Charles Beale Books

Aimed at absolute beginners, this guide offers a step-by-step approach to learning jazz piano with confidence and style. It features engaging activities and numerous musical examples, supplemented by an accompanying CD that includes practical exercises and trio performances. Additionally, the book provides supporting materials such as pieces, scales, quick studies, and aural tests, ensuring a thorough introduction to jazz music.

In Transforming Choral Singing: An Activist's Guide for Choir Directors, author Charles W. Beale draws from his many years of choral directing experience to put forth a new vision for choral singing: to move audiences and change the world. He lays down a non-canonical and inclusive framework, grounded in critical musicology and pedagogy, for mission-driven and activist-oriented engagement with the choral arts and provides practical takeaways for choral practitioners and conductors through a lively mix of practical workshops, tips, and suggestions.