12 Jazz Etudes-Alto Sax Book 1

12 Jazz Etudes Based on Popular Standards

Andy says about the 12 Jazz Etudes:

“The idea for this project came from the many requests from friends and students asking me to write a book about how I approach my jazz improvisations.

” I didn’t think that I would be able to simplify my style of improvising, (which tends to be virtuosic and blindingly fast at times). I also felt that I’d need to work my way through a series of long, complex books in order to give the subject its due credit.

However, after thinking further about this project, I decided that perhaps the best way to approach this book would be to create a series of arrangements based on well-known, established jazz standards and then to improvise over these in real-time.”

Included in the piano part to these etudes is a solo analysis score that contains all of the chord changes relevant to the solo’s construction.  The student of jazz improvisation can use these to de-construct and study at their leisure.”