Bach Shapes Etude Contest and Updates

First bit of news, Bach Shapes, the first book, will be available on the Amazon Kindle for only $9.99 on November 23, 2020. You can in fact already preorder it here: Bach Shapes for Kindle. You will need a Kindle that supports graphics, like cookbooks and comics, in order to view the book properly.

It will also now be sold print-on-demand from Amazon as well, starting the same week. This means I could really use all of your reviews on Amazon if you get a chance! Leave a review for Bach Shapes on Amazon.

Excited to announce that the Bass Clef edition of Bach Shapes will be up next on Amazon, which means you’ll be able to order print copies of that soon too. It will include a foreword from the great bassist Lincoln Goines, along with a revamped introduction. Digital pdf’s directly from my site here are still the best option of course!

Now, to celebrate the imminent arrival of Book Two, I am holding an Etude contest on Instagram or Facebook. Using the hashtag #bachshapesetudecontest record yourself playing along with me on one of the etudes below. You can download the videos from the links and edit them together with your own clip.

Number One is from Book One, on the tune “How Deep is The Ocean.” Number Two is from Book Two, still to come, on the tune “Indiana” or “Donna Lee.” These studies are both great at implementing Bach’s melodic material to jazz chord progressions. The third option is to write your own etude using the patterns available in Book One, which I highly recommend trying. Either way use the same hashtag and I can’t wait to see what you put together!

I’ve included PDF’s in Eb, Bb, Concert and Bass Clef below.

Etude Number One

Google Drive Link to Download Video

Etude Number Two

Google Drive Link to Download Video

Winner gets a digital and/or physical copy of the new book when it is done, or if they prefer in the 50 states a print copy of the first book asap. More perks to be announced later. Good luck!

P.S. Complete this survey if you have Bach Shapes One. Your input is much appreciated: Bach Shapes Two Survey

New FB Live Workshops starting September 10th!

FB Live Workshop Sept 2020

This Thursday I will be doing a short workshop on Circle of Fifths progressions from the new Bach Shapes book. If you have a chance please join me, I will embed the feed here, or you can watch on Jon De Lucia Music.

Also, I am putting physical copies of the first book on sale for only $14 plus shipping. This is for two weeks only, and includes my newest quartet CD, As The River Sings out on Fresh Sound New Talent. Order now and I’ll ship it right away!

Bach Shapes Now in Bass Clef!

Press Release 5/4/2020

Musaeum Clausum Press is happy to announce the new eBook version of Bach Shapes: Bass Clef Edition. At the prompting of the Berklee College of Music Bass Department and other institutions, Jon De Lucia has rewritten the successful book of saxophone studies for bass instruments. In addition, there is bonus material presented from the upcoming Bach Shapes Two, which will be released in volumes starting Summer 2020.

“Who doesn’t love some Bach?! Jon has done a great job in researching the Bach vocabulary and finding phrases that fit in the jazz idiom. Great melodic snippets that can be applied to common standards and in any contemporary music style. And also great reading material, from the intermediate to the advanced player, with enough variations to keep focused on the page.”

Sandro Scoccia, Assistant Chair of the Berklee Bass Department.

“This is a great book for reading and diatonic fingerboard dexterity.”

Lincoln Goines, Faculty at Berklee College of Music, played with Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Brecker, Sonny Rollins.

“Jazz musicians have naturally gravitated towards the music of JS Bach for years, so a book like this one has been a long time coming. Jon has done a wonderful job capturing various snapshots of Bach’s seemingly infinite musical language, organizing these shapes in a setting that could be very useful to improvisers. A truly interesting and enjoyable book that will hopefully lead to more volumes in the future.”

Miguel Zenon, International Touring Artist

“Excellent. Beautiful presentation and great content.”

Walt Weiskopf, Freelancer and Educator/Author 

The book presents four original etudes on jazz standards, along with many unique patterns taken directly from the music of J.S. Bach and presented in all 12 keys. These sequences can form a strong foundation for melodic invention. The range is from E below the bass clef up to B middle of the treble staff. There are numerous articles written by De Lucia available bachshapes.com that further expand on the material. Videos and masterclasses are presented on the Jon De Lucia Youtube channel. The Bass Clef edition is only available at jondelucia.com/shop. Contact jondelucia@gmail.com for more information.

