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Join forces with a couple of friends and make this a fun evening. Mike Cornick has made SIX-handed arrangements of a pair of traditional songs from the West Indies – Jamaica Farewell and Mary Anne – and Yellow Bird from Haiti. Afro-Caribbean pieces for 6 hands at 1 piano – Mike Cornick Featuring Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Circle of Life, I Just Can’t Wait To Be King, and so many more magical pieces for you to enjoy. BUY NOWĭisney recently remade this 90s classic on the big screen, which means it’s time to revisit the music behind it. AND, it’s presented for the first time in an urtext condition – truly one of a kind. Janáček – Bӓrenreiter Urtext: Selected Piano Worksģ0+ pages of music, illustrations, and critical reports this is a glorious collection of in-depth historical material. The seven pieces inside this tempting book were composed for Beethoven’s jubilee year (2020), and are similar in style to the arrangements that Jean Kleeb published several years ago in a book called Classic Goes Jazz. This grade 6-7 level book definitely provides some fun and interesting diversion from your normal classical repertoire. Jean Kleeb – Beethoven goes Jazz for Piano Here his piano is backed by a trio of guitar, bass and drums, and the songs range from the slow and thoughtful Drifting Blues to Merry Christmas Baby, covered by Bruce Springsteen after he appeared alongside Brown.2. Classically trained but influenced by the likes of Art Tatum and Fats Waller, he was an elegant player with a fine voice, and a major influence on Ray Charles. Recorded in 1990, this is a live set from the sophisticated Texan R&B player, and includes a DVD of earlier live performances and interviews. The sleeve notes by producer Joe Boyd include reminders of Booker's "fearsome visage complete with eye-patch" and "how his career has been too often interrupted by forced vacations in the notorious Louisiana detention system".Īs for the playing, it's extraordinary, with blues, ragtime, stride and New Orleans R&B mixed in with an unexpected dash of Chopin in the opening Black Minute Waltz. If you want to hear more from the currently over-ignored wild man of the New Orleans piano scene, it's worth digging out his solo albums, like this set, originally released in 1976. Released earlier this year, this is a 20-track selection of (mostly) classic boogie piano, with recordings that range from Calvin Frazier's Boogie Woogie, from back in 1938, through to Panic Street, recorded in Paris by Memphis Slim in 1961. Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration Then there's a rousing treatment of Hound Dog from James Booker, recorded just before his death. The selection here includes tracks from Booker T Laury, a friend of Memphis Slim who was still clearly in impressive form when recording the romping Booker's Boogie while in his late 70s, shortly before his death in 1995. Keep it Rollin': The Blues Piano CollectionĪnother good compilation, from another of the great American labels associated with the blues.
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There's barrelhouse from Roosevelt Sykes, stride piano from James P Johnson, rousing boogie-woogie from one of the early exponents, Meade "Lux" Lewis, New Orleans piano work from Champion Jack Dupree, and three tracks from the prolific Memphis Slim, who became such a star in Europe that he eventually moved to Paris. Released this year, this is a wide-ranging compilation of artists recorded by Folkways founder Moses Asch from the 40s to the 60s, and involves a whole range of styles.