Michael Tracy

Saxophonist/Educator

Useful Materials by Other Jazz Educators

JAMEY AEBERSOLD
- Things the Advanced Jazz Improviser should know and be able to play
- Jazz Handbook (this is the Red Handbook given at the Summer Jazz Workshops)
- The Scale Syllabus
- Jazz Nomenclature
- Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices
DAVID BAKER Bebop Material (used with permission)
- Bebop Clinic Bb
- Bebop Clinic Eb
- BeBop Clinic concert
- BeBop Clinic bass clef
- BeBop Scales
- A List of Essential BeBop Tunes for Memorization
- Learning a Tune
- Learning and Internalizing a Tune
JERRY COKER (used with permission)
- INTERVAL STUDY
- SCALES
  - Altered Dominant choices
  - Diminished & Whole-Tone
  - Pentatonic & Blues
- LYDIAN AUGMENTED
  - Lydian Augmented
  - Lydian Augmented & Augmented
- MELODIC MINOR
  - Modes and Application of Ascending Melodic Minor
  - Modes of Ascending Melodic Minor
- MODAL
  - Modal, page 1
  - Modal, page 2
  - Modal, page 3
  - Modal, page 4
  - Modal, page 5
- IMPROVISATION
  - Devices Commonly found in Improvised Solos
  - Essential Jazz Patterns & Licks
  - Interval Study
  - Digital Patterns
  - Patterns for ii V7 I
  - Pentatonic Patterns
  - Coltrane exercises
  - Chord Substitutions
- PUBLISHED MATERIALS
MIKE TITLEBAUM – Surround Tones
- Scale surround tones
- Major scales with surround tones
- Minor scales with surround tones
Rules for Working in Ensembles – an excellent list of suggestions for playing in ensembles. While a classical sax quartet, these suggestions are universal and apply to any group.
MANY SCALES – Travis Huff. Truly many, many scales – traditional modes, jazz, unusual combinations, Indian ragas and other world music sounds.
- Many Scales – treble clef
- Many Scales – bass clef

Diminished Patterns – Jake Daniels
Models for Harmonic Lines – Unknown author
Outline of Arrangers – Big Band Arrangers from the Swing Area
Big Bands to know – a list of big bands with significant ones highlighted
Thougths on Planning an Arrangement – collected by Dick Washburn