Middle Grades Jazz Band Audio Recordings
Please use the music below as a reference for jazz band. Click the title to listen.
Suggestions:
Listen to the song without your instrument. Note the tempo, the swing, the phrasing, and the articulations.
Listen to the song and follow along with your music to see how your part "fits."
Listen to the song and play your part.
Listen to the song and sing your part.
Suggestions:
Listen to the song without your instrument. Note the tempo, the swing, the phrasing, and the articulations.
Listen to the song and follow along with your music to see how your part "fits."
Listen to the song and play your part.
Listen to the song and sing your part.
WINTER 2019 JAZZ BAND MUSIC
MilestonesA modal jazz classic by Miles Davis from the 1958 recording of the same name. Modal jazz, basically, means basing improvisation off a scale instead of a series of chords.
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Boom BoomA blues written and performed by John Lee Hooker in 1961. This song has been performed and recorded by numerous artists.
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Straight, No ChaserAnother blues. This one is by Thelonius Monk. A major architect of the jazz world and a formidable composer. This will be our most challenging piece.
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