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From Quartet to Big Band, Jazz Arranging Techniques presents all the tools and techniques of jazz arranging in an efficient and comprehensive format.
This textbook, which can be studied either individually or in a classroom environment, includes a compendium of resources available online with sixty-one audio examples corresponding to scores in the book, as well as separate PDF files of all the assignments. Jazz Theory and Harmony, principles of jazz voice leading, voicing techniques, rules governing music calligraphy, chord symbol nomenclature, and jazz notation and articulation are presented in a very systematic, step by step approach. Attention is given to the function of each instrument in the ensemble, including their range, register, transposition, dynamic capabilities, and idiomatic characteristics.
Theories of balance and blend are provided with multiple recordings and scores.The most unique feature in Jazz Arranging Techniques is the way in which the many techniques are examined and applied.
Jazz Arranging Techniques provides examples of techniques used in small and large ensembles and further explains in detail how to work and create voicings for the most popular settings in Jazz music:
- Four to six mixed horns (Brass and Reeds)
- Five Saxophones
- Four Trombones
- Four Trumpets
- Eight Brass
- Full Ensemble (Brass and Reeds combined)
Over fifty scoring examples and four complete arrangements with recordings provide a wealth of material supporting the techniques examined in the text. Parts notation for rhythm-section is covered in great detail as well as methods of articulating horn lines, adjusting the balance and blend, amongst other valuable idiomatic instrument techniques.
Testimonials
Jim McNeely
“Jazz Arranging Techniques is full of very useful information. The musical examples are clear and instructive and the exercises are really useful… I’m going to put it on my ‘highly recommended’ list for my students.”
Maria Schneider
“Gary Lindsay’s Jazz Arranging Techniques fills a very big hole in educational material on arranging. I’ll never forget the day that the light FINALLY went on for me about writing closed and drop-2 voicings as I sat in Gary’s arranging class many years ago. Gary has a knack for making ‘seemingly’ mysterious things very accessible.
Leaving no stone unturned, his book covers advanced voicing techniques of all kinds going in depth on everything from upper structure triads to quartal voicings and clusters. Gary makes clear the often confusing task of notating for rhythm section. The PC/Mac CD Rom includes audio tracks of the examples and scores in the book plus PDF files of all the homework assignments.
I fully expect that Jazz Arranging Techniques will become the textbook of choice in college courses on arranging and for people who wish to study on their own…
I highly recommend this book. There is nothing else like it. Ten stars!”
Bob Mintzer
Gary Lindsay has come up with a comprehensive text that covers all pertinent information pertaining to arranging for various size jazz ensembles… Jazz Arranging Techniques is one of the most comprehensive books on the subject. It really is a cool book.
Schools Using Jazz Arranging Techniques
- University of Miami
Miami, Florida - Florida International University
Miami, Florida - New World School of the Arts (High School)
Miami, Florida - University of Missouri at Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri - University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon - Southwestern Community College
Creston, Iowa - University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa - University of Denver
Denver, Colorado - Saddleback College
Mission Viejo, California - Fullerton College
Fullerton, California - Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA
- University of Nevada
Reno, Nevada - Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee - Elmhurst College
Elmhurst, Illinois - University of Illinois
Champaign, Illinois - Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, Illinois - Eastern Washington University
Cheney, Washington State - Moravian College
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | Contoocook, New Hampshire - Mohawk College
Hamilton, Ontario - Konservatoria Wieh, Musikschule
Vienna, Austria - Guildhall School of Music and Drama
England - Rowan University
New Jersey
- Adelaide University
Adelaide, Australia | Auckland, New Zealand | Reykjavik, Iceland - Sidney Conservatorium
Sidney, Australia - University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida - New York University
New York, NY - Miami Dade College, North Campus
Miami, Florida - Tennessee State University
Nashville, TN - University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO - California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach CA - Tiffin University
Tiffin, OH - Truman State University
Kirksville, MO
About the Author
Professor Gary Lindsay is an arranger/composer, performer, educator and author. His degrees include a bachelors in Music Education from the University of Rhode Island and a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Miami where he is a full-time professor. As an arranger and composer, Gary has worked with Maynard Ferguson, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Jose Feliciano, Natalie Cole, Gloria Estefan, Arturo Sandoval, The Florida Philharmonic, The Airmen of Note, The South Florida Jazz Orchestra, The Atlantean Driftwood Band, The Miami Saxophone Quartet, etc.
Gary composes, arranges and performs on Alto saxophone with the Miami Saxophone Quartet and the South Florida Jazz Orchestra. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award, a Chamber Music America grant from the Doris Duke Foundation and received a Grammy nomination in arranging for “Cherokee” from the Arturo Sandoval CD I Remember Clifford.
Professor Lindsay is the Director of the Master’s in Music program in Studio/Jazz Writing and the Doctoral program in Jazz Composition in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, where he has been teaching since 1980.