How to Play Bass in a Big Band (book/CD)

Publisher : Advance Music
Jeff Campbell (Author) 
William Dobbins (Arranger)


Improvisation is at the heart of jazz, but knowing how to play stylistically correctly in a large jazz ensemble is also a necessity. How to Play Bass in a Big Band offers tips, suggestions, examples and a play along CD to help you put it all together.
The repertoire covers many jazz styles from Basie to Latin and African-influenced music to ECM and contemporary jazz (the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Bob Brookmeyer, etc.)


Introduction

1. Reading Big Band Bass Parts
2. Equipment
3. Physical Set Up of a Big Band Rhythm Section
4. Big Band Pieces
5. Basie's Blues
6. Shufflin' in F
7. Funk Unity
8. Morning
9. Joe's Thing
10. Leaving
11. Strayhorn
12. Big Band Discography
13. Jazz Bass Method Books

Sample Pages