Compilations regroupant les plus grands titres d'un genre musical spécialement regravées en piano, voix et diagrammes d'accord guitare ou en piano solo en format A4 spiralé afin qu'il reste 'plat' sur le support du piano.Titres : 42nd Street (from 42nd Street) - Aquarius (Hair) - Being Alive (Company) - Can You Feel The Love Tonight (The Lion King) - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Jersey Boys) - Consider Yourself (Oliver!) - Dancing Queen (Mamma Mia!) - Defying Gravity (Wicked) - Electricity (Billy Elliot) - Footloose (Footloose) - Hopelessly Devoted To You (Grease) - Hushabye Mountain (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) - I Don't Know How To Love Him (Jesus Christ Superstar) - I Dreamed A Dream (Les Miserables) - I Know Him So Well (Chess) - If My Friends Could See Me Now (Sweet Charity) - The Last Night Of The World (Miss Saigon) - Losing My Mind (Follies) - The Music Of The Night (Phantom Of The Opera) - My Favourite Things (The Sound Of Music) - Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (Oklahoma!) - Ol' Man River (Showboat) - Over The Rainbow (The Wizard Of Oz) - Part Of Your World (Little Mermaid) - Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd) - Pure Imagination (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) - Singin' In The Rain (Singin' In The Rain) - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Roberta) - Superstar (Jesus Christ Superstar) - Take That Look Off Your Face (Tell Me On A Sunday) - There's No Business Like Show Business (Annie Get Your Gun) - Top Hat, White Tie And Tails (Top Hat) - When I Grow Up (Matilda) - A Whole New World (Aladdin) / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Edgar Knecht is a jazz pianist who has created his own unique style. His début CD, 'Good Morning Lilofee? (with four-piece combo), conquered the clubs and earned him invitations to international festivals. His treatment of the original melodies is refreshingly different from standard jazz arrangements: It is characterized by a free perception of the tunes, varied rhythms as well as unconventional harmonies. The same recipe for success underlies his second CD, 'Dance On Deep Waters?, with which the Edgar Knecht Quartet is again going on tour, with many gigs lined up for spring and summer.All eight of the songs in our edition offer agreeable and stimulating literature outside the classical and jazz pigeonholes for pianists everywhere, whether or not they dig German folksongs. Familiar tunes such as 'Es freit der wilde Wassermann? or 'Die Gedanken sind frei? gain a wholly new quality and pizzazz in his arrangements. Though based on the original songs, the pieces go far beyond them in form, harmony and rhythm, thereby turning the originals into top-quality jazz ballads. All the pieces have suggestions for improvised passages, usually with chords and written-out ostinato bass lines.All the pieces are recorded on the like-named CD with Edgar Knecht at the piano, accompanied by his trio of bass, drums and percussion.- Eight songs for piano- Appealing literature- Ad lib improvised partsContentsLilofee, Gedankenfreiheit (Freedom of Thought), Tiefe Wasser (Deep Waters), Nachttraum (Dream at Night), Fenjas Lullaby, Schwesterlein (Little Sister), Frühling (Spring), Wiegenlied (Cradle Song)The AuthorEdgar Knecht lives in Kassel (Germany), where he heads a piano school and tours with his combo. Since the age of 14 he has held concerts with his own piano pieces and written many theatre, film and TV scores. With his Edgar Knecht Trio he transforms German folksongs into fascinating jazz ballads with which he fills his programmes and venues. / Piano