The Arranger's Dreambook
The Arranger's Dreambook volumes are a unique and valuable resource for every professional musician who writes arrangements for big band jazz ensembles. The 400 plus pages of voicings represent years of research into how 50 of the most prominent jazz writers achieved their distinctive sounds.
Imagine getting a job (or assignment) to write an arrangement in the style of Oliver Nelson. You could sit at a keyboard, listening to recordings, banging out the chords and guessing the number of instruments on each part, etc. Or you could turn to page 40 in volume 3. You would still want to listen to Oliver Nelson, but The Arranger's Dreambook gives you the essence of Nelson's sound, the typical ways he voiced the instruments in his ensemble.
Every student of jazz will benefit from The Arranger's Dreambook. The hundreds of voicing style samples are unique in jazz music literature. The voicings are not samples of actual arrangements, but instead show where legendary jazz writers placed the instruments of their big band ensembles relative to each other. The Arranger's Dreambook makes an ideal reference for high school or college music courses and no music library is complete without these four volumes.
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