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August 2009 Update
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August 2009 Update Newsletter
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Hello again from ejazzlines!
Thanks to everyone who has kept the ejazzlines Chart and Arrangement Preserve humming with vibrant activity this August.
We are working very hard along with all of you to prepare for another academic year, and to continue to improve our selection,
in all styles and levels, and we truly appreciate the response we have received this summer.
More and more new publications will continue to augment our offerings, from more of our very own Jazz Lines Publications charts
(which now number 62 titles with more forthcoming very soon), to more of the excellent catalogs of 32 Music, FJH, Lorenz, Barnhouse and other newcomers, to all of the new items from the other publishers whose music you are used to finding on our site.
Please keep an eye on our new release pages, as the next month will see a continuing bounty of new music present itself on a very regular basis.
Jazz Lines Publications continues its exciting growth with our latest, the just-published Yellow Days
from the classic meeting of Francis A. Sinatra and Edward K. Ellington. This swinging chart is another step in our continuing effort to bring classic sessions to life. Dr. Jonathan Lorentz has
just transcribed for us 2 additional classic and million-selling Andrews Sisters arrangements:
Don't Fence Me In and
Begin the Beguine. These will
certainly make fine additions to your Andrews Sisters collection of arrangements - no female-vocal-trio nostalgic show would be complete without them!
In addition, we also have Sinatra's I Get a Kick Out of You,
and we very proudly offer this alongside our other recent releases of several of Med Flory's Supersax charts.
As promised, we have been working on some classic Ellington charts and more Supersax arrangements, and we will keep everyone posted as to their availability. On another note,
we recently revised our arrangement of Street of Dreams from Sinatra/Basie at the Sands.
We acquired the original Billy Byers (not Quincy Jones as previously thought) manuscript and have fixed some things that were amiss. Our previous
edition was based on a transcription. Well, the transcription was fairly accurate, but the manuscript doesn't lie. So, if you've previously purchased a copy of Street of Dreams from us
send us an email and we'll send you the revised arrangement at no cost.
One of American music's most unique and legendary figures recently left us. Les Paul passed away at age 94 on Thursday, August 13.
Innovation was Mr. Paul's strongest suit and will surely be his lasting legacy, and it is no exaggeration to say that his influence
is found nearly everywhere in modern rock music and electric guitars today. Paul built and revolutionized guitars, developed what
became many standard recording techniques, was a million-selling performer with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s, and played
regularly at the Iridium in New York City on Monday nights until the end of his life. Yes, it can be said that Les kept busy
and got the most out of his life. Les Paul was more than an icon, he was literally a living legend whose ideas helped music progress
infinitely throughout the second half of the 20th century. He will be missed, but he will live on forever in the guitars,
recording innovations, and songs he made essential parts of American music.
We once again would like to mention our new and growing Non-Jazz Items section.
This area will continue to offer a wide array of performance,
documentary,
and theory/method DVDs,
songbook collections,
theory/method books,
play-alongs from many styles,
as well as a variety of items from just about every other major genre of music. We now have over 150 items,
mostly new releases, ranging from today's chart-toppers to Beethoven to Elvis and an awful lot in between.
Please take a minute and let us know what you think of this new area of our site.
For those of you who like to keep up with new jazz releases, below are some items that you may wish to know about.
We once again thank everyone for your support - it is sincerely appreciated every day of the year!
Rob and Doug at ejazzlines
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In addition to the below, other brand new DVDs include a reissue of a 1986 Dave Holland Quintet
show, a 3 CD/1 DVD set from Johnny Griffin,
Richard Galliano's Trio live,
and two more volumes of the outstanding All You Need is Love series.
ALL AUGUST 2009 DVDs
ALL JULY 2009 DVDs
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JAZZ ANATOMY
This 2-DVD set decodes the structure of jazz guitar revealing a remarkably clear approach for comping, melodic development and improvisation. Mimi Fox presents five grooves and progressions that are common to thousands of tunes; Major Blues, Minor Blues, Modal, II V I Major and II V I Minor. Each form is covered across 8 video lessons, starting with basic concepts, lines and comps, and then progressing to more advanced material. All of the material is easily translated to any key and all solos and examples are transcribed for reference.
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INSIDE OUT IN THE OPEN
In this 60 minute documentary, director Alan Roth explores the history and the inner workings of the musical movement known as free jazz. Interviewing only musicians, Roth examines the creative process that these artists go through, to create the expressive, nonlinear style that has become a subculture in and of itself. The documentary's subjects discuss their own techniques and skills, as well as both the technical and emotional aspects of their material.
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FREEDOM NOW
DJ Spooky and Matthew Shipp represent the quintessence of contemporary New York sound. Their music is both sophisticated and untamed, a subtle blend of free jazz and hip-hop. Their concerts exude an urban energy that springs directly from street music, but with an element of historic, cultural, and social conscience. Here, a radical yet simple shooting method captures this bold energy: four handheld cameras onstage with an interior, embedded point of view, caught up in a whirlwind of rhythms and hyper jump-cut editing that saturates the senses.
