Specific musicians

Fats Waller .. Check out this link: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/03/budiansky.htm

For those interested... the site is now featuering the legendary Dave Brubek Quartet and Ottmar Leibert. www.AlbuquerqueJazz.com

BILL Evans tapes: see http://www.e3records.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=E3&Product_Code=630263001324-01 the current edition of jazz improv magazine (http://www.jazzimprov.com )is a special about bill evans, with an interview of his son evan evans. they talk about the tapes. At http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/101/bill_evans.html you can actually listen to many of the Practice Tapes tracks on-line through the MP3.com website. You will need an mp3 player, but there are several free ones available from links through www.mp3.com

Hi, we are a group of boys, lovers of the Joe Zawinul's music. We are realizing a site about this. We accept any type of collaboration. Please, add a link to our site on your site !!! We can do the same on our site. Site's data: Title: Joe Zawinul Unofficial Italian Fan Site Language: English, italian

E-mail: jzawinul@yahoo.it

URL: http://zawinul.freeweb.org

Thank you !

You can find a list of all Oscar Pettiford compositions here:

http://home.t-online.de/home/themenschmidt/don.htm

There is a discography and some links too.

Learning

One way to learn by ear is to use solfege syllables (DO RE MI). Too bad Dick Grove's "School Without Walls" website is temporarily down, but when it's back up, check it out. He has a great article on using this tool as a way to break out of thinking in specific keys.

Another idea in learning to play all 12 keys is the "Key of the Week" method advocated by SF Bay Area educator, Jim Grantham. Check it out in the intro to his JAZZMASTER WORKOUT at: http://www.dnai.com/~nitebird/JWIntro.HTML

http://www.visual-jazz.com/

The course is available for free. There are also some sightreading exercises.

I recently came across Hal Galper's website (www.halgalper.com). It's a great site for learning to become a better jazz player. He has an article on there entitled "Practice and Performance Goals

Check out this link: http://www.jazzbooks.com/jazzhandbook/09_tips_for_new_tunes.pdf Its Aebersold's routine for practicing tunes (in adobe acrobat format ...)

Theory reference

Check http://www.surfingpharaoh.com/music_ed/diatonic.htm

for a nice definition of Diatonic Harmony.

- general theory, nicely arranged, fairly naive.

> > Terms like "half cadence", "imperfect cadence", "deceptive cadence," > > "authentic cadence," etc. are found in abridged music dictionaries, and > > there are plenty on line. Here's one I found: > > http://www.creativemusic.com/features/dictionary.html

My favourite detailed site for scale & cadential info-

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/place/aai26/Cadentialforms.shtml

Go to http://www.lucaspickford.com and click on Lessons for articles

on harmony, scales, improv, and much more plus a ton of free transcriptions. Enjoy. Pick

The US Navy produces some excellent music training manuals. The following can be downloaded for free at the specified web locations. The Basic Music book is used in other branches at their music academies. These are pdf files. When you get to the site use "Save As" in your FILE pull down menu to download.

Basic Music (6 Megs)

https://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/products/web-pdf/tramans/fullbook/10244.pdf

Basic Music (1 Meg Appendices D-F)

https://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/products/web-pdf/tramans/fullbook/12013.pdf

Harmony (5 Megs)

https://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/products/web-pdf/tramans/fullbook/12012.pdf

Ear Training Manual For Musicians (2 Megs)

https://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/products/web-pdf/tramans/fullbook/10243.pdf

http://www.thereelscore.com/PortfolioStuff/PDFFiles/QuickJazzTheoryRefFinal.pdf

I think the original poster wanted more of basic facts about why scales/chords work. Maybe this site will be helpful: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/andymilne/

Latin rhythms - samba, rhumba, bossa etc. http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/tc/12-43/appc.htm

(couldn't access this, but maybe temporary)

..20th century classical composers (12 tone music) have been toying with it already, coming to a certain definition of a new "music theory" concept called "(Pitch class) Set Theory". You can find out all about it here:

http://music.theory.home.att.net/setheory.htm

There's a very thorough book (pdf file) on jazz theory available here for free. It's better than some $20 books I've seen. Should give you plenty of ideas.

http://www.thereelscore.com/Pagesfldr/11Downloads.html

http://www.jazz-sax.com/ThE_PdFs/patterns/coltrane_patterns.pdf

- pdf of scaley patterns. See also the root www.jazz-sax.com, discussion grp.

