Tarto's fantastic method for jazz improvisation is finally available as a digital edition. This 100+ page book is full of exercises to get you started, then includes a long list of tunes that show you how to take an existing melody and make it your own through improv. The samples show a good selection so check them out to the left. Here is the author's forward:

“The approach to Jazz-Blues-Swing-Rock- or Classical music is a unique one that incorporates all the “rhythmic patterns” learned duri...