Boosey & Hawkes – Play Alto Saxophone With Andy Firth Volume 1 Book/Cd

Boosey & Hawkes – Play Alto Saxophone With Andy Firth Vol 1 Book & Cd

Intermediate Level

With Play Along Piano Accompaniment

Play Saxophone with Andy Firth is an innovative collection of pieces in jazz, popular, ragtime, and Latin styles for intermediate-level saxophonists. Written by a leading saxophone performer and educator, these idiomatic pieces are designed to help students practice tricky fingerings, commonly-used melodic and scalar passages, as well as giving confidence to play in many different styles.

Each book comes with a CD featuring dazzling performances by the composer, together with backing tracks to play along with. Andy Firth is not only one of the world’s finest clarinet and saxophone players but is also a gifted composer and dedicated educator. He is equally at home in popular and classical music and has performed with many of the world’s leading jazz and blues musicians. In 2006, he was awarded as Australia’s Jazz Instrumentalist Performer of the Year.

Also available in this series:

• Play Alto Saxophone With Andy Firth Volume 1 Book/Audio
• Play Alto Saxophone With Andy Firth Volume 2 Book/Audio

Song Titles Include:

• 1. The Bullfrog Bounce
• 2. Just 3-4 Now
• 3. Shaken, Not Stirred
• 4. Waltz for Sarah
• 5. Latin Sunset
• 6. Swing Holiday
• 7. New Orleans Paradise
• 8. Swing Thing!
• 9. Smiles
• 10. Hippety-hoppety
• 11. Pitter-patter
• 12. Glass Slipper Waltz
• 13. Teach Me to Mambo
• 14. C-U-in-York
• 15. I’ll Be There
• 16. Super Sleuth

AMEB:

Saxophone / Grade 1 / List C

• Glass slipper waltz from Play saxophone with Andy Firth Book 1

Saxophone / Grade 2 / List C

• Just 3-4 now from Play saxophone with Andy Firth Book 1

Saxophone / Grade 3 / List C

• Swing thing from Play saxophone with Andy Firth Book 1

Saxophone / Grade 4 / List C

• Teach me to mambo or Super sleuth from Play saxophone with Andy Firth Bk 1