Saxophone Play Along CDs
Music Minus One
(Updated 18 March 2008)

The Music Minus One collection provides the saxophonist the opportunity to play popular classical and jazz pieces with accompaniment. All of the albums include printed music and a CD. Most also include a full recording of all the pieces on the CD played by a well known performer. We are also introducing play along CDs from other companies.


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Classical
MMOCD4132: Glazunov Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra in E-flat major, Op. 109; von Koch Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra in E-flat major. Lawrence Gwozdz, alto saxophone with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nayden Todorov. On this CD, the well known concerto by Russian composer Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) is paired with the 1958 concerto by Swedish composer Erland von Koch (1910-). Includes a printed music score on high quality ivory paper; informative liner notes; and a compact disc featuring the concerti performed twice: first with soloist, then again with orchestral accompaniment only
34.95

 C762: Rivages I, II, III for clarinet or soprano saxophone and piano by François Grosborne. International Music Diffusion, 2000, SS, 15 + 4 pages (includes CD). Three relatively short related works at the college level. The first is mostly in 5/8 and the last mostly in 7/8 but they are quite accessible and rhythmic. The included CD has versions with clarinet and piano and with piano alone (played by the composer).
24.95


Holiday
Christmas Memories MMO CDG MMOCDG1203: Christmas Memories. A collection of seasonal favorites arranged for all vocal or instrumental ranges with sumptuous accompaniments. Step in and take center stage with such all-time classics as Joy to the World; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; O Holy Night; O Come, All Ye Faithful; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Silent Night; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Jingle Bells; and Auld Lang.  Includes a music book containing  solo parts for vocals/C instruments in both treble and bass-clef versions; B-flat instruments; E-flat instruments; and F instruments; plus a compact disc containing complete versions of each tune with full vocals; followed by accompaniment versions minus soloist. Limited supply.
24.95


Jazz

MMOCD4106: Jobim Brazilian Bossa Novas with Strings John Sergenian, saxophone. Join a string orchestra in these lush backgrounds to the most famous selections in the Antonio Carlos Jobim bossa nova library. Hear John Sergenian perform them, then try them yourself with the orchestra. Includes: The Girl from Ipanema, So Danco Samba, Once I Loved, Dindi, One Note Samba, Meditation, How Insensitive, Triste, Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, and Wave. Includes printed musical score; and a compact disc featuring complete recordings (with alto sax), and a second performance of the accompaniments only.
29.95
MMOCD3234: From Dixie to Swing Kenny Davern, soprano saxophone and clarinet with the Dick Wellstood All-Stars. Such jazz legends as Dick Wellstood, Alphonse 'Doc' Cheatham and George Duvivier and more back you up in this amazing collection of New York-style Dixieland standards. Includes: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Red Sails in the Sunset, Second Hand Rose, Royal Garden Blues, Rose of Washington Square, The Sunny Side of the Street, and I Want a Little Girl, and Exactly Like You. Includes a high quality printed music score and compact disc featuring stereo accompaniments to each piece.
24.95
PA017: Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Play-Along Series Alto Saxophone Eric Marienthal alto and soprano saxophone. Belwin Jazz, 2006, SS, 76 pages. This is an impressive set. It includes the actual lead alto (and some for soprano) parts for 10 Big Phat Band charts, transcriptions of Eric Marienthal's solos, notes on each piece by Goodwin and Marienthal, and a CD with demo and play-along tracks. Titles are: Swingin' for the Fences, La Almeja Pequena , Hunting Wabbits, Whodunnit?, Count Bubbas Revenge, Get in Line, Horn of Puente, The Jazz Polic, High Maintenance, and Cut 'n Run.
24.95
PA018: Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Play-Along Series Tenor Saxophone. Belwin Jazz, 2006, SS, 68 pages.  This is not a rehash of the alto sax edition but  the tenor parts for 10 Big Phat Band charts, transcriptions of by Brian Scanlon and Gordon Goodwin, notes on each piece by Goodwin and Eric Marienthal, and a CD with demo and play-along tracks. Titles are: Swingin' for the Fences, La Almeja Pequena , Hunting Wabbits, Whodunnit?, Count Bubbas Revenge, Get in Line, Horn of Puente, The Jazz Polic, High Maintenance, and Cut 'n Run.
24.95
MMOCD3218: Jazz Standards with Rhythm Section. Larry Linken, clarinet. Includes parts for B-flat and E-flat solo instruments. Oh, Lady Be Good, Autumn Leaves, Memories of You, It Had To Be You, Sweet Georgia Brown, Summertime, Claire de Lune/Moon River, Here's that Rainy Day, Wolverine Blues, Back Home Again in Indiana, Amazing Grace, One Note Samba, and Goodbye. Includes a complete, high quality printed music score with performance suggestions; and two compact discs containing the complete version of each piece with soloist and accompaniment; then a second performance with accompaniments only. (2 CD set.)
29.95
MMOCD3219: Jazz Standards with Strings ('Tis Autumn). Larry Linken, clarinet. Night and Day, 'Tis Autumn, When I Fall in Love, Our Love Is Here to Stay, When Sunny Gets Blue, What'll I Do, But Beautiful, In a Sentimental Mood, I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, Embraceable You, Ain't Misbehavin', Darn That Dream, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?, and That's All. Includes parts for both b-flat and e-flat instruments with performance suggestions; and two compact discs containing the complete version of each piece with soloist and accompaniment; then a second performance with accompaniments minus you, the soloist.
29.95
MMOCD4217: Sinatra, Sax and Swing. Brian Hayes, tenor sax with the MMO orchestra. Includes parts for B-flat and E-flat solo instruments, with chord changes and written out solos. Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week, Fly Me to the Moon, Oh Lady Be Good, I've Got You Under My Skin, That's All, Steppin' Out with My Baby, (Love Is) The Tender Trap, The Song Is You, Wave, Let Yourself Go.
24.95


