Vol. 2, Nothin' But Blues: Jazz And Rock (Book & CD Set)

Clever approach to the subject. Beware though, the book is meant to be a play along and comes with a CD, but you can not copy the tracks to any other medium. If you do not have a CD player you then have to pay another $8.99 to buy, download, the mp3 version! I have never had this problem.

This is a very nice mix of Jazzy Blues . Good for practicing your chops and chord work. I am a guitar player but it works for many instruments. The tunes are a bit short and the feel is a bit stiff. But hey these are not Blue note masters. I do highly recommend this one. I was able to download it to my IPOD too and it plays on my very ancient CD player ( which does not like homemade computer cd's at all). The Keys are Jazz Keys too, like F, C, Bb. No E or A, this is not Chicago or Texas style, More Bluenote style.

This Book and CD Set has been around for decades and there is nothing better to get a solid grounding in jazz improvisation. Highly recommended!

Item arrived on time, easy to open packaging, and was in like-new condition. Only complaint is that the description and image showed a CD should come with it, but sadly there was none in the package. As for the content of the product, my daughter said it was just what she wanted, and has used it to the point that it no longer looks new. Another observation - not for a novice or beginner. Too complicated concepts for the average musician just starting out.

The blues changes are the most important changes in jazz. So the aspiring jazz musician may look at this album, see that it is "Volume 2" and contains "nothin but blues", and logically assume that it is a good teaching tool to learn how to play the blues. Unfortunately, that is a mistake.I don't know what Aebersold was thinking way back when this album was made, but it is simply too advanced to learn the blues from. Although there are a few 12-bar blues tracks here, most are variations on the basic form. We have our rock tracks and our 6/4 tracks and 16-bar blues and Charlie Parker's "Blues for Alice" changes. All of these are necessary for the jazz musician's development, but not for the beginning student. I came away from this album thinking these are blues from circa 1960 Blue Note recordings, so it was funny to read the same comment from the previous reviewer.If you want to learn how to play the blues in jazz, purchase Aebersold's Volume 42 instead. Give this one a pass for a couple years. And by that time you probably will be skilled enough to skip it completely anyway.

Terrific book, good for learning jazz would recommend buy this book, yes, yes, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

great

When I was a kid you had to go to a music store in St. Louis and spend an arm and a leg on these. But the guys whose parents popped for them surely became the best soloist the fastest. So now many years on my own as a professional musician, I have learned to solo without Aebersold's help, and it is so nice to have these affordable CD's and books available through Amazon. I've been like in solo heaven ever since I got it. To you young folks that have tons of prerecorded backing tracks available to solo on top of these days, I'd advise you to take a throwback and try these out. And, maybe think how incredibly cool it might have been to stand with your horn in front of your parents 500 pound stereo console and play along with an actual jazz combo.

Excellent, great book

Es práctico y útil para tocar blues con acordeón que es mi objetivo

Das Heft mit CDNothin'but the Blues Play-Along von Jamey Aebersold ist sehr gut geeignet, um Blues zu lernen und mitzuspielen.