My Blue Violin - 18 Swinging and Jazzy Pieces

18 Swinging and Jazzy Pieces. My blue violin draws both musicians and listeners into the world of swing and jazz. Fast cheerful pieces alternate with pensive ones. Titles like My Cat and Me or Die Radtour [The Bicycle Ride] make the poetry of small things resound. Like a musical diary, they make us notice the beautiful things in everyday life. The pieces are of easy to intermediate difficulty and suitable for performances as well as music lessons.

Par ASCH GLENN / REINER DAVID. For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a unique opportunity for a creative and personal statement as a musician. This book presents a broad sampling of the styles of major jazz violinists, from blues to bebop, from jug band to jazzgrass, from big-band swing to Texas swing. Tunes represent the styles of Stéphane Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, Mark O'Connor, Benny Thomasson, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Darol Anger. Helpful jazz theory sections with exercises alternate with tunes that show how the theory works inpractice. This book has two objectives: first, to present a broad, roughly chronological sampling of major jazz violinists and the styles associated with them, and secondly, to introduce the basics of jazz theory as applied to the violin. Whether consciously or intuitively, through critical listening or by practicing jazz patterns and exercises, the more knowledge of jazz you acquire, the better you will be able to think about the content of your playing without being bound by technical and theoretical aspects. This anthology was written to help provide that foundation. Interspersed with pragmatic jazz theory lessons, you'll find 28 original tunes in the style of various jazz violin luminaries. The book ends with an extensive discography of recommended jazz recordings with a violin focus. Mandolinists as well as other instrumentalists will find a wealth of useful information in this outstanding collection. Delightful broadcast-quality recordings of the repertoire are available online. Includes access to online audio. Written for intermediate to advanced violinists. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Jazz / Recueil / Violon

Par RAE JAMES. These contrasting pieces in the jazz/swing idiom specially written by James Rae for saxophone players of modest ability provide interesting material for both practice and performance. The technical demands and accompaniments have been kept deliberately simple to encourage other young players to act in this capacity. The 'Jazzy Series' of jazzy and relaxing pieces available for piano, flute, clarinet, saxophone, recorder and violin attempts to provide players with experience of the syncopated patterns of Jazz, Rock and Pop Music./ Recueil / Saxophone Alto ou Ténor et Piano