Cool Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series [Paperback]

Hal Leonard Corp. (Creator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2001 | Series: Piano Solos

24 tunes from the '50s and '60s jazz cats who invented "cool"! Includes piano solo arrangements with chord names for: All Blues * Blue in Green * Con Alma * Django * Epistrophy * Jeru * Lullaby of Birdland * Nardis * So What * Stella by Starlight * Take Five * Waltz for Debby * and more!

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Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.

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• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0634025554
• ISBN-13: 978-0634025556
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,092,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice arrangements but my book fell apart, January 31, 2005

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Chris Goldthorpe (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series (Paperback)

The Good:

I really like the arrangements in this book. Many books aimed at beginners will oversimplify the songs so that they don't sound that good when you play them. This book contains arrangements which can be played by intermediate level players and sound really good. I particularly like the Miles Davis songs. I would give this book five stars if my copy had held together better.

The Bad:

After only a few days of the book started to fall apart at the spine as a result of me trying to get it to open flat. This has not happened with any other book I have owned for such a short period of time. I was able to get Kinkos to comb-bind it for $2.99 and it is now opens flat.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginner, May 6, 2007

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A. Sutantyo "sohobaby" (Ventura, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series (Paperback)

Very good arrangement, not too difficult but still challenging to play. This book is written with note by note improvization for both hands. Great book for beginner jazz piano player.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly Miles Davis, June 6, 2010

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Stella Fitzgibbons "language junkie" (The Woodlands, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series (Paperback)

If you are really good at improv and can listen to the original performers you might come out with some good stuff. I was able to use only "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" and "Stella by Starlight"; "Take Five" didn't have anything that the standard version doesn't (except fewer flats). Overall disappointing.