STILL TAKING APPLICATIONS - IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO ATTEND! Our Newest Play-A-Longs - Now In Stock! Vol. 121 - Phil Woods - Bk/CD 14 songs by the bop legend! Includes: Cool Aid, Drifting, Dutch Morning, Eddie's Blues, House Of Chan, Johnny Hodges, Lady J, Lew Blew, Samba Dubois, Sugan, The Squire's Parlor, The Stanley, Stomper, Waltz For A Lovely Wife, Without You. Rhythm Section: Steve Allee (piano), Bill Moring (bass), Tim Horner (drums) Vol. 122 - Jimmy Heath - Book/CD 14 Jazz Classics Includes:  Gemini, Gingerbread Boy, Mona's Mood, Forever Sonny, You Or Me, One For Juan, Basic Biks, New Picture, CTA, Without You - No Me, A Sound For Sore Ears, The Voice Of The Saxophone, Bog Ag'in, Sources Say Rhythm Section: Jeb Patton (Piano); Ameen Saleem (Bass); Winard Harper (Drums) Vol. 123 - Now's The Time - Bk/CD - Standards With the Joey DeFrancesco Trio - Play-A-Long with B3 Organ! Includes: Now's The Time, Four On Six, The More I See You, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Lunch Portion, I Fall In Love Too Easily, Bye, Bye Blackbird, Gee, Baby Aint I Good To You, Indiana, February 14th, Anthropology, Summertime, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Slow Blues in Bb, Obama Nation. Rhythm Section: Joey DeFrancesco (Organ); Paul Bollenback (Guitar); Byron Langham (Drums)   Vol. 124 - Brazilian Jazz - Bk/CD Discover the latest fresh, exciting trends in today's Brazilian Jazz scene. These 10 tracks, recorded in Brazil with some of its finest musicians, cover a variety of Brazilian styles, including Samba, Bossa Nova, Baiao, Afoxe, Partido-alto, and Maracatu. Book includes the usual transposed parts for all instruments plus bonus drum information, showing the basic beats of each style. Rhythm Section: Renato Vasconcellos (Electric Piano); Andre Vasconcellos or Romulo Duarte (Electric and Acoustic Bass); Leander Motta (Drums and Percussion) New To Improvising?  Where Do You Start? If you've never used the Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long Series before, check out our Great Starting Places.  Volume #1 along with the Anyone Can Improvise DVD and Volume #24 work well together for a strong foundation.  Vol. 1 - "How To Play Jazz & Improvise" Product #V01DS Price $15.90 Beginning/Intermediate. Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. The CD includes Jamey playing exercises from the book. Hear the master clinician show you exactly how it's done! "Anyone Can Improvise!" DVD by Jamey Aebersold Product #JAD Price $19.95 Basic/intermediate. This nearly two-hour long DVD features Jamey at the piano explaining and demonstrating the fundamental techniques used by all great jazz improvisers. Topics covered include chord/scale relationships, keeping your place, patterns, the blues and pentatonic scales and their application, what and how to practice, articulation, memorizing songs, and much more. This DVD not only provides the technical information essential to getting started on improvisation but also serves as an overview of the entire creative process in terms that even a non-musician could understand. This DVD is closely aligned with Volume 1 "How To Play Jazz" and Volume 24 "Major and Minor." The visual, hands-on demonstration makes their concepts easier to grasp. Jamey even plays along with tracks from those two play-a-long volumes, showing proper application of scales to chords and essential practice techniques. Vol. 24 - "Major & Minor" Product #V24DS Price $19.95 For all instrumentalists and vocalists. CDs contain 30 extended tracks of recorded background. Great primer for learning basic skills in major and minor keys.  Special tracks have Jamey Aebersold playing various exercises and soloing on his saxophone with actual cuts from Volume 24 so you can hear and see how to use this set. All exercises and sax solos on the demo tracks are transcribed and written out in the book! Pick a different key each day/week/practice.