Arranging Jazz: Modern Jazz Voicings for Concert Bands (Book/CD): Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles

A very well thought out book. I have some limited experience in arranging - what sounds good to me is what you get. This book breaks down and explains the steps to achieving a more jazzy sound in about the right amount of detail at any one time. The music you see in the book is available on the Hal Leonard website (see inside cover of the book). I think you need a small degree of musical undestanding to get the best from this book - the basics are fairly quickly covered. If you are new to musical notation then maybe start with a simpler book. Everybody's requirements and experience are different but for most musicians who can read music and have an elementary understanding of chordal relationships I would think this is a very good book to have

The Berklee method. Useful for the modern arranger.

Awesome!!

Modern Jazz Voicings teaches how to write in fourths, clusters and uppers structure triads in an easy way. The best feature in this book is the recording examples. Any book that claims to be a great arranging book needs to have decent recording examples. The readers can easily digest the techniques since they are available to their ears. Also, the recordings not only include horn section, but they use different orchestration to illustrate the voicings explained. Berklee teaches this course called as Chord Scale Theory. I strongly recommend this book.

This book is really good and I will highly recommend it to arrangers and composers.

I would refund this if I wasn't so lazy

Nicely packaged the item is as described by the seller in good condition.

I highly recommend this book for everyone who wants to develop their attitudes as a Jazz Ensemble arranger.

El título es confuso. La información que contiene es avanzada

Como siempre, estos métodos se quedan imcompletos sin el análisis concienzudo de transcripciones propias, o de partituras profesionales. Falta literatura de peso (Duke Ellington, Don Redman, Count Basie, Gil Evans, etc.) sin los que no se entiende la composición de jazz con mayúsculas. Un manual pobre y excesivamente básico, aunque aprovechable para ejemplos sencillos y como inicio en la composición de jazz para intérpretes.

I found the material useful and thought provokingExamples were good but somewhat limited in scope.Some concepts of how to deal with the more limited soundscape would have been helpful