Big Band-Dedicated to the great jazz vocalist Betty Carter this exciting new up-tempo swing chart is the opening cut on Bobby Watson's big band album 'Tailor Made' (Columbia CK 53416). This 'burner' is perfect as a concert or festivalopener. Includes solos for Tenor Sax and Trombone.
Scored for 3 horns with flexible instrumentation plus rhythm section this set of combo arrangements features written out piano voicings and bass lines as well as drum part suggestions and horn backgrounds for solos. Includes: Sonny's Mood (Sonny Clark) Grant's Tune (Grant Green) Nice and Easy (Johnny Griffin) In Walked Horace (J.J. Johnson) Al's Mist (Al Grey) and The Clan (Curtis Fuller).
From the Don Sickler album Night Watch (Uptown UPCD 27.39) this is a great introduction to some of the more diverse directions that jazz composers have taken since the 1950s. Written with Flamenco-tinged Latin phrases alternatingwith modern swing this is easy to listen to and fun to play.
A comprehensive presentation of chords from basic triads to open voiced harmony using a unique system from one of the guitar's greatest masters. Here at last is the long awaited definitive jazz guitar chord method bymusic legend Chuck Wayne. Not just another guitar chord dictionary this method shows the reader how to arrive at each voicing and how to vary it using Chuck's unique systematic appr…
