BIJAN TAGHAVI- PIANIST, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR
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    • Bijan Taghavi >
      • Stella by Starlight (Solo Piano)
      • Body and Soul (Solo Piano)
      • Autumn Leaves (Solo Piano)
      • I Should Care (Solo Piano)
      • Have You Met Miss Jones (Solo Piano)
    • Bill Evans
    • Kenny Barron
    • Barry Harris
    • Hank Jones
    • Herbie Hancock
    • Oscar Peterson
  • Lesson Videos & PDFs
    • Comping >
      • Group Comping Voicings Overview
      • Jazz Piano Comping EXPLAINED!
      • Oscar Peterson Take The A Train Transcription Analysis
      • 2 Tips Comping For Vocalists
      • Chromatic Approach
      • LH Contrasting Texture (Body and Soul)
      • Comping over Rhythm Changes (for a Bass Solo)
      • The Secrets to Walking Basslines on Piano
      • Funky Bassline
      • LH Comping Approach for Solo Piano
    • Harmony >
      • How to Harmonize a Melody with 2 Voices
      • Inverted Pedal Point on Rhythm Changes
      • How to Jazzify the Living Pianos Theme Song
      • How to Get a Full Sound out of the Piano
      • 5 Inner Voice Movements on "I Should Care"
      • How to Create RH Counter-Melodies (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Use a Pedal Point
      • Create Chords From ANY Scale (Barry Harris)
      • How To Create Inner Voice Movement
      • How to REHARMONIZE Jazz Standards
    • Harmony P.2 >
      • Barry Harris Round Midnight Reharmonization
      • 3 Inner Voice Movements for a dom7 chord
      • How to Use Barry Harris' "Diminished Notes"
      • Solo Piano Rubato Intro on "Days of Wine and Roses"
      • Let Your Melodies Dictate Your Chords (Solo Piano Rubato Intro P.2)
    • Improv >
      • Barry Harris Passport (Blues) Improv Analysis
      • Kenny Barron Autumn Leaves Melody Transcription Analysis
      • Rhythm Changes Improv Ideas (Bijan Transcription)
      • Rhythmic Motifs in Jazz Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 2
      • Jazz Improv - How to Play OUTSIDE
      • How to Create LH Counterpoint (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Create LH Counterpoint (P.2)
      • Using Quotes in Jazz Improvisation (Quoting "A Love Supreme" on "How Deep Is The Ocean")
    • Improv P.2 >
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas (2 Melodic Motifs on "Esau")
      • Modal Solo on min7b5 (from "It Always Happens")
      • Using Shapes in Jazz Improv
      • How to Use the Melody in Your Improvisation
      • Watch What Made Rodney Whitaker "Swink"
      • How to Outline Chord Changes (Improv on "Autumn Leaves")
      • 16th Note Improv Lines over "Autumn Leaves"
      • Soloing in 3/4 on "Autumn Leaves"
      • How to STOP Playing the Same Licks in Your Jazz Solos
      • 5 Octaves in 5 Seconds with this KILLER Run
    • Improv P.3 >
      • What is Over the Barline Phrasing in Jazz Improvisation?
      • How to Use Theme & Variation like Kenny Barron
      • Modal Solo on Cmin7 (from "Crossfire")
      • Use This Motif When Improvising in 3/4!
      • 2 Ways to Use Triplets in Your Improvisations
      • 3 Ways to Approach the Bridge of Rhythm Changes
      • How to Use Shapes to Achieve New Sounds in Your Improvisations
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas P.7 (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • How to Play Bluesy over Non-Blues Chord Changes
      • What are Red Garland Block Chords?
    • Improv P.4 >
      • Repetition in Improvisation
      • How to Use 16th Notes in Your Jazz Solos (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • How to Adapt Improv Shapes to Fit Over New Chords (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • 3 Tips to Take Your 16th Note Lines to the Next Level
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 3
      • 3 Ways to Sound Like McCoy Tyner
      • Use this Shape to End Your Phrases
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 4
      • What are New Orleans Block Chords?
      • 3 Tips for Soloing in 3/4
    • Improv P.5 >
      • How to Build Your Solo Using Motifs
      • Stop Time
      • 16th Note Line EXPLAINED (Have You Met Miss Jones)
    • Rhythm >
      • Polyrhythm vs Polymeter EXPLAINED
      • How to Create Rhythmic Tension in 3/4
      • 2 Ways to Create Rhythm Section Interplay (Rhythmic Telepathy Part 8)
      • Soloing on an E Minor Blues in 12/8
      • The SECRET To Making Stride Piano Swing
      • Polymeters EXPLAINED (Superimposing 3 over 4)
      • Improvising over Changing Time Signatures (over Ahmad Jamal's "Crossfire)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 6 ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Trio)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 7 (Superimposing 3 in 4 on "End of a Love Affair")
      • Jazz Slang P.2 - Double Time Feel EXPLAINED
    • Rhythm P.2 >
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 1: 4 to 3)
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 2: 3 to 4)
      • Playing in 2 vs in 4 (Part 2)
      • Half Time vs Double Time ("Here's That Rainy Day")
      • How to "Set Up" The Band
      • Metric Modulation on Have You Met Miss Jones
      • How to Swing
      • Communication on the Bandstand
    • Piano Orchestration >
      • 3 Ways to Orchestrate A Melody ("Asojano" from TrioGram)
      • Orchestrating A Melody P.2 ("Esau" from TrioGram)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Autumn Leaves)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • PAINT: How to Orchestrate a Melody for a Ballad (Here's That Rainy Day)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Have You Met Miss Jones)
    • Piano Technique >
      • 3 Parts of the Body
      • 2 Reasons Why You MUST Strike From The Surface of the Keys
      • How to Bring Out the Melody in Your Playing
      • SECRET Practice Exercise for Voicing Control
      • How to Use Dynamics to Create Drama
      • How to End a Song Quietly
      • 3 Piano Technique Tips - Lessons From Robert Estrin
      • How to Play FAST
      • Subtractions Practice Technique (for Syncopation & Hand Independence)
      • Crossed-Hands Piano Technique (Chick Corea's Matrix)
    • Composition/Arranging >
      • 3 Ways to Use Counterpoint in Jazz
      • 3 Tips When Composing an AABA Tune
      • Jazz Trio Intro EXPLAINED
      • Ahmad Jamal Ending Chords
      • Inspired by Ahmad Jamal's Poinciana ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Japan Trio)
      • How to Fade Out (Ending to "Secret Love")
      • The CRAZIEST Cadenza You've Ever Heard
      • How to End a Ballad with a Solo Piano Cadenza ("Here's That Rainy Day")
      • The Magic of Circle of 5ths Endings
      • Classic Ending for Any Jazz Standard (#4 Ending)
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Pianist

