Songs of the 1930s

Part of the popular ‘Top Ten’ series this collection contains ten carefully selected pieces in the jazz style. There is such variety within the genre we call 'jazz' it seems almost impossible to do itjustice in just ten songs but we've given it our best shot. We've unforgettable standards like Duke Ellington's 'Take The A Train' and 'Fly Me To The Moon' as popularised by Frank Sinatra; elegant tunes fromthe 1930s such as 'The Way You Look Tonight' and 'The Very Thought Of You'; classic numbers from the late 50s and early 60s 'So What' and 'Cantaloupe Island' - and we make no apology forstretching the jazz definition to accommodate the gorgeous 'Girl From Ipanema'! Some of the pieces are arranged for Piano and Voice; others are purely instrumental but every one possesses that special somethingthat has earned it a place in our collection and indeed in the heads and hearts of countless jazz lovers around the world. Each piece in The Top Ten Jazz Songs To Play On Piano is accompanied byinteresting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight.

Turtle Creek Series-This piece has been in the standard solo repertoire since the 1930s when it was composed. Tim Seelig's arrangement allows each section of the chorus to share in the beauty of the melody while still contributing to the choralsections of the piece. “When I Have Sung My Songs to You” is an incredibly beautiful love song which may be interpreted as being sung to an individual or to a group of people – the audience. This makes for amoving finale or encore for any concert.

Fingerpicking Blues Guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the Guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a blues played in the keys of A G D or E. This series focuses on a single key for each lesson. The key of G offers specific advantages. It is ideal for the alternating bass technique i.e. Mississippi John Hurt's style of playing. In this lesson we start by learning an arrangement of Marshall Owens' 1930s recording of Try Me One More Time. This was originally played in an Open G tuning but is here arranged in standard tuning using a JohnHurt approach. Not all blues from the 1920s and 1930s were fingerpicked. Jim Jackson was a popular Memphis songster who basically strummed his Guitar. But his repertoire was full of wonderful songs. Stefan Grossman has taken his Wild About My Loving and has tried to keep the original feel by combining a strum approach intermingled with fingerpicking the melody. Little Hat Jones was an amazing fingerstyle bluesman. His Bye Bye Baby Blues was played in the key of G. Here his version is fully transcribed note for note. Blind Boy Fuller recorded many blues in the key of G. In this lesson we'll tackle three of his arrangements: Baby Let Me Lay It On You Baby Quit Your Low Down Ways and I Crave My Pigmeat. We study his playing note for note but also explore variations. By the end of this lesson you will know six great tunes and have an insight in to fingerpicking blues in the key of G. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. As well the original old recordings are included in the Bonus Audio section. Titles include: Try Me One More Time Wild About My Loving Bye Bye Baby Blues Baby Let Me Lay It On You Baby Quit Your Low Down Ways and I Crave My Pigmeat. 100 minutes

100 Years Of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This book contains more than 70 songs from the 1930s arranged for piano voice and guitar providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1930s is also included.

Music Minus One Alto Saxophone Deluxe 2-CD Set-This exciting MMO volume emphasizes collectively improvised ensembles and the succession of individual solos in the freewheeling Chicago-Style offshoot of New Orleans Jazz. The rhythmic texture is rooted in the swing feel of the late 1930s and the instrumentation is typical of the New York groups of this genre. The songs are popular melodies from the 1900s to 1930s as well as multithematic compositions and blues - on this album you'll find such classics as Deed I Do Sugar The Darktown Strutters' Ball That's a Plenty and more. Includes a 32-page music book containing a solo chart for each song containing the melody line and chord changes for proper improvisational playing ofeach song plus a concert lead sheet giving the overall roadmap for each piece printed on high-quality ivory paper and two compact discs containing the complete performance of these jazz combos in digitally mastered stereo a digital stereo version of each piece minus the soloist and a special -20% slow-tempo version of each accompaniment for practice purposes. Performed by Brian Ogilvie tenor saxophone Accompaniment: Evan Christopher clarinet and leader Jon-Erik Kellso trumpet Mike Pittsley trombone Jeff Barnhart piano Bill Huntington guitar Jim Singleton bass Hal Smith drums

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrates the off-colour blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops but Bo Carter's pencil won't write no more! There's lots of variety with songs from the 1930s 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful ragtimey chord changes. Fred shows you how to play accompaniment and solos for all the songs. Theevocative titles include Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (Clara Smith) She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes and My Pencil Won't Write No More (Bo Carter) Kitchen Man (Bessie Smith) Big Ten Inch (Bull Moose Jackson) You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter) and the holiday perennial Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby (Amos Milburn).Fred shows you how to accompany yourself singing the songs and how to fingerpick an instrumental version of each one. His easy-going instructional style his tips on playing the arrangements and his slowed-down split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All the arrangements are written out in tab and music as well... both the backup and solos91 minutes ? Level 2 ? Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

