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Joe Allard
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Joe Allard: Lessons from the Master

Joe Allard is considered one of most influential and brilliant woodwind teachers that ever lived. For more than 40 years he taught at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and New England Conservatory. His students included jazz greats, as well as many first chair players in major symphony orchestras. Over the years, Allard’s teachings have become legendary and now for the first time you will be able to hear him teach lessons. This book put together by Local 802 (New York City) member William Meade includes 18 lessons with audio tracks that cover some of his key concepts. Listen to Allard’s teachings first-hand and discover this amazing teacher for yourself.

Joe Allard: Lessons from the Master, by William Meade,
joeallardlessons.com

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Sitting In Series by Alfred Music

Soloing is an important part of playing, but when you are practicing on your own it is difficult to get the creative juices flowing without a band. This series of books with DVDs for guitarists and pianists lets you practice comping and soloing as if you had a live band. Expert instrumentalists lead you through tips and techniques to give life to your practice sessions and add new sounds to your music vocabulary. Books are available in blues, jazz, and rock genres for both piano and guitar.

Sitting In: Blues Piano/Guitar; Sitting In: Jazz Piano/Guitar; Sitting In: Rock Piano/Guitar, Alfred Music, www.alfred.com.

Sticking It Out
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Sticking It Out: From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit a Percussionist’s Memoir

Sticking It OutSet against the backdrop of a rapidly changing New York City in the 1980s, Sticking It Out recounts Local 6 (San Francisco, CA) member Patti Niemi’s years mastering her craft and struggling to make it in a cutthroat race to a coveted job in an orchestra. Along the way, she has to compete with friends, and face her own crippling anxiety and reliance on prescription medication, while confronting the delicate, and sometimes perilous, balance of power between teachers and their students.

Sticking It Out: From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit a Percussionist’s Memoir, by Patti Niemi, ECW Press, ecwpress.com.


Hal Leonard Trumpet Play-Along
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Hal Leonard Trumpet Play-Along Series

Hal Leonard Trumpet Play-AlongThe Hal Leonard Trumpet Play-Along series is designed to help you learn to play tunes quickly and easily with printed music and access to online audio tracks for download and streaming. Volume 2, Trumpet Classics includes “Ciribiribin,” Harry James; “Feels So Good,” Chuck Mangione; “Java,” Al Hirt; “Music to Watch Girls By,” Bob Crewe Generation; “Spanish Flea,” Herb Alpert; “Sugar Blue,” Al Hirt; “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert; and “The Toy Trumpet,” Raymond Scott. The other three volumes available are: Volume 1, Popular Hits; Volume 3, Classic Rock, and Volume 4, Great Themes.

Hal Leonard Trumpet Play-Along Volume 2, Hal Leonard Corporation,
www.halleonard.com.

Ultimate Easy Play-Along Series
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Alfred’s Ultimate Easy Play-Along Series

Ultimate Easy Play-Along SeriesGreat for students, Alfred’s Ultimate Easy Play-Along series features easy-to-play arrangements of guitar parts from classic recordings in both TAB and notation. Every book comes with a DVD of tips and a video giving a close-up view of how the parts are played, plus MP3s and TNT 2 software to change the mix, slow tracks down, isolate sections, and loop parts for practice. Available in the series are: The British Invasion 1964, Rush, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones.

Alfred’s Ultimate Easy Play-Along Series, Alfred Music, Alfred.com.

How Music Dies (or Lives)
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How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts

How Music Dies (or Lives)In this book author and Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan chronicles his journeys to find new and ancient sounds, textured voices, and nonmalleable songs as he presents readers with an intricate look at our technological society. He explores how colonization has damaged distinct variations between groups through generalizations; the importance of imperfection to authenticity; gaps between manufacturing and invention; and music’s saturation in everyday life.

How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts, by Ian Brennan, Allworth Press, www.allworth.com.

Mastering the Bow
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Mastering the Bow Studies for Bass, Part 2: Spiccato

Mastering the BowThe goal of this book is to help bassists develop a wide vocabulary of sounds with the bow through exploration of the expressive potential of bow strokes that combine movements, offering an infinite variety of musical gestures. Author Gaelen McCormick, a member of Local 66 (Rochester, NY) offers both explanation and a practical “to do” of examples with etudes and repertoire to support the understanding of specialized bow stroke.

Mastering the Bow Studies for Bass, Part 2: Spiccato, by Gaelen
McCormick, Carl Fischer, www.carlfischer.com.

Blues piano legends
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Blues Piano Legends: 16 Note-for-Note Piano Transcriptions from 12 Blues Icons

Blues piano legendsBlues Piano Legends includes 16 transcriptions with lyrics for tunes that all blues fans should know, including: “Big Chief,” Professor Longhair; “Bloody Murder,” Otis Spann; “Boogie Woogie Stomp,” Albert Ammons; “Chicago Breakdown,” Big Maceo; “Confessin’ the Blues,” Jay McShann; “Driftin’ Blues,” Charles Brown; “Every Day I Have the Blues,” Memphis Slim;  “Honky Tonk Train (Honky Tonk Train Blues),” Meade “Lux” Lewis; “Worried Life Blues,” Big Maceo; and more.

Blues Piano Legends: 16 Note-for-Note Piano Transcriptions from 12 Blues Icons, Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com.

jazz session trainer
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Jazz Session Trainer: The Woodshedder’s Practice Kit

jazz session trainerIn this book Local 6 (San Francisco, CA) member Larry Dunlap, a respected arranger, composer, and teacher, provides a series of tools to prepare musicians for jazz jam sessions. Beginning with etiquette, he also covers how scales are used in improvisation; introductions and endings; and offers tips for practice. He provides exercises to improve your chops, including jazz etudes and licks, and a list of 50 frequently played tunes with chord charts and online audio.

Jazz Session Trainer: The Woodshedder’s Practice Kit, by Larry Dunlap, Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com.

Wallflower
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Diana Krall Wallflower

WallflowerThis book contains piano, vocals, and guitar arrangements for all of the songs on Diana Krall’s 2015 Wallflower album. On Wallflower, the Locals 802 (New York City) and 149 (Toronto, ON)  member performs songs made famous by artists such as The Mamas & the Papas, the Carpenters, the Eagles, Jim Croce, Elton John, Local 47 (Los Angeles, CA) member Randy Newman, and a freshly penned tune by Paul McCartney.

Diana Krall Wallflower, Alfred Music, www.alfred.com.