Description
Eight arrangements of jazz standards from 1928 for serious jazz pianists. These arrangements incorporate the styles of pianists like Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Robert Glasper, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Tigran Hamasayan, Brad Mehldau, and more. The arrangements feature ballads, swing tunes, up-tempo swing, modern jazz, block chords, and stride piano.
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The book also includes access to a webpage with extra features include versions of the arrangements with chord symbols, high-quality videos of performances by the arranger, and videos of the arranger describing the pianistic techniques used in the arrangements. The book can be used for performance and for study.
The eight tunes are:
– Embraceable You
– Mack the Knife
– If I Had You
– I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
– Softly As in the Morning Sunrise
– Lover, Come Back to Me
– Love Me or Leave Me
– Sweet Lorraine
Lucien Quesnel (verified owner) –
This is a book that I have been waiting for for a long time ! It offers an extraordinary opportunity for intermediate and advanced pianists to work and perform arrangements of immemorial standards finely crafted by an undisputed master of the piano and an outstanding teacher. A must for improving your in-depth understanding of jazz piano and developing your harmonic knowledge. All at a very affordable price. What more could you ask for?
Félicitations Monsieur Siskind et bonne continuation !