March 2008

March Newsletter

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Hello again from ejazzlines!

Spring is here, or at least we believe it must be, as the ejazzlines office is once again abuzz with another year of fresh hopes for the New York Mets! In any event, we do have some great new items guaranteed to warm any climate, whether populated by fans of the Red Sox, Yankees, Lakers, Yomiuri Giants, Manchester United, or Real Madrid. We have a brand new live DVD from the great Wynton Marsalis, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. We also have a new one by Anita O'Day, filmed live in Tokyo in 1963, when Anita was at one of the peaks of her long career. We are also proud to announce Dave Stryker's first DVD, with his organ trio, filmed in Louisville about a year ago. The DVD releases of the late Emily Remler's two Hot Licks lessons have been long-awaited, and are here at last. We also have a very interesting new documentary on Jazz In Europe, and quite a few brand new guitar education DVDs in this month's listings. Two new drum books from Mel Bay lead off March's book releases, one called the Drummer's Workbook, co-authored by the great Danny Gottlieb. Inside the Big Band Drum Chart is a book/DVD/MP3 combo package that aspires to educate on all aspects of big band drumming. Hal Leonard's very newest is Torch Songs, a fantastic collection of tunes in a vocal play-along style. Alfred has just released a collection of Cole Porter classics for advanced pianists. Our good friends at Jamey Aebersold just let us know about two new independently published works, Double Vision Duets for Electric Bass and Solo Guitar Etudes and Duets.

Finally, we enthusiastically announce the release of the three most recent publications in the hottest new line of charts out there, our very own Jazz Lines Publications' arrangements of Frank Sinatra's Too Marvelous For Words, Helen O'Connell's Get Happy (arranged by Sammy Nestico), and Helen Forrest's I Cried For You (with Harry James), which we are very pleased to add to our home-grown and ever-growing catalog of charts.

We feel called upon to again mention an outstanding collection of Jazz Master Class DVDs from a series hosted by New York University, which feature some of the true jazz giants who are still with us today. Hank Jones, Barry Harris, and Benny Golson are three of the eight legends featured in these truly unique DVDs, which are outstanding as teaching tools, and also extremely enjoyable for fans of the music and careers of these men. They contain performances, interaction with students, and very interesting dialogues and monologues that must be considered vitally important living jazz history. We strongly encourage fans of these gentlemen to check out these unique, outstanding and hard-to-find items.

JAZZ BAND DIRECTOR INFORMATION:
We recognize that you have many choices of where you may order music from, so we have tried to assemble the most complete and user-friendly online catalog available. We carry nearly 3,000 arrangements from publishers located all over the world. We also have an educational program to provide our vast jazz catalog at discounted prices. All school band directors are automatically enrolled in our program and there is no minimum order to receive discounts. In addition, you may complete purchase orders directly on our website without the need of a credit card. For more information about our educational program, please email or phone us.

If you're hunting for some great jazz band arrangements you may view titles on our website by any of the following criteria: By Month of Release; By Performer (for famous arrangements); By Arranger; By Style; By Difficulty Level; Vocal Arrangements; Instrumental Features; Festival Suggestions; Opener/Closer Suggestions; Holiday Arrangements; Jazz at Lincoln Center Arrangements; and By Group Size (for small group and combo arrangements). If all else fails, contact us; we're happy to assist you with finding what you're looking for.

In our relentless and breathtaking effort to present all that is new and interesting, as of this newsletter we have added a total of 5 new big band arrangements for the month of March 2008 and 18 for February 2008; 26 new DVDs for the month of March 2008 and 32 for February 2008; 18 new music books for March 2008 and 26 for February 2008; 20 new CDs for the month of March 2008 and 133 for February 2008.

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.

In our DVD section, we now carry nearly 1,600 jazz DVDs!

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.

We thank you all again very sincerely for your continued support, and we hope everyone out there has a wonderful month of March!

Doug and Rob at ejazzlines


FEATURED NEW BOOKS: ALL MARCH 2008 BOOKS ALL FEBRUARY 2008 BOOKS
DRUMMER'S WORKBOOK FOR CONTROL AND CREATIVITY The purpose of this book is to provide the student with a comprehensive series of musical rhythms and phrases that will help develop technique, drum set control and provide a steady flow of new ideas to be used for creative musical applications.	INSIDE THE BIG BAND DRUM CHART Inside the Big Band Drum Chart is a first of its kind drum method that uses traditional and contemporary arrangements performed by a 17 piece jazz ensemble as the vehicle to study beats, musical form, ensemble phrasing, articulation, and interpretation. For each arrangement, there is "talk through" information explaining how the composition is played as well as transcriptions of key beats and melodic information that connects the written drum part to the music.
SOLO GUITAR ETUDES AND DUETS This book features studies of harmonic and melodic approaches, modal, chordal, and interval studies that should be analyzed and practiced slowly at first using a metronome and then gradually increasing the tempos, to obtain solid fingerings, dexterity, and acquire the necessary strength and flexibility needed for solo performances.	DOUBLE VISION: DUETS FOR ELECTRIC BASS This book presents four electric bass duets by Andrew LaLasis and Frank Cook. Includes bass melodies and bass accompaniment.

FEATURED NEW DVDs: ALL MARCH 2008 DVDs ALL FEBRUARY 2008 DVDs
WYNTON MARSALIS: CONGO SQUARE This DVD captures Wynton Marsallis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performing a selection of compositions featuring Yacub Addy.	ANITA O'DAY: LIVE IN TOKYO '63 This astounding 1963 live televised concert from Japan is destined to become the quintessential Anita O'Day concert. Anita is backed by a full orchestra. This particular concert has never been released until now. It is a classic performance capturing Anita at the pinnacle of her Verve period.
DAVE STRYKER ORGAN TRIO LIVE In this, his first DVD, jazz guitarist Dave Stryker revisits his roots in a swinging organ trio set captured live at The Jazz Factory in Louisville, KY. Featuring Bobby Floyd on organ and Jonathan Higgins on drums, the groove is deep as the trio works its way through blues, standards, a ballad and 2 originals.	PLAY YOUR OWN THING: A STORY OF JAZZ IN EUROPE The music documentary Play Your Own Thing provides a comprehensive history of European jazz. It explores the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independent of American jazz and the various changes of direction that have repeatedly occurred in European jazz in the search for that "own voice" that European jazz musicians have helped to form.
EMILY REMLER: ADVANCED JAZZ AND LATIN IMPROVISATION This hour-long video with the late Emily Remler covers some of jazz guitar's most important topics, such as true bossa nova style, samba rhythms, unique chord positions, alternating bass lines, syncopated guitar parts, passing chords, jazz minor scales, arpeggio licks, learning to put various scales over certain chords, eighth-note improvisation, II-V progressions and V-I resolutions.	EMILY REMLER: BEBOP AND SWING GUITAR All of the essentials of true jazz bebop and swing are taught here, including Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino styles, working with the metronome on 2 and 4, learning to identify changes, jazz-style blues, turnarounds, practice tips, passing notes and chords, chord substitutions, the "Charleston" rhythm, octave-style playing, Latin swing style, and much more!