An excellent collection of over 20 of his most-loved songs including: Girl From Ipanema · How Insensitive · One Note Samba · Desafinado (Out of Tune) · Quiet Night of Quiet Stars · Song of the Sabia · and more.

English Text by Norman Gimbel / Original Text (Garota de Ipanema) by Vinicius de Moraes

The Complete Guide With Cd-Learn how to play authentic salsa! From traditional Cuban music to the more modern Puerto Rican and New York styles you'll learn the all-important rhythmic patterns of salsa and how to apply them to the piano. The book provides historical geographical and cultural background info and the 50 track CD includes piano examples and a full salsa band percussion section.

The Complete Guide with CD!-Learn how to play Latin jazz Piano based on traditional Latin music from Cuba and Brazil. Latin Jazz Piano addresses the three roles that the jazz pianist typically plays: as a member of an accompanying rhythm section as a lead instrument within an ensemble and as a solo instrument. The online audio features many examples in the book and combo tracks with which to play along.The book is divided into three sections. The first covers Afro-Cuban (Afro-Caribbean) jazz the second section deals with Brazilian influenced jazz – Bossa Nova and Samba and the third contains lead sheets of the tunes and instructions for the play-along onlineaudio.The Afro-Cuban section contains a chapter on some basic concepts of traditional Afro-Cuban music including the clave tumbao and montuno. Also there is a chapter on typical piano voicing used in Afro-Cuban music Latin jazz in general.Next is a chapter on typical comping patterns used in various Afro-Cuban styles such as Mambo Cha-cha etc. The last chapter in this section features tunes written in these various styles and arranged for lead instrument piano and bass piano lead and piano solo. The next section on Brazilian-related jazz begins with a chapter on the many varied rhythms typically used in comping for Bossa Novas and Sambas and concludes with a chapter featuring tunes arranged in the same ways as the first section.The third section contains lead sheets of all the tunes so the reader can play and improvise on them along with the accompanying online audio. The reader is encouraged to continually change the way he or she plays these tunes and apply the principles found in this book to other tunes in the Latin jazz repertoire.