Looking to get into jazz piano

[benspeck]

Hey guys, I'm totally new here but I was looking for some help getting into jazz piano. I just want to learn some smooth slow jazz for piano like I you'd hear in a fancy restaurant or something.

I already play classical guitar and just a tiny tiny bit of piano, so I know how to read music and all that, but  have no idea where to start in order to get into jazz.

I'll take anything: song suggestions, exercise suggestions, recommended piano books, fashion advice, anything.

jk about the fashion. thanks in advance. 

[kclee6337]

Go get yourself a "fake book" or "real book"

https://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Book-Sixth-Edition/dp/0634060384/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1341703104&sr=8-3&keywords=fake+book

they have a good collection of jazz standards. I grew up playing nothing but classical piano never touched jazz never really wanted either, until I got into college then one of my professors convinced me to do it, his best advice was to listen to jazz, he gave me tons of albums and my job was to listen to them and to get them implanted in my brain to learn the scales the different patterns jazz uses etc.

So get yourself that book, and listen to as many recordings of jazz you can.

[aindavou]

Look for Jamy Abersold and the records tracks about than book, to play together the records. I remember that tracks have a division in stereo, so you can play together with styles different. I think this is a best way to train alone.

You can find too book about pianist standards, I particulary like so much monk, and you can find a book with much of themes.
 
Too improvises me like to studies melody and rhythm of theme and start at this point develop variations.  Play a piece like theme and variations to understand better.

You can find all that this on internet (pirate).

And the free way ( )
https://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/
https://www.jazzbossa.com/ (same that have above this, but in Portuguese (with links to Italian and Hungary, I think).

I hope which help you. (English is not native to me)   
 


edit:

I read again you post and remember me others things:
If you do not know nothing about jazz, start listen this (you know how this work?). The 2 or 3 first books the Abersold explain this, how jazz works.

I like so much the documentary ‘Ken Burns’, I don’t know name in English, but him made just one doc about Jazz (12 hours).

And back to blues, I remember to hear all great jazzs say ‘the soul of jazz is the blues’.