieces. They looked like a lot of them would be okay for someone with grade 5.

I think it's 'The Jazz Piano Collection' published by Music Sales, ISBN 9781847723017.

Jazz Piano From Scratch is worth getting - a good practical guide. I also like The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine (he's done one for piano too but I don't know what its like) - very readable, understandable explanations, and a thick book...but expensive (about £30 I think).

Hi I teach jazz piano and have compiled a list of books with some annotations - If you want a copy please contact me throughy my website www.tonymusicteach.co.uk and I will supply it to you Tony

I have three: 'Jazz Blues' Hal Leonard - publisher - ISBN 0-634-05880-0; 'Simply Brubeck' (a starter "easy piano"); Alfred - publisher -ISBN-10:0-7390-4496-6; 'The Great American Songbook' - Hal Leonard publisher ISBN 1-575460-781-6. Also, Yamaha's Digital Music notebook has a selection of jazz works which one can download (for a nominal fee), which gives you an audio file example and a once only print facility.

Interesting no-one has mentioned Aebersold. I will have a look at volume 1, and there are a few others in that series on voicings etc. A lot of Jazz musicians seem unimpressed at the whole AB Jazz setup, though could still be worth a try.

The best book I've ever found is Mark Levine's "The Jazz Piano Book". What I like about it is the amount of information in it - it's slanted more towards explaining an enormous number of techniques, rather than explaining a little at length. I think I'd have to work very hard to outgrow it. (I lent my copy to a pupil years ago and never got it back!). Note: do NOT lend this book to pupils, it's too good to lose...

http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/0333297/....html?kbid=1582

'Jazzy Piano 2' is Grades 6 and7 , and includes 'Willie Wagglesticks Walkabout' from last years Grade 7 syllabus.

Here are two suggestions :
'A Classical Approach to Jazz Piano' by Dominic Alldis (published by Hal Leonard)
'Improvising Jazz Piano' by John Mehegan (Amsco Publications) - this one comes with a companion CD.