The Bluesier Side of Jazz for Tenor Saxophone and Bb instruments by Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca was inspired by the piano students he teaches at Shepherd University School of Music in Los Angeles and is dedicated to those students: Jungwon, Yumiko, Yoko, Eunice, Sooji, Hae Ji and Ok Kyu. As with many students that come from a classical background it is a difficult transition to learn to play Blues & Jazz. When a musician improvises they usually play a variety of riffs or phrases that they have developed and learnt over a period of time and can access these phrases instantaneously whatever key they are playing in to create a seamless improvisedsolo from the phrases they have learnt. Andrew's idea for this book is to create phrases or riffs over two measures of various Blues progressions. He sub-divided each of the 12 Bar Blues progressions used in this book (the chord progression for Watermelon Man is a 16 measure progression) into six sections (two measures each) and within each of the six sections created four different phrases or riffs so that the student has a choice of four different phrases to play over every two measures. They can then create a solo based on which phrase they choose for each two measures. By breaking down these phrases to two measures each, he has found that the students have an easier time of learning to improvise than by trying to transcribe a whole solo from an audio recording or leaving them to their own devices in trying to play a solo based on the Blues scale or other related scales. Each of the ten examples are based on common Jazz/Blues chord progressions from Jazz songs such as 'Watermelon Man', 'Blue Monk', 'Tenor Madness', 'Route 66', 'Blue Trane', 'Bag's Groove' starting off with basic I-IV-V chords and increasing in complexity throughout the book. There are over 200 phrases/riffs to choose from that can be learned and applied to many types of jazz songs. The package includes: Book or PDF file 30 audio tracks to play on your CD player or computer Over 200 mp3 files Over 200 MIDI files/ Recueil / Saxophone Ténor

Dirko Juchem a fait un nom comme saxophoniste, professeur de saxophone et auteur spécialiste au niveau national et international depuis de nombreuses années.Son son saxophone et un large éventail de styles sont bien en demande : il a joué avec des artistes allemands et internationaux connus comme les Rolf Zuckowski, Barbara Dennerlein, Thomas Anders, Anne Haigis, Harald Juhnke, Werner Pe, Sara K. ainsi qu'avec des musiciens de Jethro Tull, de Jazz-Kantine ou de la bande de Mike Oldfield. Hormis les nombreux concerts et productions avec d'autres artistes et les bandes, il joue encore et encore avec ses propres programmes - solo, en duo ou avec un ensemble de la bande. Jusqu'à présent, il a joué dans plus de 100 CD et productions LP et ses tournées lui ont pris autant que Los Angeles et Taiwan.Having enseigne à différentes écoles de musique comme un professeur de saxophone et donné des cours à la Bundesakademie de Remscheid comme conférencier invité, il sait que les problèmes des saxophonistes de l'expérience de première main.En outre, Dirko Juchem est th... / Saxophone Tenor