1. Initial Level Teacher's Book and CD-A comprehensive guide to teaching Jazz to Ensembles the Jazz Works series is an exciting collection of jazz repertoire for classrooms and concerts at three progressive levels - Initial Intermediate and Advanced. This Teacher?s Book and CD accompanies the Initial level book and contains Notes on improvisation and jazz style A step-by-step guide to directing and rehearsing a jazz ensemble A booklet of detailed performance and rehearsal notes on each of the eight pieces in the Score Edition. The CD features complete performances of each piece by a professional jazz ensemble. The Score Edition contains the fullscore a set of four solo parts and parts for a rhythm section. These may be photocopied allowing for flexible ensemble playing. This is an all-embracing series for jazz ensembles full of useful advice on how to teach jazz. Well laid out with clear explanations and illustrations these books contain everything to help directors teachers and performers get the best out of the pieces.  

Approaching The Standards is an innovative user-friendly approach to jazz improvisation. Designed for the individual or group each of the three volumes of this play-along CD contains eight classic jazz tunes. Each volume features a jazz group demo recorded by top pros in a typical jazz gig setting clearly written musical examples jazz vocabulary transcription opportunities informative composer insight a glossary of jazz terms and a useful discography.

3. Advanced Level Teacher's Book and CD-The Teacher's Book and CD for Level 3 Advanced. Contains notes on improvisation and jazz style and a step-by-step guide to directing and rehearsing a jazz ensemble. CD containing complete performances of each piece by a professional jazz ensemble.

This collection of short exercises is a follow-up to last year’s popular Warm-ups for Beginning Jazz Ensemble. Covering a wide variety of styles the exercises include Chorale Ballad Laid Back Killer Bop Gimme Samba Dat and Get Funky. Detailed program notes help you get the most out of your group. An excellent resource to put in the folders and use any time you need it!

Play and Learn is an exciting method to learn the art of jazz improvisation -- for individual study or classroom use with an entire jazz ensemble. Through the use of recorded jazz tracks (70 on the CDs included), sequenced concepts involving exercises, licks and mini-charts, plus structured lessons, a student can acquire improvisation skills.

A complete book of jazz technique studies and exercises for all instrumentalists. This text deals with many technique issues jazz musicians encounter in the real world, including chord scale exercises, motif exercises, finger busters, extended motif exercises, and ideas for improvisation.

More than a pattern book, this 80-page spiral-bound book lays out the theory behind the use of pentatonic scales in jazz, and follows with 12 pages of transcribed solos and 40 pages of exercises. Still a favorite after 14 years, this book has become a standard in the field.