Hal Leonard Essential Elements Jazz Play Along Jazz Standards (Bb, Eb and C Instruments) Book and CD Review

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(More customer reviews)THis is the best play along book of the 6 or so I have bought.I'm trying to learn the structure of jazz and this is an excellent companion to the Essential Elements fro Jazz book.

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At last, a jazz play-along book for developing players! In addition to being a perfect introduction to some of the best-known jazz standards, this book includes hints for improvising on each tune, a guide to jazz articulations, plus a scale/chord correlation chart. Biographical sketches of key jazz figures are also included. And, if that wasn't enough, each tune comes with its own sample solo for reference or performance. The professionally recorded audio CD also includes tempo adjustment software for use in your computer (CD-ROM).Includes: Now's the Time, Killer Joe, Blue Bossa, C-Jam Blues, Footprints, Song for My Father, Autumn Leaves, Freddie Freeloader, St. Thomas and Blue Train. Professionally recorded Play-Along CDTempo adjustment software for computer (CD-ROM)Choice of full recording (with melody) or rhythm section onlySample written solos and improvising hintsRhythm book includes bass lines, piano voicings, and drum patterns

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Authentic Brazilian Bossa Nova Guitar Arrangements (Guitar Solo) Review

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(More customer reviews)Unfortunately the book comes with a chord chart fingering explanation (inside front cover) which is a bit ambiguous. i was really hoping for a finger/fret position chord chart diagram over each chord but that's not the case. So, i would recomend this more for an intermediate and up guitarist.

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Featuring the solos of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Laurindo Almedia, and Luiz Bonfa.

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Stan Getz - Nobody Else But Me (Book) Review

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(More customer reviews)Jazz Critic Dave Gelly has a jazzy and breezy prose style, not unlike the tenor saxophone style of the book's subject, Stan Getz. I zipped through this book, and it went down as easy as a dry martini after a hard day's work.

Getz's nickname was "The Sound" and the sound was lush, beautiful, lyrical, melodic, and swung like crazy. But Stan, "The Man" was a different story, and it is a paradox that such lovely music could come from someone so flawed. Heroin addiction at one point caused a desperate young Getz to attempt to rob a pharmacy. He later kicked heroin, but was an alcoholic wife beater. He was not the best parent. He was jealous of Chet Baker. He was an adulterous womanizer.

But then there was the music, Jack Teagarden, Stan Kenton, the Woody Herman Band, the Bossa Nova, the exciting career, the gorgeous sound . . .

Gelly tells it like it is, spinning a compelling narrative that doesn't shy away from the life behind the music, but still illuminates that music, putting it all in perspective, and making us feel the wonder of "The Sound" anew. It's all there in this book, Nobody Else But Me, shakin' like Gelly on a plate.

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The creator of the unforgettable "Girl from Ipanema" tenor sax tone, this son of Ukranian immigrants took his unique sound through five decades of swing, cool, bossa, and beyond. From Getz's teenage gigs with Dorsey, Goodman, and Stan Kenton, fame with Woody Herman, years as a masterful bandleader, and struggles with drugs and the law, this biography tells the bittersweet story of one of our most beloved jazz musicians. This is the first book to focus on Getz's musical legacy, exploring the lightness of touch, lyricism, and warm glow that marked his sound. It also gives insight into his skills as a consummate improviser, capable of playing with a musical, tonal, and emotional range matched by few other musicians.

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Guitar Atlas Brazil: Your passport to a new world of music (Book & CD) (Guitar Atlas Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is essential homework for students of Brazilian guitar.It is one of the best resources out there, along with Nelson Faria's "The Brazilian Guitar Book."The original etudes are not only instructional, but are nice pieces in their own right.An excellent value.

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Renowned guitarist Billy Newman guides you through distinctive rhythms such as tango, samba and bossa nova, as he clearly explains the corresponding chord sequences and techniques found in each style.Included is a CD demonstrating all examples covered throughout the book, which are written in both standard notation and TAB to make learning easy and fun.

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The Alan & Marilyn Bergman Songbook Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this songbook on the advice of my musical director as a good source of under used material for auditions, etc. They are particularly good for a more "legit" vocal type and are more contemporary than alot of other selections typically sung by "trained" singers. A great book for a singer's library.

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Alone in the World * Fifty Percent * The Girl Who Used to Be Me * I Believe in Love * In the Heat of the Night * Like a Lover * One Day * A Piece of Sky * That Face * What Matters Most * Where Is It Written? * Yellow Bird * You Don't Bring Me Flowers and more.

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Antonio Carlos Jobim Anthology Review

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(More customer reviews)For serious musicians/vocalists this is really very worth getting. At its best, the book has very accurate chords, piano reductions of the scores, and Portugese lyrics. A case in point is Passarim, one of Jobim's more complex, airtight, and difficult pieces. The transcription here really nails it. Corcovado has the orchestral introduction from "Elis & Tom". A few chords are different than that arrangement (for example, Fmaj7 in the 7th bar of the tune instead of Gb7b5, and some in the intro). Maybe they wanted to go with the more accepted practices, or maybe they worked from different lead sheets or Jobim provided one with changes. Who knows? They don't list their sources or transcribers. But the fact that they even published this definitive version rather than any number of embarrasing American covers is an indication of what a class act this book is. Anos Dourados is also very good. Agua de Beber has all the important inner voice leading and the right intro. Voice leading is everything in Jobim. The rhythms are also pretty accurate and in the true cut time Brazilians think in.
In some cases there are inconsistencies or versions not quite up to the level of the above, making me wonder which version they were gotten from (a discography would've helped. For example, Inutil Paisagem (Useless Landscape)has the right chords, but leaves out those wonderful piano background figures that Jobim plays on "Elis & Tom", and on the recording with Sinatra, and that Jobim interpreters in the know always use. That's a real shame. It's an Americanized version, as is Desifinado (English lyric only), written in smaller type for some reason and with chords also not as accurate as other tunes here.
Again, my thought is that different transcribers were used for different tunes---the only explanation for some of the disparities. But this is still a very good book---wonderful at its best. It's best to look at scores (there are some available on the "Clube do Tom" website----a few in Jobim's hand). As masterful and prolific a composer as Jobim needs and deserves an accurate collection of transcriptions. But "until the real thing comes along" this is well worth the attention of serious musicians and Jobim lovers.

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An excellent collection of over 20 of his most-loved songs, including: Girl From Ipanema * How Insensitive * One Note Samba * Desafinado (Out of Tune) * Quiet Night of Quiet Stars * Song of the Sabia * and more.

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