Play Along

Sittin' In with the Big Band: Jazz Ensemble Play-Along is written at the easy to medium-easy level. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble to improve your playing 2...

Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. II is more than a fun play-along. This book and Online Audio combination features ten big band charts written at the medium-difficulty level for players with some ex...

Twenty of the best-ever jazz standards for trumpet in melody line arrangements with specially recorded backing tracks.

Ten classic jazz tunes, including transcribed solos and chord symbols, in melody line arrangements. This pack includes demonstration performances and specially recorded backing tracks, featuring a liv...

Jazz-Rock was born in the USA in the late 1960s. With its roots solidy in R&B and rock, it venture boldly into the harmonic complexities of jazz. Since then it has been used by pop musicians throughou...

A collection of jazzy warm-up exercises and solos for players of a moderate standard. Warm up exercises are anessential aspect of daily practice, preparing you both physicallyand mentally for a great...

Trumpet players throughout the world now have a chance to experience the fun and excitement of playing high quality jazz. The play-along CD lets you perform your duets with Allen Vizzutti.

Playing jazz takes practice... but with this great play-along book, it will be pure fun. The basic structure and the harmonic framework of the pieces are easy to follow, while the diversity of rhythmi...

There are many ways of explaining exactly how you should perform swing music but of course it's most fun to learn as you play. With Swing Starters you will become acquainted with the idea of swing fee...

Bigger Swop is the follow-up to Big Swop - a household name in the wind-playing world. A variety of pieces in different styles, such as R&B, bossa nova, swing and latin rock, pass in revue. This album...

The compositions of George Gershwin have a special place in jazz music. Every professional jazz musician knows the Gershwin songs. Although composed long ago - in the first half of the previous centur...

Favourite opera themes in jazzy arrangementsWell-known classical themes, arranged with jazz and pop elements, making opera fun and appealing for all ages!* Easy, jazzy arrangements of famous opera the...

In this second spin-off to our successful "Pop For..." series, pop meets swing again and thus ensures a unique playing experience in typical brass settings. The ten pop hits from five decades are opti...

Written by jazz musician Bob Mintzer, 14 Jazz & Funk Etudes presents practice and performance aids and explanations in a variety of jazz and funk styles. In addition, the books include a CD containing...

Written for a wide variety of musicians, 15 Easy Jazz, Blues & Funk Etudes will appeal to both aspiring players and to more experienced musicians. For the younger player, particular care is given to r...

Twenty great Ellington tunes and charts arranged for solo instruments and piano accompaniment. The play-along CD accompaniments are arranged in jazz trio, big band, and symphonic settings.

This essential book for jazz ensemble auditions, recitals, festivals, and lessons includes 20 etudes based on the changes to popular jazz standards so players learn to improvise over the chord progres...

This album of rhythm backgrounds features twenty easy solos with suggested improvisations for each song; and features a brilliant solo version with straight' and 'improvised' versions to help you play...

In the 20th Century, the year 1998 to be exact, a new swing sound came to our music. Derived in part from the Big Bands of the Forties, and tempered by the music of such jump bands as Louis Prima and...

Enjoy playing these lush ballads with a band! Bob Wilber, a student of Sidney Bechet and one of the premier clarinet and soprano saxophone players in the world, created these arrangements specifically...

18 exciting student duets performed by Burt Collins, trumpet, George Duvivier on bass and Bobby Donaldson, drums, and YOU! You have a chance to play both first and second parts to these songs, alterna...

An extraordinary program of pieces for trumpet, that every trumpeter will come to play in a life-time, at public appearances in stadiums and other large venues. It ends with an extraordinary performan...

100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Trumpet, the Beginner Series by musician, educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases...

This intermediate-level reading book with accompanying CD (12 listening tracks; 12 play-along tracks) contains very melodic, fun to play blues lines and riffs in various styles/feels. The keys and tem...

Blues music began in America at the beginning of the last century, and has become popular all around the world and was the forerunner of such music styles as rock, pop, jazz and soul. In Kids Play Blu...