Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble ; Ronald Carter, conductor. Recorded at the Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, May 19-21, 2008. Compact discs. Booklet with notes on performers in English (p. [4]) inserted in container. "This CD set contains premier recordings of 28 of the most significant works ever composed for developing and intermediate jazz band. For more information about each piece, as well as conducting insights, refer to the book Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz, Volume 1, compiled and edited by Richard Miles and Ronald Carter, with additional contributions from Wynton Marsalis, Ronald McCurdy, Ron Modell, and Reginald Thomas, published by GIA."--Container.
Contents:
Disc 1. Developing. Afro blue / Santamaria ; Sweeney -- Alamode / Fuller ; Murtha -- All of me / Simons ; Marks ; Holmes -- Autumn leaves / Kosma ; Blair -- Baytrail shuffle / Schneider -- Blue note special / Tomaro -- Bye bye blackbird / Henderson ; Dixon ; Rivello -- Keys to the heart / Neeck -- Maiden voyage / Hancock ; Taylor -- Maximum velocity / Michaels -- May's way / Jarvis. Disc 2. Developing. One more for the count / Lewis -- Samantha / Nestico -- Soft winds / Henderson ; Sweeney -- Sugar / Turrentine ; Taylor -- Una mas / Dorham ; Murtha -- The woogie / Gordon -- Yardbird suite / Parker ; Sweeney -- Intermediate. Basically blues / Wilson -- Body and soul / Heyman ; Sour ; Eyton ; Green ; Stone. Disc 3. Intermediate. Cobblestones / Berg -- Filthy mcnasty / Silver ; LaBarbera -- Footprints / Shorter ; Harris -- Georgia on my mind / Carmichael ; Barduhn -- Le belleclaire blues / Morrison -- My foolish heart / Washington ; Young ; Rivello -- St. Thomas / Rollins ; Taylor -- Work song / Adderley ; Keezer.
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