Darktown Strutter's Ball

And Novelty Instrumentals Of Rev. Gary Davis-Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopaedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humour. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz Mose Ranger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was born black indeep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all his creativity was anunshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.In this book and accompanyingaudio Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 9 of Rev. Davis' best known rags minstrel shows tunes and novelty instrumentals. These are challenging and very rewarding to master. Included are: Buck Dance Devil's Dream Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From Fast Foxtrot St. Louis Tickle Darktown Strutter's Ball and his tour de forces Twelve Sticks and SoldiersMarch. The unique bottleneck/slide tune Whistlin' Blues is also presented played in an open D6 tuning.The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of guitar players from Blind Boy Fuller to

Play with style using Mike Cornick's Style Collection- be it jazz, Afro-Caribbean favourites or the evergreens we all enjoy. Each book with CD focuses on a particular genre and includes well-known pieces in arrangements suitable for the middle-grade player as 'The Darktown Strutters' Ball', 'Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey', 'Ja Da' and more. The CD provides the option of playing along as part of an ensemble which is both confidence-building and fun, while the demonstration tracks for listening are not only inspiring but hugely entertaining. / Piano

In this lesson Ernie Hawkins teaches three Rev. Davis arrangements that will challenge your fingers. Rev. Gary Davis's tour de force in concert was his Soldiers March. This is a multipart instrumental played in the Key of F and Cand is a showcase in demonstrating the genius of Rev. Davis's playing and arranging skills. Few country blues guitarists played in the Key of F but Rev. Davis explored this key with religious as well as old pop standards. DarktownStrutters Ball is a fascinating arrangement that captures the atmosphere of the 1920s. Rev. Davis use to tell his students that playing with a bottleneck was ???cheating???. Yet his Whistlin' Blues uses this technique combined with anOpen D6 tuning to create an unusual boogie piano sound. Ernie Hawkins teaches each tune phrase by phrase and carefully shows you the right hand picking as well as the left hand fingerings that were unique to Rev. Davis'sapproach. You will be able to easily follow the instruction with the tab/music booklet. Also featured are split screen segments where each section is played slowly and you can study the movements of each hand. As a bonus we haveincluded various audio performances of Rev. Davis playing each song. Titles include: Soldiers March (United States March) Darktown Strutters Ball and Whistlin' Blues.

Jazz Play-Along Volume 87-For use with all Bb Eb C and bass clef instruments the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses forsoloing.Includes 10 traditional songs: Alexander's Ragtime Band • Ballin' the Jack • Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home • The Darktown Strutters Ball • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Royal Garden Blues • That's a Plenty • Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger) • Toot Toot Tootsie! (Good-Bye!) • When the Saints Go Marching In.

Music Minus One Alto Saxophone Deluxe 2-CD Set-This exciting MMO volume emphasizes collectively improvised ensembles and the succession of individual solos in the freewheeling Chicago-Style offshoot of New Orleans Jazz. The rhythmic texture is rooted in the swing feel of the late 1930s and the instrumentation is typical of the New York groups of this genre. The songs are popular melodies from the 1900s to 1930s as well as multithematic compositions and blues - on this album you'll find such classics as Deed I Do Sugar The Darktown Strutters' Ball That's a Plenty and more. Includes a 32-page music book containing a solo chart for each song containing the melody line and chord changes for proper improvisational playing ofeach song plus a concert lead sheet giving the overall roadmap for each piece printed on high-quality ivory paper and two compact discs containing the complete performance of these jazz combos in digitally mastered stereo a digital stereo version of each piece minus the soloist and a special -20% slow-tempo version of each accompaniment for practice purposes. Performed by Brian Ogilvie tenor saxophone Accompaniment: Evan Christopher clarinet and leader Jon-Erik Kellso trumpet Mike Pittsley trombone Jeff Barnhart piano Bill Huntington guitar Jim Singleton bass Hal Smith drums

Jazz Play-Along Vol.100. Partitions (tout instruement) et enregistrements (piano, basse, batterie) de 16 Blues de St. Louis. / Rép International / Recueil / Tout Instrument

A collection of the world's finest classical and popular music for Piano. Here you will find the great masterpieces of every era - from classical and romance to ragtime and blues. Enjoy three centuries of all-time favourite Piano solos. Including Amazing Grace, Clair de Lune, Grand March from Aida and The Minute Waltz. / Piano Accompagnement