Welcome to JazzEd Tracks

Explore our new JazzEd Tracks, designed to help you master five essential jazz standards. Each play-along track is available in multiple versions, allowing you to practice with various rhythm sections and enhance your skills.

All of these audio tracks work in tandem with the 2024 JazzEd Detroit Tracks play along e-book, where you can access the sheet music.

Click here to download the FREE e-book and start improving your jazz skills! 

The five songs selected for this series are:

1. Eb blues
2. Take the “A” Train (Billy Strayhorn)
3. Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham)
4. Someday My Prince Will Come (Frank Churchill and Larry Morey)
5. Bb Rhythm Changes (based on Gershwin’s “I’ve Got Rhythm”)

About the Tracks

The tracks have been designed to help you practice each song with a professionally recorded backing track. This guide does not provide the melodies to each song because of copyright law, but instead provides several exercises that will assist you on your journey. 

Each song has 5 different versions available for you to practice to:

1. Full rhythm section with trumpet playing through the exercises
2. Fully rhythm section for anyone
3. Piano and bass only for drummers
4. Piano and drums only for bassists
5. Bass and drums only for pianists and other chordal instruments

The musicians you hear on these recordings are:

• Trumpet - Kris Johnson
• Piano - Brendon Davis
• Bass - Brandon Rose
• Drums - Nate Winn