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Author: RAB
Date: 2008-06-20 17:06
Hello hope to get some help. I have some clarinet students that play in a community band and they struggle with the pop music. I am looking for some books and duets to use with them. They need basic jazz rhythm studies and duets. Also one of them wants to learn the blues. Anything you could suggest would be helpful
Thanks
RAB
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-06-20 19:07
My sax and clarinet students all enjoy using the "Rhythms Complete" by Bugs Bower/Charles Colin. The book has 26 progressively more complex rhythmic studies, using pleasing jazz licks, each with a corresponding 'rhythm developed' exercise. With this book, I've noticed faster progress than any other method book I've tried.
http://www.charlescolin.com/sax/
I use the alto sax book (which is perfectly fine for clarinet players too) #CC4008.
The tenor sax book (which is identical but lies lower) is #CC4009
Second on my list would be the Lennie Niehaus series (which I also use) "Basic Jazz Conception for Saxophone"
http://www.hornplace.com/BB007.html
This is an excellent series, incorporating basic jazz rhythms into pleasing exercises and original tunes.
...GBK
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Author: brycon
Date: 2008-06-20 21:47
A really great book to have is Jazz Conception by Jim Snidero. You can play along with Jim (a great alto saxophonist) and one of NYC's finest rhythm sections, and then you can turn off the channel with Jim and just play solo with the rhythm section. The tunes get progressively harder from blues to altered rhythm changes to Coltrane changes. This book is very nice because you get to play along with some very accomplished musicians and hear how they phrase and interpret.
Post Edited (2008-06-20 21:48)
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Author: Merlin_Williams
Date: 2008-06-21 03:00
The standard text for teaching reading skills when I was in college was "Alan Raph - DANCE BAND READING AND INTERPRETATION". It's still available from Alfred Publishing.
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Author: allencole
Date: 2008-06-21 19:46
I would second the suggestion of "Jazz Conception" by Jim Snidero. (or maybe "Easy Jazz Conception" if your guys are just starting these rhythms)
These are its advantages as I see them:
1 - Available for a wide variety of instruments, including CD demos of the etudes by name players on that instrument. Flute and Clarinet are available, for example. Ken Peplowski is the clarinetist for the original (advanced) Jazz Conception.
2 - Etudes are written over the chord changes to standard songs in most cases, making the book useful for more than just rhythm training.
3 - The book is available at three levels, and there are also versions for sax section.
4 - The rhythmic styles are more varied than the Niehaus or Bower books, and the swing writing is more modern. (more rests and fewer tied notes cut short).
I think that there are duets available by Bugs Bower & definitely by Lennie Neihaus, and there is a decent series called' "Hip to the Blues" that's available for several different instruments. The Lennie Niehaus book is probably more difficult than the other two.
Jamey Aebersold probably carries most of these materials.
http://www.jajazz.com
Allen Cole
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