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Blues Heads
**Learn these heads by ear and internalize them**
1. Now's The Time (F) Now's The Time
2. Tenor Madness (B-flat) Tenor Madness
3. Hugore (B-flat) Hugore
4. Straight, No Chaser (F) Straight, No Chaser
5. KD's Blues (B-flat) KD's Blues
6. Sonnymoon For Two (B-flat) Sonnymoon For Two
7. Cool Blues (C) Cool Blues
8. Barbados (B-flat) Barbados
9. Buzzy (B-flat) Buzzy
10. Blues Walk (B-flat) Blues Walk
11. Cheryl (C) Cheryl
12. Byrdlike (F) Byrdlike
13. Walkin' (F) Walkin'
14. Au Privave (F) Au Privave
15. Relaxin' at Camarillo (C) Relaxin' at Camarillo
16. Bloomdido (B-flat)) Bloomdido
17. Sandu (E-flat) Sandu
18. Mohawk (B-flat) Mohawk
19. Another Hairdo (B-flat) Another Hairdo
20. Visa (C) Visa
21. Chi Chi (A-flat) Chi Chi
22. Solid (B-flat) Solid
23. Vierd Blues or Trane's Blues (B-flat) Veird Blues or Trane's Blues
24. Blue and Boogie (B-flat) Blue and Boogie
25. Perhaps (C) Perhaps
26. Blue Seven (B-flat) Blue Seven
27. Blues for Alice (F Bird Blues) Blues for Alice
28. Laird Baird (B-flat Bird Blues) Laird Baird
29. Billie's Bounce (F) Billie's Bounce
30. Freddie the Freeloader (B-flat) Freddie the Freeloader
31. Soft Winds (B-flat) Soft Winds
32. Si Si (F) Si Si
33. Bongo Bop (B-flat) Bongo Bop
34. Sippin' At Bell's (F) Sippin' At Bell's
35. Opus De Funk (B-flat) Opus De Funk
36. Blue Train (E-flat) Blue Train
37. Hubtones (B-flat) Hubtones
38. Speedball (D-flat) Speedball
39. Down (F) Down
40. Wee Dot (B-flat) Wee Dot
41. Dance of the Infidels (Bud Powell Changes) (F) Dance Of The Infidels
42. Misterioso (F) Misterioso
43. Blue Monk (B-flat) Blue Monk
44. The Squirrel (F) The Squirrel
45. Birk's Works (F minor) Birk's Works
46. The Blues March (B-flat)) The Blues March
47. Wheatleigh Hall (B-flat) Wheatleigh Hall
48. Two Bass Hit (D-flat) Two Bass Hit
49. The Skunk (D-flat) The Skunk
50. Blue Concept (B-flat) Blue Concept
51. Blue Bird (E-flat) Blue Bird
52. Things Ain't What They Used To Be (F) Things Ain't What They Used To Be
53. Passport (Tune Y) (B-flat) Passport (Tune Y)
54. The Champ The Champ
55. Bongo Beep Bongo Beep
56. Bird Feathers Bird Feathers
57. The Hymn (B-flat) The Hymn
58. Carvin' The Bird Carvin' The Bird
59. Driftin' On A Reed or Air Conditioning (B-flat) Driftin' On A Reed or Air Conditioning
60. Bag's Groove (F) Bag's Groove
61. Mr. PC (C minor) Mr.PC
Essays, Interviews and Articles
John Coltrane: Coltrane On Coltrane 9/29/60 Coltrane on Coltrane
Wayne Shorter: Creativity and Change 2/12/68 Creativity and Change
Harvey Pekar: Bud Powell--Then and Now 10/22/64 Bud Powell--Then and Now
A Fireside Chat with Jackie McLean Jackie McLean Interview
Neil Tesser: How Sonny Defeated The Dragon How Sonny Defeated The Dragon
John Tynan: Art Pepper's Not The Same 7/30/64 Art Pepper's Not The Same
Ken Burns: Jackie McLean Interview 4/10/96 Jackie McLean Interview
Ken Burns: Wynton Marsalis Interview 6/12/99 Wynton Marsalis Interview
Ken Burns: Branford Marsalis Interview 11/19/96 Branford Marsalis Interview
Ken Burns: Clark Terry Interview Clark Terry Interview
Ken Burns: Chan Parker (Bird's widow) Interview May 1998 Chan Parker Interview
A Fireside Chat with Hank Jones Hank Jones Interview
A Fireside Chat with George Coleman George Coleman Interview
