By Mike Tracy
Written voicings for 68 jazz standards!
You may have noticed that every jazz musician and teacher has at least some basic piano knowledge. There is a very good reason for that. Being able to sit down at a keyboard and play the chords to a song provides essential harmonic insight and awareness that can't be acqired with single-line study. This book, designed by a horn player with no formal piano training, addresses and explains the basics of authentic, hip sounding chord voicings in simple, non-pianistic language. You'll be comping on your own over Standards in a short period of time. Includes written voicings over many of the most popular Aebersold play-a-long tracks (including 11 tracks from Volume 54 "Maiden Voyage"), so you can comp with bass and drums backing you up! No piano skills are required to use this book effectively. All of the play-a-long tracks can be ordered separately, or you can take advantage of the 21 free tracks provided below. Play great jazz voicings today! 150 spiral bound pages.
Now with FREE online audio Play-Along Tracks: Jamey has selected the 21 most important standards and created bass/drum play-along tracks that can be downloaded for free. The link is inside each book.
Simple, but authentic sounding written comping over:
Afternoon In Paris
All The Things You Are
A Night In Tunisia
Autumn Leaves
Blue Bsosa (Solar Flair)
Blue Moon
Body and Soul
Cantaloupe Island
Cherokee
Confirmation
Doxy
Elvinish (24 bar blues waltz)
Footpritns
Four
Georgia On My Mind
Giant Steps
Girl From Ipanema
Groovin High
Half Nelson (Bebopish)
Here's That Rainy Day
I Got Rhythm
I Love You
I Mean You
Impressions
Just Friends
Killer Joe
Ladybird
Laura
Maiden Voyage
Misty
No Greater Love
On Green Dolphin Street
Pent-up House
Recorda-Me
Saint Thomas
Satin Doll
Silver's Sernade
Sister Sadie
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
Solar
Song for My Father
So What
Stell By Starlight
Sugar
Summertime
Sweet Georgia Brown
Take The A Train
There Will Never Be Another You
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
Tune Up
Watermelon Man
Well You Needn't
What Is This Thing Called Love
Witch Hunt
...and multiple voicings for Blues and "I Got Rhythm" changes!!!
