Book excerpt: (Keyboard Instruction). This book presents a unique organization and application of keyboard instruction materials to help the student gain the skills necessary to be professional and competitive in the music industry today. The included audio contains recorded versions of all assigned repertoire pieces and examples, so there is no doubt what they should sound like. Rarely does an accomplished artist extend his musical passion to the area of teaching, but jazz composer/keyboardist John Novello is the exception. Novello began teaching in 1983, and released The Contemporary Keyboardist a few years later.