The Top Ten Jazz Songs To Play On Piano

The Top Ten series has been specially designed to help pianists of all levels. The Top Ten Jazz Songs To Play On Piano contains  ten carefully selected pieces in the jazz style. There is such variety within the genre it seems almost impossible to do it justice in just ten songs, but we've given it our best shot. Each piece is accompanied by brief, illustrated background notes to familiarise yourself with the context and grant you extra insight into its creation.


The songs included are:


     Cantaloupe Island [Hancock, Herbie]


     Don't Get Around Much Anymore [Ellington, Duke] [Armstrong, Louis] [Bennett, Tony]


     Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) [Cole, Nat King] [Sinatra, Frank] [Krall, Diana]


     The Girl From Ipanema [Getz, Stan] [Gilberto, Joao] [Gilberto, Astrud] [Winehouse, Amy]


     The Lady Is A Tramp [Sinatra, Frank] [Glee Cast, The] [Fitzgerald, Ella]


     Misty [Fitzgerald, Ella] [Mathis, Johnny] [Garner, Erroll]


     So What [Davis, Miles]


     Take The 'A' Train [Ellington, Duke] [Fitzgerald, Ella] [Mingus, Charles]


     The Very Thought Of You [Buble, Michael] [Holiday, Billie] [Cole, Nat King]


     The Way You Look Tonight [Bennet, Tony] [Sinatra, Frank] [Astaire, Fred]