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Jazz Singing
Tish Oney merges the worlds of jazz and classical singing in a comprehensive guide for those teaching and singing jazz. Legendary jazz singers’ performance strategies are discussed providing unique insights. Jazz Singing combines jazz stylization and improvisational techniques with classic voice pedagogy to outline a method that builds the jazz voice upon a strong foundation of proper alignment, efficient breathing, healthy phonation, a clear understanding of vocal anatomy, and the physics of singing. Various strategies to enhance improvisation and artistry are presented, and mindful coordination of all aspects is emphasized to create authentic, healthy jazz singing in this groundbreaking book.
Approaching the Standards
Approaching the Standards for Jazz Vocalists is an innovative, user-friendly approach to vocal jazz improvisation. Designed for the individual or group and male or female vocalists, this book and sing-along CD contains ten classic jazz songs selected from and correlated to Approaching the Standards Volumes 1, 2 and 3. Included are the same essential features as the instrumental books: CD demo, clearly written improvisation examples, jazz vocabulary, transcription opportunities, informative composer insight and a useful discography. Whether beginning their studies or improving their vocal jazz skills, all serious singers must have this book! Titles are: Now's the Time * Satin Doll * Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise * Summertime * I Got Rhythm * Honeysuckle Rose * Tenor Madness * Bye Bye Blackbird * Secret Love * Take the A" Train."
Voices Found
Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the more recent wave of free jazz choirs. The author traces the developments and offers a theory, derived from interviews with many of the most important singers in the history of free jazz voice, of how listeners have experienced and evaluated the often unconventional vocal sounds these vocalists employed. This theory explains that even audiences willing to enjoy harsh sounds from saxophones or guitars often resist when voices make sounds that audiences...
Classic Standards: Singer's Jazz Anthology - High Voice
(Singer's Jazz Anthology). The Singer's Jazz Anthology is an exciting new series providing aspiring jazz vocalists and pianists with staples of the jazz repertoire. The singer's portion, matching the original sheet music, is paired with fresh, unique accompaniments arranged in an authentic jazz style and designed to enable the singer to sound like they're being backed by an accomplished jazz pianist. The accompaniments can be performed as written but include chord labels for pianists who are comfortable playing their own chord voicings. The included audio recordings of the printed accompaniments, performed by the series arranger, Brent Edstrom can be used by the vocalist in rehearsal or in performance. Songs include: All the Things You Are * Blue Skies * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Georgia on My Mind * It's Only a Paper Moon * My Romance * When I Fall in Love * and more.
Jazz singer's handbook
This book provides practical advice on professional jazz singing. Topics covered include getting inside the lyrics, personalising the song, creating an emotional mood, word stress, melodic variation, breathing, rhythm, choosing a key, writing a lead sheet, creating an arrangement, organising a gig book, rehearsing, and playing styles.
Jazz Standards for Vocalists with Combo Accompaniment
Belwin Jazz offers ten great jazz standards arranged for solo vocalist with a nine or ten piece combo accompaniment. These songs are superbly arranged by one of the finest writers in the business, Dave Wolpe. This collection is ideal for a vocalist who needs a smaller ensemble with four or five horns and rhythm section. The combo horns are trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone and baritone sax. The baritone sax part adds additional color to the texture but is optional. The rhythm section is scored for guitar, bass, drumset and a piano/conductor part which includes cues for the horns. Titles: * How High the Moon * I Get a Kick Out of You * I've Got You Under My Skin * Just Friends * My Funny Valentine * Night and Day * Something's Gotta Give * Summer Wind * They Can't Take That Away From Me * Too Close For Comfort
Singing Jazz
Consists of interviews with many of today's performers in order to provide an insight into this musical form. It contains an A-Z of vocalists.
Singin' with the Jazz Combo (Voice)
The Singin' with the Jazz Combo series offers a variety of 10 great standards for solo vocalist with a nine or ten-piece combo---ideal for the vocalist who needs arrangements for a small ensemble. The combo instrumentation is trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, guitar, bass, drumset, and piano with conductor cues for the horns. An optional baritone sax part adds additional color and texture. Superbly arranged by Dave Wolpe, the songs are in a variety of styles and tempos to provide flexibility in all musical settings. Titles: * A Foggy Day * At Last * Falling in Love with Love * Just in Time * Mack the Knife * Polka Dots and Moonbeams * Santa Claus is Coming to Town * Straighten Up and Fly Right * 'S Wonderful * When I Fall in Love
Jazz Standards for Vocalists with Combo Accompaniment
Belwin Jazz offers ten great jazz standards arranged for solo vocalist with a nine or ten piece combo accompaniment. These songs are superbly arranged by one of the finest writers in the business, Dave Wolpe. This collection is ideal for a vocalist who needs a smaller ensemble with four or five horns and rhythm section. The combo horns are trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone and baritone sax. The baritone sax part adds additional color to the texture but is optional. The rhythm section is scored for guitar, bass, drumset and a piano/conductor part which includes cues for the horns. Titles: * How High the Moon * I Get a Kick Out of You * I've Got You Under My Skin * Just Friends * My Funny Valentine * Night and Day * Something's Gotta Give * Summer Wind * They Can't Take That Away From Me * Too Close For Comfort
So You Want to Sing Jazz
Since the 1930s and ̕40s, jazz has stood tall in American popular music, drawing into its embrace not only great horn players, percussionists, guitarists, bassists, and pianists, but also some of the greatest singers in America’s musical history. Jazz has laid the groundwork for important innovations in modern singing, opening up entirely new ways of delivering songs through what would eventually become jazz standards—songs that formed the basis of the American Songbook. In So You Want to Sing Jazz, singer and professor of voice Jan Shapiro gives a guided tour through the art and science of the jazz vocal style. Throughout, Shapiro hones in on what makes jazz singing distinctive, sugges...
