SKU: HL.48020672

This album presents 7 swinging and easy jazz pieces for violin and piano introducing syncopated rhythms, blues tonality and chromaticism. The CD is a handy aid both to practicing and, in the absence of an accompanist, to performing the pieces.

SKU: HL.44007687

UPC: 884088310431. 9x12 inches.

This swinging setting of one of America's great old tunes, “The Erie Canal,” is a guaranteed crowd pleaser! Intriguing harmonies are a hallmark of this remarkable arrangement by Stephen Bulla, and you know the band will love playing in this easy-flowing and natural rhythmic style. While it will spark up any spot on your concert program, consider using it for a new and different type of closer. This is a great tie-in with American history and geography. (Grade 3).

SKU: CL.SCM-1066-00

For band directors who have a good rhythm section and at least one soloist capable of handling a fast tempo, this one makes a great vehicle to show off your strong soloist(s). Based on the changes to Sweet Georgia Brown. A written solo is provided for all instruments in case you want to motivate your players to earn a solo feature for one or more of them. The accompaniment parts are quite easy if your rhythm section is swinging.

SKU: CL.SCM-1066-01

For band directors who have a good rhythm section and at least one soloist capable of handling a fast tempo, this one makes a great vehicle to show off your strong soloist(s). Based on the changes to Sweet Georgia Brown. A written solo is provided for all instruments in case you want to motivate your players to earn a solo feature for one or more of them. The accompaniment parts are quite easy if your rhythm section is swinging.

SKU: KJ.JZB412

UPC: 8402702649.

The straight ahead shuffle packs a wallop! A minor blues progression makes for swinging melody lines and very approachable solos. A part of the Jazz in Concert Series, Straight Up is flexibly orchestrated so that it can be played with as few as 9 players. Additionally everyone in the ensemble has an opportunity to improvise in the open solo section, and the set includes two suggested solos and a CD with a solo practice track, to facilitate successful improvisation.

About Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method

The Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method is designed to help both you and your jazz ensemble students explore the world of jazz through easy-to-use Rhythm Studies, Improvisation Studies, Instrument Specific Exercises, and full ensemble jazz charts. The approach is non-theoretical and aurally based. Each part book comes with an accompaniment CD, so like every great jazz player throughout history, students learn to play jazz by listening!

SKU: HL.49006281

ISBN 9790001068161. Old English.

The first known canon of European art music, now in the British Museum in London, is preserved in a thirteenth-century manusript from the English abbey in Reading: This is the so-called summer canon, whose verses greet the advent of summer. An accompanying note elucidates the artistic layer-like construction of the sound structure: a two-voice foundation of bell-like, swinging pendulum tones supports an upper structure of four voices which enter at equal time intervals. The note terms the canon rota * round -, which makes reference to the turning, circling movement of the constantly pulsating sound. The circular figure originates in a vital, ages-old moving force in music-making, and it demands a dance-like execution. But the canon is also, through the interaction of the strictly ordered voice entries, convivially bound musical form. Carl Orff was able to choose no better fitting musical form for the Greetings to Youth at the Olympic Games 1972 in Munich than the medieval rota. In the connexion of the singing voices with the Orff instruments, today in world-wide use, a testimony of European tradition sounds in a living present.