Jazz Improv Books by Jerry Bergonzi

I have just added several outstanding books on jazz improvisation by Jerry Bergonzi to the Trumpet Superstore. I think they are superb and highly recommend them to you. Jerry Bergonzi is an internationally recognized jazz performer, composer, author and educator.

Bergonzi began his career as an educator in the early 80’s. He established his private practice teaching all instruments how to improvise and during those years developed the systems described in his series entitled Inside Improvisation. Bergonzi offers a tangible pathway to inside the creative imagination by getting inside the harmony, inside the changes. Today, he is a world renowned educator, a full time professor at New England Conservatory, Bergonzi travels throughout the United States and Europe as a clinician and performer. Some of the many places he has taught include; master classes at Berklee College of Music, North Texas State University, Eastman College, the Paris Conservatory, the Manheim Jazz School, Taller de Musicos in Madrid, S.A.C.A.E. in Adelaide, Australia , and jazz conservatories in Pitea and Haperanda, Sweden, and Oulunkyla, Finland, to name a few.
His music is renowned for its innovation, mastery, and integrity. Relentless drive, inner fire, total command, awesome technique, elastic lyricism, rich resonance, world-class, a musical visionary, are among the rave reviews credited to his sound. Bergonzi’s musical dedication to jazz music has been well documented by an extensive discography.