What to Read After Improvisation
Readers who loved Improvisation by Derek Bailey keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Improvisation is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Improvisation
Effortless Mastery
Power Stronger Than Itself
Silence
Genesis of a Music
The Jazz Theory Book
Give My Regards to Eighth Street
As Serious as Your Life
Music and the Mind
The Soundscape
Treat It Gentle
Tonal Harmony, With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
Zen and the Art of Mixing
Theory of Harmony
Tonal Harmony
Writings on Music, 1965-2000
Black Music
Free Play
Space Is the Place
Jazz Styles
Beneath the Underdog
The Blind Owl
Debt
The Way of Zen
The Crying of Lot 49