Various: 50 years of ITV (piano solo): Piano: Instrumental Album

James Booker III was born in New Orleans in December, 17 1939. He was classically trained on piano from the age of six, at which time his astounding talents were already evident, and he was considered a child prodigy. He found his way into the local music scene as a young teenager recording his first single, Doin' the Hambone, at fourteen. Although it failed commercially, Booker got extensive studio work as a result, including uncredited 'ghost' piano tracks for Fats Domino. Throughout high school, booker played regularly with many local and regional bands, while still maintaining an excellent academic record. After graduating, Booker hit the road with Joe Tex, and spent the next several years gigging with various bands including Earl King, Dee Clark and Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns (actually replacing Huey who preferred not to tour). In 1960, Booker recorded what would be his most commercially successful song, the organ-driven instrumental 'Gonzo'. Despite reaching number 10 on the Billboard RandB charts, the single failed to spawn a successful solo career for Booker, who spent the rest of the decade backing up many obscure acts and several better-known ones, including Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin. In 1970, Booker was arrested on drug charges, and went to prison for several years. Upon his release, he spent some moderately successful years in New York and los Angeles. He performed and recorded with such diverse artists as Ringo Starr, T-Bone Walker, Jerry Garcia, Lionel Hampton and even Dr. John, who'd been an informal student of Booker's several years earlier. At some point during this period, he lost his left eye. There are varied stories as to how this happened: a street fight over a financial dispute, a prison brawl, or the use of a dirty syringe. Ultimately no one knows for sure. Booker retuned to New Orleans in 1975, and played a highly successful solo set at the Jazz and Heritage Festival that same year. That performance proved to be a turning point in his career, leading to a

Book with MIDI-Files. Supplied as Digital Download in E-mail-Salsa And Afro Cuban Montunos For Piano is an extremely informative 100 page book containing over 400 musical examples showing you how to play in these aforementioned Latin styles. Carlos Campos who teaches a course in Latin Piano styles at the Berklee School Of Music originates from Lima Peru and has studied Latin music for over 20 years. This book contains great study material for learning the various techniques and rhythms used in playing Latin Piano styles. It can be used as a source to practice reading syncopated rhythms.  This book is accompanied by downloadable Latin Percussion rhythm tracks to play along with.

Carl Czerny a student of Ludwig van Beethoven who then taught Franz Liszt combined his ability to analyze technique with his years of teaching experience to create exercises that increase the technical ability of the Piano student.In this 80-page edition his pieces systematically introduce notes of various time-values and other musical principles in similar order. The book's many exercises are preceded by invaluable reference materials. In the second half of this volume the exercises move into a more difficult study of such things as turns trills arpeggios phrasing and more.

Ease away the stresses of the day with two collections of beautiful tranquil music.Put your feet up and enjoy the best-selling Adagio Chillout CD from Naxos containing the most relaxing and soothing orchestral music of the last 300 years. Then explore the complementary collection of Piano music with a hand-picked selection of your favourite slow movements and gentle themes for Piano.

Concerto No.2 'Haydn' A series of works based on the surviving two bars of Haydn's 'lost' Double Bass Concerto. Based on the two surviving bars of Haydn's 'lost' Double Bass Concerto and dedicated to David Heyes, this magnificent new concerto is a tour-de-force from a respected and leading Czech bassist-composer. In a tonal and accessible style, there are musical and technical challenges for the advanced bassist and this edition is only available in solo tuning. Influenced by the late 18th-century style, but imbued with Czech lyricism and influences, this new three-movement concerto is a major addition to the repertoire and utilises the entire range of the double bass. The concerto has been performed throughout Europe many times, most recently in Macedonia and Serbia by the composer. Miloslav Gajdos has composed and transcribed many works for double bass in a 40 year career and is Professor of Double Bass at the Vejvenovsky Conservatoire in Kromeriz (Czech Republic) alongside many international recitals and masterclasses. Concerto No.2 'Haydn' is available in three orchestrations alongside the published edition with piano. Please contact the publishers for more information about the various orchestrations. Performance Level: Advanced Miloslav Gajdos is one of Europe's most active and inventive bassist-composers. He was born in northern Moravia in 1948 and initially learned violin before transferring to the double bass, studying with Alois Kriz, Jiri Bortlicek and Ludwig Streicher. He has been Professor of Double Bass at the Vejvenovsky Conseravtoire in Kromeriz (Czech Republic) since 1971, and was a member of the Olomouc Symphony Orchestra for a number of years. He is Director of the Gregora International Double Bass Competition, founded in 1979 and held every two years in Kromeriz, and has been a juror at many competitions in Hungary, Germany and the Czech Republic. Miloslav Gajdos is a prolific composer and arranger and, for almost 40 years, has produced a vast body of original works and transcriptions for double bass which are performed worldwide. His original works combine Czech lyricism and melody with brilliant technical demands, and music from one to sixteen double basses. He writes in a traditional and accessible style, producing music for every level of performer, particularly for the advanced bassist, and his many works for unaccompanied double bass are frequently chosen as international competition repertoire. Miloslav Gajdos was Recital Music's Featured Composer in 2007 and has recently revised a number of earlier works for the intermediate bassist which will be published by Recital Music.

