SKU: AP.1-ADV14843

ISBN 9783892212232. UPC: 805095148435. English.

Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Jazz Conception: Trombone is part of an exciting series of play-along books by award-winning Brazilian flutist and composer Fernando Brandão and features 15 original tunes in various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles. This edition clearly aims at being more than a simple play-along collection. For each of the tunes a thorough analysis and additional exercises are given. An extensive introduction into the various styles and rhythms of Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music makes these books even more valuable. The rhythm section and soloists are among the most prestigious musicians in contemporary Brazilian music.

Rhythm Section: Leandro Braga, piano; Adriano Giffoni, bass; Xande Figueiredo, drums; Zero, percussion.

Titles include: Afoxé Urbano * Bangu * Bolero for Lucia * El Son Mayo * Frog Samba * Funky Samba * The Island * Latin Tower * Lucas' Cha Cha * Rodrigo No Frevo * Sad Solitude * Sanfona * Samba Dance * Santa Cruz * Snobby.

SKU: HL.48183018

UPC: 888680876906. 9.0x12.0x0.211 inches.

“Conceived for upper-intermediate players and written in 1921, André Lafosse?s Complete method of Slide Trombone ? Volume 3 is the last volume of this series, with comments and explanation for Slide Trombone. Including various exercises and studies, this complete method will also guide the player with the right positions to adopt and direct him to produce a clean sound on the instrument. Complete method of Slide Trombone has been written in three volumes, the two first one in 1921 and the last one in 1946 and the bass Trombone is covered in an appendix of three pages. André Lafosse (1890-1975) was a Trombonist and a professor at Paris Conservatoire. He also composed a suite for brass quintet called Suite Breve and recorded with Stravinsky.”.

SKU: HL.400136

ISBN 1596154659. UPC: 884088203658. 9.25x12.25 inches.

Performed by George Roberts, trombone

Accompaniment: The MMO Orchestra

Relive the era of the big bands with this album of beautiful ballads arranged for solo trombone and orchestra. You'll thrill to the great George Roberts as he demonstrates these arrangements – then try them yourself and take a trip back to heaven! Includes a high-quality printed music score; and a compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) followed by the orchestral accompaniments to each piece, minus the soloist.

SKU: AP.1-ADV14903

UPC: 805095149036. English.

Playing Through the Blues: Trombone Edition is an intermediate-level reading book with accompanying CD (12 listening tracks; 12 play-along tracks) that contains very melodic, fun-to-play blues lines and riffs in various styles and feels. The keys and tempos are comfortable. It's an excellent tool for learning what jazz soloing is all about. You can also improvise over the play-along tracks using the chords for the tracks shown in the book.

Titles: Blues for Michael Brecker * On the Spot * Sus Sounds * Goin' Home * Funky Blue * Blues Ascension * Four in Three * Diggin' In * Nightfall * Medieval Blues * Tradin' Ones & Twos * Shuffle Them Blues.

SKU: CF.W2687

ISBN 9781491150955. UPC: 680160908455. 9x12 inches.

This new edition of Jean Baptiste Arban's Fourteen Characteristic Studies for Trombone, edited by Alan Raph, was specifically written to provide the student with suitable material with which to test his powers of endurance, according to Arban himself.
The following fourteen studies have been specifically written to provide the student withsuitable material with which to test his powers of endurance. In taking up these studies, he willdoubtless be fatigued, especially at the outset, by those numbers requiring an unusual length ofbreath. However, through careful study and experience he will learn to overcome the difficultiesand will acquire the resources which will enable him to master this particular phase of playingwith ease. As a means to this end, attention is drawn to cantabile passages in particular, whichshould be played with the utmost expression, yet at the same time with as much modified toneas possible. On the cornet, as with the voice, clear tones may be obtained by widening thelips and veiled tones by contracting them. This happy circumstance allows the performer anopportunity to rest while still continuing to play, and at the same time enables him to introduceeffective contrasts into the execution. It should be noted that by little artifices of this kind, andby skillfully conserving his resources, the player will reach the end of the longest and mostfatiguing pieces, not only without difficulty, but even with a reserve of strength and power,which, when brought to bear on the final measures of a performance, never fails to impress anaudience.At this point my task as professor (using the written instead of the spoken word) willend. There are things which appear clear enough when stated verbally but which when writtendown on paper cause confusion, seem obscure, and even sometimes appear trivial.There are other things of such an elevated and subtle nature that neither speech norword can clearly explain them. They are felt, they are conceived, but they are not to be explained;and yet these things constitute the elevated style, the grand ecole, which it is my ambition toestablish for the cornet, just as they already exist for singing and for the various kinds of otherinstruments.Those of my readers who are ambitious and who want to attain this high level ofperfection, should above all things, always try to hear good music well interpreted. Theymust seek out, among singers and instrumentalists, the most illustrious models, and by doingthis purify their taste, develop their sentiments, and bring themselves as near as possible tothat which is beautiful. Perhaps then the innate spark which may someday be destined todemonstrate their own talent, will reveal itself and render them worthy of being, in their turn,cited and imitated in the future.