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Clare Fischer originally recorded Strayhorn in 1962 with his trio on Surging Ahead. We have asked Bill Dobbins to arrange it as a piano feature. He completely wrote out the solo piano part so that it...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Loose Your Life Life (And It Will Surely Find You) features the tenor saxophone in a gospel-flavored 7/4 funk piece which has roots in my youth, growing up in a family in which my father was a penteco...

Lo Flame is based on the harmonic progression of All of Me, and features the trumpet section. The theme follows a swinging opening of the rhythm section. Then the trumpets continue with an impressive...

Musical quotes are sprinkled throughout this medium swing chart - most obvious being Charlie Parker's Ornithology that is used in the opening of the sax soli. The out chorus features skillfully writte...

La Curandera Negrita is basically a minor blues. Though this piece is written in 6/8, it is perhaps more accurately felt in a lilting triplet divided 4/4-with the dotted quarter receiving the pulse of...

Basie's Blues is a rousing medium tempo big band chart which also functions as a Basie-style piano feature. Arranger Russell Schmidt has crafted a unique three-horn harmonization (+ optional flute and...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994. Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchest...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Solo trombone part can be performed by one of the trombonists in the band or by a guest soloist.

This CD is the result of Bill Dobbins' lifelong love of music from both the classical and jazz traditions. Hear him perform his six original compositions as well as four jazz standards by Duke Ellingt...

Die ersten vier Stücke stammen aus Studioproduktionen mit Peter Erskine und die letzten vier aus einem Live-Konzert im Stadtgarten, einem lokalen Club in Köln und einer von mehreren Veranstaltungsorte...

The CD contains complete (solo with piano accompaniment) and play-along version (piano accompaniment only), featuring Bob Mintzer on tenor saxophone and Bill Mays on piano.

Im Jazz und in der Popularmusik ist die Hauptaufgabe des Pianisten oder des Keyboarders, einen harmonischen und klanglichen Teppich zu bereiten und rhythmische Unterstützung für die anderen Musiker zu...

Sehr umfassendes Buch mit vielen Tips und Übungen zu Akkordaufbau, Begleitung und Improvisation, mit Intervallen, Dreiklängen, II-V-I Verbindungen, dreistimmigen Voicings, Left Hand-Voicings, Skalen,...

Diese Einführung in die Rhythmus-Analyse und Koordination wurde geschrieben, um Studenten und Lehrern zu helfen, die Angst vor dem Blattlesen abzulegen und Vertrauen in der Koordination zu gewinnen. M...

Das Buch enthält ausgeschriebene Stimmen zu 16 Stücken von Miles, Hancock, Rollins, James Brown, Jaco Pastorius, u.a., und konzentriert sich dabei in erster Linie auf Jazz und seine verwandten Stilric...

Anhand von Fotos, Notenbeispielen und einer CD wird gezeigt, wie brasilianische Rhythmen und Instrumente korrekt gespielt werden. Die Beispiele werden zuerst langsam, dann im üblichen Tempo demonstrie...

Bell Gate Blues comes along as a light, swinging piece for alto saxophone and piano with bluesy elements reflected in its harmony. As is usual in jazz music, the piece contains a short solo part in wh...

Vamps are one or more chords repeated over and over again. Since the harmony doesn't change much, you have time to hear ideas and develop a solo as well as find new ways to articulate and build your p...

Modern Jazz Guitar Styles' stellt ein Konzept zur Vermittlung von musikalischem Vokabular im Bereich Jazz und jazzverwandter Musik vor. Die Eigenheiten der einzelnen Stilrichtungen werden aus der Sich...

The Evolution of Solo Jazz Piano is a study of solo piano styles developed by 24 of the most influential solo pianists from 1900 to the present. In order to clearly illustrate the specific contributio...

This album, completely improvised and recorded originally in 1975 in Germany on the Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Steinway and re-released by advance music, "shows off the range, the beauty and the versat...