The Chord Scale Theory and Jazz Harmony

http://www.advancemusic.com/cgi-bin/music/db.pl?

Transcriptions

I found this one ? http://www.jazzpliz.com

8 Dexter Gordon, 8 Sonny Stitt, and a few others, all free at my place... please sign the guest book !

http://www.geocities.com/andyw129/

From: josemenezes@netc.pt

I'm a newbie to this group.Play saxophone professionally for the last (almost) Z0 years and I'm a teacher,too. Hope to learn with your posts (and contribute,too).

In my WebPage you'll find transcriptions of sax solos by great sax players.

Some of them were transcribed by me,others weren't... Check them out .I would love to have some feedback from you

http://www.Geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/8481

José Menezes

As promised, another transcription has been added to the ever-growing collection of music available at www.stuntzner.brent.org !!

http://www.stuntzner.brent.org/Transcriptions.html

- Mainly guitar

I believe that there are a number of transcriptions of the Ellington/Strayhorn arrangements available from the Jazz at Lincoln Center people now. I'm also pretty sure that you can get information on it from the Lincoln Center website (http://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/

Brecker transcription:

http://jazz.about.com/library/weekly/aa022400a.htm

hey, just posting this site that i found, has some great transcriptions.

http://www.jazzcenter.org

There's about a dozen tenor & alto

for free at my new site: http://www.geocities.com/andyw129/

All the greats, all instruments, transcribed and free at

http://www.lucaspickford.com

Jaco, Coltrane, Herbie, and many many more! Just print them out! Always free.

www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/transcriptions

-Bert Ligon's transcriptions, incl several Jarrett

http://www.saxsolos.com

- have to pay for them!

http://www.keithjarrett.org/transcriptions/

- midi files and transcriptions of Jarrett

There's just one Scott Henderson transcription at the link below

for "Spears".

http://www.lucaspickford.com/transguitar.htm

this one is a great site with a lot of transcriptions http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/

So Tender transcription available at:

http://utenti.lycos.it/lellognesutta/entranscrip.htm

Lyrics

I found a sight for the person who was looking for lyrics. They have all the #1 hits from 1930-1999 which means they do have a lot of the pop tunes, but there are some standards in there.

http://200.241.97.241/~pfilho/summer.html

Fakebooks

THE FAKE BOOK INDEX

This is a new free online service offered by Seventh String Software. It is a search page which enables you to find (mostly jazz) tunes in fake books. You'll find it at www.seventhstring.co.uk/fbindex.html

..listed in here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/justjazz/files/JDM%20Jazz%20Fakebook%20Index.pdf

as well as 5000 other songs and what fake book they appear in as well as the page number.

http://www.jazzbooks.com

Sher music (www.shermusic.com) makes good books. Jamey Aebersold Jazz www.jajazz.com is probably a better source for music lit, and I think they carry all the books that Sher music prints as well. I recommend ordering their hard copy free catalog. The Sher Music series of fakebooks are the most popular legal fakebooks in production, as far as I know. We have all the sher books and aebersold play a long book/cds and are adding some other sources soon too.

http://www.reedkotler.com/store/bs.htm

and

http://www.reedkotler.com/store/books/shermusic/into.html

http://www.juniorsmusic.com/jrframe1.htm

www.realbookonline.com

is illegally scanned jpgs of the illegal book - concert only, 1st volume only, no lyrics, no Josh-chord-replacements, barely readable, binding collapses, 100% street-cred. You can buy the actual dodgy photocopies for £25 at Michael White (020 899 74088, no web page).

-now gone

www.shermusic.com is the homepage of Sher Music who publish the legal & readable real book (but with arguably a less inspiring selection, full contents list on the web page). Lyrics printed in the concert version. I might possibly have mentioned about 370 times that you can get these books for £35 in the shops or £25 from www.jazzuk.demon.co.uk (the "Sher" button seems to have disappeared, but they are definitely still selling them).

Al.

For those with more bandwidth than scruples, illegal scans of the illegally printed illegal realbooks are available at

https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~adams/realbook/

Al.

http://mapage.noos.fr/realbook/index_a-f.htm

-don't recognise the style of this realbook

Has anyone seen "Realbooks on-line" ?

http://mapage.noos.fr/realbook/index_a-f.htm

He seems to have moved or been kicked off.

