iJazzMusic.com offers quality jazz big band, jazz combo, vocal jazz music and books, all available as PDF charts for immediate download.
iJazzMusic is a non-profit jazz music publishing company and the resource branch of JEA which reaches out to countries in the Middle East, Asia, South America, Africa and Europe to present Jazz Education Festivals and Jazz Workshops as a way to increase each country’s exposure to Jazz.
The composers and arrangers invited to join iJazzMusic.com are some of the most outstanding writers from Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as selected composers and arrangers from the United States.
The evolution of the art of jazz improvisation has undergone a curious metamorphosis, closely mirroring developments in classical music. As the Western art music tradition evolved from pure melody (Gregorian chant) to dodecaphony (12-tone music) and beyond, jazz improvisation has witnessed developments ranging from simple ornamentation (New Orleans tradition) to complex abstraction (“sheets of sound,” etc.).
The conversational character of some improvised jazz solos invites the comparison of jazz to storytelling. This particular analogy is made vivid in Lester Young’s remarks regarding his impressions of Frankie Trumbauer’s playing style: “He always told a little story.”
