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January 2012
| January 2012 Newsletter: The Latest From Jazz Lines Publications and a Recap of the 3rd Annual JEN Conference
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Jazz Lines Publications is very proud to welcome the latest three additions to our growing roster of artists: Freddie Hubbard, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Dean Martin. As always, we are very happy to be making available for the first time works by more of the jazz world's true masters, and we are especially pleased to add this trio of greats to our catalog. The first from Tom Jobim is Wave, the beautiful title track from the record of the same name, which is one of the very best in his magnificent catalog. It is the original Claus Ogerman arrangement and we have added an optional synth part so that it can be played without strings. The first Jazz Lines Publications Dean Martin chart is True Love, as arranged by Nelson Riddle on the 1957 disc This Time I'm Swingin'. An optional synth part can again be used in lieu of strings. Finally, we have One of Another Kind, as arranged by David Weiss and recorded by the New Jazz Composers Octet featuring Freddie Hubbard. This will soon be followed by Blue Spirits, Sky Dive, Theme for Kareem, and True Colors. There will also be more releases from Jobim and Martin in 2012, along with many others, so please check out our new release pages frequently.
The third annual Jazz Education Network conference (www.jazzednet.org) was held in Louisville, Kentucky from January 4-7 and was a huge success. Attendance was up significantly from New Orelans in 2011, and the organization continues to grow - in numbers, stature, and excellence. The lineup of musicians, concerts, clinics, and exhibitors was larger and much more impressive as well. All of this figures to continue expanding, and the 2013 conference dates and city have already been announced - January 2-5 in Atlanta, Georgia will be the time and place for the 4th annual gathering. We know it is early, but we also know that not everyone who may be very interested has become familiar with JEN, so we enthusiastically encourage everyone who has not already to check out their website at http://www.jazzednet.org and to seriously consider becoming a member and planning to be in Atlanta in 2013.
Everyone at ejazzlines would like to sincerely thank JEN president and co-founder Dr. Lou Fischer, who was nothing short of amazing to work with as we set up the Saturday night Blues and the Abtsract Truth Celebration Band Concert, which was a huge success. Click here to see some photos of the Blues and the Abstract Truth Band concert (courtesy of Ed Berger). We again thank Oliver Nelson Jr. and Jamey Aebersold for being generous co-sponsors of the event, and special thanks to Oliver for allowing us to have the privilege of publishing his father's timeless, classic music.
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, we also would like to again mention December's highlights, which included the long-awaited Jazz Lines Publications release of Eddie Sauter's Focus Suite. There were also several more in the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band Series: Cubano Be, Manteca, One Bass Hit, and Two Bass Hit. We also have more of the very popular Little Big Band charts from Hal Leonard: All the Things You Are, Attitude Dance, and One Note Samba. Kendor has several new releases as well, including Lennie Niehaus' Chordally Yours and Les Sabina's Maximum Trajectory. The ever-popular Michael Buble is represented by brand new charts of Don't Get Around Much Anymore, The Way You Look Tonight, You're Noboby 'Till Somebody Loves You, and I've Got the World on a String. Please check back, as there will be many more new releases throughout the rest of the month.
All January 2012 New Arrangements
All December 2011 New Arrangements
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WAVE: ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM/CLAUS OGERMAN
This arrangement of Wave was written by Claus Ogerman and recorded on the 1967 album Wave. Featured is piano accompanied by 3 flutes, trombone, guitar, bass, drums, and strings. An optional synth part has been included so that this may be played without strings. |
TRUE LOVE: DEAN MARTIN/NELSON RIDDLE
In 1957 Dean Martin recorded the album This Time I'm Swingin' with studio orchestra arrangements supplied by Nelson Riddle. Here is the arrangement of True Love as recorded by Dean on that album. This has been published directly from the original score and parts. This arrangement features a full big band with a string section. We have included an optional synth part so that it may be played without the strings. |
ONE OF ANOTHER KIND: FREDDIE HUBBARD/DAVID WEISS
This chart of the Freddie Hubbard standard was arranged by David Weiss and recorded by the New Jazz Composers Octet in 2000 (with Freddie Hubbard). It has been arranged for alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, and drums. |
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL: CLAUDE THORNHILL/GERRY MULLIGAN
This was arranged by Gerry Mulligan in 1947 for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. This chart remained in the band book and was performed and recorded a number of times over the years. Written to feature pianist and leader Claude Thornhill, this chart is full of the rhythmic and harmonic sophistication that Mulligan later became known for. |
PEER GYNT SUITE: DUKE ELLINGTON/BILLY STRAYHORN
Includes five movements: Morning Mood, Hall of the Mountain King, Solvejg's Dance, Ase's Death, and Anitra's Dance. Instrumentation is 5 saxes (clarinet doubles), 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, piano, bass, and drums. For purposes of accuracy, the manuscripts were cross-checked carefully with the original Columbia Recordings, Duke Ellington Three Suites (Columbia CK 46825). Solos from the Ellington recording are transcribed. The music was edited by Walter van de Leur and Jeff Lindberg. |
