Hal Leonard Releasing Blues Saxophone Book

Coming this December from Hal Leonard Corporation is “Blues Saxophone" by Dennis Taylor. The book/CD pack features 18 solos covering the many styles of blues -- from the rough hewn Chicago blues of Eddie Shaw and A.C. Reed to the rhythmic jump blues of Red Prysock and Big Jay McNeely, the organ combo soul/jazz or Stanley Turrentine & Willis “Gator" Jackson, the swing style of blues of Lester Young & Illinois Jacquet and the be-bop inspired blues of Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins. “In writing this book, I hope to demonstrate the many different approaches possible to playing the Blues. By selecting what I consider some of the finest OBlues