There are several new and exciting DVDs since the beginning of the month, surely highlighted by
Michael Buble's newest,
and the two brand new ones from Hiromi right below.
We are also very proud to offer a new CD/DVD package from Jerry Granelli, a bass instructional DVD called
Fishin' for Grips,
and a very interesting looking new piano DVD series from Scott 'The Piano Guy' Houston,
where he devotes an entire DVD each to several classic songs. He takes one through playing Misty, Autumn Leaves,
The Girl From Ipanema, and others, from the very beginning basics and continuing all the way through what a professional might play while working a gig.
ALL JUNE 2009 DVDs
ALL MAY 2009 DVDs
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HIROMI: LIVE IN CONCERT
This DVD features Hiromi live in concert with her trio. One of two brand new DVDs featuring this wonderful young pianist.
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HIROMI'S SONICBLOOM LIVE IN CONCERT
Hiromi and her band are captured live in December 2007 at the Tokyo International Forum Hall. The unit performs several tracks from the 2007 Time Control album and beckons the audience's rhythmic participation on the funk-jazz-fusion workout titled Time Out.
Overall, it's an action-packed audio-visual treat for the heart and soul, augmented by more than a few unanticipated surprises.
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MICHAEL BUBLE MEETS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
International singing sensation Michael Bublé returns to the stage with the live CD+DVD package Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden.
The DVD documents Michael on the days leading up to this landmark show, which was one of the biggest of his career. It also includes live performance and backstage footage from Madison Square Garden as well as interviews with Michael and his band.
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TEN YEARS AFTER: GOING HOME - LIVE IN LONDON
Ten Years After split in the mid-1970s, but reformed for a one-off show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of London's famous Marquee venue in 1983. This show features the full Ten Years After performance from that amazing night.
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FEATURED NEW BOOKS:
In addition to the below, we also have a new bass clef edition of Jamey's Aebersold's excellent Bebop Scales.
We have a new piano play-along featuring the music of Cole Porter.
Franz Simandl's famous etudes for double bass are available in a book/CD package with piano accompaniment.
There are new vocal sing-alongs featuring Cabaret Songs and
Pop Standards for men,
and Sing Broadway for women,
and there also is Jazz Pop, a new play-along for all instruments.
Finally, Alfred has a great new book for solo (high) voice and piano, Great American Songwriters for Solo Singers.
ALL JUNE 2009 BOOKS
ALL MAY 2009 BOOKS
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GORDON GOODWIN'S BIG PHAT JAZZ DUETS FOR SAXOPHONE
Attention saxophone players, do you need a challenging duet book? Composed and arranged by Gordon Goodwin at the medium-advanced to advanced level, these 10 saxophone duets are completely interchangeable for any combination of Eb or Bb saxophones. You can play with a duet partner or use the CD and play duets with great saxophonists Gordon Goodwin (tenor sax) or Eric Marienthal (alto sax). On the included CD, Duet Part 1 and Duet Part 2 are each controlled by dialing in/out the left or right channels on your stereo system.
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EXPLORING JAZZ SAXOPHONE
This definitive book provides a comprehensive guide for the intermediate saxophonist looking for an introduction to the world of jazz. It is packed full of tunes and exercises to improve your technique, improvising skills, score reading, musical creativity, and understanding of music theory. The book provides clear guidance and concise explanations of harmonic and theoretical concepts, with demo solos and authentic live jazz trio recordings on the accompanying CD.
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PAUL CHAMBERS SOLOS: SECRET CHAMBERS
Secret Chambers is a comparative analysis of Paul Chambers' jazz style. This analysis sheds light on Paul's choices and tendencies. An established master of Be-bop, Paul Chambers has been called the Bird of the bass. Included in this 180 page book are over 70 transcribed solos as performed by Paul Chambers.
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SOUL JAZZ
Another new volume in Hal Leonard's fantastic Jazz Piano Solos Series. Contains solo arrangements of 20 soulful tunes.
