Beginning Jazz Band Collection - Guitar John Edmondson

Very young players will enjoy this collection of charts with easy rhythms and limited ranges designed especially for beginning jazzers. Including a variety of styles and tempos, this collection features varied instrumentation options from as few as 3 saxes, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, and piano, bass and drums, on up to full jazz band instrumentation of 5 saxes, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and 4 rhythm. Other features include unison drills for warm-ups and preparatory training, and written solos with chord symbols for the entire section for solos, improvisation, or unison section features. The piano parts include complete chord symbols for harmonic analysis. A professionally recorded CD with full-version recordings of all 15 charts comes with the conductor score. Contents: And All That Jazz; Ballad for BJ; Billy Boy; Blues for BJ; Carli; Dimples; Greensleeves; Home Cookin'; Indigo Blue; Jazz Cat; Jazz Chaconne; Santa's Housetop Caper; Sneaky Pete; Swingle All the Way and Won't You Come Home, Bill Basie.