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Written by one of today's great jazz educators, this is a system for building great-sounding jazz lines. the relationship of the individual lines to chords and progressions is analyzed. In addition, original saxophone studies integrate these concepts with technical proficiency.
List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $10.36 Used Price: $7.44 Customer Review: Great resource for all musicians
All of Arnie Berle's books present the info in a clear, concise and logical way. I recommend you get your hands on as many of them as you can, while you can, especially if you're learning on your own. Any aspiring jazz musician can't have too many pattern books, and this one is a gem. 'Improvisation For The Contemporary Musician' and 'Encyclopedia of Scales, Modes and Melodic Patterns' also by Arnie are also highly recommended.
Customer Review: excellent phrase book.
The exercise in this book are commonly heard phrases that can be played over standard chord sequences. As practice material they are great and the explanations are simple and enlightening. This is a good book for developing dexterity and a feel for the keys and scales. Improvising is much more than repeated practiced licks but working through this book will give a player some chops to fall back on as well as a wider understaning of what is possible.
A collection of 12 jazz exercises & 10 jazz tunes stressing the fundamental rhythms, articulations, and phrasings commonly used by jazz groups.
Used Price: $29.99
100 Ultimate Jazz Riffs for "Eb"instruments such as alto sax, clarinet etc. by Andrew D. Gordon and Mark Vega consists of, as the title suggests, 100 Jazz riffs based on common chord progressions used in jazz such as the II-V-I, III-VI-II-V etc. in both major and minor keys. There are five separate sections: Jazz Swing, Jazz Ballad, Jazz Funk, Jazz Waltz and Latin Jazz. Each musical example has a single note improvised melody line with the chord progression At the end of the book there is the chord progression for the popular jazz standard "Blue Moon" showing you how to use various examples from the 100 riffs to create an improvised solo over the chord progression.
By demonstrating this technique you can pick most jazz standards and create your own improvisational ideas using the book.
The CD is recorded with the saxophone playing the melody line along with a rhythm section of piano bass and drums. All the examples are recorded with the saxophone and the rhythm section, as well as the rhythm section with out the saxophone and with the more difficult examples the rhythm section is recorded at a slowed down tempo. An absolute must for musicians learning and playing various jazz styles.
List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $19.95
Teaches improvisation from the point of view of the sax player, utilizing theory as insight into playing. Chapters on modal playing and special effects (multiphonics, microtones, etc.). Includes a complete chord chart.
List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $10.85 Used Price: $1.95 Customer Review: Great Improv Book for Jazz Saxophone
This is really a good book on jazz improvisation for saxophone. The book starts out with a brief introduction of chords and their chord symbols. All of the scales and patterns described in the book are written out in all of the keys except for the enharmonically spelled keys. A big plus for this book is that there is a section that describes how to play the special effects sound on the saxophone, like microtonics, growls, harmonics, etc. It gives specific fingerings for them. Now, there may be additional fingerings. It's just that I've seen no other sax book describe these. This book clearly illustrates the styles of some of our most famous saxophone players including Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Jr. Walker to name a few. I think this helps in understanding what we are hearing when we hear their music. The author also describes how to perform the chordal and scalar passages and sound musical by using different types of articulations. He also talks about the challenges of practicing and learning improvisation of which I think is important to talk about. Because sometimes as a musicians we need motivation as to why we are practicing everyday when we don't see immediate results. It's reality to understand that it takes months of practicing before one can get a real handle on certain musical expressions.
Each chapter has a new style of improvisation with music pattern. This book is not an end all to improvisation but is certainly a good start for any sax player who wants to improve his or her improvisational skills.
This book of etudes was created to fill a gap in the musical resources available to the aspiring jazz musician. Its purpose is to demonstrate the concepts of soloing to those students who know their chords and scales but lack the musical vocabulary to create professional-level solos.
