Piano Playbook: Cocktail Piano
Wise Publications
Feb 2015 · Wise Publications
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Piano Playbook: Cocktail Piano is a collection of new, elegant arrangements of jazz, pop and even classical standards, designed to be played while sipping a Martini in a dimly lit lounge.
Each one of these 45 smooth pieces was written by a master of composition, whether it's The Beatles, Duke Ellington, Rachmaninoff, Bill Evans, or Chick Corea. This book has been arranged with intermediate-advanced pianists in mind and includes an integrated Spotify playlist of the original versions for each song.
Songlist:
- Alfie [Burt Bacharach]
- And I Love Her [The Beatles]
- Arabesque No. 1 [Claude Debussy]
- Black Hole Sun [Soundgarden]
- The Blue Notebooks [Max Richter]
- Bouncing With Bud [Bud Powell]
- Dance Of The Floreadores [Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn]
- Divenire [Ludovico Einaudi]
- Do I Do [Stevie Wonder]
- Excursions II [Richard Rodney Bennett]
- Eye Of The Tiger [Survivor]
- A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing [Billy Strayhorn]
- Gnossienne I [Erik Satie]
- Handful Of Keys [Fats Waller]
- Here, There And Everywhere [The Beatles]
- How My Heart Sings [Bill Evans]
- I'm Just A Lucky So And So [Diana Krall]
- I Want You (She's So Heavy) [The Beatles]
- Johnny Come Lately [Billy Strayhorn]
- Lazy River [Hoagy Carmichael]
- London Calling [The Clash]
- Midnight Sun [Burke, Sonny] [Lionel Hampton]
- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs [Chick Corea]
- Nowhere Man [The Beatles]
- Once Upon A Summertime [Michel Legrand and Eddie Barclay]
- One At A Time [Michel Legrand]
- Passion Flower [Billy Strayhorn]
- Peau Douce [Bill Evans]
- Pinball Wizard [The Who]
- Prelude In G, Op.32 No.5 [Sergei Rachmaninoff]
- Prelude No.2 (Blue Lullaby) [George Gershwin]
- Rhapsody In Blue (Slow Theme) [George Gershwin]
- Rosemary's Waltz (From Tender Is The Night) [Richard Rodney Bennett]
- Soho (from The London Suite) [Fats Waller]
- So Real [Jeff Buckley]
- Someday (You'll Be Sorry) [Louis Armstrong]
- Somethin' Stupid [Frank Sinatra]
- Sophisticated Lady [Duke Ellington]
- Turn Me On [Norah Jones]
- When Sunny Gets Blue [Frank Sinatra]
- With A Little Help From My Friends [The Beatles]
- Yesterdays [Dudley Moore]
- Your Love Has Faded [Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn]
Each one of these 45 smooth pieces was written by a master of composition, whether it's The Beatles, Duke Ellington, Rachmaninoff, Bill Evans, or Chick Corea. This book has been arranged with intermediate-advanced pianists in mind and includes an integrated Spotify playlist of the original versions for each song.
Songlist:
- Alfie [Burt Bacharach]
- And I Love Her [The Beatles]
- Arabesque No. 1 [Claude Debussy]
- Black Hole Sun [Soundgarden]
- The Blue Notebooks [Max Richter]
- Bouncing With Bud [Bud Powell]
- Dance Of The Floreadores [Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn]
- Divenire [Ludovico Einaudi]
- Do I Do [Stevie Wonder]
- Excursions II [Richard Rodney Bennett]
- Eye Of The Tiger [Survivor]
- A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing [Billy Strayhorn]
- Gnossienne I [Erik Satie]
- Handful Of Keys [Fats Waller]
- Here, There And Everywhere [The Beatles]
- How My Heart Sings [Bill Evans]
- I'm Just A Lucky So And So [Diana Krall]
- I Want You (She's So Heavy) [The Beatles]
- Johnny Come Lately [Billy Strayhorn]
- Lazy River [Hoagy Carmichael]
- London Calling [The Clash]
- Midnight Sun [Burke, Sonny] [Lionel Hampton]
- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs [Chick Corea]
- Nowhere Man [The Beatles]
- Once Upon A Summertime [Michel Legrand and Eddie Barclay]
- One At A Time [Michel Legrand]
- Passion Flower [Billy Strayhorn]
- Peau Douce [Bill Evans]
- Pinball Wizard [The Who]
- Prelude In G, Op.32 No.5 [Sergei Rachmaninoff]
- Prelude No.2 (Blue Lullaby) [George Gershwin]
- Rhapsody In Blue (Slow Theme) [George Gershwin]
- Rosemary's Waltz (From Tender Is The Night) [Richard Rodney Bennett]
- Soho (from The London Suite) [Fats Waller]
- So Real [Jeff Buckley]
- Someday (You'll Be Sorry) [Louis Armstrong]
- Somethin' Stupid [Frank Sinatra]
- Sophisticated Lady [Duke Ellington]
- Turn Me On [Norah Jones]
- When Sunny Gets Blue [Frank Sinatra]
- With A Little Help From My Friends [The Beatles]
- Yesterdays [Dudley Moore]
- Your Love Has Faded [Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn]
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Kyle Thulien
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8 January 2022
Great and wonderfully difficult. The link to hear the songs on Spotify doesn't work though...boo
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