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Hi Vishwak! Here are some Audio Samples and Video Links to listen to...
(jump to "LISTENING / MUSIC APPRECIATION")


TECHNICAL EXERCISES:
Hanon: Play-a-long: Exercise #1 (qn=88)
Hanon: Play-a-long: Exercise #1 (qn=104)
Hanon: Play-a-long: Exercise #1 (qn=120)
Hanon: Play-a-long: Exercise #1 (qn=140)
Hanon: Play-a-long: Exercise #1 (qn=160)


Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long: ii-V-I's (qn=88)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long: ii-V-I's (qn=108)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long: ii-V-I's (qn=120)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long: ii-V-I's (qn=140)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long: ii-V-I's (qn=160)


SCHOOL RELATED:
Les Hooper: Play-a-long: Cool School Dropout (qn=145)
Les Hooper: Play-a-long: Cool School Dropout (qn=165)


TRANSCRIPTIONS (Rhythms/Notes):
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 03a (swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 03b (swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 03c (swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 03d (swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 02a (non-swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 02b (non-swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 02c (non-swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 02d (non-swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 01a (non-swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 01b (non-swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 01c (non-swinging)
Transcribing:Transcribing Rhythms - 01d (non-swinging)


TRANSCRIPTIONS (Solos):
Wynton Kelly: Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (Kelly Blue, 1959)


JAZZ IMPROV PLAY-A-LONGS:
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long Blues in C (4 choruses w/guitar, qn=108)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long Blues in C (48 bars, qn=130)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Play-a-long Blues in C (48 bars, qn=170)


Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 1 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=100)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 1 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=112)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 1 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=120)

Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 2 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=100)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 2 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=112)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 2 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=120)

Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 3 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=100)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 3 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=112)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 3 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=120)

Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 4 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=100)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 4 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars, qn=120)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 5 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars)
Jazz Improv Play-a-Long:Trading with Jazz Rhythms, Set 6 in D min7 (D Dorian) (32 bars)


TUNES (Current)
John Coltrane, et. al.: I Hear A Rhapsody (Lush Life, 1958)
Red Garland, piano (solo): I Hear A Rhapsody (Lush Life, 1958)
Bill Evans, piano: I Hear A Rhapsody (Jim Hall, "Undercurrent", 1962)
Bobby Timmons, piano: I Hear A Rhapsody (Art Blakey, "Impulse", 1961)
Jackie McLean, et. al.: I Hear A Rhapsody ("Action, Action Action", 1961)
Mulgrew Miller, piano, et. al.:I Hear A Rhapsody (live with Ira Coleman - Bass, Mark Johnson - Drums)
Chick Corea, piano, et. al.: I Hear A Rhapsody (with Niels Hanning Orsted Pedersen - Bass, Jorge Rossy - Drums)


EXERCISES


LISTENING / MUSIC APPRECIATION:
Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet), Stan Getz (alto sax), Jim McNeely (piano): Just Friends
Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet), ? (piano): Just Friends
Tommy Flanagan (piano): Just Friends
Joe Pass (guitar), Oscar Peterson (piano): Just Friends


Miles Davis (trumpet), Bill Evans (piano): So What
Woody Shaw (trumpet), Kenny Barron (piano): There Will Never Be Another You (lead sheet)
Dexter Gordon (tenor), Kenny Drew (piano): There Will Never Be Another You (lead sheet)
Ben Webster (tenor sax), Art Tatum (piano): My One and Only Love
Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone): Autumn Leaves
Miles Davis (trumpet), Bill Evans (piano): All Blues (youTube video)
Kenny Barron (piano), Tom Harrell (trumpet): Look To The Sky


Langston Hughes:The Story of Jazz - Beginnings
Langston Hughes:The Story of Jazz - The Blues
Langston Hughes:The Story of Jazz - Characteristics


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