Happy Present Meet
Nikki Iles Jazz on a Summer's Day + CD for Piano Solo
Edited and arranged by Nikki Iles
Nikki Iles won the 2017 British Jazz Award for piano
9 pieces for jazz piano
Difficulty: Easy - Moderately Difficult
Nikki Iles Jazz series
Nine arrangements and original pieces at intermediate level (Grades 5-8)
Notated jazz solos, accessible yet idiomatic
Wide range of styles, from swing standards to contemporary
Includes a piano duet-a sizzling jazz-samba
CD of full performances, to help with interpretation, and backing tracks for the duet
A companion volume to Jazz on a Winter's Night (978-0-19-336590-2)
Table of Contents
On the sunny side of the street, Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh, arr. Nikki Iles
The Summer knows, A. & M. Bergman/Michel Legrand, arr. Nikki Iles
East Coast Blues, Nikki Iles
Guava, Nikki Iles
Summertide, Nikki Iles
The touch of your lips, Ray Noble, arr. Nikki Iles
The last rose of summer, Thomas Moore/J. A. Stevenson, arr. Nikki Iles
Shaker Song (duet), Jay Beckenstein, arr. Nikki Iles
Sundown, Nikki Iles
Description
Jazz on a Summer's Day is a unique collection of stylish jazz arrangements and original compositions for solo piano. It conveys the many sides of summer through swing, blues, samba, calypso, and folk, and draws inspiration from jazz artists including Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Grover Washington Jr, and Sonny Rollins. The author's credentials, as a celebrated jazz pianist and composer, guarantee a perfect introduction to jazz and to sounding like the best.
편곡자 Iles, Nikki
에디터 Iles, Nikki