Format : Sheet music
SKU: AP.1-ADV14260
ISBN 9783892210498. UPC: 805095142600. English.
A clear and practical step-by-step approach to chromaticism, line playing and voice leading. The audio download contains 23 play-along tracks (most of them played in two tempos), based on standard chord progressions, performed by a professional rhythm section, featuring Renato Chicco on piano, Dave Santoro on bass, and Adam Nussbaum on drums. In addition Jerry demonstrates various exercises and approaches on tenor saxophone. Chord changes are included for C concert, B flat and E flat instruments. Jerry Bergonzi is a highly respected jazz educator/musician who lives and teaches in the Boston area. Over many years his Inside Improvisation system has proven to be tremendously successful.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14827
UPC: 805095148275. English.
Single and group use. Easy Funk Play-Along by Ed Harlow contains 10 catchy riffs and tunes for beginners! You can play the melodies along to the fantastic play-along tracks, provided by The Boston Horns. The background parts and rhythmic hits can be played by your teacher or up to three more friends. For group use, combine the editions for flute, clarinet, alto sax, trumpet, tenor sax, and trombone at will, and set up your rhythm section with additional parts available for guitar, piano, electric bass, and drum set. For beginning improvisers. Each piece has a written solo which can be played to the play-along tracks or with a live rhythm section. If improvising is new to you, this is the ideal book to work with. Learn the pentatonic scale provided for each piece and your solos will sound great!
SKU: AP.1-ADV14828
UPC: 805095148282. English.
SKU: PR.114419080
ISBN 9781491114216. UPC: 680160671595. 9 x 12 inches.
Composing for Boston Music Viva on a Fromm Foundation grant, Melinda Wagner drewinspiration from an astounding video of an industrious little pufferfish and his sand artistry.Working 24 hours a day, he carves out a beautiful medallion of swirls and ridges, in the hopeof attracting a sweetheart. Wagner has written, “I was so moved by the careful preparation,determination, patience, and artistry of this little fish, who has no guarantees of finding true love.The phenomenon reminded me very much of the act of composing – of creating something outof nothing, with few guarantees.â€.Several years ago, a friend shared the most marvelous video with me. In it, an industrious little puffer fish begins to prepare an elaborate work of artistry – his “etchings†– in hopes of attracting a sweetheart. Using only his fins, he prepares the “canvas†(the sandy ocean floor), and for the next week, working 24 hours a day, he carves a beautiful medallion of swirls and ridges. Shell pieces and pebbles are collected to adorn the masterpiece. And he waits.I was so moved by the careful preparation, determination, patience, and artistry of this little fish who has no guarantees of finding true love. The phenomenon reminded me very much of the act of composing – of creating something out of nothing with few guarantees. Rather than attempting to capture any action programmatically, I tried instead to express, in the abstract, the sense of anticipation, lovelorn hopefulness – and the optimism of a tiny, unsung hero. [The puffer fish is a member of the Chordata phylum.]-Melinda WagnerAugust 2018.
