Music Minus One Trumpet-Here is an amazing new offering from Music Minus One which is being released in separate versions for trumpeters tenor and alto saxophone players and for trombonists. Play section lead and solos in eight new arrangements recorded by Peter Ecklund and the Messengers of Swing! Includes two swinging instrumentals made famous by Count Basie and Lester Young and six original …

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrate the off-color blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops but Bo Carter's pencil won'twrite no more! There's lots of variety with songs from the 1930s 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful ragtime chord changes. Fred …

Examine the development of country mandolin performance during the 1930s with this book by Joseph Weidlich. During that decade the mandolin became a featured solo instrument requiring players to quickly develop a new style of playing in order to give vocalists a break from singing particularly in the popular brother act format. As the decade progressed numerous idiomatic techniques were tested …

Method and Solos for Jump Blues Guitar 2-DVD Set-Cult figure rock & roll legend and music writer Cub Koda defined jump blues as 'an up-tempo jazz-tinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid- to late '40s. Usually featuring a vocalist in front of a large horn-driven orchestra or medium sized combo with multiple horns the style is earmarked by a driving rhythm intensely shou…

Flathead 5 String Banjos Of The 1930s And 1940s-While Gibson produced literally thousands of banjos prior to WWII only a handful were made in the now most desirable configuration: the Original Flathead Five-String Mastertone. Since Earl Scruggs helped to make them the most sought-after banjos in the world over 60 years ago these instruments have amassed a cult-like following.These particular ban…

Most musicians are familiar with the famous Bigsby Vibrato but not as many know about the wonderful Guitars that Paul Bigsby built in the 1940s.Bigsby who was responsible for developing and refining the pedal steel Guitar also built the first modern solid body electic Guitar for Merle Travis in 1948 predating Leo Fender and Gibson's Les Paul by a number of years.The Story of Paul Bigsby tells …

The Two Pieces for Violin and Piano Canzonetta and Scherzetto were written in the late 1940s. The melody of the first is from a 13th-century troubadour song. This edition is based on the score published in the Walton Edition Chamber Music volume.

As Bill Monroe is commonly lauded as 'the father of bluegrass music ' his tunes are standard repertoire and should be studied and memorized by any serious student of bluegrass. This book is a collection of transcriptions innotation and tablature taken from classic instrumentals recorded over a span of 40 years from the early 1940s to the early 1980s. It functions as a 'fake book' for bluegrass st…

Here is the Lost Heritage of the Irish-American Banjo! The Irish-style Tenor banjo has become immensely popular of late yet the roots of Irish influence on American Banjo music extends right back to the 1840s when the legendary Joel Sweeney picked up a gourd Banjo from Black American Banjo players and proceeded to perform 'jigs reels and breakdowns'. Other Irish-Americans played a leading role …

L'enchaînement des triolets de noires ou de croches en chassé croisé avec le piano incite à la danse et rappelle l'ambiance des cabarets des années folles. Cette composition couplée à une autre pièce au tempo plus rapide sera idéale comme morceau d'examen de fin de premier cycle. - Alain LOPEZFormation : Saxophone Ténor et PianoInstrumentation : Saxophone Ténor, PianoNiveau de Difficulté : Intermé…