-he's changed the organisation slightly - still there

These two sites list the chord progressions of many of the songs in the Real Book(s). The second site is interesting because Ralph Patt lists the "vanilla" (basic) changes of many standards:

http://www.4me4.us/realbook.asp

http://www.wesleydick.com/Songlist.html

BIAB

http://akadad.bizland.com/biab/biabmain.htm

Yahoo has a BIAB group

Here's the best Band In A Box site I know. You'll find several versions of individual tunes, and you'll have to decide which changes you want to use. I guess this means the changes are questionable!

http://www.thejazzpage.de/index1.html

Midi

You can also dowload the midi file [of mas que nada] at: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9951/

(portuguese language)

Sometimes you are lucky to find a good site with jazzmidifiles. Check this site out http://www.chez.com/midihifi/jazz.html

Doug McKenzie have done a good job by playing all these standards live as midifiles. Check it out

http://home.wanadoo.nl/dougmckenzie/

Charts

http://www.geocities.com/~sologuitar/Charts/

In the mail today came something from Kendor Music. They have scores and CD's.

They are called the Kendor Archive Editions and have old big band charts. http://www.kendormusic.com

asbms@jazzuk.demon.co.uk

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com

The ULTIMATE SHEET MUSIC ARCHIVE.

CHECK IT OUT !!!

http://www.derrickwebdesign.com/tabshare/

Discussion Lists

discussion group:

jazzplayers@yahoogroups.com

Welcome to Jazz Players, the group dedicated to learning how to play jazz music. Beginner's questions are strongly encouraged. Advanced players are encouraged to help nurture the beginners. This group is *not* about attitude. You are strongly *discouraged* from trying to prove you are the best jazz musician on the list. You are strongly *encouraged* to help somebody learn something.

To Join:

Go to the Yahoo! Groups site and look for:

jazzplayers

and click the "JOIN" button

This discussion forum consists of mostly musicians interested in sharing their thoughts, experiences, comments and opinions on the "Clave" rhythm as it relates to music. This forum is open to everyone regardless of his or her knowledge of the "Clave" or music in general. We encourage everyone to post questions. Our

main purpose is for educational exploration as well as establishing camaraderie among its members. Join the discussion at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RitmoClave

Piano

I've got a link to this book from a other site: http://members.aol.com/chang8828/contents.htm This is a book about practising, piano technique etc. A point I find very insteresting is this chapter:

http://members.aol.com/kwanmc/page/scale.htm Thats about a thumb-over method

Maybe you find something useful in Hal Galper's Website about forward motion fingering. Link is... : http://www.halgalper.com It is not about "the thumb over" method, but to play his scale exercise, you "need" to play thumb over 4th finger.

The Modern Jazz Pianist by PGmusic. Once you have worked through all that you may find you want the CD. The CD is definitely worth buying, and is not expensive for what it is. But if you have jazz ability you will find there is plenty to work on and improve your technique, that's available for free.

http://www.pgmusic.com/jazzpianomasterclass/lessons/index.htm#lessons

Bill Cunliffe, one of the best piano players on the planet, has a new instructional book which looks pretty cool.

See http://www.billcunliffe.com

- Have to buy it.

http://www.playpiano.com/Tips/13thChords.htm

- this looks plain wrong: these have no 3rd! Dodgy looking site.

http://www.learnjazzpiano.com

- lessons (mainly fairly basic, some incomprehensible stuff on "quartals") plus a few nice transcriptions.

Guitar

A very easily available source of information on this topic is Joey Goldstein's home page:

http://webhome.idirect.com/~joegold/jgm.htm

He has a very nice jazz guitar reference freely available in Adobe Acrobat format.

FretBoardKnowledge (beta version for download on my site:

http://www.fretboardknowledge.com

If you're interested in Freddie Green's style, check out: http://www.freddiegreen.org/

It has lessons of Freddie's styles and transcriptions of some of his work with Basie.

MP3 etc

My improvisation on the oboe and English horn, accompanied by drums (V. Tarasov)

and piano (T. Naissoo), recorded live at Jazz Baltica Festival in Salzau, Germany, can be freely listened to and downloaded (MP3) at

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/141/juozas_rimas.html

Software

http://www.blazeaudio.com/howto/

The tutorials reference our excellent set of music and audio related software products but are useful no matter what tools you use.

