Mark Vega s Jazz Solo Series for Flute 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 ATrain and There Will Never Be Another You. Includes an easy version of the solo followed by a more difficult one. Recordings of the choruses of the above pieces repeated for convenient practicing. A selected discography of Mark s favourite Jazz albums featuring great Jazz soloists.