TrioGram Album Recording Session

Changes (Bijan Taghavi)

​Will Lyle, bass

Bijan Taghavi, piano
Kofi Shepsu, drums
Solo Session @ Dan Delaney's AZ Studios
"Body and Soul"
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​Bijan Taghavi, piano

Solo Session @ Dan Delaney's AZ Studios

"Autumn Leaves"

​Bijan Taghavi, piano

Solo Session @ Dan Delaney's AZ Studios

"I Should Care"

​Bijan Taghavi, piano

Solo Session @ Dan Delaney's AZ Studios

Stella by Starlight (Victor Young)
Bijan Taghavi, piano

2/24/23 - TrioGram LIVE ft. Lewis Nash @ Ravenscroft's JazzBird Lounge

Changes (Bijan Taghavi)
Will Lyle, bass
Bijan Taghavi, piano
Lewis Nash, drums

12/16/21 - Bijan Taghavi Trio @ Book Nook & Java Shop

Upper Manhattan Medical Group (Billy Strayhorn)
Bijan Taghavi, piano
Rodney Whitaker, bass
Kofi Shepsu, drums

12/16/21 - Bijan Taghavi Trio @ Book Nook & Java Shop

"Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus-Eaters" (Billy Strayhorn)
Bijan Taghavi, piano
Rodney Whitaker, bass
Kofi Shepsu, drums
12/16/21 - Bijan Taghavi Trio @ Book Nook & Java Shop
"Dolphin Dance" (Herbie Hancock)

​Bijan Taghavi, piano

Rodney Whitaker, bass
Kofi Shepsu, drums

12/16/21 - Bijan Taghavi Trio @ Book Nook & Java Shop

"Everything Happens to Me"

