Avenue Q - The Musical

SKU: HL.287843

UPC: 888680908508. 5.0x5.0x0.15 inches.

This is the opening number from the Alan Menken/Glenn Slater musical A Bronx Tale. Taken from the '50s corner a cappella doo-wop groups and segueing into '50s rock/doo-wop style. This is a wonderful story song that fits a choir perfectly.

SKU: HL.287841

UPC: 888680908485. 6.75x10.5 inches.

This is the opening number from the Alan Menken/Glenn Slater musical A Bronx Tale. Taken from the '50s “corner a cappella” doo-wop groups and segueing into '50s rock/doo-wop style. This is a wonderful story song that fits a choir perfectly.

SKU: HL.287840

UPC: 888680908478. 6.75x10.5 inches.

This is the opening number from the Alan Menken/Glenn Slater musical A Bronx Tale. Taken from the '50s “corner a cappella” doo-wop groups and segueing into '50s rock/doo-wop style. This is a wonderful story song that fits a choir perfectly.

SKU: GF.JPTB

Milwaukee Avenue

Ogden Avenue

Narragans ett Avenue

Belden Avenue

Chicago Avenue

Quincy Street

Rockwell Street

Dearborn Street

Franklin Street

Pearson Street

Jazz Phrasing for Trombone features ten melodic pieces which are easy to play, yet convey the essence of mainstream (Swing/Bebop/Bossa) jazz vocabulary. The pieces are catchy and melodic, demonstrating the use of sequence and voice-leading to make a musical statement.

This book includes a play-along CD featuring trombonist Russ Phillips playing each song with a world-class rhythm section. The CD also includes tracks featuring Greg Fishman demonstrating each song on alto saxophone, giving trombone players the option of playing along with Russ Phillips on trombone or with Greg Fishman on alto saxophone.

In addition, there are play-along tracks featuring just the rhythm section. These tracks are great for practicing the songs, chords, scales, voice-leading lines and soloing over the chords progressions.

Jazz Phrasing for Trombone will provide valuable insights into a melodic approach to jazz improvisation. This book is recommended for trombone players of all levels who wish to improve their tone, articulation, phrasing, and understanding of thematic development.

Special Features of Jazz Phrasing for Trombone:

o Suggested Use Section - Provides detailed instructions on a variety of ways to work with the book.
Style & Analysis Section - Provides clear, concise explanations of sequence, variation and voice-leading
Thematic Index - Lets you compare the opening themes of all ten songs in convenient two page at-a-glance format. Also includes detailed information on the opening interval of each song, as well as harmonic context of the opening interval.
Endorsements for Jazz Phrasing for Trombone:
Greg has done it again. Great melodies, interesting rhythms and beautiful chord progressions. This is the perfect foundation for learning jazz. - Jamey Aebersold
This book is a monument to Greg Fishman's superb teaching skills, as well as his clear understanding of the jazz student's early needs. He has purposefully selected accessible tempos, significant melodic rhythms (with their appropriate phrasing) and sensitive note choices, utilizing commonplace chord progressions within the jazz repertory, all impeccably demonstrated on the accompanying compact disc. This book is a must for the early conditioning of jazz students! - Jerry Coker
Greg Fishman has created a book of fun, well-written, catchy tunes in a variety of styles for developing jazz players---highly recommended. - Dr. Gregory W. Yasinitsky, Regents Professor of Music & Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Washington State University
Songs included in Jazz Phrasing for Trombone - Volume 1:
o Milwaukee Avenue
Ogden Avenue
Narragansett Avenue
Belden Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Quincy Street
Rockwell Street
Dearborn Street
Franklin Street
Pearson Street

A few words from the preface of the book:

Applying good phrasing to music is like using good punctuation in written or spoken language. It involves the grouping of ideas to make the meaning of the words clear to the listener. The words are grouped into sentences, and the sentences are then grouped into paragraphs. The same is true when interpreting a piece of music.