Tagebucheintragungen, persönliche Botschaften. Par KURTAG GYORGY. The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived as a piano method. As the years went by, the series lost its didactic character, at it came to be seen as a document from Kurtág's workshop, offering a key to his grander symphonic, chamber and vocal works as well.Tenth volume is divided into two parts: In the first half, earlier, hitherto unpublished pieces line up from Suite, written in 1943, to the 1980s, providing insight into the development of Kurtág's musical language. The second half includes pieces composed between 2002 and 2011. The movements, often aphorismic in their briefness, hide associations with various aspects of European music history. Many of them are hommage or in memoriam pieces, or subjective personal messages to friends, colleagues, and beloved family members - and thereby to all music-loving people. This publication is printed on high quality, durable paper made from renewable raw materials in an environmentally friendly way./ Etude / Piano

Since its premiere in 1873 this work has held an important place in the Violoncello repertoire. It is on the one hand a short charming composition; on the other hand equally important is its use in instruction during the first few years of playing. Central here are the articulation of the opening theme and its various repetitions juxtaposed with lyrical passages calling for legato playing.Christine Baur's new scholarly-critical edition is based on a thorough examination of all the sources including Saint-Saëns' later orchestral version. The edition incorporates many articulation alternatives for the soloist which are marked 'ossia' above the solo Cello line in thisversion for Cello and Piano. This important new publication offers cellists not only an Urtext part but also one with bowing and fingering; both parts have a fold-out page so that no page turns are necessary.The first Urtext edition of this important workFold-out page in the solo cello part so no page turns are neededIncludes articulation alternatives as 'ossias'

The genesis of Chopin's Polonaise Brillante Op. 22 leads back to his youth in Warsaw and the years of his first trips as a virtuoso. Designed as a concert piece with Orchestra it takes up a special position among the polonaise compositions of Chopin. However by tradition the work has always been performed as an extremely effective solo piece. Since no autograph has survived the various first prints are used as sources. Comparisons show that the English first edition must have been based on the autograph manuscript of Chopin. The present new edition therefore rates this English edition more highly than usual.Thus numerous discrepancies and omissions in the French definitive edition which generally is regarded as the most important source can be clarified and complemented. The notes on interpretation not only explain the relatively rare term 'spianato' but also provide information on Chopin's way of playing trills and appoggiaturas as well as on Chopin's tempo rubato. For that sources from the vicinity of the composer such as messages from his pupil Karol Mikuli are evaluated.

Une nouvelle méthode toute en couleur avec CD pour l'apprentissage de la flûte traversière pour les jeunes enfants (entre 7 et 9 ans), pouvant s'utiliser sur une ou deux années. Sur le CD, les accompagnements des pièces du cahier sont joués par différents instruments (guitare, piano, clarinette, flûte à bec, caisse claire, tuba, harpe, orgue, violon, violoncelle...). Une initiation à l'improvisation est proposée avec l'accompagnement de piano sur le CD. Le jeune flûtiste découvrira aussi le langage contemporain et ses différents modes de jeux, avec des pièces inédites pour flûte solo ou avec accompagnement. En fin de cahier, il trouvera une rubrique d'aide faite de différents exercices lui permettant de trouver des solutions adaptées à sa progression, en relation avec la pièce qu'il joue.Formation : Flûte SoloInstrumentation : FlûteNiveau de Difficulté : DébutantDurée : >15Style Musical : PédagogiqueCatégorie : Composition Originale, MéthodeCompositeur : ROYER-CARDONA Cecilia