Musicians Wanted – Musicians Available
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Instrument sales and repair
Madison Saxophone. This is not an ad but an endorsement. I’ve been listening to Anders Svanoe since the early 90′s and have known him almost as long. Anders is a great player and teacher who recently started a business selling and repairing gear. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of various saxophone makes, is a perfectionist, and honest almost to a fault. As an example, a Madison saxophone pro told me Anders had his sax playing the best ever and charged him much less than he is used to. And Anders recently sold one of my saxes on Ebay and took barely any proceeds for himself. I heartily recommend Anders to anyone looking for saxophone repairs or to buy/sell a sax.
Bob Kerwin
Madison Jazz
Educational Tools
Arranging
- Principles of Orchestration by Rimsky-Korsakov – free online interactive version of a classic text
- Jazz Arranging Online – online course by bassist Chuck Israels
Articles, Lessons, Exercises
- Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony – excerpts of book by Bert Lignon
- Doug McKenzie’s web page – lots of excellent video piano lessons with scrolling scores and annotations.
- Five “rules” for playing an idiomatic, linear bebop solo
- How jazz pianists practice – by Ted Rosenthal
- Jason Lyon’s web site – large collection of exercises and many valuable links
- Learn Jazz Piano – by Scott Ranney
- Matt Otto lessons - triad pairs, diatonic melodies, pedals and more
Chord progressions
- Ralph Patt’s webpage – vanilla changes to many tunes
- Reed Kotler’s JustJazz archives – theory and discussion of tune progressions
- Song Trellis – changes to many tunes
Ear Training
- 100 greatest jazz albums by Ken Watkins – review and analysis
- Rick Adam’s Music Theory – trainer to self test on intervals, scales, triads
- Songs for interval recognition – one person’s list
Forums
- Piano World – largest piano forum
- Sax on the Web – largest saxophone forum
Music Libraries
- Stan Getz Media Center and Library (at Berklee)
Theory
- Jazz Improvisation Primer by Marc Sabatella
- Jazz Theory and Improvision – comprehensive online tutorials by Pete Thomas
- Quick Jazz Theory – pdf from Michael Morangelli
Transcriptions
misc
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EJMA school – the mother of all transcription sources! Tons of transcriptions.
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Luckas Pickford site – many transcriptions broken down by instrument
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Transcription’s Pool - many transcriptions for all instruments – searchable
piano
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bop and postbop transcriptions by John Groves
saxophone
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The Cannonball Rendez-vous – Cannonball transcriptions
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Charles McNeil’s web site - many saxophone transcriptions, especially of beboppers
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Michael Brecker transcriptions – many by Rick Margitza
trumpet
