An attractive and accessible menu of performance pieces. The sound and playing on the CDs is impeccable ... Excellent.

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Fifteen tunes that reflect the breadth and diversity of jazz, from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant and multicultural sounds of jazz today. Contains sections for improvised solos, with notated guideline pitches to get you started and a CD featuring playalong rhythm-section tracks and full performances recorded by top musicians.

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Mack the Knife [Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht]; Is you is, or Is you ain't (ma' Baby)? [Billy Austin / Louis Jordan]; Idaho [Jesse Stone]; Las Vegas Tango [Gil Evans]; Sonnymoon for Two [Sonny Rollins]; Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen [Trad.]; Freddie Freeloader [Miles Davis]; Short Stop [Shorty Rogers]; Solitude [Duke Ellington / Eddie DeLange / Irving Mills]; Sombrero Sam [Charles Lloyd]; Jean Pierre [Miles Davis]; Mo' Better Blues [Bill Lee]; Mannenberg [Abdullah Ibrahim]; Everything that Lives Laments [Keith Jarrett]; Oye como va [Tito Puente]