Improvising Blues Piano (with Online Audio)

The forerunner to the awarded-winning Exploring Jazz Piano books, Improvising Blues Piano examines the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic aspects of the blues, assuming a basic competence of around grade 3. All styles are covered from the 1920s to the present, from the early boogie pioneers via swing, gospel, jump-jive, New Orleans, Chicago and Kansas City schools, to the more sophisticated jazz and funky blues of the current scene. Over 60 pieces, including many original compositions by the author, together with new arrangements of well-known standarts such as ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘Blue Monk’, ‘Got My Mojo workin’, ‘Honky Tonk Train Blues’, ‘How Long Blues’, ‘Just a Closer Walk with Thee’, ‘Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie’, ‘St Louis Blues’ etc.