Charlie Parker - Omnibook - For E-flat Instruments Review

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(More customer reviews)Just today when someone asked how they could learn to sight read Jazz music I answered "the Onmibook". This book is a transcription of 60 songs played by Charlie Parker (the saxophone pioneer of Bebop). Each song includes the main song melody (the head), Charlie Parker's recorded solos and the chord changes. The transcriptions are written in a style consistent with modern music arrangement that makes it easy for the musician to learn a variety of the most typical patterns found in Jazz, constantly revisted and augmented to allow for a landslide of appropraite variation. The book also has the chord changes written in for each measure (which is also written in a style consistent with modern jazz transcription) so any musician playing through the book can learn to understand why certain type of notes, melodies and memorized patterns work in a variety of situations.

Where Lennie Niehaus' "Concepts for Jazz" series is essential for all Jazz students, the Omnibook is essential for all Saxophonists of an intermediate level or higher and the use of the book will continually grow with the musician.

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The Omnibook has become the book to turn to when you want to master the Bird. Includes 60 solos such as Anthropology * Au Privave (Nos. 1 and 2) * Billie's Bounce * Blues for Alice * Chi Chi * Confirmation * Constellation * Dewey Square * Donna Lee * Ko Ko * Moose the Mooch * Ornithology * Scrapple from the Apple * Shawnuff * Yardbird Suite * and more. Transcribed by Jamey Aebersold and Ken Slone. Spiral-bound, with chord symbols, metronome markings, record information, and practice suggestions.

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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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158 Saxophone Exercises Review

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(More customer reviews)If you are looking for a book that just contains pages of notes, this is probably the book for you.There is virtually no writing or explanation of what's going on in the patterns.Articulation and rhythm is up to you to make up for each series of exercises.Good for ear training, intonation, technique etc.Exercises focus on a diminished sound.

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For unaccompanied saxophone.

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