Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble a Comprehensive Method for Jazz Style and Improvisation / Conductor
By: by Mike Steinel ; managing editor, Michael Sweeney
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Published: December 2000
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback spiral
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780793596317
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Instruction & Study - General; Songbooks - General; Music
Notes: CD contents: Disc 1 : Exercises 1-59 -- Tuning notes on track 60 -- Disc 2 : Exercises 60-121.
"Online resources included" - cover.
"Level: 1-2" - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: How to use this book; title: Suggested listening guide for young musicians; title: Jazz is; title: The jazz ensemble; title: Improvisation; title: The rhythm section; title: The basics of jazz style; title: Jazz articulation review; title: Syncopation in jazz; title: Make up your own (Improvise); title: Swingin' with Jack; title: Style review : swing; title: Building jazz chords; title: The blues progression; title: Building the dominant scale; title: Performance spotlight; title: St. Louis blues; title: Harmony review; title: Improvisation review; title: Early jazz; title: Louis Armstrong; title: Improvising on the melody; title: Performance spotlight; title: Building the blues scale; title: Riffs and licks; title: Jazz expression : bends and scoops; title: Improvising with questions and answers (call and response); title: The swing era; title: Duke Ellington; title: Count Basie; title: Performance spotlight; title: Bebop; title: Theory review : the dominant scale (the Mixolydian mode); title: Bebop uses "wrong" notes (chromatic ornamentation); title: The Bebop lick; title: Bebop scale; title: Charlie Parker; title: Dizzie Gillespie; title: Performance spotlight; title: Latin and rock styles; title: Salsa caliente; title: Theory review : the minor seventh chord; title: Building the Dorian mode from the minor seventh chord; title: Blues scale review; title: Jazz fusion; title: Miles Davis; title: Performance spotlight; title: Chord and scale review; title: Blues scales, major blues scales, chord/scale workout; title: Suggested listening guide for jazz musicians