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  • Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano - Transcribed!. For Piano. Keyboard Instruction. Softcover with DVD. 160 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

This book presents a concise history, or “survey” of jazz piano. In 13 hands-on lessons and 4 bonus performances, Dick Hyman explores the styles, musical vocabulary, and performers who have defined and shaped this elusive American art form over the last century. Starting with the pre-ragtime music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and ragtime of Scott Joplin, and ending with the advanced scale types of Nicholas Slonimsky and music of McCoy Tyner, Mr. Hyman discusses and demonstrates the astonishing variety of jazz piano improvisation and the people and techniques that have shaped its evolution. The included DVD, showing all 13 lessons and 4 bonus performances, is filled with closeups of Mr. Hyman's hands as he plays and discusses these techniques. This fascinating package also features a preface and autobiography of Hyman.

Song List:

    Song Without Words
    Yancey Special
    At A Georgia Camp Meeting
    Body And Soul
    Home Sweet Home
    (The Original) Boogie Woogie
    Maple Leaf Rag
    Carolina Shout
    The Pearls
    Elite Syncopations
    Infra-inter-ultrapolation
    Pasquinade
    Theme From Polovtsian Dances
    Heliotrope Bouquet
    Poor Butterfly
    (Back Home Again In) Indiana
    Lullaby Of Birdland
    Someone To Watch Over Me
    Honky Tonk Train (Honky Tonk Train Blues)

Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano - Transcribed!


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Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano - Transcribed!. For Piano. Keyboard Instruction. Softcover with DVD. 160 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

This book presents a concise history, or “survey” of jazz piano. In 13 hands-on lessons and 4 bonus performances, Dick Hyman explores the styles, musical vocabulary, and performers who have defined and shaped this elusive American art form over the last century. Starting with the pre-ragtime music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and ragtime of Scott Joplin, and ending with the advanced scale types of Nicholas Slonimsky and music of McCoy Tyner, Mr. Hyman discusses and demonstrates the astonishing variety of jazz piano improvisation and the people and techniques that have shaped its evolution. The included DVD, showing all 13 lessons and 4 bonus performances, is filled with closeups of Mr. Hyman's hands as he plays and discusses these techniques. This fascinating package also features a preface and autobiography of Hyman.

Song List:

  • Song Without Words
  • Yancey Special
  • At A Georgia Camp Meeting
  • Body And Soul
  • Home Sweet Home
  • (The Original) Boogie Woogie
  • Maple Leaf Rag
  • Carolina Shout
  • The Pearls
  • Elite Syncopations
  • Infra-inter-ultrapolation
  • Pasquinade
  • Theme From Polovtsian Dances
  • Heliotrope Bouquet
  • Poor Butterfly
  • (Back Home Again In) Indiana
  • Lullaby Of Birdland
  • Someone To Watch Over Me
  • Honky Tonk Train (Honky Tonk Train Blues)

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