Mark Vega?s Jazz Solo Series for Eb instruments, including Alto Saxophone, is a great instructional tool for musicians and music students to learn or improve their improvisational abilities in the jazz-swing idiom. There are sixty-six examples in the book, starting at a somewhat easy level and gradually increasing in difficulty throughout the book. Sections include: Exercises in all twelve keys using II-V-I and II-V-III-VI-II-V-I chord progressions. Exercises in all twelve keys using I-VI-II-V-III-bIII-II-V-I chord progressions. Complete worked-out solos over chord changes to the popular Jazz standards Stella By Starlight, Take The A Train, and There Will Never Be Another You. Includes an easy version of the solo followed by a more difficult one. A selected discography of Mark?s favourite Jazz albums featuring great Jazz soloists.

10 Jazz Standards - Authentic Jazz Playalong-Part of the new 'Authentic Jazz Playalong' series this volume brings together Gershwin Porter Ellington and other legends of 20th Century Jazz. 'I Got Rhythm' features ten absolute classics of jazz repertoire idiomatically arranged for the intermediate (grades 4-6) player. Melody lyrics and chord symbols are provided offering opportunity for improvisation with suggested solo phrases notated to aid the beginner. There is also a brief guide and biographical note for each song in the collection. In addition the playalong CD comprises a live trio of piano bass and drums for truly authentic performance.

10 Jazz Standards - Authentic Jazz Playalong-Part of the new 'Authentic Jazz Playalong' series this volume brings together Gershwin Porter Ellington and other legends of 20th Century Jazz. 'I Got Rhythm' features ten absolute classics of jazz repertoire idiomatically arranged for the intermediate (grades 4-6) player. Melody lyrics and chord symbols are provided offering opportunity for improvisation with suggested solo phrases notated to aid the beginner. There is also a brief guide and biographical note for each song in the collection. In addition the playalong CD comprises a live trio of piano bass and drums for truly authentic performance.

Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of a dozen jazz blues tunes are featured in this collection for beginning to intermediate instrumentalists.It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks!Songs include Basin Street Blues C-Jam Blues Freddie Freeloader Night Train One for Daddy-O The Swingin' Shepherd Blues Tenor Madness and more.The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

A special double-CD bumper compilation. Twenty-one chart hits and jazz and latin standards in melody line arrangements for Alto Saxophone with specially recorded backing tracks. Includes tunes by S Club 7 All Saints Santana andJames Brown.

Internationally renowned authors musicians and recording artists Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians.The smooth jazz grooves in this 46 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including RandB Jazz Funk Top 40 Rock Gospel Hip Hop and Latin. These stylistic influences are frequently associated with smooth jazz. Popular artists in this genre include The Super Groovers David Sanborn Eric Marienthal Kenny G DaveKoz David Benoit Tom Scott Gerald Albright Candy Dulfer Wilton Felder Boney James Chris Botti Chuck Mangione Sade George Benson Peter White Lee Ritenour Earl Klugh Larry Carlton Jeff Lorber Brian Culbertson George Duke Joe Sample Spyro Gyra Pat Metheny Four Play The Yellow Jackets and The Rippingtons. On each of the 20 tracks the groove is separated into 3 melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first by the saxophone with the groove followed by just the rhythm section groove without sax. The 1st example is usually the easiest the 2nd slightly harder and the 3rd the most difficult.

Saxophones Any Combinatio-Flexible jazz style duets with piano accompaniment and optional guitar chords for any combination of soprano alto tenor or baritone saxes. Grade: 4 - 6

Jazz Play-Along Volume 59-For use with all Bb Eb and C instruments the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultiimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. For study each tune includes a split track with:Melody cue with proper style and inflectionProfessional rhythm tracksChoruses for soloingRemovable bass partRemovable piano part. For performance each tune also has:An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody)Additional choruses for soloing.

Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of a dozen jazz blues tunes are featured in this collection for beginning to intermediate instrumentalists.It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks!Songs include Basin Street Blues C-Jam Blues Freddie Freeloader Night Train One for Daddy-O The Swingin' Shepherd Blues Tenor Madness and more.The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.