Good phrasing requires a musician to interpret the notes he plays, and determine which notes need to be grouped together to form a complete musical idea.

Each song in Jazz Phrasing for Trombone is designed to train your ear to hear the logical grouping of phrases through the use of sequence and thematic development.

While the art of good phrasing involves the interpretation of note groupings and their relationships, it also involves deciding where you're going to take a breath.

Read the following sentences aloud to compare examples of good and bad phrasing.

Good phrasing, spoken in one continuous breath:

Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce the senior class president.

Bad phrasing, spoken with extra breaths, disrupting the flow and grouping of the words:

Ladies and gentlemen, it gives (breath) me great pleasure to introduce the senior class (breath) president.
The difference between these two sentences is very similar to the difference between a professional musician's phrasing and a student's phrasing. Both may be playing the correct notes with the correct rhythm, but the professional musician knows how to group the notes in a smooth, flowing fashion, while the student takes breaths at random, not even aware that he's disrupting the phrasing.

Jazz Phrasing for Trombone has been carefully designed to help you learn to phrase like a professional player.

These are pieces that will be fun for all musicians who love melodic writing with good thematic development..

SKU: HL.113070

UPC: 884088866655. 6.75x10.5 inches.

From the Tony award-winning musical Avenue Q, this sweet and whimsical song takes an ironic look at love and friendship through somewhat skeptical eyes. An excellent contemporary change of pace for a Broadway concert set, it's perfect for featuring one or more soloists.

SKU: HL.35029502

ISBN 9781480367630. UPC: 884088965242. 8.5x11 inches. Jill and Michael Gallina.

One way the holiday season is ushered in is with decorated department store windows, and children look in at the festive scenes as color and magic abound within them!

In this reproducible musical by Michael and Jill Gallina, narrators introduce each special window display and the audience is invited to follow them as they walk down the avenue and tell about the colorful scenes that appear in the five windows featured in this production: a winter scene, a holiday in the tropics, elves making toys, holiday cooking, and a New Year's celebration to close out the musical. Through the use of holiday windows, the musical joyfully sets the stage full of color, wonder, and excitement.

Writte n in revue-style format, this musical can be easily presented by one classroom or a number classrooms and/or grade levels. By assigning a different group to each of the five window scenes, it is possible to successfully involve a large number of children. The easy-to-memorize rhyming script provides for 38 speaking parts. However, that number can be doubled if only one line is given to each child.

The musical includes an easy rhyming script and lots of staging and choreography suggestions. The enhanced Teacher Edition includes a Singer CD-RM with reproducible singer and speaking parts. For Grades 3-5. 20 minutes.

SKU: BT.AMP-268-010

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.

Philip Sparke was so inspired and moved by his first visit to New York, that he had to capture the moment in one of his compositions. At first a general picture of New York is presented as all the sights and sounds are taken it. Eventually the composer finds himself in Manhattan. Walking along a street, music can be heard wafting from one of the jazz-clubs. This musical representation of personal impressions creates an extremely memorable work.

New York, eine der größten und vielseitigsten Metropolen der Welt, kann vielerlei Eindrücke hinterlassen. Zu den Impressionen, die Philip Sparke einfing, gehören das gesamte Stadtbild, aufregende erste Erfahrungen in Manhattan, eine schnelle Straßenszene“ und Musik, die beim Vorübergehen aus einem der vielen Jazzclubs dringt. Positiv bestätigte Klischees und ganz persönliche Eindrücke stecken in dieser musikalischen Beschreibung eines Wochenendes in New York.

Questa composizione riunisce una successione d’impressioni vissute durante un week-end nella “Grande mela”. Il brano inizia con una descrizione del paesaggio urbano. La trama continua su un’aria di blues, tranquillo e disinvolto. Un passaggio rapido interrompe la tranquillit : la musica evoca una scena in una delle avenue più traffi cate di New York. Dal centro dell’orchestra arriva una melodia travolgente: le porte di un club di jazz sono rimaste aperte. New York non finisce mai di sorprendere.