The Kings of Swing

These Grade 1-3 pieces will add a real swing to your Christmas festivities - and your players will love them. Fabulous arrangements of favourite Christmas carols including optional second and third parts for ensemble playing anda demo and play-along CD. Each book contains jazzy interpretations of ten favourite carols including Kings Swing! (We Three Kings) Three Swingin' Ships (I Saw Three Ships) and Distant Sleighs (JingleBells).

5 up-beat carols-Sing 'n' Swing: Five Up-Beat Carols for 2-part voices with optional percussion. Music by Christopher Norton and words by Richard Everett. The five carols are: Child of the Evening; The Inn-Keeper's Carol; Rise Up and Sing; Let's Go to Bethlehem; Mighty Kings.

Ces arrangements ont été inspirés par le CD de Bill Cunliffe Cette période de l'année, contenant des interprétations de jazz librement improvisé de chants sans âge. La musique est remplie avec de nombreuses influences --- du bebop et le swing à la musique baroque, l'impressionnisme et le jazz moderne. / Piano

Tunes for Beginning Improvisers. The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser. Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano voicings, guitar chord diagrams, sample bass lines and useful scales for improvisation are included with each tune, for easy reference. Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop's summer jazz camps. It works! Each song will sound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos. A great resource for music teachers and band directors. / Instruments Clé De Fa

The Kikapust Choral Series offers choirs an extensive choice of close-harmony a cappella arrangements. All of our arrangers / composers Jonathan Rathbone Ben Parry & Mark Williams were long-standing members ofthe Swingle Singers.

The Kikapust Choral Series offers choirs an extensive choice of close-harmony a cappella arrangements. All of our arrangers / composers Jonathan Rathbone Ben Parry & Mark Williams were long-standing members ofthe Swingle Singers.

Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play from popular piano sheet music and lead sheets, and be ready to play in a band! Alfred Music's exclusive TNT 2 software lets you customize the audio tracks for practice. Use it to slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys. Features: *The easiest way to learn to play rock keyboard *Step-by-step explanation on how to read music *Learn basics like how to sit at the keyboard and proper hand position *Easy-to-understand approach to scales and chords *Music examples in the style of Billy Joel, The Kingsmen, Coldplay, Ben Folds Five, and more.*Essential chord chart with all the major and minor chords for the right hand / Clavier

Following the success of the first volume in Nikki Iles's acclaimed Jazz series this collection features sophisticated new Jazz arrangements of Christmas classics including 'Let it snow' 'Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' 'Sussex Carol' 'We three kings' and 'Past three o'clock'. The expertly recorded CD by Nikki Iles helps with interpretation and developing a real sense of swing. With fully notated rhythms grooves and improvisations  Jazz on a Winter's Night 2 is the perfect collection for pianists looking for that authentic sound.

Graham Buckland-33 exciting and varied arrangements 80 pages.All songs compatible with the SATB edition (BA 7574)12 spirituals also compatible with the flexible instrumentation edition (BA 6699)This edition offers exciting arrangements that have never before appeared in print written in an authentic idiom for three-part women's or girls' choir with piano accompaniment. The spirituals can also be performed without piano with the lead melody always in the upper voice.All the arrangements can be combined with the already published edition 64 Spirituals a cappella (BA 7574) which is for SATB. To give you an example: a children's choir working with our newedition can appear with a mixed chorus that has already mastered the SATB settings.In addition twelve of the arrangements can be enhanced by instrumental accompaniments. These are to be found in the Spirituals edition (BA 6699) of our ComboCom series which offers flexible instrumental settings.Contents:Deep river O happy day Joshua King of kings Motherless child Nobody knows O sinner man Swing low sweet chariot Wade in the water Were you there When the saints and twenty-two other popular as well as less well-known spirituals.The author:Graham Buckland is the music director of Regensburg University Germany. Before then he held various leading positions at theatres and colleges in Germany and the Czech Republic. He has founded and headed a number of ensembles demonstrating a very broad musical range that also finds expression in his compositions and publications for Chorus Piano and Orchestra.

With Online Audio and Video-Frank Briggs' Complete Modern Drum Set offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher planewhile improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation displaced beats polyrhythms and more. Briggs states 'the more you know about different styles and theinner workings of time and phrasing the better your ability to contribute to the music at hand. The clearer you see the parallels or the common threads that tie these concepts together the more freedom you will have to expressyourself.' The music is challenging and suitable for the advanced drummer. Styles include odd meters metric modulation tuplets funk Latin mid and up-tempo swing and fusion. This set includes access to onlineaudio. which is a play-along for Drums with full stereo versions of the music charts included in the book. Sketch Electric Red Moon Home Funky Track Jazz Swing and 32 Bar are recorded with Drums and without Drums (the trackswithout drums include a click track) so that the student can listen and play-along. Solo sections are included on most of the tracks. The instrumentation is Drums Bass Keyboards and Sax. The companion video online:Re-edited from the original masters this video offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. All special effects have been removed and the sound track has been encoded in Dolby Digital stereo. Twenty-oneplay-along tracks CueLink(tm) and a metronome make this video the most valuable cutting edge educational tool for drummers on the market today. This video features complete performances of Red Moon Home Along the Mohawk Sketch/Electric and more. It includes over 115 minutes of drumming and is the perfect companion to the Complete Modern Drum Set Book (nearly every page in the book is performed... including page headers and pattern numbers for