Reddit reviews Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study

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Skip the Mark Levine book – it has serious pedagogical problems. Go with Terefenko if you must learn from a "jazz" textbook. Truthfully, you would be better off in the long run learning traditional theory and circling back around to jazz practice. Music theory, either coming from a classical or jazz perspective (or otherwise), is not going to help you to play jazz. What will help is playing jazz. In other words, get some lessons, play along to recordings, find some jam buddies, and do it to it.

You'll find this an interesting read.

Rawlins went on to write his own jazz theory book - but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. It does deal with a lot of what Levine skimmed over, but it's a dull read compared to Levine. All the musical examples were written by the authors, there are no real jazz quotes, as in Levine. (Levine's quotes are not great evidence for his theories, however.)

The best jazz theory book seems to be Terefenko.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazz-Theory-Basic-Advanced-Study/dp/1138235105/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541270549&sr=1-2

This is where I would start.