Best of Jazz Standards - Volume 3

Violin Play-Along Volume 15-This volume of the Violin Play-Along Series will help you play some of the best jazz standards performed by Stephane Grappelli quickly and easily. Just follow the music listen to the online audio tracks to hear how the violin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book you may also choose to sing along. Chord symbols are provided should you wish to elaborate on the melody. 

transcribed by Greg Lui. Finally! Piano Comping transcribed from our best-selling Volume 42 - Blues in All Keys! See how soulful jazz master James Williams negotiates the blues in all twelve keys, and you'll be ready for anything! Of course, the blues and ii-V7 voicings presented here are applicable to all other standards, as well. Those of you who already have the Vol. 42 Blues in All Keys CD will enjoy playing along with the bass and drums by turning off the right channel.

One of the foremost personalities in the world of Jazz Guitar Larry Coryell has played against the best and here presents an insight into his distinctive and fluid approach.From bebop heroes Sonny Rollins and CharlesMingus to fusion superstars Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Coryell's guitar playing has graced the recordings of the hottest stars in Jazz making him a guitarist of huge reputation and respect. In this three-part DVD seriesCoryell analyses his own Jazz perspective providing an empirical method of solo and chord improvisation.Volume two includes:Creating the improvised lineChord substitutionsImportance of the major/minorseventh soundThe 'Jazz' minor and its related chordsApplying scales to standardsRepositioning chords to fit a single-note lineVocabulary of improvisationBlues phrasing and Bebop sophisticationsGuitaristdevices and techniquesApproaching a solo and small-group performance of the same songDetailed discussion of Autumn Leaves and Coltrane's Moment Of Notice

Awarded the prestigious Music Industries Association Award in 2006 for Best Pop Publication Tim Richards' Exploring Jazz Piano was the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano also published by Schott. The overall level is somewhat higher and would suit pianists of Grade 4 standard and above. The book comes in two volumes comprising no less than 56 original pieces by the author together with special arrangements of 24 standards ranging from Autumn Leaves and Summertime to Straight No Chaser and Coltrane's Impressions.The two volumes also contain over 800 musical examples a veritable treasury of styles and techniques for the aspiring jazzpianist and refers to the work of Erroll Garner Art Tatum Duke Ellington Thelonious Monk Bud Powell Horace Silver Hampton Hawes Red Garland Wynton Kelly Bill Evans George Shearing Oscar Peterson Chick Corea McCoy Tyner and many others. Each volume has its own CD containing between them performances of all 80 pieces played by Tim alone or with his current trio of Dominic Howles (bass) and Matt Home (drums). Play-along tracks are also included in which the piano is panned to one speaker providing rhythm section accompaniment if desired by turning the amplifier's balance control. Copious examples of improvisation are accompanied by numerous assignments with guidance to hand on every page. The package is beautifully illustrated with many full-page photographs of piano masters past and present informative mini biographies and a comprehensive suggested listening section. The practical covered spiral binding protects the books as well as enabling them to lie flat on the music stand.Exploring Jazz Piano fills a vacuum in jazz piano instruction its comprehensive syllabus taking the reader from first principles in Vol. 1 to professional level in Vol. 2. Any student of jazz piano piano teacher or performing musician dipping into either volume will be rewarded with a wealth of ideas and practical information to keep them occupied for many

Jazz on a Summer's Day is a unique collection of stylish jazz arrangements and original compositions for solo piano. It conveys the many sides of summer through swing blues samba calypso and folk and draws inspiration from jazz artists including Oscar Peterson Bill Evans Grover Washington Jr and Sonny Rollins. The author's credentials as a celebrated jazz pianist and composer guarantee a perfect introduction to jazz and to sounding like the best.Nine arrangements and original pieces at intermediate level (Grades 5-8)Notated jazz solos accessible yet idiomaticWide range of styles from swing standards tocontemporaryIncludes a piano duet-a sizzling jazz-sambaCD of full performances to help with interpretation and backing tracks for the duetA companion volume to Jazz on a Winter's Night (9780193365902)

Finally, the most popular arrangements by Carsten Gerlitz are available in an anthology for bar piano!


`Best Of Piano Lounge` contains the 30 most beautiful titles of the previous twelve volumes, offering wonderful pieces to suit everyone's taste ? from jazz and swing standards via musical and film melodies to pop and rock ballads. Each one of them in easily playable and fresh arrangements for the piano.

The perfect first step for pianists into the world of the bar piano. / Partition /

Finally the most popular arrangements by Carsten Gerlitz are available in an anthology for bar piano! Best Of Piano Lounge contains the 30 most beautiful titles of the previous twelve volumes offering wonderful pieces to suit everyone's taste – from jazz and swing standards via musical and film melodies to pop and rock ballads. Each one of them in easily playable and fresh arrangements for the piano.The perfect first step for pianists into the world of the bar piano.