ARMANDO'S RHUMBA: MIKE TOMARO
From Chick Corea's My Spanish Heart album, this tune is not really a rhumba, but rather an extremely energetic samba. This chart features dynamic and challenging passages for the entire ensemble and also ample room for soloists. |
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January's new books feature a wide selection of items for many instruments, by some of the jazz world's best educator/authors. In addition to the below, we have four more play-alongs from Hal Leonard, featuring the music of Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, and Henry Mancini, as well as Jazz Covers Rock, which has rock hits arranged in a jazz style; in addition to Easy Latin Standards, Alfred has also released rhythm section editions of Vols. 1 and 2 in their Jazz Play-Along Series, Strayhorn & More and Swingin' Now; the music of Bill Evans is featured in Vol. 19 of the Jazz Piano Solos Series; Advance has recently published The Forgotten Chords by Peter Herborn; Mel Bay gives us Latin American Guitar Ensembles; and Tony Bennett Duets II is finally also available. December's best featured four editions of Sher's latest, the Latin Real Easy Book; both the Fundamental and Advanced editions of John Ferrara's Jazz Piano and Harmony; Helena Jobim's excellent biography of her legendary brother Antonio Carlos; and Aebersold's latest play-a-long volumes: Cry Me a River, On the Street Where You Live, and Pennies From Heaven.
All January 2012 New Books
All December 2011 New Books
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HIP LICKS FOR SAXOPHONE
The latest from Greg Fishman, Hip Licks for Saxophone is designed to help saxophonists develop fluency in the jazz language by providing mainstream jazz vocabulary (swing/bop/post-bop) that nails the changes and lays great on the horn. Think of Hip Licks for Saxophone as a musical reference book, like a dictionary of great licks in all twelve keys, available when you need it. Hip Licks for Saxophone is an indispensable resource that can immediately show you how a professional player would approach those tough keys and chord progressions. |
CHARLIE PARKER REAL BOOK: C EDITION
Features 57 signature songs that this bebop genius either composed or co-wrote, all in Real Book style! Included are Ah-Leu-Cha, Anthropology, Au Privave, Billie's Bounce, Bloomdido, Blues for Alice, Chasing the Bird, Confirmation, Dewey Square, Donna Lee, KC Blues, Ko Ko, Moose the Mooche, Mow's the Time, Ornithology, Parker's Mood, Scrapple from the Apple, Yardbird Suite, and many more. |
WHOLE NOTES: A PIANO MASTERCLASS
Concerned with how as well as what to play, Whole Notes is both a piano method book per se and, more importantly, a guidebook to accompany the reader's personal journey into music. Posture, practicing, mental and physical health, using weight and force, economy of movement, and expression are some of the topics addressed. These themes are amply explored through detailed piano arrangements of Armen Donelian's compositions, and they are clearly connected to principles of physics, anatomy and holistic development as well as music theory, rhythm, analysis and composition. These themes and principles are of universal interest to all musicians. As a practical inquiry, Whole Notes offers many options for creatively applying and integrating them for individual use. For this reason, the needs of non-pianists are also discussed. |
SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE
Something Borrowed, Something Blue is a broad survey of the wider principles of harmony, form, adaptation, and developmental technique underlying jazz composition in its various instrumental formats. This book examines compositions ranging from those for solo piano to large ensemble, from common forms such as blues and 32-bar songforms to extended through composed pieces, to those based on adaptation of European classical formal procedures such as fugue and rondo. Such topics as individuality of voice, cultural and historical influences, the contrafact, formal appropriation, pantonality, reharmonization and the use of counterpoint are among those covered. Composers represented include a wide range of stylists, from Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, to Gil Evans, Mary Lou Williams, Herbie Hancock, Oliver Nelson, Hermeto Pascoal and John Lewis, among many others. |
REAL LATIN PIANO
The Real Latin Piano, authored by Kiki Sanchez, teaches how to play the most important Latin rhythms on the piano such as: Salsa, Cumbia, Gaujira, Timba, Cumbia, Bolero and other styles. In addition, the book explains clearly how to perform Latin piano grooves on clave 2-3 and 3-2 as well as showing the traditional Salsa arranging structure and how to perform piano montunos using American jazz harmonies. Sanchez's vision is to expand your musical abilities and have a better understanding about how to play several Latin rhythms on the piano. These will not only help you with your piano abilities, but will enrich your musical knowledge as a producer, arranger and educator. |
JAZZ PIANO COMPING
Learn the essentials of accompanying soloists and playing in jazz ensembles. Comping is the practice of using chords to accompany a melody. Whether supporting a soloist, playing in an ensemble, or performing solo, this book will help you to use chords effectively and appropriately to create a rich jazz sound and enhance the sonority of your whole ensemble. It begins with triads and voice leading, and progresses through altered seventh-chord spread voicings for two hands, covering many different techniques for using harmony and rhythm. The accompanying CD lets you practice with a small jazz combo. |
