Features:

This fake book/history text will help you do that more than any other single publication available!
Easy, but classic, jazz tunes from all eras and styles of jazz!

• Trad Jazz
• The Swing Era
• Classic Bebop
• West Coast Jazz
• The Blue Note Era
• Contemporary Jazz
• “Groove” Jazz
• Afro-Cuban
• Brazilian Jazz

History text in front of each section describes each era and its musical innovations. These short histories of each style of jazz really give the flavor of each era, as well as a discussion of the contributions of each one to the evolution of the music.
Educational material - Page 2 of each tune includes all the things a band director might need to write out for their students:

• Scales for Soloing
• Piano Voicings
• Complete chorus of a Sample Bass Line
• Guitar Diagrams


Special Features
• Each era includes both beginning and intermediate level tunes.
• Features 5-10 tunes from each historical era of jazz. The wide variety of styles included means that every jazz combo will be able to find exactly the material that fits their needs.
• Separate horn harmonies parts for some of the Trad Jazz tunes (to give that authentic Dixieland feeling)
• Many extras — like sample drum grooves, sample comping patterns, Mark Levine essay on scales and chords, complete discography, great photos,etc.
• Tune selection includes a generous helping of “non-swing” tunes to help younger players gain a foothold into jazz.


Table of Contents:

• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
• The Birth of the Blues
• St. Louis Blues
• When It's Sleepy Time Down South
• Flying Home
• Night Train
• Opus One
• Perdido
• Poinciana
• Robbin's Nest
• So Rare
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be
• When Lights Are Low
• Au Privave
• My Little Suede Shoes
• Now's the Time
• Red Cross
• Rifftide
• Social Call
• Things Are Getting Better
• Bernie's Tune
• Line for Lyons
• Look for the Silver Lining
• Nights At The Turntable
• Take Five
• Blue Train
• The Cape Verdean Blues
• Foot Pattin' Time
• Idle Moments
• Lazy Bird
• Sayonara Blues
• Speedball
• Streamlined Stanley
• Highway 14
• In Your Own Sweet Way
• Little O in the Sky
• Simone
• Stand For Jazz
• Sweet Georgia Bright
• Three and One
• Up Jumped Spring
• Eighty One
• I'll Take Les
• Sister Cheryl
• Spring Song
• These Times
• This Masquerade
• Unchain My Heart
• Yeah Yeah Yeah
• Favela
• Fotografia
• Minha Saudade
• Nao Me Diga Adeus
• Suadade
• Si Senora
• Crisa
• Chile Con Soul
• Linda Chicana
• Nadie
• Quindembo
• Yellow Days



Catalog:	EZE3
Publisher:	Sher
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Voicing:	E♭ Instruments
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Pages:	183