The Bluesier Side of Jazz by Andrew D. Gordon 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 (including himself) 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 improvised solo from the phrases they havelearnt. 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./ Recueil / Flûte Traversière

Suite à la méthode Best-seller de Jazz pour les flûte, les ' Elaboration Jazz Technique pour les flûte ' aidera le joueur intermédiaire et prendre leurs compétences jazz à un nouveau niveau. Les 22 morceaux sont écrits dans une variété de styles, y compris les blues, swing, Nouvelle-Orléans, ragtime, Valse jazz, bossa nova, samba, salsa, calypso, reggae et Afrique du Sud. Un accent particulier est donné à aider l'étudiant à improviser sur des séquences de corde, tels que la progression II-V-I. Des effets idiomatiques comme le vibrato, subtone, glissandi et ' flexion ' notes sont traitées. Plusieurs nouvelles échelles sont introduits, y compris le ton ensemble et échelles a diminué, et une section dédiée aux patrons contient de nombreuses idées pour pratiquer dans toutes les clés de douze. Une section rythmique superbe fournit le soutien pour toutes les pièces et les exercices sur le CD qui l'accompagne. / Flûte Traversière

Step into the spotlight and play along with the superb backing tracks on the two specially recorded CDs. Ten of the best hits from Elton John arranged for Flute. / Flûte Traversière

Take centre stage and play along with a live rhythm section featuring Bass, Drums and Piano This collection features 24 great songs, from Jazz and Blues standards through Soul and Gospel favourites and lively Swing and Latin numbers. The authentic CD backing tracks will help you achieve a more professional performance. What's included: Printed music - 24 pieces in melody line arrangements Two audio CDs - Professional 'soundalike' performances of every piece featuring a live band on CD 1, plus backing tracks to play along with on CD 2. / Flûte Traversière

This edition is only available in German. / Méthode / Recueil / Flûte Traversière