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Jazz Charts Plus

Key Aims and Objectives: Why Jazz Charts Plus?

Jazz Charts Plus aims provide viable resources for music educators and band directors with 24/7 online access to download PDFs, videos and mp3s:

  • contemporary and jazz big band, small jazz band and combo charts

  • instrumental studies and exercises

  • lesson plans and lesson plan templates for music educators on jazz music theory, improvisation concepts and approaches

  • jazz and contemporary musicianship concepts such as phrasing and articulation approaches

One key objective is a more flexible type of chart. Band directors are often unable to use a favourite chart due key players leaving upon completion of their studies. I experienced this issue when I was dirrecting the Townsville Grammar Jazz Ensemble. I was lacking trumpet and trombone players. This led to the development of the innovative Jazz Plus Chart that allows for multiple instrumental combinations to perform a composition successfully. In the Townsville Grammar band I had more saxes than a standard Big Band so I use two of my alto sax players as trumpet 3 and 4 parts and a french horn player for one of the trombone parts. All Jazz Charts Plus charts come with a Big Band Score, Parts and mp3, a Combined Score, Alternate Parts and mp3 and Rhythm Section mp3 for students to practice with. A Jazz Charts Plus chart has flutes and clarinets doubling the sax and trumpet parts and french horn, baritone and tuba coubling the trombone parts/. This website also inclludes:

  • backing tracks for practicing

  • improvisation tutorials and exercises

  • music theory, music history, composition and musicianship lessons based on contemporary music practices.

Jazz Charts Plus endeavours to encourage music educators to utilize this website as a resource for:

  • articles that focus on the use of contemporary music in the classroom and ensembles

  • other information sources and resources

Respectfully,

Dr. David Salisbury

Graduate Berklee College of Music in Jazz Composition and Arranging

PhD World Music in rhythms of Indonesian Gamelan and Talempong traditions

At Berklee he studied with some of the world's most notable jazz composers and arrangers including Herb Pomeroy and Greg Hopkins who arranged the Stan Kenton band, Phil Wilson who arranged for the Dorsey Brothers and the Woody Herman band and John La Porta who who arranged for Bob Chester Big Band and the Woody Herman Orchestra. At Berklee he studied saxophone with George Garzone a founding member of the Fringe Free Jazz ensemble, Joe Viola founding chair of the Berklee woodwind department and Billy Pierce who played with the Jazz Messengers.

David currently directs and conducts the Redland City Big Band and performs with the Vicki Salisbury trio on Flute, Alto and Tenor Sax.  He has performed at the Manly International Jazz festival in Sydney New South Wales, the Palmer Street Jazz festival in Townsville Queensland, the Brisbane Jazz Club Big Band Festival, the Wynnum Manly Jazz Festival and various venues in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane including the Brisbane Jazz Club.