​Bijan Taghavi, piano

Rodney Whitaker, bass
Kofi Shepsu, drums

3/5/20 - Jazz @ the Merc

"Isfahan" (Billy Strayhorn)
Bijan Taghavi, piano
​Luther Hughes, bass
12/26/18 - Bijan Taghavi Japan Trio @ Live House ROXX
Secret Love (Sammy Fain, arr. Bijan Taghavi)
Bijan Taghavi, piano
John Koh, bass
Shogo Homoda, drums

12/7/18 @ New York City

Just Foolin' Around (Bijan Taghavi)
Bijan Taghavi, piano 
​John Koh, bass
4/9/18 - Love Supreme @ Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Resolution (John Coltrane, arr. Jim McNeely)
MSM Jazz Orchestra, feat:
Joe Lovano, tsax
Jim McNeely, conductor/arranger
12/23/18 - Bijan Taghavi Japan Trio @ Urayasu Concert Hall
New Reality (Bijan Taghavi)
Bijan Taghavi, piano
John Koh, bass
Shogo Hamada, drums
4/22/18 - Bijan Taghavi Boston Trio @ Bop Stop Studios
Homage by Bijan Taghavi
Bijan Taghavi, piano
John Koh, bass
Samuël Bolduc, drums

2/23/13 - Soloist with South Coast Symphony

Declared the 2013 "Young STAR of the Future" (Orange County Register) after winning the Young Stars Competition, Bijan performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the South Coast Symphony in a series of concerts: for over 7,000 kids in 2 morning Koncert for Kids, and this evening performance. 

