Description

Jazz on a Winter’s Night is a Christmas piano album of stylish, swinging arrangements. Favourite Christmas carols and songs receive the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, harmony, grooves, and solos all carefully notated. The expertise of the arranger, a celebrated jazz pianist and composer, guarantees an authentic jazz sound, and a range of styles from Nat King Cole to John Coltrane. While paying homage to American Christmas jazz, the collection also reflects a European tradition, in such time-honoured classics as ‘In the bleak mid-winter’.

Expert arrangements for players at intermediate level (Grades 4 – 8)

Written solos, perfectly in style and swinging!

Wide range of jazz styles and influences, from swing to contemporary, including

Frank Sinatra, Bill Evans, Vince Mendoza, and Abdullah Ibrahim

Full performances to help with interpretation and feel are available on major streaming platforms or to download from the companion website