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This handy reference helps aspiring pianists when they're faced with parts that offer chord symbols and slashings only. Just like looking up words in a dictionary, players can find two voicings for every chord. 138 pages.

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Sammy Nestico's extraordinary 340 page text examines all contemporary arranging! Accompanied by a 79-track CD, his book thoroughly covers the subjects of writing for each family of instruments, plus key concepts about all genres of music.

Book 534pages

A Diatonic and Multi-Coloured Approach

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Study of Chord Progressions

Book 174 pages & CD

Best Seller. Book 186 pages & 2 CDs

A detailed analysis of 8 classic jazz ensemble charts by Sammy Nestico, Thad Jones and Bob Brookmeyer

Jazz 'Bones will certainly take its place alongside the best volumes on music history and is without question required reading for all trombonists and lovers of jazz. Bravo, Kurt Dietrich!' Jiggs Whigham - renowned international jazz trombone osloist, clinician, professor and leader of the BBC Big Band

Best Seller. Book 95 pages

Best Seller. Book 116 pages

This book is a comprehensive, how-to handbook for jazz educators. Featuring easy-to-understand text, loads of notated examples, photos, and unique illustrations by Steve Wiest, this 271-page compendium with two CD recordings provides inexperienced and seasoned teachers alike with tons of practical information.

Best Seller. Book 200 pages

Best Way to Develop Solos over Classic Changes

A practical and systematic method that teaches how to practice jazz piano voicings so that they become automatic and intuitive. The method progresses step by step from 2-voice to 7-voice chord structures with fourths and upper-structure triads. Each chapter presents essential harmonic progressions written and spelled out in all keys, along with fingerings to help non-keyboardists. Also provided are songs, written out for both hands, which utilize the techniques and voicings just learned. Includes comping rhythms, bass line techniques, and practice strategies. Excellent for both classroom and individual study. Strongly endorsed by Mark Levine, Bobby Shew, Denis Diblasio, and many others. The included Play-a-long CD lets you practice the piano exercises in the book with bass and drum accompaniment; you can also practice comping along with a saxophone soloist. A demonstration piano track on one channel, played with a stylistic comping feel, gives you an idea of how the piano voicing exercises should sound.

Workbook for Pianists and non-Pianists

Best Seller. Book 125 pages

Variations on Rhythm Changes for the Study of Improvisation, Ear Training and Composition. Let's Play Rhythm is one of the most versatile book/CD play-alongs available providing 3 CDs which offer a complete learning experience. You'll hear master musicians demonstrating the lessons in the context of tunes. Eliminating first the solos on one disc and finally the melodies on a third disc leaving only the rhythm tracks. Practice with/without the melodies or solos, write your own, transcribe for ear training. Learn bass lines, diatonic melodies, rhythmic melodies, pentatonic, blues scale, diminished, upper structures, intervalic melodies, reharmonization, pedal points, groove variations and more.

New 2005 Book 192 pages & CD. This method book/CD set is about undertstanding, developing and incorporating the art of melody into Jazz Improvisation. Topics discussed in the book are demonstrated by the author on the CD. This CD, along with the practice materials both in the text and in the play-along section, will give you the opportunity to hear, practice and then play for yourself the principles of melodic improvising.

35 Jazz originals. Featuring: Musical demonstartion of each song - arranged introductions and endings - bass & rhythmic figures - swing, even and Latin feels. Also included: chord voicings - rehearsal techniques - glossary of chord symbols and spellings - preparation method for soloing on progressions.

One of the world's most popular patterns books, many jazz greats have fond memories of practicing from this book! An exhaustive collection of improvisational jazz patterns in various meters and feels. Comments and suggestions by the author, a legendary composer, arranger, conductor and instrumentalist. This is a very popular book because it helps spell out some of the basic building blocks of the 'jazz language. Regarded by many jazz teachers as one of the essential texts for their students

Book & 2 CDs

Rhythm Cycles & Polymetric Patterns for Instrumentalists, Percussionists, Composers & Music Educators

Book inc 2 CDs

Softback Book 175 pages

Best Seller Book 158 pages & 2 CDs

Best Seller Book 192 pages & 4 CDs

Vocal Improvisation is designed for individual jazz singers, classroom students and teachers of vocal jazz. The exercises are appropriate for all levels of experience and can also be useful to instrumentalists for developing jazz articulation and learning to better connect what they 'hear' to what they 'play'.