Jamey Aebersold Play Alongs – About the Series
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Introducing The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play Along SeriesThe best way to learn music is to play music – and who better to learn from than top professionals such as Cedar Walton (p); Ron Carter (b); Billy Higgins (d). With the Aebersold series the CDs provide the accompaniment and you provide the melody and solos.
Melodies and chord changes are notated for all instruments in the accompanying books, and stereo recording makes it possible to eliminate bass or piano from the backing track. The Original Source For Jazz Sheet MusicThe Jamey Aebersold series is a vital source of jazz sheet music as it features covers over 1000 commonly played jazz standards and jazz compositions, including hundreds of tunes written by influential jazz composers. A lot of this sheet music hasn’t been commercially published before and is not available in any other form - making the series especially sought after by jazz musicians. So far over 35 major jazz composers have been featured in the series including:-Cannonball Adderley, David Baker, Jerry Bergonzi, The Brecker Brothers, Benny Carter, John Coltrane, Paquito D'Rivera, Tadd Dameron, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Tom Harrell, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Antonio Carlos Jobim, JJ Johnson, Jerome Kern, Andy LaVerne, David Liebman, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Lee Morgan, Oliver Nelson, Sammy Nestico, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, Jimmy Raney, Sonny Rollins, David Sanborn, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, and Billy Strayhorn.
Anyone Can Improvise
The Aebersold series also features several excellent instructional volumes which have helped generations of players to learn to improvise. These instructional volumes focus on developing core skills such as learning and playing different scales with a rhythm section, and how to use these scales over progressions such as II-V-I, ‘Rhythm Changes’ and Major and Minor blues in all keys.Practise With Top Rhythm Section PlayersThe Aebersold series allows anyone with a CD player to practise with top professional jazz players such as:Cedar Walton, Kenny Baron, Dan Haerle, Richie Bierach, Hal Galper, Niels Lan Doky, Mulgrew Miller, Mark Levine, Andy LaVerne, Lynne Arriale, Kenny Werner, Dave Brubeck, Steve Allee (piano); George Whitty (keyboards/synthesizer); Hank Marr (organ); Jimmy Raney, Jack Petersen, Steve Kahn (guitar); Ron Carter, John Patitucci, Rufus Reid, Todd Coolman, Steve Gilmore, Bob Cranshaw, John Goldsby, Tyrone Wheeler, Christian McBride, Jay Anderson (bass); Billy Hart, Billy Higgins, Steve Davis, Adam Nussbaum, Victor Lewis, John Riley, Jeff Watts, Duduka DaFonseca (drums); John Santos (timbales); Harold Muniz (congas); Dave Samuels (vibes); David Liebman, Jerry Bergonzi, Benny Golson (saxophones).
No wonder Jamey's play alongs are used all over the world by musicians at every level: from absolute beginners to international recording artists such as Michael Brecker, Phil Woods, Guy Barker and Jean Toussaint. On to 'How to use the Aebersold Play Alongs'