The piano is an important instrument for the jazz musical bands, since the origins of jazz music and it can be played in the style of a solo performance or as part of a band. As the guitar, the piano is one of the few musical instruments in a jazz band that can play chords, notes, rather than just single notes only instruments such as saxophone, trombone, trumpet or even the vibraphone (1 or 2 scores together).

Gone were the days when a jazz pianist ’s role is simply to keep pace with repetitive chord combinations. Today is the pianist is free to choose any technology or style to accompany a band or a singer with both the short and sustained chordal and melodic fragments called comping.

A accomplshed jazz pianist must not only look good at reading and well improvise chord symbols, but also must be able to adapt to different playing styles of the various bands with jam. Jazz pianist must balance this interpretation and improvisation to the musical style of the band.
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