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A new book on the intricacies of playing bebop music by one of
the west coasts' master players and instructors.
Playing Be-Bop is $49.95*
Former students include...
Ted Nash (featured saxophone soloist with Wynton
Marsalis Lincoln center Orchestra)
Andy Martin (leading jazz trombone soloist)
Kye Palmer (featured trumpet player on Jay Lenos
Tonight Show band)
Randy Kerber (one of the top Hollywood recording
studio keyboard artists)
David Koz and Richard Elliot (well
known "smooth jazz" artists)
For more information, please Email us.
(*plus tax and shipping).
Comments on Charlie
A major voice of jazz vibraphone...
- Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene
Charlie Shoemake, arguably the
most successful teacher of jazz improvisation in Southern California
history, he is also a highly charged mallet man capable of blistering
solos off the metronome markings...
- Leonard Feather
Charlie has something going with not only his playing
but his compositions as well that I haven't heard before. I think
being on the west coast has hurt him as far as the recognition
he should have. I know I'd like to play a lot more with him...
- Hank Jones
Charlie was a helluva musician when he was with my quintet but
he's even better now...
- George Shearing
In Jazz, there've only been a few great players on the vibraphone.
One of them is Charlie Shoemake.
- Artie Shaw
Forward
Almost from the very day that I left the George Shearing Quintet
in 1973 and opened my jazz improvisation school in Sherman Oaks,
California, I have been urged by students (and many musician friends)
to write a book expressing my own theories on the subject. I've
always resisted and for a variety of reasons. One, I thought there
were already too many books about it (though, admittingly, most
of them were "not so hot") on the market and two, I felt
that for me to be able to help anyone with their improvising problems
I would have to work with them in person on a one to one basis.
That being the case, why write one now? Again, a variety of reasons
with the biggest being that I feel the jazz world is fraught with
so many mistaken theories (especially harmonically) that if I can
help some musicians by clearing up some confusion for them, I should.
I hope this book is able to accomplish that goal.
Acknowledgements
 My thanks to all my heros (Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro,
Sonny Rollins and the many more that are listed on my web-site)
with a special thanks to Jimmy Rowles and Victor Feldman who, if
it were not for them, not only would there by no book, there would
not be a Charlie Shoemake... period!! Also thanks to Sandi Shoemake
for her musical notation and so many other things.
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Be-Bop - Charlie Shoemake 
