Forum: Jazz Arranging Online - by Prof. Chuck Israels

Hi, I was wondering if there was any news as to when the book would be coming out, since we're so close to the end of the lessons here now. Incidentally, any news as to when the last lesson will be posted? I assume that they will happen at about the same time. Any info would be appreciated. ...

Hi At the moment I am working my way through Prof Israel's course. I am finding it helpful and it has opened new horizons for me in understanding chord structures and other important concepts. I am incredibly thankful for this resource and hope to buy Prof Israel's book in new year. In...

www.myspace.com/jeffreybassmusic Here I have two of my own arrangements played by live band, one of Michell Legrand's "You Must Believe in Spring", which has a somewhat inaudible bass melody, and of Dave Brubek's "In Your Own Sweet Way". These are my first two ever so check em out and tell me...

Feel free to post your comments about the "Exploring Jazz Arranging" course. If you have any questions you want to ask Chuck Israels, please post them here. Enjoy the course Gary Garritan

Hi, I was wondering if the DVD that comes with the book at the end of the course will be just the course itself, or will it also have audio that can be used with the book when not at the computer? Thanks, Richard

This is my first crack at writing an arrangement for big band. The tune is dave brubeck's In your own sweet way. Please have a listen and leave comments! I am for ever a student. http://audio.vincewaters.com/recordings/bigband/arrangements/Jeff%20Smith.mp3

I am considering taking big band arranging up again after doing this with a teacher 17 years ago for about 1 year (plus 1 year before that doing arrangements for sax quartet). He was actually a woodwind teacher as that was what I was taking lessons for but he had me do arranging as well to develop...

Hi, Does anyone know where I can find big band arrangements to analyze? For orchestral music there are so many options but I haven't found anything for BB without having to buy an arrangement with parts. Thanks, David

Hi This may interest some of you. While this is a real band recording, I do use JABB when I am writing. I put together a little QT with the score and audio. I wrote this one a few years ago but have just finished the recording. The high res will only work on a larger monitor. The low...

I would like to know better how the samples in the lessons were made, I mean did you use finale to do it? did you play in with a MIDI keyboard? How do you animate it? Thanks for the lessons they are great!!! Cheers.

I have a horn chart I am trying to get sequenced and I am confused on some of the notations. Chart: http://warsaw.innova-partners.com/~cburke/Let%20It%20Go%201%20-%20tpts.jpg Can anyone tell me what he means tpt 2 -8ba to 1. Do I understand that the second tpt to be down an octave from what...

Hello All! Thanks for the great information. Here is a chart I arranged for my college jazz ensemble. Please let me have any comments, good or bad! (about the arrangement, not the performance) Thanks all! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InHbjAcuSPc

Hi, my name i eddie. I am new to all this, but i hope to learn a i can about jazz or all music genders. I play the piano and also have a home project studio. I also play and direct my church praise and worship group. My wife and I have a music ministry, she sings and i play key's. im really exited...

Hi I have been following Prof Israels' Course. Since today I get the following message when I wish to see the music and listen to the playback: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /Jazz/files/4-7.html on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at garritan.com Port 80 Please...

I just found this new thread and surfed through some of your basic lessons. These should give anyone a decent point of departure to further explore the art and craft of large jazz ensemble writing. I'll be interested in seeing how you handle some more advances concepts like contrapuntal writing,...

If Jazz has reached its full & final development?? It becomes interesting to know how harmony has been used in different jazz styles. Did Louis Armstrongs Hot 5's use only triads? What harmony in the Swing era? The Beboppers are better documented. How about Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus...

Hi everyone, I just got a new computer recently (a macbook pro), and I was having trouble viewing the examples in the jazz course. I downloaded the latest version of flash (as of a few minutes ago) and even downloaded firefox to try in a different browser (I had been using safari). Neither of...

This is fantastic. Never to old to learn. I'll need some refresher time to get on trac with all this but will give it a try.