This volume is a step-by-step approach to improvisation in jazz, rock and pop music. Based on an easy piece which can be practised together with a band on the play-along CD, each chapter comes with brief explanations as to which notes sound best when improvising and why. Solos by experienced musicians serve as examples for the player's own attempts at improvisation. The textbook can also be used b…

This volume is a step-by-step approach to improvisation in jazz, rock and pop music. Each chapter is based on easy music which can be practised together with the play-along CD. The textbook can also be used by a band at schools or music schools (for pupils with at least 2 years of instrumental lessons). / Guitare

For this centenary publication Professor Peter Dickinson who knew Berkeley and his work for many years has brought together for the first time the complete solo piano output including hitherto unpublished pieces. He hasexmained sources and corrected previously published versions as well as completing the set of 'Three Dances' which the composer left only partly arranged for piano from his unkn…

Randy Crawford’s unique blend of jazz soul R&B and pop has brought her international fame for over 50 years. Born in Macon Georgia she performed at home and abroad in her teenage years and then used New York as alaunch pad for a career based on her eclectic musical taste and her quite extraordinary voice.This collection of some of Randy Crawford’s best-known songs covers her early jazz sty…

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course o…