Berklee Press - 35 Jazz Standards For Solo Piano Book

Berklee Press

35 Jazz Standards For Solo Piano Book

This collection features 35 popular jazz standard arrangements specifically designed for solo piano. Each arrangement includes a brief introduction that provides essential technical and theoretical guidance on how to interpret and perform the piece. The arrangements vary in difficulty, making them well-suited for solo performances, auditions, and study.

Explore a diverse range of jazz piano performance techniques and playing styles within these pages. With 88 pages of engaging music, this book is perfect for both aspiring and seasoned pianists looking to enhance their jazz repertoire.

Song Titles Include:

• “Blue Moon” Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart
• “Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme)” Ennio Morricone/Andrea Morricone
• “Cry Me a River” Arthur Hamilton
• “Darn That Dream” Eddie DeLange/James Van Heusen
• “Days of Wine and Roses” Johnny Mercer/Henry Mancini
• “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love”
• “East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)” Brooks Bowman
• “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye” Cole Porter
• “Everything Happens to Me” Matt Dennis/Tom Adair
• “Ev’rything I Love” Cole Porter
• “Golden Earrings” Jay Livingston/Ray Evans/Victor Young
• “I Remember You” Johnny Mercer/Victor Schertzinger
• ““I’m All Smiles” Herbert Martin/Michael Leonard
• “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe
• “The ‘In’ Crowd” Billy Page
• “Isfahan” Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn
• “It Could Happen to You” Jimmy Burke/James Van Heusen
• “Lament” J.J. Johnson
• “The Look of Love” Hal David/Burt Bacharach
• “Lullaby of Birdland” George David Weiss/George Shearing
• “Moonlight in Vermont” John Blackburn/Karl Suessdorf
• “My Little Suede Shoes” Charlie Parker
• “Never Let Me Go” Jay Livingston/Ray Evans
• “The Godfather (Love Theme)” Nino Rota
• “Shiny Stockings” Frank Foster
• “Skylark” Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael
• “Some Other Time” Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green
• “Sophisticated Lady” Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Mitchell Parish
• “Take the ‘A’ Train” Billy Strayhorn
• “Up Jumped Spring” Freddie Hubbard
• “The Very Thought of You” Ray Noble
• “Yesterday” John Lennon/Paul McCartney
• “You Go to My Head” Haven Gillespie/J. Fred Coots

“Dick Odgren’s book is exactly what I wished for when I was playing piano in high school, trying to figure out how to play jazz standards. I struggled with outdated sheet music with only limited harmony information, let alone no idea about how to create nice voicings and interpretation. I had no idea how to get from a basic lead sheet to a performance-ready rendition of the songs I wanted so much to play. This book will be a godsend for so many players who are figuring things out on their own or even while studying with a teacher. For any aspiring jazz pianist, Dick’s book is the real deal.”—Gary Burton, Multi GRAMMY-Award Winning Musician

“Masterfully crafted jazz arrangements of tunes from the Great American Songbook, and more. Mr. Odgren’s decades of experience as a performer and educator shine through here with vibrant clarity and harmonic logic. The musicality, accessible notation, and the conveyance of the harmonic concepts utilized, especially in the voicings and movement of the inner voices, stand out strongly among similar works. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in jazz arrangements of contemporary songs. It will have a prominent place in the Berklee Piano Department library for faculty and student use.” —Dave Limina, Chair of the Piano Department, Berklee College of Music

“When I shared the arrangements with my wife, Maria Jesus Elena Blas, a highly respected classical pianist and teacher at a Valencia Conservatory in Spain, she exclaimed, “Es perfecto!” It’s what we need for our intermediate classical pianists to expand their musical palette and minds! “Nothing like having the answers in your hands!”—Victor Mendoza, Vibraphonist, Composer, Producer