The Best of Easy Jazz - CD: Jazz Ensemble: Score and Parts

15 Selections from the Easy Jazz Ensemble Series-Alto Saxophone 1 part to fifteen superb selections all expertly arranged for Young Jazz Ensembles.

15 Selections from the Easy Jazz Ensemble Series-Trumpet 4 part to Fifteen superb selections all expertly arranged for Young Jazz Ensembles.

These exciting new jazz numbers will give starter bands the encouragement and assurance they need to sound really great. It's not necessary to use all the parts just choose the ones that best suit your players. Thereare flexible parts for C B Flat and E Flat instruments Piano and Bass. Each tune has a melody line for C B Flat or E Flat instruments. Most tunes have some improvisation starter notes which can be used throughout thepiece to create solos and give confidence to beginner improvisers. On the included backing track CD the backing accompaniments for each piece are repeated four times to allow for optimal improvised solos.

Vocal Feature-Another outstanding jazz vocal with jazz ensemble! This chart is totally flexible--it's written in two keys! The higher key usually works for your male vocalist and the lower key for your female vocalist; if not just switch. It's that easy! In addition to the vocal solo this swinging Rogers and Hart song has a trombone jazz solo (or optional scat vocal solo) and written written ensemble horn lines for the vocalist both great opportunities to integrate your vocalist with the ensemble. Dave Wolpe thinks of everything and he writes some of the best charts in the music business. Very effective! (Female key (low): G below middle C to third line B treble clef -- Male key(high): B-flat below middle C to fourth line D treble clef)

Made famous by the Count Basie band as well as countless other jazz artists bring a bit of history to your young players with this familiar standard. This easy arrangement includes a nice mix of unison passages with full-soundingensemble scoring. Medium swing at its best!

Henry Mancini was a master of melodies and this is one of his best. Rick's easy arrangement is in 3/4 and features skillful scoring and rich harmonies.

Stan Kenton's signature version is probably the best-known treatment of this Spanish classic. Mike's easy arrangement draws upon this version while keeping the ranges and rhythms well within the reach of beginning groups. A real powerhouse!

Intermediate Jazz Conception is another addition to the popular series of etude books created by Jim Snidero featuring some of the finest jazz musicians in the world. This book/cd set includes 15 etudes based on standards modal tunes and blues demonstrated by Jim Snidero on alto sax with the incredibly swinging rhythm section of Dave Hazeltine on piano Peter Washington on Bass and Kenny Washington on Drums. New to Intermediate Jazz Conception is an appendix dedicated to style and improvisation including a scales syllabus nomenclature and over 95 lines and ideas extracted for the study of improvisation! The recording features two separate versions of each etude; one withthe soloist and rhythm section and one with the rhythm section only. Hear how the soloist performs the etudes play with or without the soloist on the cd and learn about both jazz style and improvisation from some of the best. Other series available by Jim Snidero: Easy Jazz Conception and Jazz Conception.A talented musician musical advocate and educator ... a genuinely significant figure in jazz composition Penguin Guide to JazzA master musician Down Beat Magazine

16 Famous Jazz Ballads-Let yourself be enchanted by the sound of the best known jazz ballads. Passionate sensuous and warm - the flute is just perfect for longing melancholy sounds.In the new volume of the 'Schott Flute Lounge' series Dirko Juchem presents wonderful jazzy pieces - an absolute must for all flutists! The melodious and easy-to-play arrangements are all included on the accompanying CD performed and recorded by the author himself. The CD also contains backing tracks of all pieces.