Jazz Pop - Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 8 (Jazz Piano Solos (Numbered)) [Paperback] Review

I've purchased a half dozen titles from this series.They are a valuable resource of easily readable arrangements for casual performance (think wedding reception/retail ambiance/garden party).This is not one of the stronger entries, although I don't fault the arranger(s).These songs just don't translate well to the light jazz treatments offered here.The plus side is that there are 22 songs.The negative (IMHO) is that only a few, such as those by Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Carpenters, Bobby Hebb, Michael McDonald, Louis Armstrong and Joe Cocker, actually work.The rest just can't be translated successfully into an idiomatic jazz reading.(For example, I'm talking about "I Shot the Sheriff", "Fields of Gold" and "Oye Como Va").It's still probably worth $10, just beware.

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Jazz piano arrangements of 22 classic pop songs, including: Blackbird * Don't Know Why * Fields of Gold * Isn't She Lovely * It's Too Late * New York State of Mind * On Broadway * Oye Como Va * Roxanne * What a Fool Believes * You Are So Beautiful * and more.

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