First Jazz Standards: Guitar Solo: Mixed Songbook

Media Type : DVD Musical Genre : Jazz Series : Mel Bay Records Number of pages : 128 Featuring: Jimmy Bruno, guitar; Chris Farr, tenor sax; Daniel Monaghan, drums; Lucas Brown, organ and keyboard bass Jimmy Bruno is one of the finest jazz guitarists of our time. From the first note of every performance he captures audiences with his electricity and presence. This most recent performance, filmed live at Chris' Café in Philadelphia, PA, presents the unique opportunity to witness Jimmy in an intimate jazz setting, while playing to a home town crowd. This new DVD features eight jazz standards performed live by Jimmy Bruno with a tenor sax/drums/organ quartet and includes an up-close and personal interview with the master himself.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Jazz Number of pages : 88 The Martin Taylor Guitar Method offers you the chance to study with one of the giants of jazz guitar. Hailed by guitar legend Chet Atkins as One of the greatest and most impressive guitarists in the world today... and celebrated by New York's Jazz Times as Europe's finest guitarist, Martin shares the secrets of his style for the first time in this amazing tutor. Learn how Martin creates solo guitar arrangements of jazz standards via a series of progressive studies aimed at introducing guitarists of intermediate level and beyond to the world of arranging and solo performance. All music examples are transcribed in standard notation with tablature and played by Martin himself on the accompanying CD. You won't get a better chance to study with one of the instrument's true masters!

Jimmy Bruno is one of the finest jazz guitarists of our time. From the first note of every performance he captures audiences with his electricity and presence.This Volume 2 DVD of the most recent performance filmed live at Chris' Café in Philadelphia PA presents the unique opportunity to witness Jimmy in an intimate jazz setting while playing to a home town crowd.Volume 2 features seven jazz standards performed live byJimmy Bruno with a Tenor Sax/Drums/Organ quartet and includes an up-close and personal interview with the master himself.Featuring: Jimmy Bruno Guitar; Chris Farr Tenor sax; Daniel Monaghan Drums; Lucas Brown Organ and Keyboard Bass.

The 50 Walking Basslines comprised in this coursebook are aimed at bassists at double bassists and first and foremost at the jazz enthusiasts among them. They will most certainly experience a whole heap of pleasure with the playing materials provided here.All 50 Walking Basslines are based on chord progressions that recall some of the greatest jazz standards of all time: Autumn Leaves Someday My Prince Will Come Giant Steps Blues For Alice Anthropology Blue Bossa Stella By Starlight So What Take Five Black Orpheus My Funny Valentine All The Things You Are In A Sentimental Mood Satin Doll and Take The ATrain to name but a few.To teach you all the particularities of the 50 Walking Basslines presented here and eventually enable you to piece some together yourself an entire chapter of this coursebook has been dedicated to the fundamental principles procedures and techniques behind this type of bassline. You therewith have a realistic chance of becoming an expert on the subject.For its part the MP3 CD is composed of as many backing tracks as there are walking basslines in the coursebook; these can be played along to at two different tempi: the intended tempo (actual playing speed) and the rehearsal tempo (slower speed). On the backing track at actual playing speed the Bass is only present during the first round then it disappears yielding the floor to you. The backing tracks provided here are of proper length (about 5 minutes each which sums up to almost 6h of musical practice). This means that you have enough time at your disposal to practice under best conditions enough time to thoroughly internalize these 50 walking basslines and hence compose your own ones.

Learn 12 MORE great Gypsy Swing/Hot Club standards (see song list below left) in the style of Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli and The Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Just like with the original set you\'ll play along with a great Gypsy Swing Rhythm Section and learn chords comping and melodies then let the band back you up as you practice chords and soloing. You play all the leads while the band backs you up. Beginners can practice basic skills while more advanced players can hone their improvisation chops each at their own individual learning pace. You\'ll learn moveable closed position swing/jazz chords and practice playing them with the swing guitarcomp. We\'ve also included information on basic chord substitution along with exercises on transposing melodies and chord progressions to different keys. These are essential skills for any swing/jazz musician. You\'ll also explore some basic chord melody passages! Book/CD set includes standard notation tablature chord diagrams lyrics playing tips and more. Each song is presented on the CD at slow and regular speed. First youâ??ll hear the melody played on guitar at a slow speed with just guitar backup then it\'s repeated at regular speed with the band. The back up band is a classic Hot Club- style rhythm section with two acoustic rhythm guitars string bass. Songs may be repeated at slow or regular speed as many times as you wish in order to perfect phrases melodies and solos in a band context.

This comprehensive step-by-step guide will get you soloing like a true Jazzer by providing a complete understanding of chords scales and solos based around four popular standards.Whether you are new to Jazz playing or are looking for a way to progress from your current level Sokolow's approach will have plenty to offer you to lift your improvising and help you understand the potential in these great tunes. Each of the four tunes has a different level of difficulty offering a choice of starting points to suit your own experience.Song 1: First position chordsSong 2: Moveable chords and a more developed harmonic vocabularySong 3: Substitutionsand re-harmonisationSong 4: An improvisational chord solo over a given set of changes.Along the way you'll find a generous level of guidance and support. Furthermore an accompanying CD features all the backing tracks and demonstrations you could possibly need.This is the ideal choice to develop your Jazz vocabulary as well as your improvising confidence - no matter what your playing level.

This is the second volume of thirteen standards arranged for solo Guitar by Barry Galbraith. Facilitating the learning experience all chord symbols left-hand fingering and tablature are included. There is also acompanion audio download available online recorded by John Purse.Jim Hall in his review of the first volume (Just Jazz Guitar magazine August 2002) said 'The book starts simply and clearly and movestoward fascinating complexity and maturity - a musical life experience trip. If you don't take it I will.' Appropriate for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. Audio download available online.

Recorded in concert at the Smithsonian Jazz Café - November 11 2005 Vic Juris and Corey Christiansen two of the first guitarists on Mel Bay Records joined bassist Bill Moring and drummer Tim Horner on this remarkable set ofstandards and originals.Awakening Corey's first CD as well as the first release on Mel Bay Records was hailed by jazz critics and radio programmers as an unusually impressive debut recording. Widely recognized as abrilliant musician and composer Vic has worked with an extensive roster of jazz legends since the early 1970s. A Second Look his first CD on Mel Bay Records was released in April of 2005 to great critical acclaim.Assenior editor for Mel Bay Publications Corey was given the opportunity to produce Vic's CD. In the process they discovered their musical styles compliment each other so well that it was only natural for them to record together. Live At The Smithsonian Jazz Café clearly demonstrates the wisdom of that decision.

The Pursuit is Jamie Cullum's first solo album in four years his fifth record in a genre defying career that has entertained an ever-growing fanbase across the world.The songs are wonderfully eclectic as always mixing modern influences with his love of jazz and timeless standards.This book contains all the songs from the special edition album arranged for Piano and Voice with Guitar chords along with four pages of colour photographs.