I have written twelve jazz etudes that are enjoyable to play, yet present some technical challenges. However, the technical benefits are secondary to the primary purpose of the etudes: to be able to play through the chord changes in a musical manner while clearly expressing the song's harmonic structure.
The etudes are based on familiar chord progressions, including blues, rhythm changes, and a variety of common "standard" 32-bar song forms.
List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $23.70 Used Price: $14.76
Jazz Style and Technique is a fun and comprehensive workbook for developing the technical and musical skills necessary to perform with a mature jazz style. For advancing beginner and intermediate level students, this workbook offers detailed instruction on how to create a swing feel, use swing articulations, and integrate useful jazz inflections into compositions. This workbook presents 15 original and fun jazz compositions in multiple key signatures. Students have the opportunity to gain technical fluency in different keys while remaining focused on developing an authentic jazz style through the use of articulations and inflections. For all saxophones!
List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $12.30 Customer Review: Great Book!
This book was really useful. The etudes are challenging, but not at all overwhelming. All the etudes are in a couple of keys to work on technique (and to make them more challenging) and have all the notation you need to figure out how to play with a jazz style. This book really helped me LEARN and use the techniques I need to play saxophone better.
This is the first illustrated history of the horns that have defined jazz since the 1920s and enhanced more recent pop and rock music with their distinctive, classy sounds. Offering superb, specially commissioned photography and inviting descriptive text, The Sax & Brass Book tells the unique 70-year story of these instruments. Exquisite, color pictorials included throughout enhance detailed historical profiles of master brass and woodwind manufacturers, including Buescher, Buffet, Conn, Holton, King Leblanc, Martin, Sax, Selmer, Yanagisawa, and Yamaha.
List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $15.56 Used Price: $5.81 Customer Review: An excellent resource
I was part of the original conceptual team for this book and was very pleased to see the final outcome. This book is extremely well-written with lots of great photographs and charts. The focus is primarily on the saxophone, and die hard collectors/enthusiasts will appreciate the factual integrity of the book. I found the pictures particularly interesting, since most (if not all) of the horns pictured were distributed in the UK. Thus, you see some great export variants of the classic Selmer Balanced Action and Conn 10M. I highly recommend this great work to anyone who loves the saxophone.
A dreary, rainy day turns into a jumpin', jivin’ party when Saxophone Sam uses an irresistible beat to lead Drew and Sue on a magical mystery tour through their house to find the source of his toe-tapping music. As the children get closer and closer, the band and its crowd start to take center stage. There’s never a dull moment when Saxophone Sam’s in town.
Christine M. Schneider’s vibrant illustrations virtually burst off the page as she reinvents the standard two-dimensional picture book format with her imaginative design and playful perspectives.
List Price: $16.95 Used Price: $0.90 Customer Review: how not to write poetry
That could be the alternative title for this book. The storyline isn't bad... the kids get hooked into a song they hear on the radio and they imagine there is a jazz/swing band and people are dancing inside of the speaker. The problem is that Christine M. Schneider canNOT write. I was embarassed just having to read this nonsense aloud.
Of course, be bop IS nonsense, you say. Well, yeah, but like the other reviewer here said, in Saxophone Sam it feels very much forced. The verse lacks flow.
I give it 2 stars for the illustrations. The concept of the music taking over the page I think Schneider carries off well.
In case you are wondering, the main characters, the children, are both white, the band members are black and white, and the dancers are white, black, and various shades in between.
Customer Review: Up-beat!
The beat bounces from the pages of this buoyant story. In it, Saxaphone Sam and his band beckon to young Drew and sister Sue on a dreary day, challenging them to find the bee-bop resounding through the house. When they discover the source of the music, they are transported into the big band era and they join in the jive: "Zoo zoo wop, let's boogie `til we drop! Feel the floorboards shake as the room begins to quake!" Schneider's pizzazz-y pictures are so bright and whirly that readers may need sunglasses and Dramamine. Talk about chasing away the rainy day blues! Look to this book more for mood and pictures than for story or music history.
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