For scores that are not lead sheets of jazz standards (e.g., solo guitar arrangements, transcribed instrumental solos, original jazz compositions, educational or music theory scores, etc.), see below for recommended MuseScore groups that might be the right place for your score. If you don't...
If you have a particular interest in "newer" jazz compositions (those from about 1970 to the present), or pop music from the rock / R&B + soul / hip-hop eras arranged for jazz performance, please let us know, and then make some lead sheets. We'll try to find a good home fo...
Try aFreeLesson From This Course Your name* First Your email* How To Read Lead Sheets Tutorial In this jazz standard lessons we explore ‘Tune Up’. This lesson provides an introduction on how to read lead sheets for jazz piano. ‘Tune Up’ is a great tune for beginners because the form...
This course is designed to get you playing jazz standards quickly, emphasising the practical skills needed for reading and interpreting jazz lead sheets. We start with simple triads and gradually incorporate more complex voicings and arrangement techniques including 7th chords, 2-handed spread voicings,...
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Throughout his musical career, Miles Davis demonstrated an uncanny knack for being able to lead jazz players and at the same time allow the sidemen ample freedom so that he could also learn and grow from their combined creative output. Herbie Hancock recalled, “Miles was the teacher, but as...
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During this period Coltrane developed what came to be known as his “sheets of sound” approach to improvisation, as described by poet LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka): “The notes that Trane was playing in the solo became more than just one note following another. The notes came so fast,...
he was hired by Cecil Taylor for a recording session on the recommendation of the pianist’s bassist Buell Neidlinger. Taylor opened new doors for Shepp, who then went on to co-lead a short-lived group with trumpeter Bill Dixon; the Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet, whose self-titled album...
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