Mixed Instruments

Lets you be the soloist! Play the CD to hear fully orchestrated arrangements of the music, and then a second 'music-minus-one' cut allows you to play the melody line. 15 popular songs from a range of categories including Israeli, liturgical, and Yiddish. Books for Bb, C, Eb, and Bass Clef instruments. Melody line and chords.

A fascinating bio and the best songs from the Singing Brakeman, including: Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) The Brakeman's Blues Hobo's Meditation I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now I'm Lonely and Blue In the Jailhouse Now Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel Memphis Yodel My Blue Eyed Jane My Good Gal's Gone Blues My Rough and Rowdy Ways Mystery of Number Five Pistol Packin' Papa T.B. Blues Train Whistle Blues Yodeling Cowboy more.

This collection of 26 tenor sax transcriptions features some of jazz giant John Coltane's most important solos: Blue Train Central Part West Giant Steps Impressions Lazy Bird Moment's Notice My Favorite Things 'Round Midnight and more. Includes a bio, notation guide, alternate fingerings, and discography with historical notes on the recordings.

A true music innovator, composer and saxophonist John Klemmer is credited with paving the way for the smooth jazz and new age genres. This unique book/CD pack contains Klemmer's actual recorded tunes from his hit MCA records Touch and Barefoot Ballet. Following the recorded versions are complete rhythm tracks for soloing and improvising. Songs include: Body Pulse Crystal Fingers Forest Child Free Fall Lover Glass Dolphins Poem Painter Rain Dancer Sleeping Eyes Talking Hands Waterwheels and more, in both concert key for all instruments, and in Bb for saxophone. Includes spoken introductions by Klemmer, a biography, and a foreword by Rheuben Allen, owner of LA's famous Sax Shop.

Regarded by experts as the best jazz recording of all time, the 1959 release Kind of Blue is one of the most influential albums in the history of jazz. This exceptional book features transcriptions of all the improvised solos as well as sketch scores for all the songs from this landmark release. This includes Miles' trumpet parts, the brilliant sax work of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly, and rhythm section parts to use as guides for the feel of each composition. Songs include: So What Freddie Freeloader Blue in Green All Blues and Flamenco Sketches. Also includes background information on the album and notes on the folio. Essential for all jazz fans!

La Quintessenza is a musical approach of the quintessence, the heart of the matter. By focusing a five note motif in a number of variants, de Meij uses this approach to get through to the essence of the musical matter. La Quintessenza is a revised version of the composer's popular composition Pentagram, originally scored for fanfare band, a common European wind instrumentation.

Level III - Marimba or Xylophone and Piano.