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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 Video, Bergonzi, along with colleague Brian Levy, explores a multitude of approaches on the creative use of RHYTHM. Starting with basic exercises, he progresses to more advanced jazz improvisation concepts on how professional players manipulate rhythm. This video will not only change the way you listen, but will also free you from rhythmic boundaries, making you a better jazz improviser. 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 Rhythmic Jazz Improvisation Vocabulary & Get Out of Old Habits through: Making simple Rhythms sound good. Disconnected Playing. Rhythmic Displacement & Playing over the Bar Line. Limiting Yourself to a Fixed Number of Notes per Bar. Strengthening Your 8th & 16th-Notes. Polyrhythms. 3/4, 5/4 & 7/4 Rhythms over 4/4. And LOTS more Jazz Improvisation Exercises on Rhythm for you. Examples are based on chord progressions of well-known Jazz standards like Green Dolphin Street, Confirmation & Lady Bird and include 9 MP3 PLAY-ALONG TRACKS! Plus: PDF BOOKLET with Jazz Improvisation Exercises & Lead Sheets. NOTE: There might be Import Charges upon arrival in your country, if outside the US.