"Brave New Bass is the most extensive collection ever gathered of interviews and music lessons by contemporary electric and acoustic bass masters. Detailing top players' careers, musical technique, and equipment, the book appeals to bassists of any style as a way to deepen their knowledge of their instrument and its history, and gain tips for playing and sounding better. Other instrumentalists and music fans will enjoy the detailed look at this ever-more-influential instrument and its stars and behind-the-scenes practitioners. Covering 34 players in styles ranging from pop and rock to world music and experimental jazz, the book includes profiles of Marcus Miller, Anthony Jackson, John Patitucci, Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey, and Will Lee.

Written by one of today's great jazz educators, this is a system for building great-sounding jazz lines. the relationship of the individual lines to chords and progressions is analyzed. In addition, original saxophone studies integrate these concepts with technical proficiency.

Ten classic jazz tunes including transcribed solos and chord symbols in melody line arrangements. With demonstration performances and specially recorded backing tracks, featuring live jazz trio. Ideal for learning and practising jazz improvisation. Includes transcriptions if famous recorded solos and chord symbols for your own improvised solos. On the CD hear the full performance versions of each tune, including demonstation solos, on Tracks 2 - 11. The instrumental part is then omitted from Tracks 12 - 21 so you can play along with the recorded accompaniments.

The acclaimed biography of the legendary tenor
"Lester Leaps In jumps off the page with authenticity and insight. The Prez was an amazing creator with a uniquely wicked sense of humor, and this book captures it all."
--Quincy Jones
"Twenty years in the making, this is the most thorough and penetrating book on the President of the Tenor Saxophone to date."
--Publishers Weekly
"A provocative book, presenting Lester Young in a novel, even controversial light while opening new avenues of possible investigation into one of the most tantalizingly enigmatic of all historic jazz figures."
--Richard Sudhalter, Los Angeles Times
"The lessons learned from Pres' painful life tell us a lot about ourselves and the horrible consequences of racism in America."
--T. Michael Crowell, San Diego Union-Tribune
Douglas Henry Daniels is professor of history and black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco and lives in Santa Barbara.

The reed is possibly the most crucial link in the chain of acoustical elements needed to produce an oboe sound. For the nearly 300 years since the appearance of the French oboe, players have painstakingly evolved this highly individualized skill. But because of their fragile nature, original historical examples of oboe reeds are practically non-existent. David Ledet has produced a unique study of techniques for styling oboe reeds by analyzing in detail 168 examples of reeds by 81 artists from 14 countries. Each reed is strikingly photographed both in reflected light and in silhouette, thus clearly illustrating the relative thickness and shaping of the various sections of the reed. The precise dimensions of each example are compiled in an elaborate table. As background to his reed survey, Ledet discusses the various aspects of tone production (respiration, articulation, embouchure, and acoustics), gives a brief history of the instrument, and offers valuable advice about pedagogical techniques. The artists' reflections on their reedmaking techniques and brief biographical sketches introduce the photographs. Ledet often refers the readers to readily available phonographic recordings t

This classic study, now revised and updated, shows how scientific calculations can be used to improve the understanding, design, and tuning of woodwind instruments. A powerful tool for correcting tuning errors in existing instruments and for creating new designs, Nederveen's analysis has long been a standard in the field of acoustics.

Nederveen's aim is to find systematic and accurate methods for calculating the position and size of tone holes and functional bore corrections for the various woodwinds. He achieves this aim and further provides a detailed application to the design of flutes, clarinets, saxophones, oboes, and bassoons.

An extended new chapter analyzing and interpreting recent developments in acoustics of woodwind instruments, a list of symbols, and a subject index complete this revised edition. This book is a necessity for specialists in the physics of acoustics, music teachers, and anyone interested in woodwind design.

It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade centre, almost fourteen hundred feet above the city. Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife, Anna, to whom he has made a solemn promise: This wire walk will end his career. In this daring moment, Steven Galloway opens his riveting novel about Salvo Ursari, whose life begins in 1919 amid a Transylvanian boyhood inhabited by gypsy folklore and inspired by the bravery of his persecuted people. Salvo's story moves irresistibly from a tragic fire that envelops his family, to street life in Budapest, where he learns the skills of a wire walker, to the carnivals of Europe and the competitive world of the American circus. Most fulfilled when living with paradox, Salvo feels safest while performing startling feats of balance on a wire high above the dangerous world and most endangered if performing above a net. With compassion, warmth, and blazing originality, Ascension combines jaw-dropping storytelling, and fantastical symbolism with mesmerizing detail of Romany and circus culture, and an unforgettable walk with the amazing Salvo Ursari.

This five-volume graded anthology acts as an introduction to the flute music of the early- and mid-eighteenth century. All important composers of flute music of the period are represented, starting with the French pioneers La Barre and Hotteterre, and culminating in the great Germans Handel and Bach. Texts faithfully follow the original sources, any editorial additions being carefully differentiated as such. These marks, which include ornament realizations and breathing suggestions, together with the editorial notes that accompany each piece, are designed to help the progressing flautist to cultivate an authentic playing style. In addition, useful information is given about the composers represented and about the pieces selected and the sources from which they are drawn. A separate continuo part is provided, allowing the bass line to be doubled on cello or viola da gamba, in accordance with standard continuo practice. This part, in which the bass is figured, may also be used by keyboard players who wish to improvise their own accompaniment.

"This is a valuable reference tool for any serious tubascholar." -- TUBA Journal Reviews

..". an excellentresource... " -- American Music Teacher

Program notes, written by the composers themselves, describe 88 works for the solo tuba. Includesworks for the tuba alone, tuba and piano, and tuba with other types ofaccompaniment. Each entry gives complete publication data, a history of the piece, its instrumentation and movements, and a description of its musical structure andcharacteristics. Gary Bird provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and professional performers in building repertoire and in gaining insight into avital body of contemporary music.

A collection of repertoire books of enjoyable, interesting, and stimulating material for use in the early stages of learning. The pieces in Book 2 are of around grades 2-3 standard and are in chronological order, with brief notes placing them in history.