These multi-functional pieces serve the needs of Sax players who wish to come to terms with jazz and improvised musical language.

Play the studies by themselves to discover some idiomatic phrasing, play them with the CD support to explore the 'groove' and 'feel' of the 'ensemble' or just improvise using the scale/mode from which the pieces are derived and explore some of the concepts in the 'tasty licks' or gain some inspiration from the sample 'impros' on the CD. In short, just use this material as you see fit but, most of all, enjoy!

Sample Vamps for keyboard and chord sequences for any other instrument can be downloaded and printed by clicking on the title above.

... Swing Steps • Modal Dream • A Bit of a Bossa • Re-Pent • Rock Riffs • Lazy Days • Chorizo • Bad Salad • Not So Pure • Bob's Wail • Sorted • Step and Leap • C You • Lay It Down • Down Home Blues