Best Smooth Jazz

Best Smooth Jazz

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 154002461X

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(Jazz Piano Solos). 21 smooth jazz selections in piano solo arrangements with chord symbols. Includes: After Hours (The Antidote) * Bossa Baroque * Cause We've Ended As Lovers * Feels So Good * Forever in Love * Isabella * Maputo * Prototype * Rise * Shaker Song * Smiles and Smiles to Go * Wishful Thinking * You Make Me Smile * and more.


Late Night Jazz

Late Night Jazz

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1480356468

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(Piano Solo Songbook). Piano solo arrangements of 24 jazz favorites, including: Almost like Being in Love * Angel Eyes * Autumn Leaves * Bewitched * God Bless' the Child * If You Go Away * It Might as Well Be Spring * Love Me or Leave Me * On Green Dolphin Street * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * That Old Black Magic * What's New? * Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) * and more.


Cocktail Jazz

Cocktail Jazz

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1495091295

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(Jazz Piano Solos). 25 piano solo arrangements guaranteed to fill the tip jar! Includes: Alfie * As Time Goes By * Come Fly with Me * Days of Wine and Roses * I Get a Kick Out of You * If He Walked into My Life * I'll Be Seeing You * It Could Happen to You * It Had to Be You * Nancy with the Laughing Face * Scotch and Soda * September Song * and more.


Jazz Ballads

Jazz Ballads

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1476821771

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(Piano Solo Songbook). Fresh solo piano arrangements with chord names of 24 favorite ballads in a jazz style, including: Body and Soul * I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry * Misty * My Funny Valentine * The Nearness of You * When I Fall in Love * and more.


How to Listen to Jazz

How to Listen to Jazz

Author: Ted Gioia

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2016-05-17

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0465097774

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A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal) In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds to the jazz-rock fusion of Miles Davis, Gioia covers the music's history and reveals the building blocks of improvisation. A true love letter to jazz by a foremost expert, How to Listen to Jazz is a must-read for anyone who's ever wanted to understand and better appreciate America's greatest contribution to music. "Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees." -- Economist


Smooth jazz piano

Smooth jazz piano

Author: Mark Harrison

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 9780634073946

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(Keyboard Instruction). This comprehensive book and CD package will teach you the basic skills you need to play smooth jazz piano. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the tricks used by the pros. The accompanying CD features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band. Specifically, you'll learn: scales and chords, harmony and voicings, progressions and comping, rhythmic concepts, melodies and soloing, characteristic stylings, the history of jazz, and more. THE HAL LEONARD KEYBOARD STYLE SERIES provides focused lessons that contain valuable how-to insight, essential playing tips, and beneficial information for all players. Comprehensive treatment is given to each subject, complete with a companion CD.


The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony

The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony

Author: Joe Mulholland

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1480360856

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(Berklee Guide). Learn jazz harmony, as taught at Berklee College of Music. This text provides a strong foundation in harmonic principles, supporting further study in jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation. It covers basic chord types and their tensions, with practical demonstrations of how they are used in characteristic jazz contexts and an accompanying recording that lets you hear how they can be applied.


The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz

The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz

Author: Ben Ratliff

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-11-06

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780805070682

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Offers an informed collector's guide to one hundred top recorded works of jazz, profiling each piece in a context of its importance to the development of the form.


Piano Playbook: Smooth Jazz

Piano Playbook: Smooth Jazz

Author: Wise Publications

Publisher: Wise Publications

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1783236876

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Piano Playbook: Smooth Jazz contains 47 jazz standards for Piano; from the cool sounds of Charlie Parker to the rhythms of the samba. This songbook boasts suburb arrangements of pieces from all realms of jazz, including Latin and contemporary, with each song has been chosen to reflect a variety of moods. Song List: - Adios - Agua De Beber (Drinking Water) - Amor - Ain't Misbehavin' - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) - Black Coffee - Blue Bossa - Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) - Chelsea Bridge - Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune) - Dindi - Footprints - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) - Frenesi - God Bless' The Child - Georgia On My Mind - The Girl From Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) - Li'l Darlin' - Here's That Rainy Day - How Insensitive - In Your Own Sweet Way - Lullaby Of Birdland - Mas Que Nada (Say No More) - Monk's Mood - Misty - A Night In Tunisia - One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) - Ornithology - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas) - Perdido - Poinciana - Quiet Now - Solitude - So Nice (Summer Samba) - Stardust - Song For My Father - Straight No Chaser - Surfing Snails - Sway (Quien Sera) - When Sunny Gets Blue - Take Five - Take The 'A' Train - The Tokyo Blues - Two Lonely People - Wave - Without You (Tres Palabras) - Waltz For Debby