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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 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 three important jazz improvisation topics: Modal Sequences, Substitutions for/against the Chord & Shape Playing. He shares clear & specific jazz improvisation exercises for these three broad topics that jazz musicians of any instrument and any level can explore, yet the resulting possibilities are truly unlimited. This material is the result of teaching these jazz improvisation methods on how to play jazz to students all over the world for 30 years, finally available in Video format! Expand Your Vocabulary & Open up New Ways of Thinking about Jazz Improvisation & Composition with: Application of Scalar & Modal Sequences to a Standard or Modal Tune. Rhythmic Transformation of Sequences. Substitution of Progressions for the Harmony. Substitution of Progressions against the Harmony. Exploration of Shapes and Directions as Models for Improvisation. And LOTS more Jazz Improvisation Lessons. NOTE: There might be Import Charges upon arrival in your country, if outside the US.