Description

The Piano Playbook: Cocktail Piano is a collection of brilliant arrangements of jazz, pop and even classical standards that are simply too good to be kept in the background. Compiled to suit everyone’s tastes, these tunes are collated in a handy, spiral-bound book making each song a pleasure to play. Featuring a total of 45 smooth solo Piano arrangements of some seriously wonderful compositions, Cocktail Piano is a Piano Playbook that is essential playing for any pianist. With songs that simply scream Piano bar, like Hoagy Carmichael’s Lazy River and George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue, as well as some arrangements of tunes that don’t typically remind one of a relaxed evening in a cocktail bar, such as London Calling by The Clash and Pinball Wizard by The Who. Every single one of these songs was written by a master of composition, whether it’s The Beatles, represented here by five songs (With A Little Help From My Friends, Nowhere Man and more), Duke Ellington, Rachmaninoff, Bill Evans, or Chick Corea, whose divine Now He Sings, Now He Sobs should be required playing for any pianist. All of the songs in this book of Cocktail Piano sheet music would sound fantastic as the soundtrack for a night of mirth and merry, but they are also so good that they’d be universally loved if they were the centre of a performance. This songbook, as with all the Piano Playbooks, comes spiral-bound, ensuring that it lays flat on a Piano or music stand, while the handy format means that durability is combined with convenience, so you can always carry Cocktail Piano around with you and bring the house down whenever a set of ivories is in front of you.

Contents

1. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
2. Alfie
3. And I Love Her
4. Arabesque No. 1
5. Black Hole Sun
6. Bouncing With Bud
7. Dance Of The Floreadores
8. Divenire
9. Do I Do
10. Excursions Ii
11. Eye Of The Tiger
12. Gnossienne I
13. Handful Of Keys
14. Here, There And Everywhere
15. How My Heart Sings
16. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
17. I’m Just A Lucky So And So
18. Johnny Come Lately
19. Lazy River
20. London Calling
21. Midnight Sun
22. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
23. Nowhere Man
24. Once Upon A Summertime
25. One At A Time
26. Passion Flower
27. Peau Douce
28. Pinball Wizard
29. Prelude In G, Op.32 No.5
30. Prelude No.2 (Blue Lullaby)
31. Rhapsody In Blue (Slow Theme)
32. Rosemary’s Waltz (From Tender Is The Night)
33. So Real
34. Soho (From The London Suite)
35. Someday (You’ll Be Sorry)
36. Somethin’ Stupid
37. Sophisticated Lady
38. The Blue Notebooks
39. Turn Me On
40. When Sunny Gets Blue
41. With A Little Help From My Friends
42. Yesterdays
43. Your Love Has Faded