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GEORGE GERSHWIN: THE DEFINITIVE SONGBOOK
This is THE definitive Gershwin songbook - a truly magnificent collection containing 50 of George Gershwin's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords in a large 216 page volume. This is the first in a brand new series entitled 'The Platinum Collection'. All the songs within this book are newly engraved and have been thoroughly researched and edited to provide the best published edition. No other series can claim to be as definitive as Faber Music's new Platinum Collection.
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SCOTT LAFARO
Here's the first book of Scott LaFaro solo transcriptions taken from the Bill Evans trio recordings Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debbie. The book contains highly detailed transcriptions of all 15 of Scott's bass solos, including the alternate takes.
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FEATURED NEW BIG BAND ARRANGEMENTS:
JUNE 2009 BIG BAND CHARTS
MAY 2009 BIG BAND CHARTS
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MAMBO ITALIANO: BETTE MIDLER
This chart has been transcribed from the album 'Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook.' This arrangement packs a bit more punch than Ms. Clooney's original, and will be an almost guaranteed hit at any concert or dance. The rhythm parts are written out, though your players can lay down their own interpretations if preferred. The backing vocals have been scored into the sax parts, and if your players aren't comfortable singing they can simply play the notes instead. This is a high energy Latin chart, and a great addition to any library. The vocal key is Gm, modulating to Abm for the final chorus. The range is such that it is quite singable by most male singers too. There are no sax doubles.
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MANHATTAN: ELLA FITZGERALD
Manhattan was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, for the Verve album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook". The original Buddy Bregman arrangement was scored for strings, and woodwinds (flutes, oboes, clarinets), harp, tuned percussion and a rhythm section.
This version uses the same counter-melodic lines as the original, but scored for a regular 5/4/4/4 big band instead, with the saxes and trombones taking most of the original string lines. The chart is very easy, with limited brass ranges (trumpets only up to G5, and trombones to F3). The rhythm parts are all written out, though your players can improvise their lines based on the given chords instead. Alto 1 doubles clarinet, though the part has a non-double option too, printed on the reverse. The vocal is "as sung" by Ella, in the key of Bb.
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WRAPPIN' IT UP: BENNY GOODMAN
Wrappin' It Up is a very rare chart from the Benny Goodman book. Like many of his earlier hits, this is a Fletcher Henderson composition, and is up-tempo and delightfully bouncy. Great for the dancers. Goodman re-recorded this chart in 1951, and this later version has been transcribed for this publication. The beat is infectious, the riffs are tight, and all of the solos are written out in full, though your players can improvise from the chords provided if you prefer. The reeds are scored for CAATT, with all saxes written to double clarinets for a short 8 measure passage, though the tenors can avoid the double and play 8va if need be. The tenor solo is scored on both tenor parts. Whilst the trombone ranges are not too demanding (lead to Ab4), both trumpets 1 & 2 need to be able to hit Eb6.
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GIANT STEPS: MARK TAYLOR
Here's a fresh new take on a traditional jazz standard. The style is still up-tempo swing, and the saxes maintain a fair share of the spotlight along with ensemble hits and solo spots for drums. However, there is a brief excursion into 5/4 and a few other meter surprises that help give this outstanding chart a contemporary edge.
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In our ceaseless and Herculean effort to present the best selection of interesting new items for you, as of this newsletter we have added
77 new CDs for the month of June 2009 and
107 for the month of May 2009;
49 new DVDs for June 2009
and 44 for May 2009;
68 new music books for June 2009
and 45 for May 2009;
75 new big band and combo arrangements for the month of June 2009
and 37 for the month of May 2009.
If you haven't visited our Imports and Rarities section lately, please check it out. We are now stocking more and more obscure, rare, and hard-to-find
titles from Japan and Europe, including many titles that you may not be able to find elsewhere.
We are exceptionally proud to once again point out that our industry-pacing jazz and jazz-related DVD selection is now weighing in at over 2000 titles and growing! We have all of 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 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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