Denis Gäbel - Saxophone For Dummies

Saxophone For Dummies

by Denis Gbel & Michael Villmow

Saxophone For Dummies

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Gbel, Denis Saxophone for dummies / Denis Gbel, Michael Villmow.

(For dummies)
Includes index.
Translation of: Saxofon fr dummies.
Includes CD-ROM with audio samples.
Issued also in electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-118-08487-8 (bound); 978-1-118-08972-9 (eMobi); 978-1-118-08973-6 (ePDF); 978-1-118-08974-3 (ePub)

1. SaxophoneMethodsSelf-instruction. 2. Music theoryElementary works.I. Villmow, Michael II. Title. III. Series: For dummies

MT508.G11213 2011 788.7193 C2011-905673-9

Printed in the United States

1 2 3 4 5 RRD 15 14 13 12 11

About the Authors

Denis Gbel studied saxophone at the renowned Conservatory of Amsterdam, in Holland and has taught as a visiting lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

In 2003, he won first prize at the international Pim Jacobs Concours in Rotterdam, Holland. He was also a finalist at the Dutch Jazz Competition, and won the 2009 Jazz Award from Germanys Federal Association of Music Industry for his work as composer and arranger on his brother Tom Gbels CD Dont Wanna Dance.

Denis Gbel is also a bandleader is his own right, primarily with his group the Denis Gbel Trio. In collaboration with Jasper Blom, he released two CDs with Nagel Heyer Records (2006 Keep on Rollin; 2009 Love Call Impressions of Ellington ).

You can find further information about Denis Gbel at www.denisgaebel.com.

Michael Villmow has played with many renowned musicians such as Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Caterina Valente and Johnny Logan. He is the founder of the Cologne Big Band, in which jazz giants such as Randy Brecker, Bendik Hofseth, Manfred Schoof and Chad Wackermann played.

As a composer, Villmow has created works for the German radio stations WDR and NDR, and for the opera in Cologne. In 1999, the Norwegian Music Committee commissioned Villmow to write a piece for their national big band and choir, which inspired him to be more involved in vocal music. Since then, he has written several compositions for saxophone and choir, including several masses.

Since 1980, Michael Villmow has worked as music teacher at the Rhein Music School in Cologne, where he mentors students of all ages through individual lessons, and leads many ensembles, and is the head of the Jazz-Rock-Pop Department. In addition, he has worked as guest lecturer for saxophone at the University of Cologne and has conducted ensembles at the Robert Schumann University for Music in Dsseldorf, Germany. Since 1993, he has worked as a conductor, composer, and arranger of the musical executive team at the Youth Jazz Orchestra of Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany.

Dedication

Denis Gbel: Thanks to my parents Monika and Peter and my brothers Oliver, Tom, and Colin.

Michael Villmow: Thanks to my children Annika and Frederik

Authors Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Anne Jonas of Wiley-VCH press for the collaboration.

Were also thankful to Judith Bregy, Thomas Haberkamp, Prof. Heiner Wiberny, Lina Sommer, and our other students.

Finally, were thankful to the producers at K&M, Vandoren Paris and for the support of the company Klemm Music Technology, whose music notation software Finale was used for this book.

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