A collection of celebrated song hits and showstoppers for solo piano. Here you will find over 75 legendary jazz and blues standards, showtunes, rags, novelty numbers, and encores. Turn these pages to enjoy great musical moments of the cabaret, stage, and concert hall - or bring to life the jazz and blues clubs of days gone by. Explore the musical genius of Jermone Kern, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin - the dramatic power of George M. Cohan, W.C. Handy, Jelly Roll Morton, and John Philip Sousa - the elegant styles of Scott Joplin, Zez Confrey, James Scott, and Eubie Blake - and much, much more. / Rép International / Recueil / Piano

The Player's Guide to Authentic Stylings. The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method Book 2 is a detailed, easy-to-use guide for anyone interested in furthering their jazz piano skills. There are many harmonic concepts, useful licks, and comping techniques for you to absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book. Includes: harmonic exercises, melodic vocabulary, chord progressions and substitutions: melodic minor scale theory, locked-hands style, drop-two voicings, stride, walking bass lines, Latin styles, modern sounds, and much more! This is a powerhouse of a book - a real 'owner's manual' for the jazz piano mind. Mark Davis presents the essential material in easily digestible packets, each buidling on the last, and as a whole building on the concepts from the first book. I'll be referring both beginning and intermediate students to this course. - Geoffrey Keezer, multiple Grammy'-nominated pianist. / Méthode / Méthode / Piano