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  • About
  • Media
    • Pianist
    • Educator
    • Composer/Arranger
    • Articles
  • Calendar
    • Upcoming Performances
    • Past Performances
  • Educator
    • Video Exchange Lessons
    • Testimonials
  • Transcriptions
    • Bijan Taghavi >
      • Stella by Starlight (Solo Piano)
      • Body and Soul (Solo Piano)
      • Autumn Leaves (Solo Piano)
      • I Should Care (Solo Piano)
      • Have You Met Miss Jones (Solo Piano)
    • Bill Evans
    • Kenny Barron
    • Barry Harris
    • Hank Jones
    • Herbie Hancock
    • Oscar Peterson
  • Lesson Videos & PDFs
    • Comping >
      • Group Comping Voicings Overview
      • Jazz Piano Comping EXPLAINED!
      • Oscar Peterson Take The A Train Transcription Analysis
      • 2 Tips Comping For Vocalists
      • Chromatic Approach
      • LH Contrasting Texture (Body and Soul)
      • Comping over Rhythm Changes (for a Bass Solo)
      • The Secrets to Walking Basslines on Piano
      • Funky Bassline
      • LH Comping Approach for Solo Piano
    • Harmony >
      • How to Harmonize a Melody with 2 Voices
      • Inverted Pedal Point on Rhythm Changes
      • How to Jazzify the Living Pianos Theme Song
      • How to Get a Full Sound out of the Piano
      • 5 Inner Voice Movements on "I Should Care"
      • How to Create RH Counter-Melodies (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Use a Pedal Point
      • Create Chords From ANY Scale (Barry Harris)
      • How To Create Inner Voice Movement
      • How to REHARMONIZE Jazz Standards
    • Harmony P.2 >
      • Barry Harris Round Midnight Reharmonization
      • 3 Inner Voice Movements for a dom7 chord
      • How to Use Barry Harris' "Diminished Notes"
      • Solo Piano Rubato Intro on "Days of Wine and Roses"
      • Let Your Melodies Dictate Your Chords (Solo Piano Rubato Intro P.2)
    • Improv >
      • Barry Harris Passport (Blues) Improv Analysis
      • Kenny Barron Autumn Leaves Melody Transcription Analysis
      • Rhythm Changes Improv Ideas (Bijan Transcription)
      • Rhythmic Motifs in Jazz Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 2
      • Jazz Improv - How to Play OUTSIDE
      • How to Create LH Counterpoint (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Create LH Counterpoint (P.2)
      • Using Quotes in Jazz Improvisation (Quoting "A Love Supreme" on "How Deep Is The Ocean")
    • Improv P.2 >
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas (2 Melodic Motifs on "Esau")
      • Modal Solo on min7b5 (from "It Always Happens")
      • Using Shapes in Jazz Improv
      • How to Use the Melody in Your Improvisation
      • Watch What Made Rodney Whitaker "Swink"
      • How to Outline Chord Changes (Improv on "Autumn Leaves")
      • 16th Note Improv Lines over "Autumn Leaves"
      • Soloing in 3/4 on "Autumn Leaves"
      • How to STOP Playing the Same Licks in Your Jazz Solos
      • 5 Octaves in 5 Seconds with this KILLER Run
    • Improv P.3 >
      • What is Over the Barline Phrasing in Jazz Improvisation?
      • How to Use Theme & Variation like Kenny Barron
      • Modal Solo on Cmin7 (from "Crossfire")
      • Use This Motif When Improvising in 3/4!
      • 2 Ways to Use Triplets in Your Improvisations
      • 3 Ways to Approach the Bridge of Rhythm Changes
      • How to Use Shapes to Achieve New Sounds in Your Improvisations
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas P.7 (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • How to Play Bluesy over Non-Blues Chord Changes
      • What are Red Garland Block Chords?
    • Improv P.4 >
      • Repetition in Improvisation
      • How to Use 16th Notes in Your Jazz Solos (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • How to Adapt Improv Shapes to Fit Over New Chords (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • 3 Tips to Take Your 16th Note Lines to the Next Level
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 3
      • 3 Ways to Sound Like McCoy Tyner
      • Use this Shape to End Your Phrases
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 4
      • What are New Orleans Block Chords?
      • 3 Tips for Soloing in 3/4
    • Improv P.5 >
      • How to Build Your Solo Using Motifs
      • Stop Time
      • 16th Note Line EXPLAINED (Have You Met Miss Jones)
    • Rhythm >
      • Polyrhythm vs Polymeter EXPLAINED
      • How to Create Rhythmic Tension in 3/4
      • 2 Ways to Create Rhythm Section Interplay (Rhythmic Telepathy Part 8)
      • Soloing on an E Minor Blues in 12/8
      • The SECRET To Making Stride Piano Swing
      • Polymeters EXPLAINED (Superimposing 3 over 4)
      • Improvising over Changing Time Signatures (over Ahmad Jamal's "Crossfire)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 6 ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Trio)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 7 (Superimposing 3 in 4 on "End of a Love Affair")
      • Jazz Slang P.2 - Double Time Feel EXPLAINED
    • Rhythm P.2 >
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 1: 4 to 3)
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 2: 3 to 4)
      • Playing in 2 vs in 4 (Part 2)
      • Half Time vs Double Time ("Here's That Rainy Day")
      • How to "Set Up" The Band
      • Metric Modulation on Have You Met Miss Jones
      • How to Swing
      • Communication on the Bandstand
    • Piano Orchestration >
      • 3 Ways to Orchestrate A Melody ("Asojano" from TrioGram)
      • Orchestrating A Melody P.2 ("Esau" from TrioGram)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Autumn Leaves)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • PAINT: How to Orchestrate a Melody for a Ballad (Here's That Rainy Day)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Have You Met Miss Jones)
    • Piano Technique >
      • 3 Parts of the Body
      • 2 Reasons Why You MUST Strike From The Surface of the Keys
      • How to Bring Out the Melody in Your Playing
      • SECRET Practice Exercise for Voicing Control
      • How to Use Dynamics to Create Drama
      • How to End a Song Quietly
      • 3 Piano Technique Tips - Lessons From Robert Estrin
      • How to Play FAST
      • Subtractions Practice Technique (for Syncopation & Hand Independence)
      • Crossed-Hands Piano Technique (Chick Corea's Matrix)
    • Composition/Arranging >
      • 3 Ways to Use Counterpoint in Jazz
      • 3 Tips When Composing an AABA Tune
      • Jazz Trio Intro EXPLAINED
      • Ahmad Jamal Ending Chords
      • Inspired by Ahmad Jamal's Poinciana ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Japan Trio)
      • How to Fade Out (Ending to "Secret Love")
      • The CRAZIEST Cadenza You've Ever Heard
      • How to End a Ballad with a Solo Piano Cadenza ("Here's That Rainy Day")
      • The Magic of Circle of 5ths Endings
      • Classic Ending for Any Jazz Standard (#4 Ending)
  • Press
    • Interviews
    • Quotes
    • EPK
  • Contact