Vocal Jazz (Low Voice)

with Recorded Piano Accompaniments Online. The Singer's Jazz Anthology is an exciting new series providing aspiring jazz vocalists and pianists with staples of the jazz repertoire. The singer's portion, matching the original sheet music, is paired with fresh, unique accompaniments arranged in an authentic jazz style and designed to enable the singer to sound like they're being backed by an accomplished jazz pianist. The accompaniments can be performed as written but include chord labels for pianists who are comfortable playing their own chord voicings. This book also includes access to recordings of the series arranger, Brent Edstrom, playing the piano accompaniments for use in rehearsal or performance. This edition features 25 must-know pop standards, including: Alfie · Blackbird · Bridge over Troubled Water · Dream a Little Dream of Me · Every Breath You Take · Fire and Rain · Goodbye Yellow Brick Road · Isn't She Lovely · Rolling in the Deep · (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay · Three Times a Lady · What the World Needs Now Is Love · Yesterday · and more.

Learn the art of jazz vocal improvisation! This book will help you hear, understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo as a complete musician?in the same way that instrumentalists do. Each lesson offers a core musical concept related to harmony, melody, and rhythm, integrating skills such as conducting and analysis. All concepts are reinforced with practical exercises. The accompanying audio tracks demonstrate techniques and let you practice improvising along with a piano accompaniment.
You will learn to:
Develop your sense of timing and swing
Understand jazz harmony, such as tensions and non-diatonic chords, as well as chord progressions such as II V and cycle V progressions, and use harmony as your basis for creating expressive solos
Navigate song forms, such as AABA, blues forms, turnarounds, and other common jazz structures
Improve your ear for jazz harmony through studying intervals and chord progressions, and by memorizing emblematic jazz melodic patterns
Create expressive vocal lines that work well over jazz chords and integrate well within the context of a jazz ensemble
?Mili Bermejo?s Vocal Jazz Improvisation is the most comprehensive vocal book I have ever seen on improvisation. Her years of research and her wisdom and artistry leave no stones unturned. I would recommend this book to instrumentalists as well, to develop their ears and breadth of expression.?
?Jerry Bergonzi, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer, Author, Educator

?I have been a huge fan of Mili as an artist for many years now, and have admired her impeccable skills as a teacher for just as long. Seeing Mili perform in duo with Dan Greenspan is one of the great wonders of the world. They make voice and bass seem like an orchestra, harmonically rich and complete, and emotionally compelling. How lucky for us that Mili has written a book on improvisation from her own assured and gracious vantage point. Her approach is accessible, organic, personal, and best of all, inspiring! She takes the fear factor out and provides tools to make improvisation a truly creative and joyful experience.?
?Peter Eldridge, Jazz Singer, Pianist, Composer (New York Voices)

?Creating awareness is at the core of this beautiful material that was very much needed in the vocal jazz field. Here is a book with clever, effectively organized information for all vocalists to develop a practical framework that covers the foundation to find confidence, strength and ultimately freedom as a vocal improviser.
Mili?s music speaks to the heart, overflowing with humanity, joy, and compassion, and this book does the same. Mili traces a clear path, guiding us step by step along the way. She draws on her own experience, which I must say reflects all vocalists? experience, as we walk this fascinating journey of jazz singing.?
?Magos Herrera, GRAMMY-nominated Jazz Singer

?How lucky for all of us that Mili Bermejo put her decades of experience and skill as both performer and teacher into this book. What a gift! Thank you, Mili.?
?Tierney Sutton, Multi-GRAMMY Nominated Jazz Singer
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with Recorded Piano Accompaniments Online. The Singer's Jazz Anthology is an exciting new series providing aspiring jazz vocalists and pianists with staples of the jazz repertoire. The singer's portion, matching the original sheet music, is paired with fresh, unique accompaniments arranged in an authentic jazz style and designed to enable the singer to sound like they're being backed by an accomplished jazz pianist. The accompaniments can be performed as written but include chord labels for pianists who are comfortable playing their own chord voicings. This book also includes access to recordings of the series arranger, Brent Edstrom, playing the piano accompaniments for use in rehearsal or performance. This edition features 25 must-know pop standards, including: Alfie · Blackbird · Bridge over Troubled Water · Dream a Little Dream of Me · Every Breath You Take · Fire and Rain · Goodbye Yellow Brick Road · Isn't She Lovely · Rolling in the Deep · (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay · Three Times a Lady · What the World Needs Now Is Love · Yesterday · and more.

