Cocktail Jazz

(Jazz Piano Solos). Each volume in the Jazz Piano Solos Series features exciting new arrangements of songs which define a series. This Christmas edition features 27 favorites perfect for your holiday gatherings: Christmas in New Orleans * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Cool Yule * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm * Merry Christmas, Baby * Santa Baby * Silver Bells * That's What I Want for Christmas * What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? * White Christmas * 'Zat You, Santa Claus? * and more.

""Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote under the Constitution's Nineteenth Amendment, jazz music, talking motion pictures, Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, Flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The decade opened, nonetheless, with a shock when Prohibition became the law of the land on Friday, January 16, 1920. American ingenuity promptly rose to its newest challenge. The law, riddled with loopholes, let the 1920s write a new chapter in the nation's saga of spirits. Men and women spoke knowingly of the speakeasy, the bootlegger, of rum-running, black ships, blind pigs, gin mills, and gallon stills. A new social event-the cocktail party staged in a private home-smashed the gender barrier that had long forbidden "ladies" from entering into the gentlemen-only barrooms and cafés. The drinks, savored in secret, were all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker went "underground." The danger of the illicit liquor trade was also memorialized in drinks like the "Original Gangster," the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," the "Tommy Gun," and others. Crime rose, fortunes were amassed, and a slew of new cocktails were shaken, stirred, and poured in hideaways to brand the "roaring" 1920s as the era of "Alcohol and Al Capone.""--

(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.

A pianist in lounges and lobbies around the world, Robin Meloy Goldsby tells her warm-hearted stories by linking people she has met with places she has played. Along the way, she connects the humanity of her audiences—princes and paupers, dreamers and doers, moguls, mobsters, wanna-bes, and has-beens—with the quiet soundtrack of her peripatetic, melodic life. Goldsby's autobiographical stories and essays deliver insights into the art and craft of piano playing, the merits of live music, and how the right song at the right moment can add color and depth to a drab, one dimensional world. Music, it turns out, connects us in unpredictable ways.

(Piano Solo Songbook). Cool, jazzy arrangements of 23 most-requested standards at the piano lounge, including: Blue Moon * Cocktails for Two * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * Georgia on My Mind * Hey There * I Left My Heart in San Francisco * I'm in the Mood for Love * The Lady Is a Tramp * Lullaby of Birdland * Mack the Knife * More (Ti Guardero Nel Cuore) * Over the Rainbow * Puttin' on the Ritz * Speak Low * The Very Thought of You * and more.

(Jazz Piano Solos). 24 fusion favorites are included in this collection featuring piano solo arrangements with chord names. Includes: Chameleon * Don't Stop * Feels So Good * 500 Miles High * Goodbye Pork Pie Hat * Mercy, Mercy, Mercy * Portrait of Tracy * A Remark You Made * You Know What I Mean * and more.

(Jazz Piano Solos). Piano solo arrangements with chord symbols for 22 songs, including: Bernie's Tune * East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) * Ginza Samba * Not Really the Blues * Of Thee I Sing * Suddenly It's Spring * The Train and the River * and more.

Piano Stylings of the Great Standards is a series of books created for the pianist who longs to play the best-loved and most important songs of the popular genre in very special and elegant musical settings. The arrangements are represented in varying styles, written and influenced by the many great pianists who, over the years, have helped to shape popular piano performance. The series is designed to supply a broad scope of popular piano repertoire for solo performance, both for the working pianist and the amateur. As with all books in this series, it includes a unique lay-flat binding to help keep the music open on the music stand. Titles: Angel Eyes * Autumn Nocturne * Body and Soul * But Not for Me * I See Your Face Before Me * It Never Entered My Mind * I've Got the World on a String * Mean to Me * My Melancholy Baby * What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life