New Orleans Jazz Styles - Piano

Still More New Orleans Jazz Styles a continuation of New Orleans Jazz Styles and More New Orleans Jazz Styles offers the intermediate piano student five new opportunities to experience the popular idiom of jazz as a serious phase of their tonal musical education in a variety of styles. Composed and arranged by William Gillock these pieces will present the intermediate pianist with an enjoyable challenge.

This wonderful compilation contains all the pieces from William Gillock's successful New Orleans Jazz Styles series. This updated Complete Edition offers the intermediate Pianist a perfect opportunity to experience the benchmark New Orleans Jazz styles. With all fifteen tracks you will be spoilt for choice. These pieces by William Gillock eloquently demonstrate the New Orleans Jazz Styles and are suitable to grace concerts recitals or simply for enjoyment.

All 15 Original Piano Solos Included-Gillock's bestselling New Orleans Jazz Styles have been a repertoire staple since the 1960s. This collection features all 15 original piano solos! NEW (June 2016): Audio files with practice and performance tempos are now offered online with downloadable MIDI files. Titles: New Orleans Nightfall - The Constant Bass - Mardi Gras - Dixieland Combo - Frankie and Johnny - New Orleans Blues - Taking It Easy - After Midnight - Mister Trumpet Man - Bourbon Street Saturday Night - Mississippi Mud - Uptown Blues - Downtown Beat - Canal Street Blues - Bill Bailey.

The Complete Guide with CD!-Stride And Swing Piano covers all the essential left- hand righ- hand techniques of early solo jazz piano playing - chords bass runs patterns etc. - and includes 14 full songs performed on the accompanying CD. Learn to play authentically in the styles of Scott Joplin Jimmy Yancey Pete Johnson Jelly Roll Morton James P. Johnson Fats Waller Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum. This method includes: Classic Ragtime Early blues and boogie woogie New Orleans Jazz Early Stride Later Stride Swing

William Gillock's timeless jazz originals have been transformed into engaging and very accessible duets by composer/clinician Glenda Austin. The book also comes with play-along audio that includes separate Primo and Secondo parts giving the student the flexibility to rehearse as well as perform on their own when a partner is not available. Excellent collaborative pieces!Contents: New Orleans Blues; Taking It Easy; After Midnight; Mister Trumpet Man; Bourbon Street Saturday Night.

William Gillock's timeless jazz originals have been transformed into engaging and very accessible duets by composer/clinician Glenda Austin. The book also comes with a play-along CD that includes separate Primo and Secondo parts giving the student the flexibility to rehearse as well as perform on their own when a partner is not available. Excellent collaborative pieces! Contents: Mississippi Mud; Uptown Blues; Downtown Beat; Canal Street Blues; Bill Bailey.

Jazz Hands is a series of original jazz pieces for Piano by Mark Tanner which covers all standards from grade one through to red hot. Although the player may feel free to indulge in a spot of improvisation in response to the printed music there is no expectation to do so in any of the books. Nor are there any chord symbols or other bespoke abbreviations the like of which presuppose a degree of familiarity with the genre which may not actually be the case. Rather the idea is that the player will become gradually more confident and adept at playing in a jazz style as he/she works through the books. It may well be that a classically-trainedpianist has reached say grade 5 but feels currently at a more modest stage when tackling jazz. This is absolutely not a problem and indeed is all the more reason for the 'straight' player to extend their jazz skills to match.The title of this series 'Jazz Hands' derives from the familiar exuberant gesturing seen in music theatre fingers spread and extended with palms facing upwards an effect frequently amplified by a convulsive shivering of the hands. Cheerleaders have tended to make widespread use of jazz hands while the concept has also found its way into revues Broadway shows and films as well as contemporary dance. In the current context I am of course referring to the jazz pianist's hands which in only the most ambitiously spaced Art Tatum chord would require the player to stretch the digits to such an extent as in the aforementioned theatrical sense. The term 'jazz' has been adopted and adapted in a multiplicity of ways (not unlike 'classical' indeed) so that it no longer tells us very much about the music itself. Aficionados immediately recognise the better-known subgenres such as 'bebop' or 'New Orleans' styles and may even be able to distinguish 'smooth' from 'groove' or 'fusion/crossover' from 'postmodern'. And yet these are just labels not music. In an understandable bid to define all that we hear

The basic principles of blues piano explained for the intermediate-level pianist-The forerunner to the awarded-winning Exploring Jazz Piano books Improvising Blues Piano examines the harmonic rhythmic and melodic aspects of the blues assuming a basic competence of around grade 3.All styles are covered from the 1920s to the present from the early boogie pioneers via swing gospel jump-jive New Orleans Chicago and Kansas City schools to the more sophisticated jazz and funky blues of the current scene. Over 60 pieces including many original compositions by the author together with new arrangements of well-known standarts such as 'Ain't No Sunshine' 'Blueberry Hill' 'Blue Monk' 'Got My Mojo workin' 'Honky Tonk Train Blues' 'How Long Blues' 'Just aCloser Walk with Thee' 'Pine Top's Boogie Woogie' 'St Louis Blues' etc.? Authentic left-hand patterns and bass lines? Professional chord voicings blues scales licks and riffs? Co-ordination exercises for both hands? Suggested listeningEach chapter is graded within itself providing some challenging pieces towards the end. Improvising is encouraged at all stages with assignments giving ideas and guidance.The accompanying CD contains all the pieces including some play-along tracks performed by Tim Richards.A very useful and comprehensive survey of different blues styles. Tim's clear demonstrations on the accompanying CD make this the essential book for all aspiring blues pianists (Jools Holland)This book leaves any possible competition standing at the post. (Brian Priestley Jazzwise Magazine)I highly recommend the book. It's the best I've seen yet... Helpful features include a grat Cd by the London-based Richards who is a top-notch performer recording artist and educator. It's almost like having your own personal instructor. (Blues Review USA)The presentation is immaculate the method is logical and friendly. This book feels good... (MOJO)A brilliant new publication from Schott. Each chapter extends the player's harmonic knowledge and gives clear instructions how to progress... You learn not just how to play the blues but also its history and major exponents.