Bebop Classics: Piano: Instrumental Collection

Jazz Play-Along Volume 48-Take your playing back in time to the early days of Bebop Jazz and discover the sounds and styles that made stars of Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker and countless others. The Bebop pioneers stretched the limits of Jazz improvisation introducing new tonalities an ever-increasing harmonic vocabulary and opportunities for groundbreaking virtuosity. Bud Powell Thelonius Monk and others began to take the chord sequences of swingtime favourites and us them as a basis for extended improvisations freeing the performer from the restrictions of the big band.This set contains a versatile Play-along CD for improvisation study and performance and with a choice of backingtracks (A split track with melody removable bass and piano parts and a full stereo rhythm section) and easy to read authentic and accurate lead sheets players of all instruments will enjoy these terrific pieces.