Several new educational/instructional DVDs complement the below offerings, including DVDs for guitar, drums, recorder and djembe.
We also recommend January's best, our friend Bruce Ricker's fabulous portrait of
Johnny Mercer, and
Peter Erskine's newest drum DVD,
Everything is Timekeeping.
ALL FEBRUARY 2010 DVDs
ALL JANUARY 2010 DVDs
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG: GOOD EVENING EV'RYBODY
A musical celebration you'll never forget, 'Good Evening Ev'rybody' brings together Louis Armstrong and musical guests for a never-before-released concert performance in honor of Armstrong's
70th birthday at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1970. Enjoy many of his greatest hits from rehearsal to concert, with an array of guests including
Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Jimmy Owens, Bobby Hackett, Wild Bill Davison, and Ray Nance, along with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Eureka Brass Band.
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DICK HYMAN'S CENTURY OF JAZZ PIANO
The entire history of jazz piano is meticulously outlined and demonstrated by world-renowned piano virtuoso Dick Hyman, who emulates the historic styles of various jazz pianists and includes a number of his own originals. This wonderful set provides a history of jazz piano as recorded by Dick Hyman in 121 performances on a set of 5 CDs and 1 DVD. Of particular interest to academics, libraries, and music schools.
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SOUL POWER
Presented in conjunction with the landmark 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between famed pugilists Muhammad Ali and George Foreman,
Zaire '74 was a three-day music festival in Kinshasa that was organized by South African musician Hugh Masekela and American record producer Stewart Levine,
and featured performances by such famed musicians as James Brown, Bill Withers, and B.B. King, among others. The forward-thinking promoters of
Zaire '74 hired a talented team of documentary filmmakers to capture everything from the setup to the performances to everyday life in
Kinshasa and the result is not simply a concert film featuring some of the most popular African and American musicians of the era, but also a pure
cinéma vérité glimpse into a time when the musical crossover between the two nations was just beginning to emerge.
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TOMMY IGOE: GREAT HANDS FOR A LIFETIME
This new DVD from Tommy Igoe focuses on developing and maintaining the physical tools that are essential for every drummer and drumming application: their hands.
At the heart of this life-changing, career-extending system is the three-tier Lifetime Warmup originally conceived in the 1950s by Tommy's father, Sonny Igoe.
Featuring basic, intermediate and advanced levels, the Lifetime Warmup is a challenging routine that weaves its way though standard drum rudiments and original exercises while simultaneously keeping players in command of their basic drumming motions.
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The major publishers have been busy lately, as we have another fantastic selection of new books available.
In addition to the below, Hal Leonard has just started a new Blues Play-Along series, with
Chicago Blues,
Jazz Blues, and
Slow Blues the first three volumes. We also have two new guitar books,
150 Cool Blues Licks and
150 Hot Jazz Licks, both in TAB. Legendary Frenchman
Claude Bolling's work is transcribed in an interesting new folio.
Pedal Control and
Lips of Steel are also recommended to our drumming and trumpeting friends.
January's still-blooming bounty feature the
Art and Soul of Quincy Jones, the
Bud Powell Real Book,
the Oscar Peterson Play-Along, the
Tommy Flanagan Collection of transcriptions, and
Greg Fishman's latest, Tasting Harmony, available in three editions.
ALL FEBRUARY 2010 BOOKS
ALL JANUARY 2010 BOOKS
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REAL BOOK PLAY-ALONG CDS VOLUME 2
Now available: play-along CDs for some of the most popular songs featured in the world-famous Real Book Volume 2! Each volume features selections sorted alphabetically from the second edition. Instrumentalists can play along with a real rhythm section professionally
recorded for these products. Four volumes are available, as well as a specially-priced set of all four. And of course, Volume 1's four sets are also available as well.
