SKU: SU.29000230
A colorful book from the mind and hand of the great master jazz pianist. It's a kick to make something out of nothing. It seems most people like to do this. The lady of the house takes a look at an empty kitchen table and envisions a table setting including flowers and napkins with a particular design. Or an architect sees an empty lot and envisions a new apartment building in that space complete with interior and exterior colors and materials. Or anybody, including myself, takes a look at a blank piece of paper and starts drawing shapes on it......There's another very human tendency - and that's to want to attach meaning and significance to things in life - to a song, to an event, to something viewed - literally to anything. It's usually an automatic thing. Everything needs to mean something. This tendency to attach meaning is also a kind of creativity, I suppose. But I find that, unless there is also a sufficient amount of creation without meaning or purpose then the motions and emotions of living can become bogged down with too much weighty significance. - Chick Corea (Excerpted from the foreward to Creativity & Doodling) Book size: 6x6 36 pages Published by: Chick Corea Productions.
SKU: SP.TS236
ISBN 9781585609871. UPC: 649571002367.
Creative Jazz Piano Arranging for Real Fake Book Tunes is a method and songbook written by Michael Tarro. This new title for Jazz Piano is a culmination of more than thirty years of experience in teaching piano. It contains musical concepts and explains many techniques for any jazz pianist to develop their own interpretive style. This instructional collection teaches how to create variations of simple melodies of many well-known standards as written in every Fake-Book which includes: A phenomenal collection of the most popular jazz standards ever written. Complete original jazz piano arrangements clearly notated with precision. Improvised solos are transcribed in their entirety with strict adherence to detail offering incredibly valuable jazz piano techniques for developing interpretive skills. A recording of every arrangement performed by the author, Michael Tarro with A bonus track of Tarro's award winning Big Band single, Traveling Theme. Creative Jazz Piano Arranging provides a logical approach towards creating arrangements of simple well-known melodies. This powerful tool in developing performance excellence is one of the first steps toward becoming an incredible jazz pianist. Gentle Rain by Louis Bonfa, Don t Blame Me by Jimmy McHugh, Sharp Nine Blues and Traveling Theme by Mike Tarro, My Romance and Hello Young Lovers by Rodgers and Hammerstein, When Sunny Gets Blue by Marvin Fischer, Days Of Wine and Roses by Mancini and Johnny Mercer, Nearness Of You and Georgia On My Mind by Hoagy Carmichael, Sweet Georgia Brown written by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey, When I Fall In Love by Victor Young, and Don't Get Around Much Anymore and I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good by Sir Duke Ellington.
SKU: BT.LCMLL375
English.
In concert: book 2 contains twelve piano works selected from London College of Music’s ALCM and LLCM Piano syllabus. These works give a snapshot of the huge range of repertoire available to pianists today, spanning nearly three hundred years of music from all over the world. We hope that this collection of works will provide inspiration for building original and creative concert programmes, be it in the exam room, at an audition or a professional recital. Includes an introduction and performance notes from one of the world’s most innovative musicians, Joanna MacGregor — concert pianist, curator, collaborator, Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of theUniversity of London. Joanna’s distinctive insights into the technical and interpretative aspects of each work are drawn from her own extensive performing experience. As a director of numerous innovative festivals and concert series, she is also uniquely qualified to write about how to build a programme, one of the most creative and important skills for a musician to develop.
SKU: FJ.FJH2114
ISBN 9781619281967. UPC: 241444381540. English.
The season's familiar tunes sound fresh and new in these pianistic arrangements by Kevin Costley. Most of the pieces are three pages with lyrics included. The creative intros set the style for each carol that varies from perky to lyrical. Some titles are: I Saw Three Ships, Jingle Bells, O Christmas Tree, Silent Night, Up On the Housetop and more.