Jazz Standards with Strings (2 CD Set)

Intermediate/Advanced. When Charlie Parker made his famous with strings recordings, jazz musicians realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their own creativity. Legendary players soon followed suit, making a with strings album almost an essential rite of passage. Here are 10 beautiful standards arranged by jazz great and award-winning arranger Lennie Niehaus. Rhythm Section: Steve Allee (p) Tyrone Wheeler (b) Steve Davis (d) Peter McHugh (Violins) Alan Oldfield (Synth Strings) Includes: # I Cover The Waterfront # Fools Rush In # You Go To My Head # September In The Rain # You're My Everything # You and The Night and The Music # Autumn In New York # When Your Lover Has Gone # Namely You # Lover, Come Back To Me

To Chords-This lesson is designed to set you on the road to playing chordal swing and jazz guitar with the freedom of an accomplished improvisor. It can help you hold a large repertoire of chords in your head without recourse to ?chord dictionaries? or other written material and to then learn how these chords go together into sequences commonly found in swing and jazz standards and other music of the past century and beyond. Material covered includes:The simple ?240 chord? exercise: 3 minutes a day to develop a great chord repertoire. The five stringsets for 4 note chord voicings. The 3 basic chord families; how they work with eachother and how the art of ?chord substitution? provides an infinite amount of variability. The 3 most common systems of chord progression and their variations. How to start applying this material to actual tunes.