Month: September 2021
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Erik Satie (composer and pianist) (1866-1925)
Erik Satie (composer and pianist) (1866-1925). Download his sheet music in our Library. Erik Satie (French composer and pianist) Erik Alfred Leslie Satie was a famous French composer and pianist who is remembered for his unconventional and often humorous style of music. He was born in the middle of the 19th century in France and…
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Miles Davis: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time
Miles Davis: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time Miles Davis (b. May 26, 1926, Alton, Ill., U.S.—d. Sept. 28, 1991, Santa Monica, Calif.), or Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the…
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Bill Evans “All The Things You Are” with sheet music
Bill Evans “All The Things You Are” with sheet music
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Bach meets The Beatles – “Golden Slumbers – You Never Give Me Your Money”
View Post Bach meets The Beatles – “Golden Slumbers – You Never Give Me Your Money” – Improvised by John Bayless, piano. John Bayless is one of the top classical cross-over recording and concert performing artists, best known for his top-selling albums, “Bach Meets the Beatles,” “The Puccini Album” and “Circle of Life: Songs by Elton…
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B.B. King: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time
B.B. King: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time B.B. King, American guitarist and singer, (born Riley B. King, (b. Sept. 16, 1925, Itta Bena, near Indianola, Miss., U.S.) was a principal figure in the development of blues and from whose style leading popular musiciansdrew inspiration. B.B. King was reared in the Mississippi Delta,…
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Herbie Hancock: An Analysis of His Improvisional Style (3/3)
Herbie Hancock: An Analysis of His Improvisional Style (2/3) Outside Triplet Sequences on “All of You” The following examples are from one of Hancock’s greatest recorded solos61 on Cole Porter’s “All of You”. On this particular recording, Hancock plays two complete choruses and then solos over a long “tag” section of iii-VI-ii-V changes in Eb…
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Norah Jones – Easy Living
Norah Jones – Easy Living Norah Jones and Marian McPartland. Aug. 30, 2003, at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. Download Norah Jones sheet music from our Library.
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Out of Africa – music by John Barry (piano solo)
Out of Africa – music by John Barry (piano solo arrangement) with sheet music download. John Barry John Barry Prendergast, OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music and films. He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, and also…
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Jazz as individual expression: An analysis of The Fabulous Baker Boys soundtrack
Jazz as individual expression: An analysis of The Fabulous Baker Boys soundtrack Adam Biggs, Bath Spa University Link to the original document. The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) by Kloves is a fictional account of a frustrated sibling piano duo who, in order to liven up their act, hire a singer. As well as a portrayal…
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Clifton Chenier: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time
Clifton Chenier: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time Clifton Chenier (b. June 25, 1925, Opelousas, La., U.S.—d. Dec. 12, 1987, Lafayette, La.), was an American popular musician. He was a pioneer in the development of zydeco music— a bluesy, southern Louisiana blend of French, African American, Native American, and Afro-Caribbean traditions. He was…