For the saxophone player with little or no experience of improvising jazz. Contains examples and tunes in the styles of Charlie Parker John coltrane and Johnny Hodges. Professional insights into chords blues and specialeffects.

Expression is the essence of jazz improvisation and the starting point of ornamentation and creativity. As one of the lead instruments of Jazz the saxophone is often required to tackle a solo melody. Every tip trick and techniqueis provided here giving you an arsenal of musical tactics to set your solo playing on fire. With this DVD from the Berklee Workshop series you will develop your own style as you work with the building blocks of articulationand expression to craft your personal interpretation of a song. Featured lessons include aspects of vibrato articulation dynamics effects pitch and much more. With these tools your solos will become filled with characterand nuance as you develop your own style. Berklee Professor Larry Monroe will help you go beyond simply playing notes and start crafting your musical expression.

The Voggenreiter Saxophone Wall Chart offers loads of useful information in a compact space. Here the saxophonist will find essential tips in clear large print including exercises for developing intonation breath control andtone quality a versatile ?Universal Exercise? for developing dynamics articulation and vibrato plus a comprehensive easy to read fingering chart. An indispensable tool for every saxophonist! Large size DIN A1 35 x24'(59.4 x 84cm) landscape format flat/rolled.

Music Minus One Tenor or Alto Saxophone-For Saxes Only is designed to give the jazz saxophonist (or clarinet or trumpet player) an opportunity to play with a top-flight sax section. Due to the comparative scarcity of big bands today this is the one area in which young players sorely lack experience. While working with this album you will encounter the problems of sight-reading intonation phrasing vibrato unisons subtone and more. These are the same challenges one would face playing with legendary greats Ellington Basie or Goodman. If you haven't had the opportunity to work in a big band playing with this album should give you an idea of that special thrill one gets when the blend is perfect and everybody'sswinging together! Includes printed solo parts for E-flat and B-flat instruments and a compact disc featuring complete recordings (with alto sax as the solo instrument) and a second performance of the accompaniments only. Performed by Bob Wilber tenor sax Hilton Jefferson alto sax Accompaniment: The Bob Wilber All-Stars: Bob Wilber tenor sax Hilton Jefferson alto sax Jerome Richardson alto sax Seldon Powell tenor sax Danny Bank baritone sax Dick Wellstood piano George Duvivier bass Panama Francis drums

The handy teacher accompaniment to this great saxophone tutor series. The Super Sax Book 2 - Teacher Book helps guide the pupil with step-by-step musical and technical information which is clearlypresented shows the pupil everything they need to know and allows their teacher to play-along for a fun lesson.

Studies for style and technique is a volume of twenty studies by Hyacinthe Klosé. Written for upper-intermediate / advanced players this edition has been revised and adapted for Saxophone by Paul Jeanjean. These studies are a must-have to maintain and keep developing a good breathing technique as well as some rapidity and good style while playing. Hyacinthe Klosé (1808-1880) is a French Clarinet player composer and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris and Paul Jeanjean (1874-1928) a French composer known for his Clarinet compositions.

Alto saxophone and piano arrangement of the tune made famous by Terry Wogan.Grade: 3

50 Etudes Faciles Et Progressives (50 Easy And Progressive Studies) for Saxophone (or Oboe) is an excellent collection of studies composed by Guy Lacour. These studies are designed to improve your technical control and stylistic awareness and are designed so that they progressively become more difficult introducing you to further and more advanced concepts.Volume 2 contains studies 26-50 in the collection.

For Tenor Sax And Piano-Made famous by the BBC's television series 'The Onedin Line'. Tenor saxophone and piano.Grade: 3-4

7 Great Tunes-Old English folk song made famous by Simon and Garfunkel. Alto saxophone and piano.

for Soprano- or Tenor Saxophone and Piano-This traditional dance has been given the modern treatment that is sure to be popular with both performers and audiences alike.

for Alto Saxophone and Piano-An exciting piece that will be a hit in any concert programme.

A Snazzy Jazzy Caracter-A delightful original piece in a jazzy style for solo saxophone

18 studies written to develop familiarity with the main types of scales and arpeggios in Jazz. More enjoyable than the scales themselves James Rae has deliberately chosen keys that give a comfortable user-friendly introduction to the various tonalities. Each section describes a particular type of scale and includes studies based on it. Included are: the major scale the dorian mode the mixolydian mode the minor pentatonic scale the jazz melodic minor scale the blues scale the chromatic scale the whole tone scale and the diminished scale. Studies in each of these volumes have been set as an alternative to scales for all grades on the Jazz Flute Jazz Clarinetand Jazz Saxophone syllabuses of the new Trinity Guildhall Examinations 2007.