New From Aebersold Publications - Now In Stock! Jerry Coker's Latest - Getting RAVE Reviews!! The Creative Nudge That Fuels Jazz Improvisation Product Code: CN Price - $7.95 - 6" x 9" paperback Why do musicians choose Jazz Improvisation as an outlet for creativity?  Why are we creating this music and who are we creating it for?  All you need is a little information. Master Jazz Educator Jerry Coker has put together this wonderfully structured text summarizing several important topics regarding Jazz and Jazz Improvisation; giving us all that much needed "nudge."    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.