To be really flexible and versatile in a jazz situation, it is important you be ready to play in any key. Whether you have to adjust for a vocalist or modulate a tune, you should be comfortable in any key.
This set features several well known standards, and each chorus modulates up to the next key. That lets you experience what you would in a band situation, where often a chorus is shifted up or down for effect. However, this time, each song goes through all 12 keys!
The melody is given once, in the original key, then changes are transposed. So the idea is to play the tune in the regular key, and transpose for soloing.
Four
Tune Up
Solar Flair
Sweet Georgia Brown
Autumn Leaves
Rhythm
Perdido
All of the Aebersold sets contain charts for all instruments, C, Bb, Eb, and bass clef, plus a cd for accompaniment of the songs recorded by Jamey and his team of professional jazz musicians.