Fred Jung: My Conversation with Horace Silver Horace Silver Interview
George Coleman: This Gentleman Can Play George Coleman Interview
The Eminent J.J. Johnson J.J. Johnson Interview
Hal Galper: An Introduction to Forward Motion Forward Motion
Radio Interviews
Charlie Parker Interviewed by Paul Desmond Part 1 Bird Interview 1
Charlie Parker Interviewed by Paul Desmond Part 2 Bird Interview 2
Charlie Parker Interviewed by Paul Desmond Part 3 Bird Interview 3
John Coltrane Interview 1960 Sweden Coltrane Interview 1960
John Coltrane Interview 1963 Paris Coltrane Interview 1963
John Coltrane Interview 1966 Tokyo Coltrane Interview 1966
Clinics
Steve Grossman @ Berklee 1986 Steve Grossman clinic
Michael Brecker @ Berklee 1987 Michael Brecker clinic
Instruction Books
Jazz Instruction
Jazz instruction books available at: www.jazzbooks.com
How To Play Bebop
David Baker
Volume 1: The Bebop Scales and Other Scales in Use
Volume 2: Learning the Bebop Language
Volume 3: Techniques for Learning and Utilizing Bebop Tunes
Modern Concepts In Jazz Improvisation
David Baker
The Barry Harris Workshop DVD - Part One (4 DVDs/Workbook)
The Barry Harris Workshop DVD - Part Two (4 DVDs/Workbook)
The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar
Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Yusef Lateef
Inside Improvisation
Jerry Bergonzi
Volume 1: Melodic Structures
Volume 2: Pentatonics
Volume 3: The Jazz Line
Volume 4: Melodic Rhythms
Volume 5: Thesaurus of Intervallic Melodies
Volume 6: Developing a Jazz Line
Volume 7: Hexatonics
Forward Motion
Hal Galper
A Chromatic Approach to Harmony and Melody
David Liebman
Expansions
Gary Campbell
Charlie Parker Omnibook
Pocket Changes Volume 1
Pocket Changes Volume 2
The Jazz Piano Book
Mark Levine
Trumpet Instruction
Herbert L. Clarke “Technical Studies”
Earl D. Irons “Twenty Seven Groups of Exercises”
Arban: Complete Conservatory Method
Don Jacoby “Jake’s Method”
John J. Haynie "High Notes, Low Notes and All The Notes In-Between"
Ernest Williams “Complete Method”
Colicchio Nu-Art Technical Exercises
Biographies, History and Criticism
To Be Or Not To Bop
by Dizzy Gillespie
Straight Life
by Art Pepper
Bird Lives!
by Ross Russell
Swing To Bop
by Ira Gitler
Jazz Masters of the Forties
by Ira Gitler
Milestones
by Jack Chambers
Notes and Tones
by Art Taylor
Raise Up Off Me
by Hampton Hawes
American Popular Song
by Alec Wilder
Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation
by Eric Nisenson
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
by Scott DeVeaux
Beaneath The Underdog
by Charles Mingus
Kind of Blue
by Ashley Kahn
To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road
by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)
by Eunmi Shim
Music Is My Mistress
by Duke Ellington
Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce
by Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald
John Coltrane: His Life and Music
by Lewis Porter
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (History of Jazz)
by Gunther Schuller
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The History of Jazz, Vol. 2)
by Gunther Schuller
West Coast Jazz
by Ted Gioia
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (Jazz Perspectives)
by Andy Hamilton
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