Friday, November 29, 2024

Jazz Fusion (Jazz Piano Solos, v. 54)

Hal Leonard publishes some really great collections of piano solo arrangements of jazz standards. The difficulty ranges from things I can play (intermediate level) to things it'll be a while until I can play. The tunes in this particular book are definitely on the harder side.

These do not come with recordings, even online. Fortunately, they have started putting them on MuseScore. Not all the songs are there, presumably due to issues around who owns the copyright. You can't download these 'official' scores without paying (and I've already paid for the books, thank you), but the complete sheet music is there, and you could play them off a tablet or something. Most helpfully, you can listen to them (played via MIDI), which is great for getting the rhythms right.

I've created a 'set' of Musescore. Individual links are below.

  1. Affirmation
  2. Captain Fingers
  3. Chameleon
  4. The Chicken
  5. Contusion
  6. Chromozone
  7. Don't Stop 
  8. Feel So Good
  9. 500 Miles High
  10. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  11. Got a Match?
  12. Meeting of the Spirits
  13. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  14. Mile High
  15. Oops
  16. Peaches En Regalia
  17. Portrait of Tracy
  18. Red Baron
  19. Red Clay
  20. A Remark You Made
  21. Snakes
  22. Thing of Gold
  23. Winelight
  24. You Know What I Mean

I'm not entirely sure I'd classify all these as 'fusion', but whatever.

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