Welcome to Impro-Visor Last update: 15 May 2012 Version 5.16 is now available here: Please join the Yahoo! user group to download The Imaginary Book and user-contributed works. Downloads | Uses | Classroom Use | FAQ | Certifications | Tutorials | Reference Card 60+ Ideas for Using | Samples | Roadmap Garden | Licks | Comments | Papers | Photos | Videos | Links Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. Impro-Visor Screen Shot: Partial List of Features: Lead sheets and solos can be constructed through either point-and-click or using a plain text editor (one is provided, but any editor can be used). Optional automatic note coloration shows whether notes are consonant or dissonant with chords and scales. Chords may also be entered quickly through a "roadmap" editor, which also analyzes chord changes for implied keys and idiomatic progressions ("bricks"). MacOSX (with Java 1.6 installed) Linux
Analyse de morceaux : Jazz Dans cette page nous analyserons plusieurs standards de jazz. Chacun d'entre eux sera analysé et vous pourrez écouter un thème et une improvisation sur la grille. Vous pourrez aussi télécharger l'accompagnement pour jouer un thème ou improviser à votre tour. Ce sera un moyen de découvrir les standards de jazz si vous débutez dans ce style. Les morceaux suivants sont analysés sur cette page. Take the A train "Take the A train" est le standard de jazz que nous étudierons en premier. Thème Voici le thème de ce standard, c'est à dire la mélodie principale. Avec le son correspondant ci-dessous. Grille Voici la grille du morceau. Télécharger la grille : Grille analysée Analysons la grille de ce morceau. MESURE 1 et 2 : Un accord de Do majeur. Bon, faisons le point. On vient d'utiliser une théorie (celle de la gamme majeure et des accords qui en découlent) pour analyser ce morceau. "La" solution On va donc jouer le mode de Ré lydien b7 (apellé aussi mode de Bartok) au moment où D7 est joué. All of me
JAZZ TRUMPET TRANSCRIPTIONS Jacques Gilbert {*style:<b>from The Trumpet Kings Of The Swing Era <b> (and more) </b></b>*} {*style:<b>Jacques Gilbert </b>*}{*style:<b>Physicist by trade and amateur musician born in Quebec in 1932, Jacques Gilbert began playing trumpet in 1950 with a number of Montreal big band formations of the era. He made his semi-professional debut with the Al Nichols orchestra which was joined by the excellent Belgian guitarist René Thomas as well as the well known Canadian jazz trumpet players Guido Basso and Herbie Spaniar. </b>*}email Jacques Gilbert : jgilb@videotron.ca real name: Warren Vaché, Jr. Several years before Wynton Marsalis gained headlines for helping to revive hard bop, Warren Vache (along with Scott Hamilton) was among the few young jazz musicians who were reviving small-group swing. A Beautiful Friendship All Through The Night Autumn In New York Bolden Blues Buddy Bolden's Blues Close As Pages In A Book Exactly Like You Darn That Dream I'm Old Fashioned I Hadn't Anyone Till You If We Never Meet Again Shine
20 Albums To Begin A Journey into Jazz This is for you if you want to a journey into listening to jazz more seriously, or if a friend asks you what jazz records they should listen to in order to appreciate it more fully. It's no good people starting to listen to jazz on the margins; it's like giving a ten year old, Tolstoy's 'War & Peace' to read, chances are they will not make it past the first page. There are some jazz fans that can be awfully snooty about the music they love, they almost try to turn it into a club that refuses to let in new members. So we decided to put together a list of the 20 albums to start your collection with. Every one is a brilliant record and no discerning jazz fan would turn their nose up at any one of them. So our list is both credible and accessible. It includes albums like Miles Davis's, Kind of Blue, Bill Evan's, Waltz For Debby and John Coltrane's, Blue Train; all three consistently make the list of the most important jazz albums ever.
Home - Marlbank Is jazz entering a new golden age? | Music If you think you’ve seen more attention devoted to jazz in the past year or so, you’re not wrong. Thanks in part to a spotlight aimed by Kendrick Lamar – whose album To Pimp a Butterfly prominently featured contemporary names like pianist Robert Glasper and saxophonist Kamasi Washington – there’s been an overall renaissance in press coverage for a genre that has, in recent decades, often seemed ignored by the popular media. Jazz’s resurgent profile, however, isn’t merely due to one rapper’s significant influence. Lamar-associate Washington has received a large amount of the recent attention mostly on the strength of the saxophonist’s 2015 triple album, The Epic. David Bowie’s selection of jazz-world veterans for his Blackstar band reminded listeners that jazz elites can be worthy players in the realm of adventurous pop. Pop shoutouts are important but cross-genre collaborations matter more The end of the ‘jazz wars’ has made eclectic listening the norm
home | Greenleaf Music - Dave Douglas jazz blog and store The 2018 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll Below are the results of NPR Music's 6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll (my 13th annual, going back to its beginnings in the Village Voice). Wayne Shorter's Emanon was voted Album of the Year, and Cecile McLorin Salvant's The Window Best Vocal. Shorter and Salvant have won these categories previously (thrice in Salvant's case), and Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album marks the second victory in Rara Avis (a catch-all term for reissues, vault discoveries, and the like) for John Coltrane. David Virelles's Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove): Vol. I & II won Best Latin Jazz and Justin Brown's Nyeusi was Best Debut. We're trying something different this year. Including my own choices and analysis, and the individual ballots of all 139 participants, there should be enough here to keep you reading — and listening — well into the new year. New Albums 1. 2. The Pulitzer winner here grew a 15-piece ensemble from his Zooid group. 3. 4. 5. "The dream and the hope of the slave" — deferred. 6. 7. 8. 9.