Violin Edition-Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative creative and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically he opened doors for others to follow. This book will focus on the firstperiod of Coltrane's career when he was with Miles Davis and the jazz vocabulary he used. First to help the student better understand Coltrane's bebop style of improvising the authors discuss the use of guide tones bebopscales three to flat nine targeting and other techniques. Then the text presents numerous one- two- and three-measure jazz lines in Coltrane's style grouped by the harmony over which they can be used. The accompanyingplay-along CD provides the rhythm parts for each section including a track for each section that modulates through the cycle of fourths helping you master the phrases in all keys. By combining various lines musicians will beable to mix and match numerous combinations of these lines to play over ii-V-I progressions turnarounds and other harmonic situations. Incorporate these essential jazz lines into your vocabulary and you will be able to createyour own lines in the style of John Coltrane

'The greatest jazz secret ' 'Great Dane ' 'Fiddler Supreme.' Danish violinist Svend Asmussen has been dubbed many wondrous titles. Duke Ellington's first reaction 'Man you play a hell of a lot of fiddle!' Mr. Asmussen has played with many other music legends Edith Piaf Benny Goodman Hoagy Carmichael Nat King Cole Herbie Hancock and more. At 95 he is still going strong. After a DVD on his life was presented in 2006 by Universal/Shanachie Entertainments The Extraordinary Life and Music of a Jazz Legend he produced in 2009 the Makin' Whoopee! Cd for Arbors Records and saw the production of Don't get around much anymore in which the classical violin virtuoso KimSjøgren plays the solos Svend Asmussen composed while living in the South of France years ago. Mr. Asmussen has stated 'My unattainable model was of course Johan Sebastian Bach whose famed violin solos I often practice playing.'These solos and the charts of numbers by Gershwin Ellington and Asmussen among others will attract violinists everywhere as swinging encores and as integral parts of their repertoire.The greatest secret is no longer a secret ...