ABRSM

all tunes suitable for less experienced players, with pitch range, chords and technical level carefully considered

tunes in their most commonly played keys, with reliable melodies and chord changes

arrangements – by jazz arrangers – that include sections for improvised solos, with helpful guideline pitches

arrangements included on the syllabus have ‘minus-one’ backing-tracks, available on CD for purchase separately

written-out piano accompaniments and individual lead sheets are available

a resource for bands and individuals, this book comes in B flat, E flat, C Treble-Clef and C Bass-Clef editions

Pages: 216Grades: 4, 5Editions: ABRSM
 
Contents

SHEET MUSIC:
Blues Connotation [Ornette Coleman]
Straight, No Chaser [Theolonius Monk]
Blue Daniel [Frank Rosolino]
Lucky Rhumba [Stan Sulzmann]
Gaviota [Clare Fischer]
Fotografia [Antonio Carlos Jobim]
Samba de Orfeu [Luis Bonfa / Antonio Maria]
Gotta Dance [Jimmy Giuffre]
Such Sweet Thunder [Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn]
Blue Samba [Lee Konitz]
Papo Furado [Hermeto Pascoal]
Tenderly [Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence]
Icarus [Ralph Towner]
Laugh For Rory, A [Rahsaan Roland Kirk]
Child Is Born, A [Thad Jones / Alec Wilder]
Sandu [Clifford Brown]
My Man’s Gone Now [George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / Dubose Heyward / Dorothy Heyward]
Sing, Sing, Sing [Louis Prima]
Rockin’ in Rhythm [Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Harry Carney]
Caravan [Duke Ellington / Juan Tizol / Irving Mills]
Fungii Mama [Blue Mitchell]
Fraz and Em [Nikki Iles]
A Walk in the Park [Pete Hurt]
Dearly Beloved [Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer]
Perdido [Ervin Drake / Harry Lenk / Juan Tizol]
El Gaucho [Wayne Shorter]
Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo [Don Cherry]
Little Jazz [Roy Eldridge]
Charleston [James P. Johnson]
Sugar Loaf Mountain [George Duke / Carl Czerny]
Odessa [Arthur Blythe]
Seventy Four Miles Away [Joe Zawinul]
Walkin’ [Richard Carpenter]
Twitch, The [Duke Ellington]
Almost Like Being In Love [Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe]
Jive Samba [Nat Adderley]
It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) [Duke Ellington / Irving Mills]
Phase Dance [Pat Metheny]
Sad, A Little Bit [Milcho Leviev]
Fourth Man, The [Jim Clarke]
Visions [Mark Bassey]
Blues March [Benny Golson]
Flood Warning [Mark Nightingale]
Mood Indigo [Duke Ellington / Barney Bigard / Irving Mills]
Diga Diga Doo [Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh]
Limehouse Blues [Philip Braham]
Saturday Night In The Cosmos [Frank Dean / Don Pullen]
Greens [Huw Warren]
To Dudu [Annie Whitehead]
At the Mambo Inn [Grace Sampson / Bobby Woodlen / Mario Bauza]
Bessie’s Blues [John Coltrane]
All Blues [Miles Davis]
Going Home [Mark Lockheart]
Beale Street Blues [William Christopher Handy]
There Is No Greater Love [Isham Jones / Marty Symes]
Heavy Plant Crossing [Pete Churchill]
Mandela [Abdullah Ibrahim]
Blues For Wood [Woody Shaw / Ronald Mathews]
Blue ‘n’ Boogie [Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli]
Hackensack [Theolonius Monk]
Homeboyz [Bheki Mseleku]
Samba Dancer, The [Shanti Paul Jayasinha]
For Jan [Kenny Wheeler / Norma Winstone]
Mr P.C. [John Coltrane]
Sidewinder, The [Lee Morgan]
Nostalgia In Times Square [Charles Mingus]
Corner Pocket [Freddie Green]
In A Mellow Tone [Duke Ellington]
Jive Hoot [Bob Brookmeyer]
Mountain, The [Abdullah Ibrahim]
Melody for Candy [Malcolm Earle Smith]
Window, The [Gunther Kuermayr]
Vignette [Gary Peacock]
Kelly Blue [Wynton Kelly]
Tenor Madness [Sonny Rollins]
Blue Room [Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart]
What Is This Thing Called Love? [Cole Porter]
At A Georgia Camp Meeting [Kerry Mills]
Gotcha (Theme from Starsky & Hutch) [Tom Scott]
Entering [Jan Garbarek]
Brazilian Beat [Barney Kessel]
Small World [Martin Speake]
Broken Wing [Richie Beirach]
Sugar [Stanley Turrentine]
Cantaloupe Island [Herbie Hancock]
Stars Fell on Alabama [Frank Perkins / Mitchell Parish]
Introduction To No Particular Song [Kenny Wheeler]
Broadway [Bill Bird / Teddy McRae / Henri Woode]
Wedding, The [Abdullah Ibrahim]
Winin’ Boy Blues [Jelly Roll Morton]
Night in Tunisia, A [Dizzy Gillespie]
My Ship [Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin]
Five Spot After Dark [Benny Golson]
Basin Street Blues [Spencer Williams]
Red Top [Lionel Hampton / Ken Kynard]
Keepin’ in The Groove [Bud Powell]
Tin Roof Blues [Walter Melrose]
Nutty [Theolonius Monk]
RECORDINGS:
Time Dis-Played [Andreas Panayi]