Nueva York!

Children's favorite Dan Zanes follows his 2007 Grammy Award winning CD Catch That Train with a collaboration with Latino musician friends from New York. These family songs, all sung in Spanish, represent various styles including son jarocho, cumbia, aguinaldo, bailecito, nueva canción and merengue. Featured guests include: Lila Downs, Daphne Rubin-Vega, The Villa-Lobos brothers, Marc Ribot and Afro-Colombian roots ensemble La Cumbiamba Eneyé.
Customer Review: Fanaticos thinks it's fantastico!!
My son is a Dan Zanes groupie (he's been to six of his shows).He's been listening him since before his second birthday and has been looking foward to new music for quite some time. My son is half Cuban, so hearing DZ sing in Spanish is very significant for him. It's a welcome addition to our Dan Zanes and Friends collection. In short, this cd is like a big party for my three and a half year old, yet sophisticated and cool enough for his parents!!! ViVa Dan and Friends!!
Customer Review: More great music for EVERYONE (this time in Spanish)!
Dan Zanes and Friends latest release features all that you love about the band: wild, energetic collaborations and quieter songs with tremendous raw beauty. Esta vez, todas las canciones están en español! They've come a long way since "Malti." This collection of favorites from several Latin American countries is, as Dan says in his concerts, his pro-immigration CD. Thanks, Dan, for giving our kids a great time while provoking interest in Hispanic culture and vital social issues. Our faves: El Pescador, Son Borinqueno, Colas, Verde Luz, El Pijul,El Canario, Cuida El Agua, & Mi Luna. Yikes, that's a lot of favorites! If Pollito Chicken doesn't get you moving, see a doctor!

Jazz guitar improvisation is one of the main things that distinguish jazz music sounds from any other. The beauty of a jazz guitar player's improvisations is that they end up sounding perfect, with every note played with precision and distinctiveness. They add individuality to the sounds they produce when their fingers touch their jazz guitar strings, wowing everyone into listening raptly.

How Jazz Guitar Improvisation Comes About

Improvisation is a manifestation of the guitarist's instinct and takes the audience by pleasant surprise. If you listen to jazz guitar music quite a lot, then you will know that there are limitless ways to improvise. You will also realize that all your favorite players have achieved the ability to improvise with dexterity through constant experimentation. There is no such thing as following a specific way while entering a solo and for every player, it's a question of what works for them most successfully at that particular moment in time. The ear is the means by which they know how to improvise.

Jazz guitar improvisation can begin from...

• chords
• scales
• melody
• tonal centers
• sheer freedom

It is not necessary to use all of them. You can combine two or more to produce your unique improvisation so that you have the melody in sight. When you improvise, chord-based improvisation need not have anything to do with the song you started off with. This method is not difficult. It involves using the scales and arpeggios related to the chords, converting into music. Improvisation based on scales involves the use of different notes resulting in harmony created by the scales. The fact is there is no set rule. It is the player's intuition, imagination and inner confidence in what he is doing that guides him.

This is why jazz musicians like Coltrane and Charlie Parker were considered such masters at improvisation. They did not stop at the basic technique; rather they went far beyond.

What You Need To Know To Improvise

There are certain important ideas that a jazz guitar player has to be accomplished at. These are...

• Knowledge of arpeggios and the tension on each chord
• Chord scales
• The II to V progression to identify crucial areas and tonal centers
• A keen ear to catch the notes of the melody
• Pentatonic scales
• Seventh chord expertise
• Interactive playing - being responsive intuitively

How Will You Know Which Scales To Improvise From?

To know which scales to improvise from, the main thing to be aware of is the key you are in. Since rock and pop focus on the singer and song, there is no scope for improvisation, but with jazz, the keys keep changing every so often during a measure, resulting in changing the scale as well. One way to know what key you are in is with the help of the 8 scales. Remember that the II V chord progression is the most common in jazz guitar music.

To practice jazz guitar improvisation, players often learn a solo by one of the master jazz guitarists. When done thoroughly it helps them identify chord changes in the course of the sound. This gives them a base from which to experiment on their own with confidence.

Attention motivated improvising guitarists...

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