Modern Jazz Voicings: Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles

The definitive text used for the time-honored chord/scales course at the Berklee School of Music, this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arrangers how to add color, character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting appropriate harmonic tensions, understanding jazz harmony, overcoming harmonic ambiguity, experimenting with unusual combinations and non-traditional alignments, and much more. The accompanying CD includes performance examples of several different arranging techniques. Covering several courses worth of information, this is a no-nonsense, meat and potatoes source of basic and not-so-basic information about everything relating to jazz writing.