Duet playing is an essential and enriching experience for musicians in their developmental journey. It serves as a stepping stone towards ensemble playing, offering a multitude of benefits to the aspiring student.

Engaging in duet playing allows musicians to cultivate various crucial skills, such as honing their pitch, rhythm, articulation, dynamics, and tone color. Simultaneously, it fosters their ability to actively listen and adapt to their partner's performance when necessary.

Among the myriad of skills a musician must acquire to be successful, the ability to simultaneously hear themselves and others is undoubtedly one of the most vital.

Duet playing provides a unique opportunity to develop this skill, challenging the musicians to create musically harmonious and synchronised performances.

Do you want a fun, complete collection of duets Ideal for Practice sessions, classes or performance situations?

If yes, You have come to the right place!

This Bundle of  Saxophone Jazzduets (for Beginner to Advanced)  has been meticulously written to delight and educate.

The  original pieces  are loaded full of real life Jazz language and are ideal for players who are looking for total immersion in the Jazz idiom.

Styles included: Blues, Jazz, Funk, Bebop, Brazilian + Mainstream

 1. Easy Jazz Saxophone Duets

Looking for fun, new, fresh introduction to duet playing?

You have found it!

This collection of 9 lively pieces (19 pages) is ideal for Saxophone players of modest abilities who are just starting out and want a fun introduction to duet playing in the Jazz idiom. The original pieces that explore the Blues and Jazz styles are carefully written in comfortable keys, so as not to overwhelm ! The lower part is slightly more challenging to play, suitable for a player who is slightly more experienced.

Ideal for Practice sessions, classes or performance situations.

• Grades 1-3
• Easy and Fun to Play
• Simple Keys
• Ideal for beginners
• Limited range
• Basic Jazz Rhythms
• Bb parts included

INTERMEDIATE SAXOPHONE DUETS

Intermediate Saxophone Duets is ideal for players with previous experience in the Jazz/Blues genre as it contains musical language (Blues notes, Jazz Rhythms, chromatic approach notes ) direct from the great Jazz tradition.

Ideal for teachers and students as the 2 parts are for players of slightly different abilities.

The melodies are are developed just like an improvisor would 'Jazz up a tune' using blue notes, rhythmic variation and dynamics to colour and personalize the tunes.

The 10+ original pieces full of Jazz language provide interesting material for home practice sessions, classes or performance situations.

Bb lower part included so Alto and Tenor can play together!

Grades 3-5

Intermediate Level

• Full of Jazz language 
• Lower Parts Rhythmically independant
• Wider range
• Intro + coda
• Bb + Eb Parts included so Alto and Tenors can play together

 "In my experience, it's been so difficult to find interesting jazz duets. Finally they exist! Nick Homes nails it harmonically and melodically. They're both challenging AND fun.” James suggs USA

Advanced Saxophone Duets VOLUME 1 

Advanced Saxophone Duets VOLUME 1  Digital Download for Performers (29 pages) contains 8 Original Duets providing the experienced Saxophonist with challenging material written with live performance in mind that explore the many styles found in Jazz today- Mainstream, Funk, Bebop, Blues and Brazilian.

The pieces contain introductions, codas, modulations as well as written Solos full of real Jazz language that increase interest and challenge . Suitable for more advanced players who are looking for total immersion in the Jazz idiom. Inside almost every Duet a musical tribute to some great Jazz composer or improvisor of some sort has been inserted with the purpose of enriching the pieces whilst at the same time disseminating the Jazz continuum

Advanced Saxophone Duets VOLUME 2 

Advanced Saxophone Duets VOLUME 2 for Performers (37 pages) contains 9 Original Duets providing the experienced Saxophonist with challenging material written with live performance in mind that explore the many styles found in Jazz today:

Mainstream, Funk, Bebop, Blues and Brazilian.

The pieces contain introductions, codas, modulations as well as written Solos full of real Jazz language that increase interest and challenge . Suitable for more advanced players who are looking for total immersion in the Jazz idiom. Inside almost every Duet a musical tribute to some great Jazz composer or improvisor of some sort has been inserted with the purpose of enriching the pieces whilst at the same time disseminating the Jazz continuum ("the truth as some people like to call it").

SUMMERTIME MASH UP ADVANCED DUET

In this 3rd version of this  Saxophone duet I lovingly borrow some motifs from Stevie Wonder and intersperse them with George Gershwin's classic Summertime.

The arrangement starts in G minor, then Modulates to C minor and finishes in G# minor when the melody is recapitulated.

The Pdf is suitable for 2 saxophones of the same key: Bb or Eb

 SUMMERTIME SAXOPHNE DUET (2017 version)

In this 2017 arrangement of Summertime for 2 Saxophones I included some favourite phrases of some of my musical heroes - Stevie Wonder, Prince, Larry Adler and Gershwin himself - with great affection and gratitude.

The level is intermediate to advanced.

2 files included are included in the download:

1) The original 2017 arrangement heard in the Youtube Video in Ab minor

2) The same above arrangement transposed up to A Minor

(without the 5 sharp key signature) 

TETRIS DUET