Smooth Jazz Classics

Grammy winner for Song of the Year 2000! Santana is back and he is hot. Arranged by Mike Lewis for your grade III level players, SMOOTH is transformed into an ideal vehicle for jazz ensemble. The deep Latin groove accents your saxes and brass, and the rhythm section lays down a classic Santana style groove. Add the trumpet solo (written out) and the simple percussion part and you'll be off and running. The Latin straight-eighth note feel is easy to teach, and rehearsal time will be minimal. With these Latin-rock horn lines, the band will be all over this chart. Gotta have this one!

Swing Classics For Jazz Ensemble presents fifteen complete arrangements for the young Jazz orchestra the ideal choice for school Big Bands and Concert Bands.These swingtime standards are a guaranteed hit for any concert performance with solo opportunities for the full range of lead instruments and suave arrangements that allow everyone in the band to shine. The songs include the Glenn Miller favourite In The Mood the silky smooth Ellington swing of Satin Doll and much more.

Swing Classics For Jazz Ensemble presents fifteen complete arrangements for the young Jazz orchestra the ideal choice for school Big Bands and Concert Bands.These swingtime standards are a guaranteed hit for any concert performance with solo opportunities for the full range of lead instruments and suave arrangements that allow everyone in the band to shine. The songs include the Glenn Miller favourite In The Mood the silky smooth Ellington swing of Satin Doll and much more.

Series: Jazz Vocal Series Category: Jazz Ensemble Format: Conductor Score & Parts Instrument: Jazz Ensemble Level: 3 (Medium) Voicing: Vocal Feature A wonderful feature for your female vocalist-smooth, sultry and romantic! You can almost hear Billy Holiday herself singing this Gershwin gem brilliantly arranged by Dave Wolpe. Featuring a modest vocal range of only an octave, easy brass ranges and a sweet written trumpet solo, this one is definitely a winner. Ideal for concert, show or dance, the audience will enjoy this well-known jazz vocal classic. Optional substitute vocal part written for tenor saxophone. (Vocal in A-flat)

Jazz Play-Along Volume 155-For use with all B-flat E-flat Bass Clef and C instruments the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (nomelody) • Additional choruses for soloing.

Instantly recognizable by all here is one of the all-time great movie themes in a masterful arrangement for young players. Paul does a great job of capturing the authentic sound of Mancini's classic from the familiar bass line smooth tutti ensemble passages and solo section for tenor sax or trumpet. It doesn't get any better than this!

Classic Ellington swinger! Gordon's medium tempo chart features the saxes at the start and them lets the ensemble carry it and build to the Alto solo. This one goes down smooth.

Recorded in 1970 and becoming one of the signature songs of The Carpenters John Berry gives this tuneful classic a fresh take using an upbeat Latin groove and some nice harmonic substitutions. This smooth-sounding arrangement isan appealing way to revisit this well-known pop hit from the past.

Cool syncopation funky riffs and smooth stylish tunes. A vibrant collecton of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles so take a break from the classics and get into the groove as you cruise from blues to rock to jazz.

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. With the continued worldwide success of the book series Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves that I co-authored with sax player Frank Villafranca based on compositions that we wrote for our band The Super Groovers, I have now authored this series of Smooth Jazz books for the following instruments: Piano/Keyboards, Guitar/Bass, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Tenor and Alto Saxes, Trumpet and Trombone. Smooth Jazz covers a wide variety of different styles and I have combined elements of Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Latin, GospeL Funk and R

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. With the continued worldwide success of the book series Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves that I co-authored with sax player Frank Villafranca based on compositions that we wrote for our band The Super Groovers, I have now authored this series of Smooth Jazz books for the following instruments: Piano/Keyboards, Guitar/Bass, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Tenor and Alto Saxes, Trumpet and Trombone. Smooth Jazz covers a wide variety of different styles and I have combined elements of Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Latin, GospeL Funk and R

Jazz Soloing Strategies for Guitar is a study of essential and innovative approaches to jazz improvisation. Designed for blues and rock guitarists with a desire to broaden their musical vocabulary, this book shows you important concepts for playing great jazz solos. Eight full-length solos in a variety of jazz styles, ranging from classic standards and Gypsy jazz to Latin, modal, and smooth jazz, are covered in great detail. The chord progressions are analyzed, as well as the techniques, structural characteristics, and material used to improvise over them. This book takes an intelligent and thorough approach to shed new light on jazz guitar soloing and provides you with fresh strategies to apply to your own playing. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book and for playing along is included.