Volume 4 contains a fresh set of Intermediate-Advanced jazz etudes. This book and play-a-long CD set will take you through a variety of tempos that are designed to correspond to the flow of a live performance set. The Chord changes are based upon popular standards that will be easily recognizable. This set will further soldify your grasp of modern jazz vocabulary and help prepare you for real world situations.

Guest Spot: Hot Hits - Alto Saxophone contains 10 popular chart hits arranged for the Alto Saxophone.Step into the spotlight and play along with the specially recorded audio. Demonstration and playalongtracks are available to download using the card in the back of the book. This volume includes the favourites All Of Me Let It Go Roar Say Something and more.

Description Fifteen hits from the first season of this popular Fox TV show for solo instrumentalists! Each volume includes a great full-accompaniment play-along CD so you can sound just like a pro. Songlist Alone [Heart] And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going [Holliday, Jennifer] Bust Your Windows [Sullivan, Jazmine] Dancing With Myself [Idol, Billy] Don't Stop Believin' [Journey] Imagine [Lennon, John] Keep Holding On [Lavigne, Avril] Lean On Me [Withers, Bill] My Life Would Suck Without You [Clarkson, Kelly] No Air [Mason, Harvey] [Thomas, Damon] [Fauntleroy, James] [Griggs, Erik] [Russell, Steven] Sweet Caroline [Diamond, Neil] Take A Bow [Rihanna] Taking Chances [Dion, Celine] True Colours [Lauper, Cyndi]

James Rae’s eminently successful tutor Introducing The Saxophone was the first of its kind providing the complete beginner with material in popular styles yet allowing for a sound musical development along traditional lines. Now complementing the tutor James Rae has produced this volume to introduce the beginner to ensemble playing. The parts are of the same technical level and are written with hints and tips along the way to familiarise the beginner with a new set of considerations and become a good team player.Easy pieces introducing the various aspects of music making with others.All parts areof equal difficulty.Compatible with Introducing Duets Trios and Quartets for clarinet.Especially suited to group teaching.Ideal material for concerts and examinations.

What better way to learn these perennial bandstand favorites than from the source himself' WIth Dave Brubeck and his sidemen providing the accompaniment, you know it's as authentic as it gets, particularly when you hear the REAL intro to In Your Own Sweet Way. This play-a-long is a great tribute to the popular jazz legend and is a fitting tribute to his enormous contribution to the jazz repertoire. Tunes are: All My Love - Basie - Broadway Bossa Nova - Here Comes McBride - In Your Own Sweet Way - Take Five - The Duke - Three To Get Ready - Trav'lin' Blues - Unishere 5/4 - Waltzing - Why Not

Sixty-six popular songs spanning six decades providing a complete pop repertoire for the aspiring alto saxophonist. Includes classics from pop jazz film music Broadway and rock and roll.

A great collection of popular music arranged for saxophone specially graded from easy-to-play tunes to more challenging pieces. This book has been specially bound to help the pages to lie flat while you are playing.

Real Book Play-Along Series (3 CD's)-These three CDs contain rhythm section backing tracks for all 60 songs in the popular Charlie Parker Omnibook lead sheet books.

For Saxophone Choir-There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York/It Ain’t Necessarily So/Summertime/I Got Plenty o' Nuttin’ is a song from the American opera Porgy and Bess composed in 1935 by George Gershwin (1898-1937) to a libretto by DuBose Heyward and his brother Ira Gershwin after Heyward’s novel Porgy - a story about the love between the crippled negro beggar Porgy and the girl Bess in the city of Charleston in South Carolina. The première - not a huge success - took place on 10 October 1935 in New York.With his opera Gershwin wanted to gain recognition as a composer of classical music. Incidentally he demanded that all parts were sung by black performers; only a few unimportant parts without sung lyrics were allowed to be performed by white actors. This rule still applies: Gershwin has stated in the terms of his will that only black people were allowed stage the opera.Porgy & Bess has become popular only after Gershwin’s death. In 1959 a wonderful film was made; the soundtrack won a Grammy Award. The work is not very often performed possibly because of the difficulty of finding a whole cast of black opera singers. However various pieces from the opera are still regularly performed in numerous arrangements.

As a follow up to the popular Movie Favorites this eagerly awaited collection features the hottest movie themes arranged for full band or individual soloists (with optional accompaniment CD). In the student books each song includes a page for the full band arrangement as well as a separate page for solo use.Includes: Pirates of the Caribbean Mission: Impossible Theme My Heart Will Go On Zorro's Theme Music from Shrek May It Be You'll Be in My Heart The Rainbow Connection Also Sprach Zarathustra and Accidentally in Love.

Easy solo pieces in pop styles with state of the art CD accompaniments. Play the solo piece straight, or add the backing tracks and enter a whole new world of sound. Chris Norton does it again with his unique blend of traditional technique with popular styles. Students will learn all about technique - rhythm, co-ordination and listening, but they'll be having so much fun, they won't know they're doing it! Big Beats is available in six great-tasting flavours. 'Microjazz for the next generation, more dramatic, more interactive. It looks and sounds great - another surefire success' (Piano Magazine, December 21

3 Original Pieces for Saxophone Quartet. Three works with quotations from well-known composers are contained in this tongue-in-cheek collection. Otto M. Schwarz has produced an outstanding recording of these works with members of the Slovak Philharmonic, which is available on all streaming and download platforms. 1. THE AMADEUS WATCH: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?s own watch ? if he had one ? ticks away. The ticking carries us back in time with a piece that stylistically imitates the music of the 18th century in melody, harmony and rhythm. 2. COMPOSERS DINNER IN HEAVEN: At the music publisher De Haske, a composers? dinner was an integral part of trade fairs or meetings. The dinner was very popular among anyone who sat at it, not least of all because it offered one the opportunity to chat informally. ?Based on such a meeting, Otto M. Schwarz has a composed a work that describes an imaginary dinner of great classical masters on a cloud in the sky. Guess which composers are present by the references in the form of musical quotations and stylistic devices! 3. SCHERZO FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET: The work, in 12/8 time, moves in a rapid furioso. Underscored by a continues eighth note rhythm, the work creates in the listener the sensation of a frantic rollercoaster ride. The theme moves throughout all the parts and, following a chromatically moving chord sequence, ends in a dramatic crescendo.

This book for soprano/tenor saxophone contains pieces for players of Grade 4-6 standard. With works by composers such as Bizet and Vivaldi standing aside the ever-popular Pam Wedgwood and Paul Harris players are sure to find stimulating music that will appeal. Also for ABRSM examinations grade.