Jon De Lucia is a woodwind performer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has released three albums as a leader, most recently As The River Sings on Fresh Sound New Talent in 2017. He holds an MA in Jazz Studies from the City College of New York and has studied with Lee Konitz, Andrew Sterman, Bill Pierce, George Garzone, Greg Osby, Joe Lovano and many more. His interest in the music of the baroque led to the forming of the Luce Trio, a new take on early music for saxophone, electric guitar and bass. This group has performed on WQXR’s Bach 360 and released Pieces, Vol. 1 on Musaeum Clausum Recordings. He can be found regularly performing in the NYC area.

Free Downloads for FB Live workshop on Thursday April 9th, 1pm EST

Hello everyone, I hope you all are safe in this difficult times. My friend from the Berklee days, Alex Terrier, has graciously invited me to broadcast from his facebook page, Alex Terrier Music, an hour workshop on my book , Bach Shapes, focusing on new materials I am preparing for the second book. I am posting the handout for the lecture here, along with some auxiliary materials that will eventually end up in book two. I hope they are useful!

Handout

Pattern in Circle of Fifths

Cherokee Etude

New Octet CD Solo Order

For those listening at home, I wanted to make available a list of the solos you hear on our new Octet CD. Since the packaging is so minimal, I couldn’t include this information in the release. So, for your guidance and listening pleasure, here are the solos on each track:

  1. Somp’M Outa’ Nothin’   Alto – Jon De Lucia    Piano – Ray Gallon
  2. Smog Eyes     Tenor – Ted Brown   Tenor – Jay Rattman  Alto – John Ludlow  Piano – Ray Gallon   Ted and Jay Trade
  3. The Song is You     Alto  – Jon De Lucia   Tenor – Ted Brown
  4. Venus De Milo   Bari – Andrew Hadro  Alto – Jon De Lucia  Tenor – Jay Rattman  Bass – Aidan O’Donnell
  5. I Resemble You    Tenor – Ted Brown  Tenor – Marc Schwartz  Alto – Jon De Lucia
  6. Jazz of Two Cities   Piano – Ray Gallon  Bari – Andrew Hadro  Tenor – Ted Brown  Drums – Steve Little
  7. Darn That Dream  Alto – Jon De Lucia     Piano – Ray Gallon
  8. Preservation   Tenor – Ted Brown  Piano – Ray Gallon  Bass – Aidan O’Donnell  Drums – Steve Little
  9. Palo Alto  Alto – Jon De Lucia  Tenor – Ted Brown
  10. Sextet  Alto – John Ludlow  Tenor – Ted Brown  Tenor – Marc Schwartz  Tenor – Jay Rattman Bari – Andrew Hadro  Alto – Jon De Lucia

 

 

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Jon De Lucia Octet Featuring Ted Brown – Live at The Drawing Room

$9.00

Description

The Jon De Lucia Octet’s debut performance, documented by Tony Melone, featuring Tristano School legend Ted Brown on the Tenor Saxophone. Official release July 10, 2018.

“Some jazz listeners disdain “West Coast jazz, “cool jazz,” or any music in the neighborhood of Lennie Tristano (not just East 32nd Street) as so cerebral that it’s barely defrosted. Jon De Lucia’s Octet shows how wrong that perception is: this music is warm, witty, embracing, not Rubik’s Cube scored for saxophones. Rather, the playful, tender spirit of Lester Young dances through everyone’s heart. This impassioned group swings, even when the players are intently looking at the score. For this gig, the Octet had a great spiritual asset in the gently fervent playing of Ted Brown, a Sage of melodic invention. Also, this session was recorded at one of New York City’s now-lost shrines, Michael Kanan and Stephanie Greig’s “The Drawing Room,” a sacred home for all kinds of music. I am grateful that Jon De Lucia has created this group: so delightful in whatever they play. You’ll hear it too.”

– Michael Steinman, jazzlives.wordpress.com

 

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