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A moderate swing played around 132 BPM. A fine jazz classic with a catchy melody, written-out solos for trumpet 1 and tr......more
Stompin’ at the Savoy arranged by Mike Kamuf is a great jazz standard played around 156 BPM. This swinger is superbly ar......more
Invitation is a jazz standard performed by all the jazz greats. This swing chart arranged by Erik Morales has a mysterio......more
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Are you a classical player that wants to apply your hard earned instrumental skills to jazz improvisation? Or are you a ......more
Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting t......more
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Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is among the first books to examine music studies refo......more
This title features Alfred Music’s String Orchestra FLEX options. That means that every part in this set is now transpos......more
Let’s go to the moon! Swingin’ on the Moon is a medley of three great American standards is a perfect choice to teach or......more
Written by Curtis Mayfield and made famous in the 1960s by The Impressions, this timeless classic has been covered by se......more
The favorite classic rock shuffle---to know it is to love it! Played around 134 BPM with written-out solos for alto, ten......more
**FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts** **Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on......more
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Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz......more
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The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham’s classic collection of the unparalleled record s......more
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The favorite classic rock shuffle---to know it is to love it! Played around 134 BPM with written-out solos for alto, ten......more
Yep, 2021 marks the 20-year anniversary of the original Chicken" chart arranged by Kris Berg---it’s time to celebrate wi......more
’Round Midnight arranged by Rick Hirsch is a superb chart on a wonderful jazz standard, played around 140 BPM. Typically......more
Yes! Alan Baylock’s arrangement of What Is This Thing Called Love? is a hot swinger played in double time around 110 BPM......more
This title features Alfred Music’s String Orchestra FLEX options. That means that every part in this set is now transpos......more
Let’s go to the moon! Swingin’ on the Moon is a medley of three great American standards is a perfect choice to teach or......more
Written by Curtis Mayfield and made famous in the 1960s by The Impressions, this timeless classic has been covered by se......more
A moderate swing played around 132 BPM. A fine jazz classic with a catchy melody, written-out solos for trumpet 1 and tr......more
Stompin’ at the Savoy arranged by Mike Kamuf is a great jazz standard played around 156 BPM. This swinger is superbly ar......more
Yep, 2021 marks the 20-year anniversary of the original Chicken" chart arranged by Kris Berg---it’s time to celebrate wi......more
’Round Midnight arranged by Rick Hirsch is a superb chart on a wonderful jazz standard, played around 140 BPM. Typically......more
Invitation is a jazz standard performed by all the jazz greats. This swing chart arranged by Erik Morales has a mysterio......more
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It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is aflame with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Har......more
An updated new edition of Ted Gioia’s universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music’......more
In Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and p......more
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My Man Sam by Gordon Goodwin is a tribute to the late, great, brilliant arranger/composer, Sammy Nestico! The medium swi......more
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"Pittsburgh’s contributions to the uniquely American art form of jazz are essential to its national narrative. Fleeing t......more
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Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, Willia......more
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At Home in Our Sounds illustrates the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challenges Europe faced in the afterm......more
In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Blac......more
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Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned......more
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