Summer Update
Over the summer, there are a few ways that you can continue to explore the world of jazz and grow in your playing:
1. Check out some great recordings. Use the reference in your pink jazz method book to find new (or old) artists and albums to listen to.
2. Look at the audition music for the FRC jazz program. It's posted on the Grade 9 Concert Band page.
3. Continue to work on your improvising. Use some of the play-along tracks that have been posted on this website or are available online.
4. Transcribe a solo. Pick a tune that you are interested in and see what you can transcribe. Maybe you can get a few measures...maybe you can do a whole solo. Start with players who are a little more melodic in their approach, like Chet Baker or Miles Davis. Explore from there.
5. Learn tunes by ear! Don't write anything down. Just listen to a melody and try and figure it out on your instrument.
Good luck, and have fun!
1. Check out some great recordings. Use the reference in your pink jazz method book to find new (or old) artists and albums to listen to.
2. Look at the audition music for the FRC jazz program. It's posted on the Grade 9 Concert Band page.
3. Continue to work on your improvising. Use some of the play-along tracks that have been posted on this website or are available online.
4. Transcribe a solo. Pick a tune that you are interested in and see what you can transcribe. Maybe you can get a few measures...maybe you can do a whole solo. Start with players who are a little more melodic in their approach, like Chet Baker or Miles Davis. Explore from there.
5. Learn tunes by ear! Don't write anything down. Just listen to a melody and try and figure it out on your instrument.
Good luck, and have fun!
Current Performance Repertoire Recordings
Shiny Stockings (instrumental) - Count Basie
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Sarah Vaughan
Second Line - arr. Victor Goines
Flight of the Foo Birds - Count BasieSpring Ain't Here - Pat Metheny (original)
The Farewell - Thad Jones
Blue Trane - John Coltrane arr. MurthaAlright, Okay, You Win - arr. Sweeney
Orange Sherbert - Easy Version
Brazil - arr. Rick Stitzel
Little Sunflower - arr. Murtha
Whirly Bird - arr. Blair
Count Bubba - arr. Murtha
Meeting Time - Count Basie
Work Song - Cannonball Adderley
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Shiny Stockings (vocal) - Ella Fitzgerald
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - arr. BakerApril in ParisFront Burner - Count BasieSpring Ain't Here - Bob Curnow Big Band
Breen - Ian McDougall
Mambo Juventud - Oscar Hernandez
Blue Trane - John Coltrane (original recording)Alright, Okay, You Win - Count BasieOrange Sherbert - Original Count Basie
Brazil - Maynard FergusonLittle Sunflower - Freddie Hubbard
Whirly Bird - Count Basie
Count Bubba - Gordon Goodwin
The ChaCha What Gotcha - Mossman
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