ABRSM Jazz Piano Pieces Grade 1

Key Features:

• wealth of jazz repertoire in a carefully graded book
• huge range of styles, from up-tempo swing tunes to funky rock grooves
• pieces presented in three categories: blues, standards and contemporary jazz
• contemporary jazz pieces specially commissioned for the syllabus from professional jazz musicians
• heads of pieces fully notated for idiomatic performance
• structured help given in solo sections
• contains all the pieces for ABRSM’s new jazz piano exam

1. Bedford Square Blues [Richard Michael]
2. Oh Lord, Don’t let them Drop that Atomic Bomb on me [Charles Mingus]
3. Bags’ Groove [Milt Jackson]
4. Slinky Thing [Simon Whiteside]
5. Prove you Groove [Phil Peskett]
6. Perdido [Ervin Drake / Harry Lenk / Juan Tizol]
   Inchworm [Frank Loesser]
7. Jean Pierre [Miles Davis]
8. (Old Man from) The old Country [Nat Adderley / Curtis Lewis]
9. Is you is, or Is you ain’t (ma’ Baby)? [Billy Austin / Louis Jordan]
10. Bottle Junction [Nikki Iles]
11. Blue Autumn [Eddie Harvey]
12. He is sadly melting [Phil Peskett]
13. Here we go again [Michael Garrick]
14. Yokate [Huw Warren]