This series of graded albums providing a wealth of jazz repertoire. It contains well-known tunes in accessible arrangements and new pieces specially commissioned from top jazz musicians and educators. The CD with each album provides 'minus-one' backing tracks as well as recordings of full performances.
Written in a medium-tempo swing style the saxes take the lead in the beginning answered by screaming brass figures. Soprano sax and a solo trombone engage in an ongoing bluesy dialogue interspersed with swingin' passages for the entire band. All masterfully arranged by Sy Johnson.
Part of the popular 'Top Ten' series, this collection contains ten carefully selected pieces in the jazz style.There is such variety within the genre we call 'jazz' it seems almost impossible to do it justice in just ten songs, but we've given it our best shot. We've unforgettable standards, like Duke Ellington's 'Take The A Train', and 'Fly Me To The Moon' as popularised by Frank Sinatra - elegan…
Better Get Hit In Your Soul
Boogie Stop Shuffle
Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
Fables Of Faubus
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Gunslinging Bird
Jelly Roll
Nostalgia In Times Square
Peggy's Blue Skylight
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Portrait
Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
Slippers
Sue's Changes / Guitare Basse / 64 pages / Partition Cd
