Music & Movies

Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try,...

African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been...

Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial...

In 1973 young artist and filmmaker Lee Jaffe met Bob Marley in New York City and within hours cemented a friendship that would see Jaffe becoming a Wailer right down (or up) to his dreadlocks. While Marley was well known in Jamaica, he was little known...

Building on the success and popularity of Volume 1: Jazz Guitar and Volume 2: Nothin' but Blues, Corey Christiansen has adapted another classic, Volume 3: The ii-V7-I Progression for Guitar. As with the previously mentioned adaptations, this one uses...

These Toys Swing arranged by Mike Story is a superb grade 1 chart based on March of the Toys. Trumpet 1 range to written E top space, a written-out tenor sax 1 solo, and well-notated rhythm section parts played at 144 BPM. The perfect holiday chart!...

Classic Cole Porter at a very accessible level. Night and Day arranged by Victor López doesn't include any individual solos, but features easy ranges and a bossa-nova groove played around 120 BPM. Optional flutes, clarinets, vibes, and more. A great...

Compared to What arranged by Mike Kamuf has a straight-eighth groove played around 148 BPM with a distinctive Les McCann flavor. Written solos provided for tenor 1 and trumpet 2, unison sax lead lines, some written drum fills, and a sweet shout chorus...

Naptown Blues arranged by Terry White is an accessible straight-ahead swinger played around 150 BPM, with a nice sax soli, written-out solos for alto 1, tenor 1, trumpet 1, and trombone 1. Trumpet 1 range is to written E top space with optional G, plus...

These Toys Swing arranged by Mike Story is a superb grade 1 chart based on March of the Toys. Trumpet 1 range to written E top space, a written-out tenor sax 1 solo, and well-notated rhythm section parts played at 144 BPM. The perfect holiday chart!...

It's the annual chicken chart! No Harm / No Fowl by Kris Berg is a very accessible rock groove played around 146 BPM, and features written-out solo opportunities for all saxes and all brass, and lead trumpet range is to written G on the staff. This chart...

My Foolish Heart arranged by Alan Baylock is a superb ballad featuring trumpet 2 played around 70 BPM. A double-time section with a suggested written solo, lush rubato sections, and the lead trumpet range is to written A above the staff. You will love...

Curacao Blue by Zachary Smith has a Latin groove with an easy bossa rhythmic pattern. Features a tempo around 134 BPM, trumpet 1 range to written E top space, a written tenor solo, clear articulation with complete rhythm section notation, and optional...

This jazz standard is treated with a light and sorta funky groove played around 92 BPM. Written-out solos provided for trumpet 1 (optional flugelhorn) and alto 1 with some very nice ensemble sections. Trumpet 1 range is to written G on top of the staff...

Hot House arranged by Mike Kamuf is an exciting swinger on a great jazz standard played at 154 BPM. The distinctive melody is handled by alto 1 and trumpet 2 with written solos for both. It also features a serious sax soli, optional vibes, lead trumpet...

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith--a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been nearly forgotten today. The son of freed slaves, he roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his...