A Guide to Non-Jazz Improvisation: Flute Edition

The non-jazz improvisation series is a concept that germinated in Dick Weissmans mind while he was attending music school. He wrote a 15-piece arrangement of the old square dance tune, Cripple Creek, and wanted the trombone to take a solo as part of the arrangement. When the trombonist kept playing a bebop solo that was totally unsuitable for the chart, Dick realized that - in addition to the many musicians who do not improvise - there are even jazz musicians who dont know how to improvise outside the limits of their own stylistic backgrounds. The non-jazz improvisation series mostly includes new original tunes that are intended to show how to improvise in many musical styles, including: * Blues * Country * American folk * Latin-American * World music including South American, Eastern European and Asian * Odd meters (playing in a variety of time signatures) * New Age * Classical * Folk-Rock In short, the books are an encyclopedia of virtually every musical style, excluding jazz.

Additional Details

• Primary Composer|Arranger|Editor -
  DICK WEISSMAN
• Secondary Composer|Arranger|Editor -
  DAN FOX
• Binding -
  paperback
• ISBN13 -
  9780786674770
• Publisher -
  Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
• ISBN10 -
  0786674776
• Media -
  Book/CD Set
• Edition No -
  21232BCD
• Difficulty Level -
  Beginning-Intermediate
• Height -
  11.75 inches
• Width -
  8.75 inches
• No of Pages -
  116
• Publication Date -
  24/07/2009
• Group -
  Improvisation