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The Blues Scales: Essential Tools for Jazz Improvising unknown Edition
Author(s): Dan Greenblatt (Author)
- Publisher: Sher Music
- Publication Date: June 1, 2005
- Edition: unknown
- Language: English
- Print length: 84 pages
- ISBN-10: 1883217385
- ISBN-13: 9781883217389
Book Description
Endorsed by Michael Brecker, Jamey Aebersold, and others, this is the only book that shows how blues scales can be used to create meaningful jazz solos, even if you are a total beginner. The accompanying CD of Dan with his working New York rhythm section demonstrates how each exercise should sound, as well as giving the student an hour of swinging play-along accompaniment to practice with. Also features many transcribed phrases of blues scale playing by the masters of jazz.
Editorial Reviews
Review
An excellent addition to the growing number of books and CDs dedicated to mastering the art of jazz improvisation. Useful to beginners as well as advanced players, The Blues Scales admirably addresses the vocabulary of the blues, the ‘root of jazz. MICHAEL BRECKER –Personal correspondence
To actually play the blues, you have to know what’s in the blues. Dan has done a marvelous job of dissecting the blues and then bringing all the pieces back together so you can make beautiful music. This book will help those who want to have fun playing the blues. JAMEY AEBERSOLD –Personal correspondence
Dan has done a great job with this book! A good method for teaching blues and jazz improvising to beginning students has been much needed. It has been a long time coming, but finally that need has been filled. JUNIOR MANCE –Personal correspondence
About the Author
Saxophonist and educator Dan Greenblatt has been performing and recording in Seattle and New York for nearly 40 years with a wide variety of jazz artists including such nationally known figures as George Cables, Rufus Reid, Jimmy Heath, Ben Sidran, and Peter Bernstein, as well as Seattle Jazz Hall-of-Famers Chuck Metcalf, Floyd Standifer, Don Lanphere, Buddy Catlett, Marc Seales, and Jay Thomas. He has been a faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts, The Northwest School, and Roosevelt High School in Seattle; while in New York he was on the faculty at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music as well as the La Guardia High School for Performing Arts. Currently he teaches at Edmonds-Woodway High School. He is also the author of two books on jazz improvisation–The Blues Scales and Minor Is Major!, both published by Sher Music—as well as scholarly studies of the relationship between music and language.