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BEST OF JAZZ IN BURGHAUSEN, VOLUME 3
This concert program captures the most riveting performances at the Burghausen International Jazz Festival in 2007 and 2008, with appearances by Brad Mehldau, Jaques Loussier, Michael Camilo, Paul Kuhn, The Leaders, Tim Ries, Eb Davis, The Dutch Swing College Band, and many more.
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Alfred has an interesting brand new series entitled Instrumental Solos By Special Arrangement,
available in eight different editions. We also recommend Music Minus One's newest,
Play Ballads With a Band,
available in five editions thus far. Daily Grooves for Bass
is among our newest offerings, as is Swinging Jazz,
the latest in the Jazz Piano Solos Series. The Easy Latin Fake Book
makes 100 wonderful tunes very accessible (for C instruments). Finally, the
Jazz Guitar Chord Melody Solos series offers two new books-the music of
Irving Berlin and
Latin Standards.
ALL AUGUST 2009 BOOKS
ALL JULY 2009 BOOKS
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EXPLORING JAZZ TRUMPET
This book provides a comprehensive guide to jazz trumpet. Each chapter contains tunes and exercises that will improve your playing in all areas: your technique, reading, creativity, improvisation and theory will all benefit as you gain an
understanding of the history of jazz and of its innovators. Author Ollie Weston introduces you to the language of jazz and then goes on to focus on musical and theoretical concepts. Key techniques and styles explained include blues, bebop, chord types, funk, pentatonics, Latin, II-V-I progression, modal, and song forms and turnarounds.
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DAVE FRISHBERG PLAY-ALONG
For use with all Bb, Eb, C and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. This volume is a collection of tunes from Dave Frishberg.
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JADE VISIONS: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF SCOTT LAFARO
Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott La Faro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, La Faro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when he was only 25 years old. La Faro's sister and well-known jazz experts, including Gene Lees, tell the musician's story.
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OSCAR PETERSON: A ROYAL WEDDING SUITE
Note-for-note piano transcriptions from Peterson's 1981 CD celebrating the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Beautiful and uplifting music from one of history's greatest pianists.
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AUGUST 2009 BIG BAND CHARTS
JULY 2009 BIG BAND CHARTS
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YELLOW DAYS: SINATRA/ELLINGTON
Yellow Days comes bouncing to life in this arrangement, which has been engraved from the original manuscript: this is not a transcription. This chart swings in classic Sinatra AND Ellington fashions.
This is a Billy May arrangement, though we believe that Ellington may have had a hand in arranging sections or at least provided suggestions.
Curiously, an arranger's name is not stamped anywhere on any of the manuscript parts or score.
Most of this arrangement sounds more like the Count Basie band with whom Sinatra had previously worked. This is a classic arrangement
of a very melodic and underplayed standard.
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DON'T FENCE ME IN: BING CROSBY WITH THE ANDREWS SISTERS
Vic Schoen's arrangement of the Cole Porter classic 'Don't Fence Me In' became a huge hit for Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters in 1944.
Supposedly Crosby went into the studio on July 25, 1944 having not previously seen or heard this song and within 30 minutes, he and the Andrews Sisters
had made the recording, which later sold over a million copies and topped the Billboard charts for eight weeks in 1944-45.
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BEGIN THE BEGUINE: ANDREWS SISTERS
This is Vic Schoen's great arrangement of Begin the Beguine that was done for the unstoppable Andrews Sisters.
The sisters had a major hit with this arrangement in 1939. The chart opens in a Dixieland 2 feel and stays there until measure 51 where it changes to a swing feel in 4.
The vocal parts have been written out as-sung. Tenor saxophone 1 is on clarinet throughout (though the part can be played on tenor if need be).
As is the case with most of the Andrews Sisters arrangements, there are great band fills in between vocal phrases.
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PICTURE FRAME: DAVE SAMUELS
Composer Dave Samuels has arranged this medium-level Bossa Nova big band arrangement featuring marimba or vibes.
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In our constantly active effort to present the best selection of interesting new items for you, as of this newsletter we have added
46 new CDs for the month of August 2009 and
51 for the month of July 2009;
27 new DVDs for August 2009
and 28 for July 2009;
77 new music books for August 2009
and 64 for July 2009;
14 new big band and combo arrangements for the month of August 2009
and 141 for the month of July 2009.
We again admit it, we do like to keep track, and we would like to once again point out that our jazz-related DVD selection is now straining the shelves at over 2100 titles and still growing every single week! We have the live performance DVDs, the documentaries, the method DVDs, the personal master classes - we proudly offer a selection of jazz and jazz-related DVDs that is truly second to none.
As always, please keep in mind that many of our new releases are available in limited quantities. We do our best to predict demand and fill orders as quickly as possible, but we do run out of new releases. Even if we run out of stock, everything featured in this newsletter should be available to ship within 3 weeks.
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