4 Afro-Caribbean Songs

A lively collection of four Afro-Caribbean songs scored for five right hands at one Piano.'Following on the success of Mike Cornick's first book of four pieces for five hands at one piano he has now come up with a second volume.Huge fun to play and with each person having his own individual part these works make everyone listen carefully in order for the complex rhythmic patterns to fit together.Excellent for aural training and sight-reading this volume can only aid young pupils in making gerenal musical progress.' - Nadia Lasserson Piano Journal issue 102 2014

Arrangeur: Mike Cornick. Par DIVERS AUTEURS (ARR.MIKE CORNICK). 'How to make friends at the keyboard” might be the series title for Mike Cornick's albums for 5 or 6 hands at one piano! In this latest volume, '4 Afro-Caribbean Pieces for 6 hands”, Mike offers three traditional pieces, 'Jamaica Farewell”, 'Mary Anne” and 'Yellow Bird”, plus a piece of his own which perfectly captures the stylistic mannerisms of this very musical region. Mike has suggested fingerings to help avoid the collisions inevitable with three players at one keyboard but he adds 'it's all part of the fun”! The second and terzo parts can be downloaded (free of charge) from the publisher's website to aid private practice. These multi-hand pieces make great concert pieces, especially as encores and you could also try: '5 Pieces for 5 Left Hands” (UE21711) or '4 Afro-Caribbean Songs for 5 Right Hands” (UE21649) as well as several other volumes for the more conventional six hands./ Recueil / Piano 6 Mains

A Complete Approach to Latin Rhythms Jazz-Rock Fusion & Smooth Jazz-A highly-skilled composer arranger trumpeter vocalist and trombonist Gabriel Rosati has released 15 albums of his own music since 1992. He was nominated in the category of 'Best Jazz' at the Orange County Musical Awards in 2008 (California) and was a featured artist in the American magazine 'Jazz Player' in 1999. Latin-jazz funk Brazilian Afro-Cuban tango Caribbean smooth jazz and more...This cross-style musical book contains 100 original pieces in these popular styles scored for all instruments. Rosati has composed music for films jingles industry theatre and live venues. The music in this book is styled after John Williams theBrecker Brothers Claus Ogerman and others and designed around the fun and danceable sounds of salsa Latin and tango. 4 CDs are included featuring performance and accompaniment tracks for 27 of the songs.

Andrew D. Gordon world renowned music educator author of over 60 music educational products has previously written numerous books on funk Keyboard styles such as: ?60 Of The Funkiest Keyboard Riffs Known To Mankind? ?Funky Organ Grooves? ?Outta Sight Funk and RandB Riffs For Piano/Keyboards? which have been well received by students teachers and musicians all over the world. As playing funk styles is a passion of Gordon?s he has written this instructional book 100 Ultimate Soul Funk and RandB Grooves based on the influences of the great Funk Soul and RandB artists such as: JamesBrown Herbie Hancock The Crusaders Average White Band Marvin Gaye Miles Davis Stevie Wonder Parliament Ramsey Lewis Booker T and The MG?s MFSB Billy Preston etc. Besides the afore-mentioned styles Gordon has also added a few grooves that are Afro-Caribbean such as: Latin Reggae and Calypso. Each of the 100 grooves have been recorded with the Keyboard part playing along with a rhythm section of Guitar Bass Drums Organ and in many of the grooves Percussion. There is also a three minute Play-Along track for each of the 100 grooves minus the keyboard part so that you can practice along with the rhythm tracks adding up to over 5 hours of Play-Along tracks.A Spotify playlist containing the songs that have influenced the grooves can also be listened to. 'Andrew has a great flair for a large variety of grooves.  These exercises if practiced can really help ones musicianship and feel and I wish I had them when I grew up. To be able to read them and hear them played is extremely valuable'. - Mike Garson Keyboard player for David Bowie