• An impressive range of jazz styles, from New Orleans to contemporary
• all tunes suitable for less experienced players, with pitch range, chords and technical level carefully considered
• tunes in their most commonly played keys, with reliable melodies and chord changes
• arrangements – by jazz arrangers – that include sections for improvised solos, with helpful guideline pitches
• arrangements included on the syllabus have ‘minus-one’ backing-tracks, available on CD for purchase separately
• written-out piano accompaniments and individual lead sheets are available
• a resource for bands and individuals, this book comes in B flat, E flat, C Treble-Clef and C Bass-Clef editions

Contents

• Blues Connotation [Ornette Coleman]
• Straight, No Chaser [Theolonius Monk]
• Blue Daniel [Frank Rosolino]
• Lucky Rhumba [Stan Sulzmann]
• Gaviota [Clare Fischer]
• Fotografia [Antonio Carlos Jobim]
• Samba de Orfeu [Luis Bonfa / Antonio Maria]
• Gotta Dance [Jimmy Giuffre]
• Such Sweet Thunder [Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn]
• Blue Samba [Lee Konitz]
• Papo Furado [Hermeto Pascoal]
• Tenderly [Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence]
• Icarus [Ralph Towner]
• Laugh For Rory, A [Rahsaan Roland Kirk]
• Child Is Born, A [Thad Jones / Alec Wilder]
• Sandu [Clifford Brown]
• Blues For Wood [Woody Shaw / Ronald Mathews]
• My Man's Gone Now [George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / Dubose Heyward / Dorothy Heyward]
• Sing, Sing, Sing [Louis Prima]
• Rockin' in Rhythm [Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Harry Carney]
• Caravan [Duke Ellington / Juan Tizol / Irving Mills]
• Fungii Mama [Blue Mitchell]
• Fraz and Em [Nikki Iles]
• A Walk in the Park [Pete Hurt]
• Dearly Beloved [Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer]
• Perdido [Ervin Drake / Harry Lenk / Juan Tizol]
• El Gaucho [Wayne Shorter]
• Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo [Don Cherry]
• Little Jazz [Roy Eldridge]
• Charleston [James P. Johnson]
• Sugar Loaf Mountain [George Duke / Carl Czerny]
• Odessa [Arthur Blythe]
• Seventy Four Miles Away [Joe Zawinul]
• Walkin' [Richard Carpenter]
• Twitch, The [Duke Ellington]
• Almost Like Being In Love [Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe]
• Jive Samba [Nat Adderley]
• It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) [Duke Ellington / Irving Mills]
• Phase Dance [Pat Metheny]
• Sad, A Little Bit [Milcho Leviev]
• Fourth Man, The [Jim Clarke]
• Visions [Mark Bassey]
• Blues March [Benny Golson]
• Flood Warning [Mark Nightingale]
• Mood Indigo [Duke Ellington / Barney Bigard / Irving Mills]
• Diga Diga Doo [Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh]
• Limehouse Blues [Philip Braham]
• Saturday Night In The Cosmos [Frank Dean / Don Pullen]
• Greens [Huw Warren]
• To Dudu [Annie Whitehead]
• At the Mambo Inn [Grace Sampson / Bobby Woodlen / Mario Bauza]
• Bessie's Blues [John Coltrane]
• All Blues [Miles Davis]
• Going Home [Mark Lockheart]
• Beale Street Blues [William Christopher Handy]
• There Is No Greater Love [Isham Jones / Marty Symes]
• Heavy Plant Crossing [Pete Churchill]
• Mandela [Abdullah Ibrahim]
• Blue ‘n' Boogie [Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli]
• Hackensack [Theolonius Monk]
• Homeboyz [Bheki Mseleku]
• Samba Dancer, The [Shanti Paul Jayasinha]
• For Jan [Kenny Wheeler / Norma Winstone]
• Mr P.C. [John Coltrane]
• Sidewinder, The [Lee Morgan]
• Nostalgia In Times Square [Charles Mingus]
• Corner Pocket [Freddie Green]
• In A Mellow Tone [Duke Ellington]
• Jive Hoot [Bob Brookmeyer]
• Mountain, The [Abdullah Ibrahim]
• Melody for Candy [Malcolm Earle Smith]
• Window, The [Gunther Kuermayr]
• Vignette [Gary Peacock]
• Kelly Blue [Wynton Kelly]
• Tenor Madness [Sonny Rollins]
• Blue Room [Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart]
• What Is This Thing Called Love? [Cole Porter]
• At A Georgia Camp Meeting [Kerry Mills]
• Gotcha (Theme from Starsky & Hutch) [Tom Scott]
• Entering [Jan Garbarek]
• Brazilian Beat [Barney Kessel]
• Small World [Martin Speake]
• Broken Wing [Richie Beirach]
• Sugar [Stanley Turrentine]
• Cantaloupe Island [Herbie Hancock]
• Stars Fell on Alabama [Frank Perkins / Mitchell Parish]
• Introduction To No Particular Song [Kenny Wheeler]
• Broadway [Bill Bird / Teddy McRae / Henri Woode]
• Wedding, The [Abdullah Ibrahim]
• Winin' Boy Blues [Jelly Roll Morton]
• Night in Tunisia, A [Dizzy Gillespie]
• My Ship [Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin]
• Five Spot After Dark [Benny Golson]
• Basin Street Blues [Spencer Williams]
• Red Top [Lionel Hampton / Ken Kynard]
• Keepin' in The Groove [Bud Powell]
• Tin Roof Blues [Walter Melrose]
• Nutty [Theolonius Monk]
• Time Dis-Played [Andreas Panayi]

Pages: 216
Grade: 4, 5
Genre: Concert: General
Forces: Accompaniment: Instrumental/ Clarinet/ Euphonium/ Trombone/ Trumpet
Edition: ABRSM