This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles and techniques for all players of modern jazz. This study investigates jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock's seven albums record...
The studies, which are progressive in difficulty, take the student in moderate stages through basic warm-up procedures to excercises covering spreading intervals, expanding range and lip trills.
Tonleiterübungen, Lippentraining, u.m.
Technically demanding etudes designed to develop a sense of style for solo performance. these studies challenge the player's endurance, tonguing and command and articulation, and all-around technical...
Systematic, efficient method for warming up quickly. Excercises for long tones, lip slurs, tonguing, valve-and-tongue coordination. Text on breath control, note values. Beginner/Intermediate level.
Excerpts from the orchestral literature designed to develop facility in the use of the F attachment; discussion of the F attachment and its use, distance between positions, tuning slide, operation, an...
The II V 7 Progression - Turnbacks & Cycles
A Method for Gaining Facility with the Various Scales - Scales, Multiphonics & Polytonality
The 'Charlie Parker Yardbird Originals' were originally published in 1954 by my dad, Dr. Charles Colin. In his memoir, 'Reflections II', he includes the colorful story of how it came to be that he met...