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