The city of St. Louis played host in the 1920s and 1930s to one of the most distinctive and vital blues scenes ever documented on record. Like Memphis and Atlanta St. Louis served as a sort of magnet attracting musicians from the surrounding hinterlands and providing performance opportunities that were not available out in the country. Many of the St. Louis musicians were transplanted Mississippians like Charley Jordan while others like Clifford Gibson and Teddy Darby originally hailed from Kentucky. The various early influences that the music of these players displayed ended up coalescing into something that might be called the 'St. Louis sound'.Included on thisDVD are transcriptions and teaching of the songs of Teddy Darby where the guitar and voice track each other closely Clifford Gibson with his distinctive approach to playing in Spanish tuning and the mysterious low cross-note sound Charley Jordan with his acrobatic thumbwork and occasionally raggy sound and the enigmatic Lane Hardin who only recorded two titles under his own name. The songs selected for inclusion in the lesson have been chosen to introduce you to a variety of different tunings and playing positions and employ different right hand approaches that will expand your ability to utilize techniques like thumb lead and brush strokes.A PDF file is included on the DVD which can be printed out into an easily readable 8.5” by 11” booklet including not only detailed transcriptions of the songs but the songs’ lyrics as well. As well all of the original recordings from which the transcriptions were made are included on the DVD.

With Selected Songs-This collection includes over 25 Piano pieces and songs by the Tin Pan Alley pianist Dana Suesse. Nicknamed 'the Girl Gershwin' Suesse was a renowned jazz musician and composer of film scores and Broadway show tunes. She achieved national prominence with her first publication Syncopated Love Song in 1928 and went on to collaborate with some of the most prominent songwriters of the 1930s.Suesse's Piano works include Blue Moonlight Jazz Nocturne The Cocktail Suite Three Compositions For The Piano 110th Street Rhumba and Serenade To A Skyscraper. Her film scores include that of The Seven-Year Itch.Thiscollection is the first published folio of Suesse's music. Edited by her friend and executor the pianist Peter Mintun this volume and offers a profile of the composer's life and work that will be treasured by cabaret pianists jazz Piano enthusiasts and performers of the Great American Songbook.

Blind Blake's recordings made in the 1920s and 1930s set a standard for ragtime blues Guitar virtuosity that remains unmatched. His famous 'double-thumb' right-hand technique is part of a syncopated sound that is unlike that of any other guitarist. His recordings with their rhythmic drive and ingenious variations remain a source of endless delight (as well as frustration) for today's acoustic blues guitarists.In this double DVD Ari Eisinger explains and demonstrates two key components of Blind Blake's style: his right-hand technique and his unique chord progressions. He then provides detailed demonstrations of eight of Blake's Guitar breaks and accompaniments fromsome of his best recordings. These include the well-known songs and instrumentals Rope Stretchin' Blues and the amazing (and amazingly fast) Southern Rag as well as the wonderful but often overlooked Baby Lou Blues and Tootie Blues. The lesson provides both an introduction to Blake's style and a detailed demonstration of some of his most advanced instrumental breaks.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on each DVD. In addition the original old recordings of all the tunes are included.'Eisinger ... expertly dissects the intricacies of Blake’s syncopated style.' - Dan Forte Vintage Guitar

13 Brand-New Arrangements - The Phillip Keveren Series-The Phillip Keveren Series launched in the year 2000. A dozen years later this folio marks the 82nd book in the series. This anniversary collection features 13 popular songs from the 1930s through the 2000s: Can't Help Falling in Love - Don't Know Why - Fields of Gold - Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) - I'll Be Seeing You - Memory - Ol' Man River - Time in a Bottle - and more.

Comedienne Gracie Fields was born over a chip shop but at the time of this song the height of her popularity had become the highest-paid performer in Britain and the highest paid film actress in the world. A star of music hall and cinema for many years Fields had a big hit with The Biggest Aspidastra In The World in the late 1930s so he kept it in her repertoire ever after. One of the composers Tommy Connor has excellent form as a composer of novelty songs as he also penned I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.The jaunty melody is charming though Fields herself often favoured a more declamatory reading of the words. The sheet music includes Guitar tablature.

Noel Gay (1898-1954) was a British composer who found success in the London Music Halls of the 1930s and is often cited as Britain’s answer to Irving Berlin. His collaboration with the songwriter Ralph Butler (1886-1969) led to some of the most memorable popular songs of all time including Run Rabbit Run and The Sun Has Got His Hat On. However their most successful creation is probably Hey! Little Hen written in 1941. This abiding classic has been arranged here for Piano Voice and Guitar. It's sure to raise a smile with any audience!

Old Time String Band Banjo Styles introduces the traditional rural string band Banjo styles as played in the southern mountains of the eastern United States which were used to ?second? Vocal songs and Fiddle tunes during the Golden Age of recorded String band music from the early 1920s through to the early 1930s.