SYMMETRIC SOLUTIONS: THE WHOLE TONE WORKBOOK
In Symmetric Solutions: The Whole Tone Workbook, author Bruce Saunders uses exercises, etudes and chord progressions from jazz standards to explore the sound of the whole-tone scale, the augmented scale, and drop-2, drop-3 and drop-2/4 chord voicings applicable to them. Topics include blues, rhythm changes, Giant Steps, patterns, approach notes, "across the bar line" phrasing, and examples from jazz greats such as Joe Henderson, Wes Montgomery, Mike Stern and Wayne Krantz among others. This book is full of great sounds that you can use on standard jazz progressions, vamps, funk tunes, Brazilian tunes -- whole-tone can be used just about anywhere. |
VOCAL WARM-UPS
Singing requires putting the rest of your busy life aside and focusing on both the physical and creative components of making art through sound. Just like athletes, musicians must warm up to be limber, relaxed and ready to perform, and to prevent strain or injury. These 25 warm-ups are designed to take your voice and body from their everyday habits and routines and to focus and prepare them to sing well. The exercises begin with broad, large-muscle relaxation techniques and breathing work, and move on to a gradual, relaxed warm-up of your voice and strengthening of your vocal skills. The CD contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so you can sing along. |
EASY LATIN STANDARDS PLAY-ALONG
The Alfred Jazz Easy Play-Along series goes beyond other play-alongs. Each volume has parts for C, Bb, Eb, and bass clef instruments and includes a sample jazz solo written out for you to listen to, play, and practice. There is also an edition for rhythm section. The included CD has a demo and play-along track for each tune. The demo track, featuring a pro rhythm section and horn player, is a learning tool for the melodic concept and overall jazz style, and includes a sample jazz solo. The play-along track allows a soloist or group to learn and perform with the rhythm section. Specific improvisation tips and suggestions are included. The included sample jazz solo is an invaluable asset that makes learning how to improvise easier. |
BUILD IT SOLID: DOUBLE BASS LEVEL TWO
Build It Solid - Double Bass Level 2 is the next step in your pursuit of mastery over the double bass. The material presented here is predicated on the assumption that you have already completed the book, Strong Foundation - Double Bass Level 1 (also available, catalog number SF). Build It Solid - Double Bass Level 2 will provide a systematic approach to help you focus your practicing and build that solid foundation needed to reach the higher levels of bass playing. When your playing can be described as solid, you will be in demand as a bass player. |
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In addition to the below, January's latest include the 2-volume Electric Country Blues from Jim Weider, and several DVDs from Alfred focusing on shred guitar, which contain concepts appropriate for all guitarists who wish to have a comprehensive, varied style. December's best included the newest in the Solos: The Jazz Sessions series, featuring Joe Lovano; Keith Jarrett: Love Ship, which in addition to the previously released Charles Lloyd Jazz Casual footage contains a 30+ minute jam from 1970 with Miles Davis' group featuring Jarrett, Chick Corea, and Jack DeJohnette; the Larry Carlton Trio New Morning Paris Concert; the Modern Drummer Festival 2011; and the amazing box set which has all of Miles Davis' Montreux appearances on DVD: Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection.
All January 2012 New DVDs
All December 2011 New DVDs
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MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: THE SINATRA LEGACY
Backed by a thirty-two-piece orchestra, Michael Feinstein takes you on a musical journey of Frank Sinatra and his contemporaries. Through timeless songs performed in the unmistakable Michael Feinstein style he conjures up the biggest musical legends of a golden era using their extraordinary music, spiced with intimate stories about their larger-than-life personalities. It sings - and it most definitely swings - with all-new arrangements that bring these classic songs up to date and pays tribute to a time when this music perfectly captured the American spirit of boundless optimism. |
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN: OUT OF TIME
Emmy and three-time Grammy winner, producer, singer, songwriter, and drummer (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck) Narada Michael Walden presents Out of Time from the Drum Channel. Narada explores his various styles of drumming and gives us both studio and live examples in an entertaining, educational format. This video contains instructional tech chapters, interviews, downloadable charts, and play-along audio, as well as history and other bonus material. |
| As of this newsletter we have added 10 new DVDs for January 2012 and 15 for December 2011; 35 new music books for January 2012 and 45 for December 2011; 24 new big band and combo arrangements for January 2012 and 30 for December 2011.
As we send the first of our 2012 newsletters, our DVD selection now contains 2499 titles! We vow to continue our efforts to present the very best jazz and jazz-related DVD selection anywhere. We invite you to browse our easy-to-navigate DVD pages today-we have jazz, blues, funk, and soul; live and documentary; method and master class; and much more - we are proud to 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 1 to 2 weeks.
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