Jamey Aebersold

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Jamey Aebersold ( Wilton Jameson Aebersold , * 21 July 1939 in New Albany / Indiana ) is an American jazz - saxophonist , who has emerged mainly as a jazz educator.

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Aebersold studied at Indiana University (MA as saxophonist) until 1962 . He made recordings as an alto saxophonist, bassist and pianist and ran his own record label. He became internationally known primarily as a teacher. In particular, his series of “Play-A-Long” textbooks, which has been created since 1967, and which are linked to a corresponding sound carrier, are internationally recognized as an important medium in jazz pedagogy in the field of mainstream jazz . He published a series of more than one hundred instructional books and CDs on improvisation, which on the one hand contain well-known and important standards of jazz , but on the other hand are exclusively dedicated to individual jazz musicians and their original compositions. There are also some volumes that are only devoted to music theory (scales theory, major & minor, 2-5-1 connections, odd time signatures, all with a feed combo). A special feature of the titles produced is that bass and piano were recorded exclusively on one channel, while the drums sound in the middle, so that bassists and pianists can turn their own instrument silently using the panorama control. The recordings do not contain full versions with a solo melody, but only the accompaniment to the melody, which is printed in the most important transpositions required for jazz (i.e. for Bb, Eb and sounding in the violin and bass clef).

For more than thirty years, Aebersold has been organizing its Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops . a. took place in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, England, Scotland, Denmark and Canada. He also teaches improvisation at the University of Louisville .

In 1989 Aebersold was inducted into the Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame and received an honorary doctorate from Indiana University in 1992. In 2014 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, the highest American award for jazz musicians.

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SURNAME Aebersold, Jamey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aebersold, Wilton Jameson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New Albany , Indiana