My Favorite Keyboard Links

The Piano Education Page
www.pianoeducation.org

The best piano information page on the net. Great material and extensive links to other piano oriented sites. Check it out!

Jazz Corner
www.jazzcorner.com

Great jazz site with midi files, jazz artists’ web pages, and many other jazz related material.

The Jazz Resource Center
www.jazzcenter.org
Useful material on jazz theory, voicings, chart transcriptions, and other information.

The Piano Page
www.ptg.org
Nearly anything you would want to know about the types, brands, etc. of pianos plus information about piano tech.

Site 4 Sound
www.site4sound.com
Useful information about music on the net by Paul Poteyn: a very knowledgeable sound person and hot Bay Area pianist.

National Piano Foundation
www.pianonet.com
An interesting site all about pianos. Presented by the education arm of the piano manufacturers association.

The Jazz School
www.jazzschool.com
An excellent school in Berkeley that specializes in jazz education. The staff includes some of the best players in the bay area.

Mark Levine
www.jazzcorner.com/levine/
Mark is one of the best local pianists and his "The Jazz Piano Book" is the best single volume on jazz playing I've seen. He also has an excellent jazz theory book available. Check out his site and go hear him play.

Red Hot and Cool Jazz
http://members.aol.com/Jlackritz/jazz/
This site has an incredible number of links and information on jazz around the world.

Nightbird Music
www.nightbirdmusic.com

Jim Gramtham's site with information on his books, jazz school and the jamlist.

The Styles of Jazz
www.nwu.edu/WNUR/jazz/styles/
An interesting graphic of the various jazz styles and other jazz information.

The Outside Shore
www.outsideshore.com
An informative site by Marc Sabatella. Useful material and good links.

Sher Music
www.shermusic.com
The books from Sher music are the best available. Everyone who plays should have the "Standards Fake Book". Check out this site!

Computers and Music
www.computersandmusic.com
The store for computer software etc. with probably the best prices, inventory, and staff that you will find in the U S A.

JazzReview
www.jazzreview.com
A great source of jazz reviews, interviews, new releases and other jazz related topics.

Sound Feelings
www.soundfeelings.com/index.html
Check out the ten sight reading tips. Right on!


Music Magic: A piano Exploration
http://library.thinkquest.org/15060/

This is an elegant site about many piano subjects.

Dick Hyman: A Century of Jazz piano
www.jssmusic.com

If you want to learn about jazz piano history and steal licks from many of the masters you should check out this site. Dick Hyman (a hell of a good pianist) has compiled a lot of valuable information about playing jazz piano and it's available on CD. The pro version of this CD rom has lessons and midi files in the style of most major pianists. Excellent!

The Practice Spot
www.practicespot.com
This web site contains volumous information (including recommendations from teachers and performers) about how to practice. We all need as much info about that as we can get.

A Passion For Jazz
www.apassion4jazz.net
This is an interesting sire with information about many aspects of jazz music and playing. Good links and an attractive easy-to-use interface. Worth a look!

Easy  Piano
www.easypiano.com
This site is basically an online site for piano instruction material: books, tapes, and etc. Well organized and worth checking out.

Rain Music
www.rainmusic.com/pianomusic

Here is an exhaustive site with information on nearly any subject pertaining to the piano. Browse through it and your sure to learn something.

Piano Net
www.pianonet.com

The official Web site of the National Piano Foundation. Super site about the piano. Articles, links to manufactures, etc.

Jazz on line
www.jazzonline.com
This certainly one of the best sites about jazz on the web. If you haven't checked this one out, it's a must see! Featuring a jazz 101 starter kit for people how are new to jazz (or want to review and listen to various jazz styles) and news about a wealth of albums, and so on. Take a look.



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