Essential elements for jazz ensemble : a comprehensive method for jazz style and improvisation. Alto saxophone / by Mike Steinel ; managing editor, Michael Sweeney.
Jazz is -- The jazz ensemble -- Improvisation -- The rhythm section -- The basics of jazz style -- Performance spotlight -- Early jazz -- Louis Armstrong -- Performance spotlight -- The swing era -- Duke Ellington -- Count Basie -- Performance spotlight -- Charlie Parker -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Performance spotlight -- Jazz fusion -- Miles Davis -- Performance spotlight. Disc 1: Exercises 1-59 -- Tuning notes on track 60. Disc 2: Exercises 60-121.
Summary:
Designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1-2 years playing experience (but no prior experience playing jazz), Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble is great for individual or classroom use. Teaches the basics of swing style in a step-by-step approach, using well-known songs; Improvisation made easy, starting with simple two-measure phrases; Scales and basic theory introduced in an easy-to-understand format; Play-along tracks for every exercise included; Seven full band arrangements; Sample solos; Jazz history and people. - Publisher.
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