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NOTE: Our DVDs play world-wide on any DVD player & we ship worldwide (from the US). Jazz Improvisation Lesson Video/DVD Extraordinaire for you: Tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is an internationally recognized jazz performer, composer, author and jazz educator. Besides being a professor at New England Conservatory, he is the author of seven jazz improvisation books and has performed and/or recorded with Jazz Greats like Mulgrew Miller, Dave Brubeck, Kenny Barron, John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Swallow, Roy Haynes, and many more. In this how to play jazz video, Bergonzi, along with colleague Brian Levy, explores important jazz improvisation foundations for building your jazz vocabulary and technical skills. While the subjects explored and the corresponding exercises will greatly help beginners and are presented extremely clearly, the more sophisticated applications of these exercises may challenge even advanced jazz musicians to new heights. This material is the result of teaching these jazz improvisation methods on how to play jazz all over the world to jazz students of all levels & instruments for 30 years, finally available in Video format! Expand Your Current Jazz Vocabulary, get out of old Habits and improve Your Ears & Memory with: Applying Chord Scales & Chord Tones to Standards. Systems for approaching different Chord Tones. Limited-Range & Wide-Range Playing. Upper-Structure Triads applied to Standards. Anticipating Chord Changes & delaying Resolutions. Improvising using multiple Chord Tones per Bar. And LOTS more Jazz Improvisation Lessons for you. Examples are based on chord progressions of familiar Jazz standards like All The Things You Are, Stella by Starlight & Solar and include Play-Along Tracks! NOTE: There might be Import Charges upon arrival in your country, if outside the US.