Jazz Standards for Piano

Rating:
Summary: Sounds like real Jazz
Review: This book contains 19 standards arranged as jazz piano solos. The solos are not the standard sheet music for these songs. They are arrangements at an early to mid-intermediate level, very clean (no big runs or fills) yet very full sounding. The chord voicings are jazz oriented. So even with no improvisation, the music sounds like real jazz. The chord symbols are there (some nice extensions and substitutions) so you can learn them and improvise if you want, however, the songs do not include a written out improvisation. The nice thing is that if you just want to learn a song as a recital piece with no improv it will still sound great. For the money this is a great book. The notes are all there, just add the swing.

The arrangements are by Thomas Coppola. The following songs are included:

Alice In Wonderland, April In Paris, Autumn Leaves, But Beautiful, Everything Happens To Me, Girl Talk, How High The Moon, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, I'll Remember April, Im All Smiles, Lush Life, The Nearness Of You, People, Stella By Starlight, Sweet And Lovely, There Will Never Be Another You, The Touch Of Your Lips, What's New?, You Are Too Beautiful

Rating:
Summary: Sounds like real Jazz
Review: This book contains 19 standards arranged as jazz piano solos. The solos are not the standard sheet music for these songs. They are arrangements at an early to mid-intermediate level, very clean (no big runs or fills) yet very full sounding. The chord voicings are jazz oriented. So even with no improvisation, the music sounds like real jazz. The chord symbols are there (some nice extensions and substitutions) so you can learn them and improvise if you want, however, the songs do not include a written out improvisation. The nice thing is that if you just want to learn a song as a recital piece with no improv it will still sound great. For the money this is a great book. The notes are all there, just add the swing.

The arrangements are by Thomas Coppola. The following songs are included:

Alice In Wonderland, April In Paris, Autumn Leaves, But Beautiful, Everything Happens To Me, Girl Talk, How High The Moon, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, I'll Remember April, Im All Smiles, Lush Life, The Nearness Of You, People, Stella By Starlight, Sweet And Lovely, There Will Never Be Another You, The Touch Of Your Lips, What's New?, You Are Too Beautiful