Student
M4101: Easy Alto Sax Solos Vol. I - Student Level. Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen, piano. A wide-ranging collection of pieces for the beginning saxophonist with piano accompaniment, suitable for roughly first through third year of study. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere, To a Wild Rose, Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two), Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Pomp and Circumstance, Mighty Lak' a Rose, Kentucky Babe, Battle Hymn of the Republic, After the Ball, Santa Lucia, Red River Valley, Kathleen Mavourneen, America, the Beautiful, Hatikvoh (The Hope), American Patrol, The Band Played On, I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby, In Old Madrid, 'O Sole Mio!, La Paloma, La Spagnola, La Cumparsita, Adios Muchachos, El Choclo, O Promise Me, Because, The Rosary, Just A-wearyin' for You, I Love You Truly, Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow): 'Vilja', The Holy City, The Fortune Teller: 'Gypsy Love Song', Marche Slave, Martha: 'Ah, So Pure' ('Ach, so Fromm'), Eili, Eili, Who Is Sylvia?, Grieg Piano Concerto Op. 16 (main theme), Song of India, Serenade, Finlandia, Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 (theme), Für Elise, Chopin Fantaisie Impromptu Op. 66 (theme), Mexican Hat Dance, and The Glow Worm. Includes a high-quality printed music score and compact disc featuring stereo accompaniments to each piece. (This CD does not include example saxophone playing.)
24.95
M4111: Music for Alto Saxophone & Piano.  Saxophone virtuoso Paul Brodie plays each of these wonderful beginning-level solos on alto saxophone. Includes printed music score containing the solo part, annotated with performance suggestions; and a compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) followed by piano accompaniments to each piece, minus the soloist. Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Suite in G minor: Gavotte,  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Sigurd M. Rascher Ave verum KV618, Carl Maria von Weber arr. Rascher Der Freischütz: Hunters' Chorus, Franz Josef Haydn Andante (arranged from the Violin Sonata No. 1), Georges Bizet transcr. Harry Gee  L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: Intermezzo, Frederic Chopin transcr. Eugene Rousseau Largo (from the Violoncello Sonata), Edvard Grieg Lyrische stücke Op. 12: Albumblatt (album leaf), Antonin Dvorák Sonatina Op. 100: Larghetto, Alexander Gretchaninov transcr. Himie Voxman Suite Miniature: Evening Waltz, Fritz Kreisler Rondino (on a Theme by Beethoven).
24.95

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