Jazz Styles by Mark Gridley: The Soul Saxes and "Contemporary Jazz"

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Printed as a paperback in a manuscript format, the 11th edition of Mark Gridley’s Jazz Styles came out in December 2022. 

I wanted to bring it to your attention so I developed this feature to provide you with a sample of what’s on offer in this informative and instructive book.

If you want to learn more about how the music is actually made, you may wish to check out a copy of Mark Gridley’s wonderful history and analysis which comes with a double CD full of examples so you can read the narrative and listen to an audio of what’s under discussion.

I decided to keep these references in the quoted text in case you’d like to sample the titles on YouTube. I’ve also included a couple of YouTube videos at the end of this piece.