SKU: AP.1-ADV14502
ISBN 9783892210160. UPC: 805095145021. English.
This unique jazz improvisation method features six full performances with opening/closing themes and improvised solos, and six play-along tracks featuring a rhythm section without the soloist. It also contains at least one solo transcription, excerpts from other solos, and pertinent chord/scale information. Titles: Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk) * Minor Incident (Bill Dobbins) * All Blues (Miles Davis) * Alto Blues (Bobby Watson) * Blues for Barry (Bill Dobbins) * Blues for Bud (Bill Dobbins).
SKU: HL.49047362
ISBN 9798350124842. UPC: 196288207597.
The choice of 16th century texts, by Bronzino and Battiferri, reflects the interests of the dedicatee of these sonnets - Craig Hugh Smyth, a fine art historian and former director of the Villa I Tatti, who was a specialist in Bronzino and Pontormo. Bronzino's sonnet is a lament on the death of Pontormo, his teacher; Laura Battiferri's poem is a direct response to that of Bronzino. As I was also asked to set sonnets by Petrarca, I chose two of his closely linked sonnets, numbers 229 and 230 in the Rime Sparse. I had written a work for I Tatti some five years earlier setting Petrarca (â??A qualunque animaleâ?, the first in my Fourth Book of Madrigals) and was familiar with the context. However, through correspondence with Kathryn Bosi, Music Librarian at I Tatti and, through her, Craig Smyth's family, I became increasingly aware of his unusual and quite special character. From his undergraduate days at Princeton and indeed throughout his life, although a great scholar and writer, he was at the same time an aficionado of jazz, loving above all Louis Armstrong, being photographed with Duke Ellington, taking his children to see Thelonious Monk, listening to Ben Webster and playing the tenor saxophone himself. Indeed, he had told Kathryn Bosi that he had been proud to walk in procession at the funerals of black musicians in New Orleans. In some ways his life was almost an obverse mirror image of parts of my own - I was a professional jazz musician but found myself teaching art history for a time. As Fiorella Superbi of I Tatti has said: Craig was a maestro di vita. I raise a glass in his memory and dedicate these sonnets to him. Gavin Bryars.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14506
ISBN 9783892211662. UPC: 805095145069. English.
This unique jazz improvisation method, The Jazz Workshop Series, features six full performances with opening/closing themes and improvised solos, and six play-along tracks featuring a rhythm section without the soloist. It also contains at least one solo transcription, excerpts from other solos, and pertinent chord/scale information. Titles: Bye-Ya (Thelonious Monk) * Con Alma (Dizzy Gillespie) * Elegy (Bill Dobbins) * Hallucinations (Bud Powell) * Goodbye, Pork Pie Hat (Dizzy Gillespie) * Webb City (Bud Powell).
SKU: HL.14021531
9.0x12.0x0.154 inches. French.
Les caracteristiques de la guitare sont telles qu'il existe un nombre quasi-illimite de possibilites (positions, doigtes, techniques de liaison) pour jouer une meme phrase melodique. Cet ouvrage a donc pour but de donner quelques exemples de phrases et d'arrangements des Standards du Jazz issus de repertoire Swing et Be-Bop a l'aide d'un CD d'accompagnement. Vous trouverez dans cette methode deux types de themes et d'arrangements: * Les themes Be-Bop: Ils sont arranges pour deux guitares, une basse et une batterie. * Les themes Swing: Ils sont arranges pour guitare, basse et batterie. La guitare joue les accords et la melodie simultanement. The guitar idioms give an endless comnbination of fingerings, neck positions and legato techniques to play one single musical line. The purpose of this book is to provide examples of phrasing and arranging of swing and be-bop standards. You will find two types of tunes * Be-Bop tunes: These tunes are arranged for two guitars, a bass and drums. * Swing tunes: These are arranged for guitar, bass and drums. The theme and chords are played by one guitar only.