Four Jazz Pieces

Par COROZINE VINCE. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 of the 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, and bass.Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass piano parts,making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues and pentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swing eighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context of accompanying a soloist (comping): in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazz soloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book.If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time you complete it! Includes access to online audio. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 ofthe 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, andbass. Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass pianoparts, making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues andpentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swingeighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context ofaccompanying a soloist (comping) - in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazzsoloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book. If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time youcomplete it! Includes access to online audio. / Jazz / Etude / Piano

Sadie Harrison wrote these jazzy miniatures especially for Helen Burford as a thank you for her performance of ..around and a round.. in 2014. Helen is renowned for her innovative programmes which combine jazz classics with new commissions and works by little known contemporary composers and these pieces celebrate this joyful approach to repertoire. The pieces are titled:I - Pavillion Ferris Stride (Fats Waller)II - Just air and water (Bill Evans)III - Erroneous Monkish (Thelonius Monk)IV - Boogie Woogie Barcarolle (Albert Ammons)Duration: c. 6 minutesFour Jazz Portraits was premiered by Helen at the BrightonFringe Festival on 10th May 2015 at the Friend s Meeting House Brighton.

Welcome to G. Henle Publishers dear Maestro Kissin! We are honoured and proud to be able to publish the first three opuses by world-renowned inspired pianist Evgeny Kissin who for some years now has turned to composing in earnest. The first of these compositions ??? which with this author ought to surprise no one ??? is a cycle of four piano pieces. The ???Toccata??? an insanely virtuosic tour de force in a jazz-inspired idiom has already occasionally been heard performed as an encore at his concerts. With their titles ???Meditation??? and ???Dodecaphonic Tango??? perfectly illustrate the respective moods of these expressive character pieces. The unpretentious ???Intermezzo??? grantsperformer and audience a brief moment of contemplation before the ???Toccata???. Welcome to G. Henle Publishers dear Maestro Kissin! We are honoured and proud to be able to publish the first three opuses by world-renowned inspired pianist Evgeny Kissin who for some years now has turned to composing in earnest. The first of these compositions ??? which with this author ought to surprise no one ??? is a cycle of four piano pieces. The ???Toccata??? an insanely virtuosic tour de force in a jazz-inspired idiom has already occasionally been heard performed as an encore at his concerts. With their titles ???Meditation??? and ???Dodecaphonic Tango??? perfectly illustrate the respective moods of these expressive character pieces. The unpretentious ???Intermezzo??? grantsperformer and audience a brief moment of contemplation before the ???Toccata???.

The Jazz Sax Collection (Alto/Baritone) is an unmissable selection of authentic jazz written and arranged by professional jazz saxophonist Ned Bennett. It includes accompanied and unaccompanied pieces featuring well-known jazz standards with opportunities for improvisation within selected pieces together with performance notes and listening suggestions. This book contains selected pieces for the forthcoming ABRSM Saxophone syllabus. Audio demo and backing tracks of all the pieces will be available online. Suitable for intermediate to advanced-level players (approximately Grade 4 to 7).

Combo Accompaniment (Piano Guitar E-Bass Drums)-Swinging editions each with four pieces for wind quartet - great for playing together with others. You may choose from the books for other instruments in the Swing Jazz or Groove Quartets series to form combinations. This will make the music sound really jazzy. Each piece is recorded on the CD six times. The first time you’ll hear the combo and the four parts as a whole; then follow four versions in which respectively the first second third and fourth parts have been left out; and finally you’ll hear a version with just the combo.

Chris Allen wrote these four jazzy pieces while touring Bedfordshire Schools with three other musicians.Grade: 3 - 5

These extended and quite complex pieces were composed during the second half of 1986 and the first performance was given by the composer on 21 November 1987. The first piece is darkly intense No.2 is a playful and rather sardonic Scherzo with two distinct ideas and is followed without a break by No.3 an extended slow piece. No.4 is a headlong toccata with a contrasting lyrical second theme and the jazz element here is quite strong.

In Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar renowned Guitar guru and author Jim Ferguson helps you to take your playing to the next level.Using common jazz chord progressions this book takes youthrough three primary comping approaches: straight-four moving bass lines and combo variants. In the process you'll learn numerous chord voicings ways to organize them and a wide variety of dynamic rhythmic figures used injazz.Other highlights include the use of guides and pivots chord substitution mastering rootless chords playing with a pianist inverting partial harmonic structures Latin comping chord scales handling modal tunes andmixing voicings.The highly detailed music examples cover most of the common jazz keys and the material comes to life on the accompanying 17-track CD.The pieces featured in Comping Standards For JazzGuitar are in both standard notation and tablature.Watch a preview of Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar:

Easy Jazzy Duets is a collection of contrasting pieces written with aim of introducing music in the Jazz idiom at a very elementary level. All pieces in this book are to be played with four hands at one Piano.

Composed in March 2009 these four graded pieces are typical of the lively jazzy and accessible music from Tony Osborne. Played pizzicato throughout they offer new and exciting repertoire for the intermediate bassist and would be suitable for any concert or occasion. Each piece has its own strong personality and character and the independent piano accompaniments provide music full of fun and energy. Ideal for Grade 5-8 bassists and for the progressing bassist who enjoyed the jazzy challenges and music in Junior Jazz Book 1.

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled yet notated improvisation. Kapustin's monumental set of Preludes and Fugues Op.82 completed in 1997 may well be the most important work written for piano in the genre since Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87. In this sprawling collection Kapustin combines his complete mastery of jazzidioms with a thorough assimilation of contrapunctal techniques like canon imitation inversion and augmentation. Ingenuously each prelude and fugue pair share their motivic material.

Quand il s'agit de la technique de cueillette de droite, les guitaristes sérieux ont attendu patiemment un livre complet pour répondre à ces compétences spécialisées. Jusqu'à présent, le rock, le blues, le jazz et les joueurs n'ont pas eu un livre entièrement consacré à la cueillette de droite. Le guitariste sérieux: Droit cueillette à la main comble cette lacune avec une approche unique, dédié à choisir de jouer que vous avez toujours cherché. Vous apprenez la façon la plus efficace d'organiser et d'utiliser une pioche, et de découvrir des façons d'accroître l'efficacité lors du passage d'une corde à l'. Les cours sont organisés par le nombre de chaînes --- ouverts à une seule chaîne, puis de passer à des exercices à deux cordes, puis trois, tout le chemin jusqu'à six cordes. Les exercices ont été soigneusement sélectionnée développé dans les idées et lèche musicales pour donner un exemple clair de la façon dont vous pouvez incorporer les exercices dans votre propre jeu. De cette façon, vous serez jouer de la musique, et pas seulement des exercices. Droit cueillette à la main fournit les outils dont vous avez besoin pour devenir un meilleur joueur de guitare, mais plus important encore, il vous aidera à devenir un meilleur musicien. Le CD d'accompagnement inclus propose des démonstrations des exemples dans le livre. / Guitare

Potes Suite is a set of four contemporary pieces for flute and guitar composed by the flute and guitar duo ?Nuclear Okra.? The pieces are inspired by the rich tapestry of diverse cultures living in the medieval mountain village of Potes, Spain. The suite incorporates a wide variety of musical styles, rhythms, and techniques drawn from folk, flamenco, Balkan, jazz, blues, country, classical, West African, and Latin American genres. Each piece is approximately four minutes in length. Includes access to online audio.