Modern Jazz Voicings

Through a step-by-step process with exercises and recorded examples, the authors guide you through the intricacies of deriving ''non-tertial'' voicings from the right chord scales and applying them to various musical situations. Become fluent in these techniques and use them effectively to express your own music - select appropriate harmonic tensions and understand jazz harmony; avoid common mistakes and overcome harmonic ambiguity; experiment with unusual combinations and non-traditional alignments, mixing in other textures, including solo, linear, and contrapuntal passages; listen to arranging techniques performed on the CD and follow along with corresponding notated examples; and much more. This book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination - winds, voices, strings, rhythm section, and so on.