Mark Vega s Jazz Solo Series for Trumpet is a great instructional tool for musicians and music students to learn or improve their improvisational abilities in the jazz-swing idiom. There are sixty-six examples in the book, starting at a somewhat easy level and gradually increasing in difficulty throughout the book.
Sections include:
Exercises in all twelve keys using II-V-I and II-V-III-VI-II-V-I chord progressions.
Exercises in all twelve keys using I-VI-II-V-III-bIII-II-V-I chord progressions.
Complete worked-out solos over chord changes to the popular Jazz standards Stella By Starlight, Take The A Train, and There Will Never Be Another You. Includes an easy version of the solo followed by a more difficult one.
Recordings of the choruses of the above pieces, repeated for convenient practicing.
A selected discography of Mark s favourite Jazz albums featuring great Jazz soloists.
