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Essential Solos

28 SOLOS ON POPULAR JAZZ standards

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28 SOLOS ON POPULAR JAZZ standards - Alto/Bari Saxophone

28 SOLOS ON POPULAR JAZZ standards - Tenor/Sop Saxophone

The 28 solos in this book, all over standard tunes, provide you with a wealth of jazz and blues vocabulary, phrasing, idiomatic rhythms and licks. They serve as templates for your improvisations and will help you to create your own solos. Play them with the backing tracks and listen to the demos. They are fun and each one will give you an insiders look into the language and style of jazz. Learning them will make you a better player, greatly improving your ear, technique and improvisation!  Included are solos over the chord progressions to:

A Foggy Day Beautiful Love  Autumn Leaves Song For My Father Just Friends Meditations My Funny Valentine There Will Never Be Another You Tenor Madness On Green Dolphin Street September In The Rain Blue Bossa Sugar The Girl From Ipanema  Have You Met Miss Jones Four Brothers Satin Doll Solar After You've Gone Jump, Jive and Wail St. Thomas Out Of Nowhere My Foolish Heart I Love You Lady Bird Moment's Notice Mr. Sandman It Could Happen To You