Thank you for visiting my website. For the latest news, click here. Below you can link to pages that include information about my background, projects, and performing schedule. If you're looking for information about piano lessons, click on Piano Instruction. If you are looking for music for an private event, please visit the Music Services page.
On the bottom of this page is information about how to contact me. I welcome your comments and communications about the site, or anything on it.
Bob is a Professor of Music at Five Towns College in Dix Hills.
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August, 2010
Country , Early Evening, Dreamer, Fly Away, Letter From Home, Coming Across, If You Would, A Moment Set Apart, Every Day, The Story Within, My Song, Mas Alla (Beyond), Deep Well, A Quiet Corner, Looking Back
July, 2010
Coming Soon:
The Improviser's Guide to Melodic Embellishment Volume II will be released by Charles Colin Music Publishing Co. in November, 2010.
Jazz Piano Cluster Voicing Workshop A book about harmonizing jazz standards using cluster voicings. The text includes a collection of ten pieces arranged for piano demonstrating the technique. December, 2010.
More live performances!
April, 2010
Check out the new article on Creative Keyboard, "Using Target Tones When Changing Hand Positions." The article discusses efficient ways of movement at the keyboard and is a valuable piece for beginning and intermediate piano students.
January, 2010
I am quite excited to announce the publication of The Bud Powell Real Book, a book I did for Hal Leonard which contains transcriptions of the jazz tunes of Bud Powell. The project took more than a year to complete and many more years after that to finally see it published. The book is available at most music stores as well as Amazon.
December, 2009
My article for pianists, "Use Blocking as a Fingering Technique," was just published on Mel Bay's Creative Keyboard website. The article explores issues related to choosing fingerings for pieces.
I recently completed an arrangement of "Nessun Dorma" (None Shall Sleep), the well-known tenor aria from Puccini's Turandot. I've submitted it to Hal Leonard for possible publication.
October, 2009
A short article I wrote entitled "In Jazz Harmony, Simpler is Better" has just been published in Mel Bay's Creative Keyboard. The piece discusses the chord symbol, and explores the distinctions between the embellishment of a chord and the chord itself.
August, 2009
An article I wrote entitled "Improving Accuracy by Developing Keyboard Awareness" has just been published in the August issue of Creative Keyboard. I'm really proud of this piece and believe that pianists and piano teachers will find it enormously beneficial.
June, 2009
The June issue of Creative Keyboard has been published. The article discusses ideas and approaches that pianists can apply when working out fingerings. The article is titled "Basic Fingering Principles."
Previous News:
The April issue of Creative Keyboard has been published. The article describes approaches beginners can use to create walking bass lines for jazz tunes. The article is titled "Creating Bass Lines."
I recently began serving on the Doctoral Program Review Committee at Five Towns College.
I just finished a transcription of the famous Dudley Moore solo piano performance of the Henry Mancini tune "It's Easy To Remember." It was in the movie "10," which featured Moore, Bo Derek, and Julie Andrews.
The February issue of Creative Keyboard has been published and the article is again in the area of piano technique. The piece is entitled "Avoiding Tension With Movement." Required reading for all piano students!
The books page has been updated and now contains all of my books, with a few page samples and audio excerpts of those pages.
Recently, I began teaching piano and harmony at Five Towns College.
An article I originally wrote for Clavier magazine has been published in the December issue of Creative Keyboard. The article is titled Using Small Intervals to Manage Large Leaps.
The October issue of Creative Keyboard has been published and my article is in the realm of piano technique. "Practicing Exaggeration for Large Leaps and Intervals" outlines techniques that promote accuracy and speed in keyboard movement.
I recently completed a book that I've been working on (part time) for the past few years. The book is called The Virtuoso Jazz Pianist, a 175 page book with a wide range of studies and exercises for jazz pianists interested in developing their technique (and who among us isn't?). A number of publishers have expressed interest in the book, which could turn out to be my magnum opus!
My article, "15 Tips for Successful Jazz Improvisation" has just been published in the August issue of Creative Keyboard. This is the "companion" piece to the article that appeared in the June issue.
I am excited to let everyone know that Hal Leonard has agreed to publish a book I did of transcriptions of the music of Bud Powell. The book is titled The Bud Powell Real Book, and it will feature 44 tunes, in lead sheet format, of the music of the great jazz pianist Bud Powell.
Check out the new article, "Jazz Improvisation: 15 Tips for Getting Started," in the June issue of Creative Keyboard.
The April issue of Creative Keyboard is now available. The article I've written for this issue is titled "Practice Transposition to Develop Your Ear and Technique."
The article for the February issue of Creative Keyboard has been posted. It's titled "An Easy Method for Understanding and Playing Polyrhythms."
Charles Colin, a publisher of jazz oriented books and materials will be publishing the Improviser's Guide to Melodic Embellishment in two volumes: Volume I: Triads & and Seventh Chords, and Volume II: Scales & Progressions. The company will also be publishing the Jazz Piano Quartal Voicing Workshop, a book I completed last summer.
I have begun work on a solo piano cd, tentatively titled A Moment Set Apart.
The December issue of Creative Keyboard is out. My article for this issue is "Using Simple Rhythms to Play Difficult Rhythms." It's appropriate for students of intermediate to advanced levels and deals with reading difficult rhythms in the classical literature.
The article "Working With Cross Rhythms," which was published in the October issue of Creative Keyboard, has also been published on the website jazzdoublebass.com. You can go straight to the page by clicking here. The article is the same except the rhythms are notated in the bass clef.
The October issue of Creative Keyboard has been published. My article for this issue is titled "Working With Cross Rhythms"
You can download a copy of my teaching brochure as an Adobe Acrobat Reader pdf file. The link has also been placed at the bottom of the Piano Instruction page.
Electronic mail: BOBHI AT BOBHINZ DOT COM
Telephone: (631) 421-0624
Any of the items on the site can be purchased directly on this site or by contacting me by e-mail. If you wish to obtain items via e-mail, simply send a note by e-mail and I'll reply with info. Items may also be ordered through PayPal by pressing either the "order now" button (for single item purchases) or the "add to cart" button (for multiple item purchases).
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Web Site Last Revised: August 31, 2010.