20 of the best Grades 4-5 Songs selected by the major Examination Boards-The Best Of Singing Grades 4-5 (Low Voice) celebrates the wealth of exciting repertoire featured on the current ABRSM and Trinity College London singing syllabuses.As well as carefully selected range of classical contemporary and folk songs these books bring together some of the greatest jazz standards and Broadway hits ever written all edited to the highest standard and complete with accompanying CD.

Sing! is a complete programme of effective and efficient Vocal Warm-ups suitable for all styles of singing. Also featuring a download card that gives you access to online audio and spokeninstructions so that your voice will be in the best shape possible for any performance.   Written by an accomplished world-class vocal coach with around 30 years experience working with singers in amultitude of genres and styles Sing! Vocal Warm-ups will explain the science behind the intricacies of the human voice while providing you with 39 exercises to help you warm up your voice as effectively aspossible reducing the risk of frustrating strain or injury.    Whether you're a smooth jazz singer a powerful rock belter or a folk crooner this book will allow you to refine various vocaltechniques encouraging you to learn how to protect your voice and prepare it for making the best possible performance. The convenient book will take you through different regimes getting you to sing well low supported long freely and clearly with each one focusing on a different aspect of your voice and your singing technique. You can use the exercises to plan your own warm-up routine or just work your way though.   Using the audio examples provided on the practical and useful download card you will be encouraged to participate as you might in a live warm-up session. The spoken instructions will guide you through while you'll be ableto sing along to the music or just familiarise yourself with each exercise before you try it out for yourself. The logical layout and authoritative exercises make Sing! an essential tool for singers of anystyle to learn how to properly warm-up.   Written by author Paul Knight who has been a vocal coach for over thirty years each exercise has been expertly-crafted to be a perfect way to warm-up your

The ground breaking vocal jazz ensemble Lambert Hendricks & Ross laid the groundwork for all the vocal jazz groups that have followed. Often using their voices like instruments and inventing Vocalese they are examples of what can be accomplished with the voice. This arrangement swings hard and updates the harmonies making it a great bridge between what was and what is.

The ground breaking vocal jazz ensemble Lambert Hendricks & Ross laid the groundwork for all the vocal jazz groups that have followed. Often using their voices like instruments and inventing Vocalese they are examples of what can be accomplished with the voice. This arrangement swings hard and updates the harmonies making it a great bridge between what was and what is.

Shawnee Press continues this top-selling vocal jazz series of chorals by Greg Jasperse with a third installment “VoiceDance III.” Greg has created a wordless vocal dance that has an African feel full of rhythmic percussive and forward-moving vocal expression. Use of repetitive lines allows this work to be learned rather easily. Outstanding for festivals concerts and even multicultural events!

Contemporary English composer singer and Vocal coach Betty Roe is best known for her church and Choral music revue songs music for schools and solo songs like these. This group of three songs sets poems of Langston Hughes concerning the feisty Alberta K Johnson who successfully sees off the census man the minister and Death himself when they come calling.Roe has set the three texts in bluesy jazzy style with delightful sliding and sinister tones to suggest the threat of death. While the score calls for Soprano the highest note is F sharp and the lowest an F below middle C with quite a lot fo time spent in the lower register. A mezzo-Soprano would find this trio ofworks well within range.

Betty's Bossa-This wordless vocal jazz piece is a new original. With music by Jack Donahue and New York Voices member Peter Eldridge this bossa nova work includes rich harmonies with idiomatic Brazilian syncopations. Arranged by Eldridge and fellow NYV member Darmon Meader this version of Chamego (Betty's Bossa) is from the New York Voices recent CD release A Day Like This (permission granted by MCG Jazz www.mcgjazz.org).