R&B: Saxophone: Instrumental Album

The 1960s and 70s were decades of flower power short skirts and soul. This new sound forged from R 'n' B and gospel took the world by storm influencing artists across the decades. Play Soul features 10 of the best soul songs ever - from legendary pioneers James Brown Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin to Michael Jackson and Alicia Keys. All songs have been carefully arranged by Richard Harris for the intermediate Alto Saxophone player with easy piano accompaniments and a funky backing CD!

Play with a real band!-Bigger Swop is the follow-up to Big Swop - a household name in the wind-playing world. A variety of pieces in different styles such as R&B bossa nova swing and latin rock pass in revue. This album offers plenty of opportunities to improvise. The live recorded accompaniments on the CD make playing easy and fun!The accompaniment parts (including the chord notation) are on the CD in printable (PDF) format. You can print them out for your band members.

for Tenor Saxophone and Bb Instruments-Andrew D. Gordon world renowned music educator author of over 60 music educational products has previously written numerous books on flute styles such as: ???100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Saxophone??? ???100 Ultimate Jazz Riffs for Saxophone??? ???The Blues Scale for Saxophone??? as well as another book that A.D.G. Productions publishes ???Ultimate Funk Grooves for Saxophone??? authored by Ben Tompsett which have all been well received by students teachers and musicians all over the world. As playing funk styles is a passion of Andrew???s he has written this instructional book ???100 Ultimate Soul Funk and RandB Grooves??? based on the influences of the great Funk Soul and RandB artists suchas: James Brown Herbie Hancock The Crusaders Average White Band Marvin Gaye Miles Davis Stevie Wonder Parliament Ramsey Lewis Booker T and The MG???s MFSB Billy Preston etc. Besides the afore-mentioned styles Andrew has also added a few grooves that are Afro-Caribbean such as: Latin Reggae and Calypso. Each of the 100 grooves have been recorded with the Saxophone part playing along with a rhythm section of guitar bass drums keyboards and in many of the grooves percussion. There is also a three minute Play-A-Long track for each of the 100 grooves minus the Saxophone part so that you can practice along with the rhythm tracks adding up to over 5 hours of Play-A-Long tracks.

Big Beats is a brand new concept from Chris Norton composer of the hugely successful Microjazz series. This fantastic series features elementary pieces that develop musicianship and technique in contemporary styles.The accompanying CD contains brilliant play-along tracks.