Author: Jim SnideroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Selected Solos for Soprano/Tenor Saxophone
Author: Faber MusicPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571521746
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This book for soprano/tenor saxophone contains pieces for players of early to late intermediate level (Grade 4-6). With works by composers such as Bizet and Vivaldi standing aside the ever-popular Pam Wedgwood and Paul Harris, players are sure to find stimulating music that will appeal.
Universal Method for Saxophone
Author: Paul DeVillePublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486823946
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A trusted training method for aspiring and serious players, "The Saxophone Bible" covers tuning, tone production, fingering, breath control, playing low and high ranges, scales, intervals, and much more.
Chasin' The Trane
Author: J. C. ThomasPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late ‘50s and ‘60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influenced both rock stars and classical musicians. There was a mystical quality, a profound melancholy emanating from this quiet, self-contained man that moved listeners—some of whom knew little about music but heard something beyond music's boundaries in the sounds his saxophone created. J. C. Thomas traces John Coltrane's life and career from his North Carolina childhood through his apprenticeship with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis, to its culmination in the saxophonist's classic quartet that played to steadily increasing audiences throughout America, Europe, and Japan.The author has drawn on the recollections of the people who knew Coltrane best—boyhood friends, band members like Elvin Jones, spiritual mentors like Ravi Shankar, and the women who loved him. Chasin' the Trane is the story of a man who struggled against drug addiction, studied African and Eastern music and philosophy, admired both Einstein's expanding universe and the shimmering sounds a harp makes, and left behind the enduring legacy of a master musician who was also a beautiful man.
Rhythm Planet
Author: Tom SchnabelPublisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Public Radio personality Tom Schnabel spotlights giants of the global genre like the late Sufi singer Nusrat Feteh Ali Kahn and this year's Grammy winner Milton Nascimiento, making "Rhythm Planet" both an antidote to the latest flavor of pop and an affirmation of music's power. 125 illustrations, 25 in color.
Dexter Gordon - Jazz Saxophone Solos (Songbook)
Author: Dexter GordonPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476863687
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(Jazz Book). The excitement of a musical career spanning over 30 years is captured here in the 22 solos composed by Gordon and transcribed directly off his recordings. Chord changes for tenor sax and 'in concert' key are provided along with Gordon's own articulations.
HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone
Author: HowExpertPublisher: HowExpert
ISBN: 1648919871
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
If you want to learn how to practice, play, and perform the saxophone for beginners, intermediates, and advanced saxophonists, then check out HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone. HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone will help you build your musicianship from your beginner days to the professional level. The 101 tips sprinkled throughout the book outline the best practices for saxophonists to improve their craft. Early chapters lead you through renting or buying a saxophone with helpful information about superior brands and models. You will learn to assemble your saxophone correctly to ensure the instrument is protected and functions well. This step by step guide will also help you structure your practice sessions, providing ample warm-up exercises, method book and repertoire choices, and strategies for developing scalar technique. The included tone and intonation exercises will help you sound your best, and the scales and arpeggios will improve your facility on the instrument. Later chapters discuss playing expressively and telling a story with your music. You will learn to make the notes on the page come to life with your playing. Strategies are listed for keeping your motivation high and practice sessions productive. Finally, you will read important facts about saxophone repair and reed care. These tips will help you maintain your saxophone for years to come. The back of the book includes an appendix with 151 scales and arpeggios for you to slowly incorporate into your skillset. This book summarizes what it means to play the saxophone. Check out HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone to learn how to practice, play, and perform the saxophone for beginners, intermediates, and advanced saxophonists. About the Author Sarah Cordes is a public school music teacher, professional saxophonist, and writer based in Long Island, New York. She is a Newburgh, NY, native and visits her family there often. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Hofstra University and a Master of Music Education from the Hartt School, University of Hartford. She has performed as a saxophonist in wind ensembles, marching bands, symphonic bands, saxophone quartets, and jazz ensembles. She also sings in a community choir. Sarah’s favorite pastimes include spending time with her husband, visiting her family, reading fiction novels, running, playing the saxophone, and writing poetry. HowExpert publishes how to guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.
Author: National Endowment for the ArtsThe Sax & Brass Book
Author: Paul TrynkaPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879307370
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
(Book). This is the first illustrated history of the horns that have defined jazz since the 1920s and enhanced more recent pop and rock music with their distinctive, classy sounds. Offering superb, specially commissioned photography and inviting descriptive text, The Sax & Brass Book tells the unique 70-year story of these instruments. Exquisite, color pictorials included throughout enhance detailed historical profiles of master brass and woodwind manufacturers, including Buescher, Buffet, Conn, Holton, King, Leblanc, Martin, Sax, Selmer, Yanagisawa and Yamaha.
The John Coltrane Reference
Author: Lewis PorterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135097941
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1141
Book Description
The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and work have never been definitely established. Well-known Coltrane biographer and jazz educator Lewis Porter has assembled an international team of scholars to write The John Coltrane Reference, an indispensable guide to the life and music of John Coltrane. The John Coltrane Reference features a a day-by-day chronology, which extends from 1926-1967, detailing Coltrane's early years and every live performance given by Coltrane as either a sideman or leader, and a discography offering full session information from the first year of recordings, 1946, to the last, 1967. The appendices list every film and television appearance, as well as every recorded interview. Richly illustrated with over 250 album covers and photos from the collection of Yasuhiro Fujioka, The John Coltrane Reference will find a place in every major library supporting a jazz studies program, as well as John Coltrane enthusiasts.
