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OR SAXES ONLY! JAZZ DUETS FOR SAXOPHONE By Greg Yasinitsky
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JAZZ DUETS FOILSAXOPJHONE By Greg Yasinitsky Playing duets is a great way to work on style, phrasing, intonation and blend, and it's a fun way to make music with friends. This collection of jazz duets includes some great American standards by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and others; a jazz classic by Dizzy Gillespie; and a few originals composed especially for this book. These duets may be played on El> saxophones: two altos, two baritones or an alto/baritone combination; or they may be played on two Bl> saxophones: two tenors, two sopranos or a soprano/tenor combination. A variety of dynamics is employed throughout the duets, and the jazz articulations and phrasings are clearly marked. All the duets should be swung, cap accents should be played short and a light tongue should be used for the offbeat phrasing on eighth-note lines. I suggest listening to the CD for phrasing, articulation and style interpretation. The enclosed CD includes my overdubbed playing of all the duets, first played on alto saxophones and then played on tenor saxophones. These duets may be played either by yourself with the CD or with a friend without the CD. To play the duets with the CD, simply turn off one of the stereo channels. I hope you have as much fun playing these jazz duets as I had writing and recording them for you. Greg Yasinitsky Thanks to the Yamaha Corporation of America for cover images
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CONTENTS
El. SAXOPHONES CD Track 1: Concert Bb Tuning Note CD Track 2: Concert A Tuning Note CD Track 3: Bye Bye Blackbird CD Track 4: Fly by Night CD Track 5: A Foggy Day CD Track 6: The Man I Love CD Track 7: But Not for Me CD Track 8: Good to Go CD Track 9: Big Sky CD Track 10: What Is This Thing Called Love CD Track 11: Crazy Eights CD Track 12: Groovin' High
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Bt SAXOPHONES CD Track 13: Concert Bl> Tuning Note CD Track 14: Concert A Tuning Note CD Track 15: Bye Bye Blackbird CD Track 16: Fly by Night CD Track 17: A Foggy Day CD Track 18: The Man I Love CD Track 19: But Not for Me CD Track 20: Good to Go CDTrack21: Big Sky CD Track 22: What Is This Thing Called Love CD Track 23: Crazy Eights CD Track 24: Groovin' High
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GREGYASINITSKY Gregory W. Yasinitsky, DMA, is professor of music and coordinator of jazz studies at Washington State University where he teaches saxophone, composition, arranging, improvisation, jazz history and wind synthesis. Yasinitsky is nationally known as a composer and arranger of music for big band, combo and vocal jazz ensemble and has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer West, ASCAP and Artist Trust. Warner Bros. Publications, Kendor Music, Hal Leonard, Advance Music, Walrus Music, UNC Jazz Press, Dom Music, Daniel Barry Music and Hoyt Editions have published several of his arrangements. Yasinitsky has also accepted numerous commissions for orchestral pieces, solo works, chamber music and jazz ensemble music including music written for the USAF Airmen of Note. Yasmitsky earned degrees at the Eastman School of Music (DMA) and San Francisco State University (MA, BM), and his teachers in composition include Joseph Schwantner, Wayne Peterson, Lou Harrison, Samuel Adler and Robert Morris. As a saxophonist, he has appeared with many distinguished artists including Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Bellson, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Manhattan Transfer, Mel Torme and Clark Terry. Yasinitsky is currently principal saxophonist with the Spokane Symphony and has performed as a member of the San Francisco Symphony. He can be heard with Tom Harrell, Art Lande and others on recordings released by the Musical Heritage Society, Soul Note, Palo Alto and Revelation Records. His playing and compositions can also be heard on compact discs released on his own label, Yazz Recordings. A conductor and clinician, he has presented concerts and workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. Yasinistsky has been the subject of articles in The Saxophone Journal and Jazz Player magazine, and he has contributed articles to the IAJE Journal, Band World, The Saxophone Symposium and Yamaha's New Ways and Aftertouch magazines. Yasinitsky is a Yamaha performing artist and clinician.
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