NOTE: Our DVDs play world-wide on any DVD player & we ship worldwide (from the US). Jazz Improvisation Lesson Video/DVD Extraordinaire for you: Tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is an internationally recognized jazz performer, composer, author and jazz educator. Besides being a professor at New England Conservatory, he is the author of seven jazz improvisation books and has performed and/or recorded Jazz Greats like Mulgrew Miller, Dave Brubeck, Kenny Barron, John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Swallow, Roy Haynes, and many more. In this How to Play Jazz Video, Bergonzi, along with colleague Brian Levy, explores three important jazz improvisation topics: Modal Sequences, Substitutions for/against the Chord & Shape Playing. He shares clear & specific jazz improvisation exercises for these three broad topics that jazz musicians of any instrument and any level can explore, yet the resulting possibilities are truly unlimited. This material is the result of teaching these jazz improvisation methods on how to play jazz to students all over the world for 30 years, finally available in Video format! Expand Your Vocabulary & Open up New Ways of Thinking about Jazz Improvisation & Composition with: Application of Scalar & Modal Sequences to a Standard or Modal Tune. Rhythmic Transformation of Sequences. Substitution of Progressions for the Harmony. Substitution of Progressions against the Harmony. Exploration of Shapes and Directions as Models for Improvisation. And LOTS more Jazz Improvisation Lessons. NOTE: There might be Import Charges upon arrival in your country, if outside the US.
D**R
You need to get this!
Great concepts here! Well worth the $$. Jerry is a great player and a GREAT teacher!
H**N
just a good CD.
This CD is VERY helpful and definitely meets my expectations, the format, the exercises, the play a-longs, just a good CD.
G**Y
I purchased all three DVD's and found them a little ...
I purchased all three DVD's and found them a little over my head...I'll review them again at a later date.
A**R
Five Stars
Thank you!
B**N
Five Stars
Great instructional video
C**Y
An exellent work
This is a concentrate bergonzy work. incredible video with exersise that work fo me.If you study that video deep you can change your improvisation. A really good work
J**S
Like a Private Lesson w/ a Master
I have several of Bergonzi's 'Inside Improvisation' books and have found them extremely useful. I consider them invaluable and some of the best instructional material on the market. This DVD is very much like taking the best parts of the books and having Jerry teach them to you as though you were sitting with him, horn in hand.This particular DVD focuses on taking simple ideas and expanding them into extremely complex sounding lines. As you would expect from a master, Jerry explains all of the concepts in very easy-to-understand terms and there is plenty of actual playing by Jerry and his 'student' to reinforce the concepts.The production and sound are extremely good. All of the examples are included as a PDF on the DVD and they are also well done.Overall, this DVD is well worth the money. For about 1/2 of the cost of an actual private lesson, you get enough material for months and month. Highly recommended for the intermediate to advanced musician.
S**E
Awesome Jazz Instructional Video by Jerry Bergonzi
If you are a student of jazz improvisation, no matter what your instrument, and you are overwhelmed by all the jazz instructional material "out there," start here!!! Jerry gives very specific instructions about how and what to practice. The main advantage of a video format is that you can see/hear the material demonstrated as if you were attending a lesson/masterclass. The demonstrations are excellent - very musical!The material is presented in an extremely straight-forward manner and the video stays focused on the MOST IMPORTANT STUFF to practice. I teach woodwinds at Berklee College of Music and I use many of Jerry's ideas/methods with my own students. You can't go wrong purchasing Vol. 2 (and Vol. 1) in this series!!!Jerry hit it out of the ball park with this one!This is basically the same review that I wrote for the first video. While either video may be studied independently of the other, the second video is, to my way of thinking, a logical continuation of the first video, with more challenging material. There is enough here to keep an intermediate or advanced level student busy for a long, long time. I have a lot of fun practicing this stuff myself :-)Shannon LeClaireAssociate Professor of WoodwindsBerklee College of Music
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