Advance Music

8 arrangements for AATTB saxophone section with optional rhythm section. Arranged by Jim Snidero. The enclosed CD features complete listening versions and separate rhythm section accompanying tracks.

This medium-up swing features an open solo section and solo space for drums.

The Essence of Bebop is the new series by critically acclaimed New York saxophonist Jim Snidero. The Essence of Bebop reveals the heart and soul of this groundbreaking jazz style and is the first real...

A new and exciting and unique way for drummers to learn and practice how to play in a jazz rhythm section and how to accompany a jazz soloist.This book/CD set features 15 solo etudes based on blues an...

Intermediate Jazz Conception is another addition to the popular series of etude books created by Jim Snidero, featuring some of the finest jazz musicians in the world. This book/cd set includes transc...

Volume two is devoted exclusively to the blues form and is for players of all levels who want to become more familiar with this most important form in jazz. Subjects covered in this book include: VOCA...

Book three is devoted exclusively to the II-V-I progression, rhythm changes and standard tunes and is intended for players of all levels who are serious about learning to play on changes. Subjects cov...

VOLUME FOUR is devoted exclusively to the melodic minor scale and its use in jazz. The concept behind this book is to learn this scale extremely well then to find as many different places as possible...

An exellent collection from salsa to blues to bebop. Easy to medium.

Pastoral Landscape has definite leanings toward Impressionism and late Romanticism. Both of these historical styles have much harmonically in common with the American traditions of popular song writin...

These well-loved tunes have been around for a long time. Perhaps the oldest is Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen, a Negro spiritual that may have been written by slaves. Others come from the latter h...

Each of the pieces that are intended as a continuous suite is in a different key, has a different tempo and rhythmic feeling. A jazz sound and jazz phrasing are essential for playing these pieces.

This work in three movements was written in 1991 at the suggestion of the Canadian saxophonist Normand DesChênes.The character of the opening movement is determined by the sonata form with two themes....

This is a collection of optimistic, uplifting works with modal, jazz-influenced harmonies and infectious driving rhythms.

This folio contains 8 solo transcriptions from Jim Snidero's critically acclaimed CD Strings. Study these transcriptions with patience, an open mind, and the understanding that musical notation can on...

Four Pieces for Alto Saxophone & Piano offer some lively musical world. Each piece marks a different influence in its changing moods, jazz colors and melodic and chord ideas. Every piece extends the c...

Each of the pieces - in their entirety intended to be a coherent suite - is written in a different key and has a tempo and groove (basical rhythmic feeling) of its own. Jazz sound and jazz phrasing ar...

Though I consider myself to be primarily a jazz performer, classical music - above all instrumental baroque music and Viennese Classicism - have always been very important to me. For quite a long time...

This composition is in its own way meant to be a tribute dedicated to Paquito D'Rivera showing the author's appreciation for this musician as an exponent of Cuban music of the past and present century...

Within the framework of this book I can only endeavor to present a mere part of the work educators and instrumentalists have contributed to the field of saxophone studies throughout many years. On beh...

Hasta Luego Sr. Maya (I'll see you later Mr. Maya) is a jazz ballad which was composed in 1992 while I was teaching Saxophone at the Pamplona's Joaquin Maya Conservatory.

Global Tour is a journey through four of my favorite styles of music: funk, jazz, klezmer, and tango. As opposed to a commission or an idea from my publisher, this piece began without any preconceptio...

Skunktown Beanery is written for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and begins with a jaunty rhythmic interplay with the baritone pitted against the three other voices. The interplay continu...

I wrote this joyful and swinging jazz waltz for my son Julian and his girlfriend Nina, both born under the sign of Scorpio. The piece is made up of the following parts: Fanfare-like intro, ABAC - them...

Dew Drop is a fun, easy swinging tune for 2nd - 4th year sax players. It is scored for four alto saxes with an additional two tenor parts that can be substituted for altos 3 and/or 4. This should prim...