An Oriental Approach to Jazz Improvisation; Employing Turkish Makam, Arabic Maqam & Northern Indian Raga Scales and Modes is a comprehensive study on setting Arabic, Turkish, and Northern Indian scales and modes into context and about blending and employing them in jazz improvisation. It contains about two dozens of the mentioned music cultures' scales and modes each as well as their transpositions. Scales and modes which any jazz musician interested in South-Western Asian or Northern Indian music should be familiar with. It also contains numerous scales and modes of other countries' folk music.