ABRSM Jazz Piano Pieces Grade 1

Description

ABRSM, ed. Charles Beale, 1998. 15 pieces in three lists: blues, standards and contemporary jazz. The head of each piece is set out with characteristic voicings, phrasing and rhythmic patterns. The improvised section gives guideline pitches and left-hand voicings as a practical starting-point.

BLUES:

Jackson arr. Michael - Bags' Groove

Michael - Bedford Square Blues

Mingus arr. Iles - Oh Lord, Don't let them Drop that Atomic Bomb on me

Peskett - Prove You Groove

Whiteside - Slinky Thing

STANDARDS: 

Adderlet & Lewis arr. Peskett - (Old Man from) The Old Country

Austin & Jordan arr. Harvey - Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (My Baby)?

Davis arr. Beale - Jean Pierre

Loesser arr. Iles - Inchworm [Hans Christian Andersen]

Tizol  arr. Michael - Perdido

CONTEMPORARY JAZZ:

Garrick - Here we go again

Harvey - Blue Autumn

 Iles - Bottle Junction

Warren - Yokate

Peskett - He is sadly melting