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.
—> Not in the US? You can order the PDF from this site or the paper copy from Amazon.
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 !
Tomas Pallas Aparisi –
A great book with multiple options for performing and analysing the 8 standards, along with ver well crafted videos. Wonderful!!! Thanks again Jeremy
Carmel Moran –
This book is absolute gold! Jeremy Siskind’s arrangements are incredibly beautifully crafted, original, creative and interesting. From the moment I heard Siskind’s demo video of his arrangement of Mack the Knife, I was hooked. Then, I listened to his demo video of samples of each of the arrangements in this book, and that was it: I had to buy the book. As a young jazz pianist who loves solo jazz piano playing and who has a good level of music-reading, this book is perfect for me. The book also comes with a QR-code linking to videos of Siskind performing all of the arrangements from beginning to end, which is extremely helpful and valuable, as it allows one to hear how the music written on paper is meant to sound and be articulated. Thank you so much Jeremy Siskind for sharing your craft in this high-quality, affordable book.