This great fake book features 200 songs, including: Ain't Misbehavin' * All of Me * Autumn in New York * Basin Street Blues * Blue Skies * Body and Soul * Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man * Cocktails for Two * Everybody Loves My Baby * Falling in Love with Love * Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You * Have You Met Miss Jones? * How Deep Is the Ocean * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just a Gigolo * Mood Indigo * Moonglow * My Blue Heaven * My Romance * Ol' Man River * Puttin' On the Ritz * Remember * Solitude * St. Louis Blues * When I Take My Sugar to Tea * When My Baby Smiles at Me * Why Was I Born? * You Made Me Love You * You Took Advantage of Me * You're My Everything * more!

(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory, chords and voicings, improvisation ideas, structure and forms, scales and modes, rhythm basics, interpreting a lead sheet, playing solos, and much more!

(Fake Book). A great fake book with 200 songs, including: April in Paris * Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea * Bewitched * Candy * Caravan * Cherokee * Darn That Dream * A Fine Romance * Heart and Soul * I'll Be Seeing You * I'll Walk Alone * I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm * It's Only a Paper Moon * Marie * Moonlight in Vermont * My Funny Valentine * The Nearness of You * Pennies from Heaven * Prelude to a Kiss * Sentimental Journey * Stompin' at the Savoy * Stormy Weather * A String of Pearls * Take the "A" Train * Tuxedo Junction * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * more!

Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography is the definitive reference work for this important popular form of music that flourished from the 1890s through the 1920s, and was one of the key predecessors of jazz. It collects for the first time entries on all the important composers and performers, and descriptions of their works; a complete listing of all known published ragtime compositions, even those self-published and known only in single copies; and a complete discography from the cylinder era to today. It also represents the culmination of a lifetime’s research for its author, considered to be the foremost scholar of ragtime and early twentiethh-century popular music. Rare photographs accompany most entries, taken from the original sheets, newspapers, and other archival sources.