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TARGET AND APPROACH TONES
Learn the secret to playing long, flowing musical lines that move from one chord change to the other in a smooth, seamless manner. This book explains "approach tones" (a tone or series of tones
leading to a chord tone of the next chord - usually by a whole or half step) and "target tones" (tones that resolve your phrases and outline harmony).
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KNOW BEFORE YOU BLOW: JAZZ MODES
Santorella's Know Before You Blow series is the break-through approach to improvisation that has been missing and is now offered to all aspiring jazz musicians as an essential resource for
improving their ability to improvise or simply put, play jazz. All seven modes are clearly defined, explained & notated on the text page which precedes each exercise.
These text pages display a diagram of each mode & the compatible chords that work for that particular mode. Santorella's Know Before You Blow is written in accommodating keys for clarinet,
flute, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone and also available in a conductor's edition which contains a complete score and recording of all six horns playing together. This is a phenomenal tool for every music educator for any ensemble at any level.
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GRADUATED SOLOING
This method book by renowned jazz artist Mimi Fox utilizes a unique approach to helping guitarists develop strong solos. Scales, arpeggios, patterns, and syncopated rhythms are introduced in a logical clear fashion.
All of this is then applied to the "graduated" studies that follow.
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PIANO IMPROVISATION HANDBOOK
The Piano Improvisation Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the practical skills and theoretical issues involved in mastering all forms of piano improvisation, including classical, jazz, rock and blues. Whereas most books offer little more than models for
imitation and exercises for practicing, this one adopts an approach specifically designed to encourage and enable independent creative exploration.
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MICHAEL BUBLÉ - CRAZY LOVE
Grammy- & Juno-winning crooner Michael Bublé describes his fourth studio CD as the ultimate record about the inevitable roller coaster ride of relationships.
This folio features all 13 tunes from this chart-topper, including the Van Morrison-cover title track.
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As we mentioned above, we have an exciting new series of Oliver Nelson arrangements coming out in about 2 weeks. Watch for our big band arrangement
newsletter for more details. We'll also have 2 more arrangements from both Gil Evans and Duke Pearson, an arrangement Med Flory did for the Terry Gibbs Dream Band,
and our first Frank Foster arrangement (done for the Duke Pearson big band).
FEBRUARY 2010 BIG BAND CHARTS
JANUARY 2010 BIG BAND CHARTS
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DONNA LEE: MARTY PAICH/ART PEPPER
In 1959 Art Pepper recorded 12 tunes backed by an 11-piece 'little big band.' The Marty Paich charts focused on 'Modern Jazz Classics' including this arrangement of the Charlie Parker composition 'Donna Lee.'
This arrangement features both altos and trumpet 2 playing the first half of the head in unison with just rhythm. The rest of the ensemble joins in for the second half of the head. Solos are for the lead alto saxophone and tenor saxophone.
An alternate part for the Horn in F (trombone 3) is included.
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ALL OF ME: MICHAEL BUBLE
This version is the actual chart recorded by Michael Bublé on his Crazy Love album, and is itself based on Billy Byers' chart for the Count Basie Orchestra.
The piano, bass and vocal lines have been written out as performed. The chart is graded as medium even though the lead trumpet has a written high F6.
The 4th Trombone is bass, and the vocal key is C throughout. There are no sax doubles.
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ANITRA'S DANCE: BILLY STRAYHORN
Here is the Billy Strayhorn arrangement of the 5th movement of Edward Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. Solos for alto and clarinet.
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GG TRAIN: SY JOHNSON
A study in contrasts, this dynamic chart features a blazingly fast swing tempo that alternates with sections in a very slow ballad style. The flexible solo section allows you customize this chart to fit the needs of your band. Recorded live by the Mingus Big Band.
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As of this newsletter we have added 10 new DVDs for February 2010
and 16 for January 2010;
39 new music books for February 2010
and 85 for January 2010;
7 new big band and combo arrangements for the month of February 2010
and 27 for the month of January 2010.
Our constantly growing jazz-related DVD selection now proudly presents over 2,175 titles. 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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