"In Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Voices: Roles, Rhythms, and Routines, we present an approach to improvisation through historical voices. This approach is about a practice of listening and developing melodic and rhythmic vocabulary, in contrast to mainstream approaches based on chord-scale and harmonic theories. Through exercises and hundreds of original transcriptions, you learn the essential rhythmic and melodic ideas of this music, studying and training along with the improvised solos and accompaniments of Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Bud Powell, Clifford Brown, Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, Red Garland, Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, and Sonny Rollins, among many others. Contrary to appearances, great soloists and accompanists do not have an unlimited vocabulary: Parker, for example, essentially repeats only the same melodic licks. Yet through this limitation, Parker ensures a stylistic integrity and expresses himself freely and flexibly. In this spirit, our book shows you the benefits of limited melodic and rhythmic resources used as modules for infinite recombination. Although it may sound counterintuitive, knowing what you will play frees you to focus on rhythm, time, sound, and groove. The book is not only a substantial workout-building knowledge and chops along the way-but also an opportunity for players of all levels of experience to appreciate and absorb the vocabulary, the sounds and achievements, of historical voices"--