Piano Playbook: Jazz Standards

Each of the Jazz Standards in this Piano Playbook shows the kind of incredibly accomplished songwriting that lifts a song out of itscreators'mind and into the realms of the timeless masterpiece. This excellent jazz sheet music song book has been collated to reflect a variety of moods, but also to show a beautifully natural progression through time, so you cansee howthe jazz standard developed and changed, while retaining the thread of magic that has kept them being played for decades.

Featuring some amazing tunes like the bopclassic Anthropology,Coltrane's improvisational masterpiece My Favorite Things and Miles Davis' post-bop, impressionistic So What. Some other well-known tunes include Mood Indigo, HoneysuckleRose, All The Things You Are, LaVie En Rose, and jazz arrangements of songs like Singin' In The Rain and Strawberry Fields Forever. These are just a minute selection of the wealth of brilliant songs inthis PianoPlaybook and, whether you play your favourites or discover new ones, there will undoubtedly be a huge number that you fall in love with playing.

With some songs arranged forsolo Piano, andsome for Piano and Vocals, this Playbook really is a wonderful collection. Reading the list of songs is like looking at a rundown of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Bill Evans,Charlie Parker,Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and so on. You are guaranteed to love playing these songs, and your audience is sure to love hearing them as much. Like the rest of the Piano Playbook series, thisbook of

Series: Piano Playbook
Genre: Jazz
Pages: 192
Publisher: Wise Publications
First published: 2015
ISBN: 9781783051373