Jazz Sheet Music from Mel Bay Publications

Guitarist/composer Jeff Linsky presents an exciting collection of original guitar music, featuring his trademark blend of fingerstyle jazz, classical, and Latin influences. Accompanied by noted percus...

A varied collection of masterpieces respectfully arranged for solo jazz guitar. From the readily playable to the fiendishly virtuosic, there are challenges for all ability levels including syncopation...

This book will teach guitarists how to construct and play the scales and modes used in jazz improvisation. Through the study of these scales, students will expand their musical vocabulary for jazz imp...

Take it Away! Unlock the secrets of hot take-off lead Guitar as played by the greatest players from the greatest bands. Western Swing master Joe Carr has transcribed the great Guitar solos from the Bo...

This exhaustive yet compact (5 1/2'x8') QWIKGUIDE chord reference shows chords from simple triads through myriad extensions of the dominant seventh chord, all in grid format only. All voicings and var...

Joe Diorio is an accomplished guitarist and composer as well as a respected music educator. In this book hecombines his skills to present innovative "intervallic designs" for the guitar. Written in st...

This collection celebrates the pioneers of jazz music with 17 pieces composed between the turn of the last century and the end of the 1930s. There are classical ragtime numbers, jazz band tunes, strid...

Music critics and performers alike have hailed Joe Pass as one of the finest jazz musicians to have ever lived. This book effectively combines five previously published books by Joe Pass in a single c...

Larry Coryell discusses and illustrates scales, modes, finger exercises, improvisation and chords. This book offers notation, tablature, and three audio CDs for the intermediate to advanced student.

Presents hundreds of improvised melodic lines played by Joe Pass. Each of the melodic lines are grouped in the harmonic situation in which they were originally played (i. e. all minor lines are presen...

In this book and the accompanying online audio, master jazz guitarist Frank Vignola has taken eight different jazz standard chord progressions and recorded rhythm Guitar parts so you can play along an...

Knowing your arpeggios is essential to becoming a complete guitarist. In this book you will find written out all of the arpeggios that you will need to learn and commit to memory. This book includes M...

Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This bo...

This Essential Jazz Lines title offers in-depth explanations into Wes Montgomery's improvisational techniques as well as his approach to different chord progressions found in many Jazz standards.

John 'Bucky' Pizzarelli is one of the best known 7-string players alive. For more than half a century, 'Bucky, ' as he is affectionately known, has been a part of the fraternity of musicians who have...

This book contains a study and breakdown of 'harmony in 4ths'. The introduction of quartal harmony in modern jazz began in the 1960's. Compositions by Miles Davis and John Coltrane such as 'Impression...

A comprehensive jazz chord dictionary containing essential barre chord and rhythm chord forms. Included are chord forms ranging from major, minor, and dominant 7th shapes to extensions such as minor 7...

Designed for beginning Piano students who are looking for fun, modern music to play, Jazz Piano For The Young Beginner includes an introduction to the theory behind playing the instrument as well as 3...

What if Chopin wrote music during a different era of history? The answer is this collection of Frédéric Chopin’s most famous pieces, arranged in the style of jazz, guaranteed to surprise audiences and...

This book will give bassists insight into many of the scales used in jazz. Each scale is presented with standard notation, tablature, and fingering patterns for both one octave and two octaves. The bo...

Clifford Brown was one of the most influential jazz trumpeters and was a true master of jazz. His fantastic tone, time, feel and command of the jazz language have been inspiring jazz musicians on all...

Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This bo...

Quiero Tocar El Saxofon, del reconocido autor Victor M. Barba es de verdad un libro muy bueno para aprender a tocar el saxofon, porque viene muy bien explicado y facil de entender. Ya sea que quieras...

This collection of ten jazz etudes with accompanying audio provides intermediate to advanced alto sax students with a fun and effective way to learn to play in the specific odd meters: 3/4, 5/4, 7/4,...