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Author: gmofclarinet
Date: 2005-04-12 18:15
Hi everyone!
It has been a long time since I've been here! :( lately I have been looking at some jazz music for clarinet. I have this one book that has like 5 songs of Benny Goodman on it. Well...I was wonderin if any of you know of any other songs that I could somewhere that is solo jazz clarinet and piano accomp. ...... I'm trying to learn how to play jazz at the same time.. lolol.. so if any of you could give me some pointers... it would be very helpful! thank you very much!
--Mindy
www.lochwoodacademy.com
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-04-12 21:01
I'm thinking there is a Mel Bay clarinet jazz book....
Bob Draznik
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Author: Gandalfe
Date: 2005-04-12 22:01
http:www.music123.com --> look under jazz clarinet
http:wwwjwpepper.com --> look under jazz music
Get your band teacher to purchase 'But Not For Me' for you to solo with the band with.
Jim and Suzy
Pacifica Big Band
Seattle, Washington
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Author: Clarino20
Date: 2005-04-12 23:00
You could start with the Definitive Jazz series, it is a little expensive and has two seprate books for piano and clarinet. You could get a fake book. You transpose your part up a step and have the pianist improv a chord progression. There are lots of Benny Goodman things out there. Richard Stolzman has a book called aria with a bunch of jazzed up opera arias. Try any of the above, the more music you look at the better of a player you become.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2005-04-12 23:29
When I was a kid -- and I mean just in my first year of learning to play the clarinet -- my Dad used to make me play along, as best I could, with whatever song happened to be on the local top-40 radio station for the last 5-10 minutes of each practice session. (Yeah, the radio had been invented by then.) I think I probably owe whatever ability I have to improvise and play by ear more to that than anything else.
Thanks, Dad!
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: gmofclarinet
Date: 2005-04-14 14:14
Thanks everyone for the info!! I appretiate it...
--Mindy
www.lochwoodacademy.com
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2005-04-15 13:42
Jack...playing to Top 40 radio! Brings back memories. I'm not sure if this was pre "Aebersold" (early 60s) or if I just didn't know about their existence, but I also played to the radio...good practice too, since pop tunes were usually in guitar friendly sharp keys. I also played along with favorite jazz albums...variability in turntable speed made that an exciting experience as well . I really believe the bottom line to learning jazz is to listen to it and keep trying to add that vocabulary to your playing......learning what chords mean can come later.
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