Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Jazz Saxophone Duets

This book of duets is very useful because it works with two altos or two tenors or one of each. It comes complete with a CD recording of all three possible combinations and you can practise with both parts playing or silence one part by adjusting the balance between your speakers as the stereo has one part on each channel. The players on the CD are really impressive - it's terrific playing. The pieces are in a variety of jazz styles and some of them include short passages for improvisation with chords symbols. Your duet partner on the CD will also take a solo - just in case your were starting to gain confidence. If you can keep up with Gordon Goodwin (tenor) and Eric Marienthal (alto), you really are doing very well! (To find out more about these musicians and their achievements, you can visit their websites.)The standard is challenging - I would say the easiest piece is at least grade 7 and the jazz rhythms include some complicated figures. The two parts are approximately equal in terms of difficulty. These duets really are good fun if you are up to the challenge and the pieces are satisfying to play. It is a great opportunity to play duets with players of this calibre and you can pick up some great jazz phrasing. The range is within the normal compass though there is the odd super A in the first tenor part.You would need two copies to perform this live as an alto and tenor duet as the book is divided into two halves - alto duet version at the front and tenor duet version at the back with the option of combining the two or potentially substituting a soprano or baritone.The printing and layout is top quality (there are no "I couldn't read it" excuses here) it is all very clear though some of the page turns do add to the challenge.

Advanced students.

Very challenging. Great tunes. Thank goodness for the speed change app !

No piano accompaniment

Schöne Duette, die für Tenor und Alt gesetzt sind und so in beliebigen Duett-Konstellationen dieser beiden Instrumente gespielt werden können. Teilweise ist das Original-Tempo wirklich sehr hoch. Es gibt eine CD dabei - allerdings nur Voll-Playback.