Broadway's Best (Phillip Keveren) [Paperback] Review

This book is just my level.As a beginning piano player, it is difficult to find music that is easy yet interesting.This book fits the bill.

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16 beautiful solo arrangements of Broadway standards from 14 great shows. Includes: All I Ask of You * And All That Jazz * Beauty and the Beast * Bring Him Home * Cabaret * Edelweiss * If I Loved You * It Might as Well Be Spring * Seasons of Love * September Song * Some Enchanted Evening * Where Is Love? * With One Look * and more.

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Movie Instrumental Solos: Piano Accompaniment [Paperback] Review

This is a great book.My son, who has just begun playing the trombone, was excited to get it for Christmas.Unfortunately, it is too difficult for him right now.But his private instructor said he could begin using it next year.

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Piano Accompaniment Titles are:Hedwig's Theme (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) * Across theStars (from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones) * Duel of the Fates(from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace) * Fawkes the Phoenix (from HarryPotter and the Chamber of Secrets) * Gollum's Song (from The Lord of theRings: The Two Towers) * October Sky (from October Sky) * Soul Bossa Nova* (from Austin Powers) * There You'll Be (from Pearl Harbor) * James Bond Theme (from Die Another Day) * In Dreams (from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Movie Songs by Special Arrangement (Jazz-Style Arrangements with a ""Variation""): Piano Acc. [Paperback] Review

This book is markedly better than many of the "play along" books I have purchased for alto sax.
First, the books are aimed only at alto sax--not at a hodge-podge collection of instruments.This means every page of the book is useful to the alto sax player, unlike some books where music for other instruments takes up large portions of the book.
Second, Strommen has created arrangements that have the "basic" melody in the first half of the song followed by melodic riffs/alto sax solos in the second half.The arrangements are targeted for alto sax and are put together to get a full and interesting sound.This allows a novice or intermediate player to sound like a "real" saxophonist instead of someone who is stuggling through a barren and uninteresting melodic line.
Third, the accompanying CD is excellent.Even numbered tracks have a trio made up of percussion, piano and a REAL alto sax.(This is compared to many other CDs which have the piano or bells playing the sax part.) Odd numbered tracks leave out the sax so you can play along.In all tracks the piano and the percussion are arranged to support the sax so again you really feel and sound like a saxophonist.
Strommen has three books that I know of that are all produced in the same style--a movies book, a Gershwin book and a Christmas book.They are all excellent in my humble opinion. If you are looking for an alto sax book that has sound musical values, is playable by a novice/intermediate player, and will make you sound AWESOME then these are the books for you!

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Each collection contains 11 songs arranged for the instrumentalist wanting to play in a jazz style -- without the need to learn to improvise. All of the books are compatible, with only minimal changes in the ""variation"" section to accommodate the ranges and unique characteristics of the instruments.

The immortal and memorable motion picture titles are: Sweet Georgia Brown
* Over the Rainbow
* A Day in the Life of a Fool
* Bye, Bye, Blackbird
* As Time Goes By
* Days of Wine and Roses
* Emily
* The Way You Look Tonight
* Misty
* On Green Dolphin Street
* Almost Like Being in Love.

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