Tunes for Beginning Improvisers. The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser. Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano voicings, guitar chord diagrams, sample bass lines and useful scales for improvisation are included with each tune, for easy reference. Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop's summer jazz camps. It works! Each song will sound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos. A great resource for music teachers and band directors. / Instruments En Bb

Par MILES DONAHUE. Le classeur de Jazz (vol. 1) est une première en son genre livre. Enseigner instrumentistes seule note (y compris guitaristes) à entendre et à jouer thru changements de corde, c'est les éléments essentiels du jazz. La pièce le long du CD n'a inclus d'aucun instrument à corde, donc, l'étudiant peut entendre le bruit de la corde sur son propre. Il s'agit d'un livre de la méthode dans laquelle tout ce qui est écrit pour l'étudiant, donc à son tour, tout en jouant thru les exercices dans ce livre avec ou sans un enseignant efface des nombreuses questions sur l'harmonie. Editions viennent en basse, mi bémol, si bémol et Concert. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Jazz - Improvisation / Recueil / Instruments en Sib

John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Impressions, Naima, Moment's Notice, Bass Blues, Equinox, Wise One, Tunji, Expression, Mr. P.C., Some Other Blues, Bessie's Blues, etc.Horace Silver - Senor Blues, Song For My Father, Ecaroh, Nutville, Moonrays, Strollin', Peace, Nica's Dream, Horacescope, Filthy McNasty, Silver's Serenade, Quicksilver, etc.Bill Evans - Time Remembered, Turn Out The Stars, Peri's Scope, Detour Ahead, etc.Wayne Shorter - Beauty And The Beast, Night Dreamer, MahjongBenny Golson - Killer Joe, Along Came Betty, Stablemates, Whisper NotDuke Ellington - Isfahan, Star Crossed Lovers, Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, etcMiles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven, Bye Bye Blackbird ...and many more!

Volume 3 is perfect for jazz ensemble directors looking for one book to keep their students engaged and progressing all year long, as well as any musician interested in Sher Music's series of world-famous fake books. At over 200 pages, THE REAL EASY BOOK - VOL.3 comes in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. It features 5-10 tunes from each historical era of jazz: Trad Jazz, The Swing Era, Classic Bebop, West Coast Jazz, The Blue Note Era, Contemporary Jazz, ''Groove'' Jazz, Brazilian Jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz. The wide variety of styles included means that every jazz combo will be able to find exactly the material that fits their needs.Difficulty ranges from very simple blues, like Charlie Parker's ''Now's The Time'' to deep, but still playable, contemporary tunes, like Mike Stern's ''These Times.'' Also featured are some great beginning trad jazz arrangements of ''Bill Bailey'' and ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'', including separate clarinet and trombone obligato parts to get that authentic Dixieland feeling!In addition to the tunes and educational material, there are also fun and informative introductory texts for each section. These short histories of each era of jazz introduce both the flavor of the era, and a discussion of the musical innovations that each one brought to the evolution of jazz.The end result is a multi-dimensional teaching tool that will keep band directors and their students smiling all year long! / Instruments En Bb

10 Easy Jazz Duets, written by John La Porta with Greg Nielsen, contains jazz duets in a variety of styles. This unique book is compatible for performance with all instruments and is published with a CD of hip rhythm section backgrounds. In addition, the duets can be performed with a live rhythm section using the chord symbols provided in the C and Bass Clef editions. Not only is the book great for individual jazz practice for improvisation, articulation and phrasing, but it provides interaction with another musician or group with no limitation on the instrumentation. The duets are also very useful to the educator who may find it difficult to get a full band together.

Jazz Play-Along Volume 40-Suitable for use with all Bb Eb and C instruments the Jazz Play-Along series is the ultimate learning tool for jazz musicians. Featuring lead sheets and melody cues this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. The included CD features play-along recordings with split-track choices ensuring that the selection of classic jazz tunes is perfectly fitted to you and your instrument. For study:Each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection Professional rhythm tracks Choruses for soloing Removable Bass part Removable Piano part For performance:Each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) Additional choruses for soloing (choose to play more solos instead of playing the melody) This volume includes 10 Latin jazz favourites including Black Orpheus Call Me Dindi Little Boat A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) Only Trust Your Heart The Shadow Of Your Smile Song Of The Jet (Samba Do Aviao) Watch What Happens and Wave.