I too find transcribing complex chords difficult, particularly when they are 'on the fly'. For this reason I wrote this program which I call 'Note chaser' (After 'straight no chaser'). It frequency analyses the notes and allows one to determine the chord interactively. It also allows one to see when musical events occur within the bar. If you are interested it's at www.soundidea.co.uk http://www.soundidea.co.uk

Peter Hutchinson

Aural

There's another guy trying to learn absolute pitch: Chris Aruffo. He's a bit obsessed by it and writes almost daily about the subject. It's fun and interesting. See http://www.aruffo.com/eartraining/

THe program is EarTest and you can download it here:

http://oz.sunflower.org/~bhugh/eartest.spm

This is one of many freely available.

If you want to improve your ear try this site:

http://www.cope.dk/english/index.htm

The have a very good ear training software called EAROPE.

Music technology

Check out this recorder:

http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html#NEWS

Attaches to pocket-PC (like HP/Compaq IPaq), records to hi-speed compact flash. Very portable!

Net radio

I have just tried http://www.accujazz.com

This jazzsite is very interesting as a netradio. You can choose among differet jazzinstruments. Click on Jazz piano and listen to the best pianists.

- Needs Windows media player

Arranging

I thought this link might be useful and/or interesting to the people on the list.... http://webpages.charter.net/dbristol4/tutorial/topics.htm

it's an arranging tutorial...and maybe a springboard for discussion as well!

- Maybe useful.

Musicians’ sites

Per Krogen:

www.jazzpianoklubben.dk

- still partly in Danish

www.randyhalberstadt.com

- not much here. His book costs $29 (Shermusic). Some encouraging excerpts.

You should check out Marc Sabatella's site at

www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/ms-primer-4-3.html

He describes the modes of the melodic minor somewhat.

www.jajazz.com

(Jamey Aebersold's site).

Books

Another book I would recommend is the Forward Motion by Hal Galper available

as an e-book from this link -> http://forwardmotionpdf.com

- "From Bach To Bebop - A Corrective Approach to Jazz Phrasing" costs $16.97 to download.

"Kenny Wheeler Collected Works on ECM" by Fred Strum.

http://upbeat.com/caris/baker.htm

Has anyone used this book? If yes, what is your opinion. Also, it references a book by Grigson called A Jazz Chord Book. The intro chapter suggests making a copy of all the recommended discography, which would be very expensive to do, so I'm also wondering if anyone has done that. Here is the website. http://www.tadleyewing.co.uk/

- the book appears to approach via the idea of learning to hear paradigm changes, using a lot of listening. Can download odd (varying?) chapters.

www.jazzbooks.com

- Aebersold online ordering

I ordered an Aebersold book (No47, Rhythm Changes, ?10.93) from American Stage

Band Music (www.jazzuk.demon.co.uk) on tuesday and it arrived this morning.

- $14.90 playalongs at £12.42

Interviews

Hello dear friends; Please accept this one time only spam as an invitation to my web site to download newly added Real Audio files of the following rare taped interviews http://www.melmartin.com/index2.html Charlie Parker interviewed by Paul Desmond. Hear Bird and Paul Desmond discuss music, saxophone and the early days when good, clean living and much poverty was the norm. John Coltrane interviewed by Augie Bloom. 'Trane discusses spirituality, Monk, philosophy and Sonny Rollins. Sonny Rollins interviewed by Ralph J. Gleeson. Sonny talks about his music and what he considers most important...rhythm.

Miscellaneous

The PBS series on Jazz has a nice site for those who didn't know about it.

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/lounge/

is a portion of the site devoted to

education. Other pages list the tunes per episode.

http://www.bopcity.com/

- just a record label now owned by dh1

http://keyboardmag.com/master/bharris/bharris.shtml

- gone

http://keyboardmag.com/master/bharris2/bharris2.shtml

- gone

http://www1.jazzcentralstation.com/newjcs/main/bbs/messages.asp?threadid=10857

look in

www.allmusic.com/

it's a great database. Scott Yanow wrote interesting reviews of each [type of jazz style] in "styles" at allmusic.com.

http://www.music.sc.edu/Departments/Jazz/Examples.html

http://www.sudnow.com

..Ralph Gleason's 'Jazz Casual' television series from the 1960s. Such featured artists on these DVDs are Earl Hines, Joe Sullivan, Sonny Rollins, Count Basie, and a particular favourite of mine features the John Coltrane and Dave Brubeck quartets. For futher information the official site is

www.jazzcasual.com

http://www.nwhcmusic.co.uk/peter_gunn.htm

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