Unique in concept, this play along provides a sample written out jazz solo for players to listen, play, practice and use as a learning tool to assist them in creating their own improvisations. The sample solo is an invaluable asset that makes learning how to improvise easier. Other features include: professional demo tracks (with rhythm section, saxophone, trumpet and trombone); melody lead sheet with chord progressions; sample jazz solo; jazz choruses for soloing; split tracks for removal of piano or bass parts if desired. Titles include: Take the 'A' Train (Strayhorn); Raincheck (Strayhorn); Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn); Isfahan (Strayhorn & Ellington); UMMG (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) (Strayhorn); Johnny Come Lately (Strayhorn); Caravan (Ellington/Mills/Tizol); Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington/Mills/Gordon) and Freddie the Freeloader (Miles Davis). Hear it, study it and play it!

Unique in concept, this play along provides a sample written out jazz solo for players to listen, play, practice and use as a learning tool to assist them in creating their own improvisations. The sample solo is an invaluable asset that makes learning how to improvise easier. Other features include: professional demo tracks (with rhythm section, saxophone, trumpet and trombone); melody lead sheet with chord progressions; sample jazz solo; jazz choruses for soloing; split tracks for removal of piano or bass parts if desired. Titles include: Stella by Starlight; On Green Dolphin Street; Just Friends; Have You Met Miss Jones?; Bye, Bye Blackbird; What is This Thing Called Love?; The Days of Wine and Roses; Stompin' at the Savoy and I Got Rhythm. Great tunes, great jazz!

Every jazz director will want to have this innovative, user-friendly approach to jazz improvisation! Designed for individual or group instruction, each volume contains a play-along CD with eight classic jazz tunes. Each tune is played by a professional jazz group and contains clearly written musical examples, jazz vocabulary, transcription opportunities, informative composer insights and a discography. It's a real step forward in teaching jazz improvisation! Volume one includes: Billie's Bounce; On The Trail; Cantaloupe Island; The Preacher; Summertime; Satin Doll; C Jam Blues and I Got Rhythm.

Every jazz director will want to have this innovative, user-friendly approach to jazz improvisation! Designed for individual or group instruction, each volume contains a play-along CD with eight classic jazz tunes. Each tune is played by a professional jazz group and contains clearly written musical examples, jazz vocabulary, transcription opportunities, informative composer insights and a discography. It's a real step forward in teaching jazz improvisation! Volume two includes: Now's The Time; Sugar; Honeysuckle Rose; Maiden Voyage; Squeeze Me; Caravan; In A Mellow Tone and Perdido.

This is a fabulous collection of exact transcriptions taken from Charlie Parker's recorded solos. Every student of jazz will benefit from studying "Bird's" solos, so this is a must have! Available in Bb, C and Bass Clef Books.

Chord/Scale Mastery is a new and exciting approach to jazz improvisation, taking the ten most common jazz chords and exercising the player on those chords and their available scales. It's the one book you'll want with your instrument all the time, and is guaranteed to challenge even the most experienced player with new scales and ideas. Available in bass and treble clef, it is perfect for private study or classroom instruction. This revolutionary new approach to jazz improvisation will build your:

• Technical proficiency
• Ear training expertise
• Understanding of theory
• Confidence in performing

This uniquely organized book and CD devotes a thorough chapter to each of the prevailing tune types of jazz...standard, bebop, modal, blues, contemporary, ballad and free form. It also lists and discusses their characteristics and illustrates approaches to understanding and performing each type of tune.

"Constructing Melodic Jazz Improvisation" teaches style, phrasing control, solo development, creative content and not the typical "memorize the scale and pattern" approach. It was designed to meet all of the national standards and frameworks for music education. Students sing, perform on instruments, improvise, compose, read music, listen, analyze, critique, connect music to language, and learn the basic evolution of jazz improvisation. This book is specifically designed for beginning and intermediate level musicians in middle school through high school. All exercises are accessible and appropriate for musicians with basic skill levels, but can be easily adapted to include even the most advanced college level students. The 52-track CD includes 12 play along tracks and 40 example solos that demonstrate the techniques used within the book. The demonstration tracks are played by saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Each example solo is transcribed and included in the book. Ten chapters and hundreds of exercises progressively explore jazz improvisation from creative, melodic and technical perspectives in this 168-page book with a 52-track CD. Highly recommended!

This improvisation method for beginning and developing improvisors cuts the chord symbols out of soloing by using only major scales over standard tunes. Learn the most direct way to solo easily over the tunes that are our jazz heritage, adopted long ago from film and Broadway scores into a jazz tradition. There's no longer any reason to be afraid of improvising over the music of Gershwin, Porter, Learner and Loewe, Mercer and more. This method is ideal for classroom, private, or self-instruction, as well as music education and jazz pedagogy classes. Included are a book with sheet music for improvisors struggling with standard tunes, a play-along CD with superb rhythm section accompaniment, and a CD-ROM packed with theory instruction, listening examples, a discography, and printable accompaniment scores and parts for optional live rhythm section. "Cutting the Changes" will build confidence in young instrumentalists and vocalists and provide a solid framework for expanding improvisational techniques!