Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas piano album of stylish arrangements. Favourite Christmas classics receive the complete jazz treatment, with grooves, chords, and solos all fully notated. The expertise of the arranger - celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles - guarantees an authentic jazz sound and a wide range of styles.
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''.
- | Author: Nikki Iles
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 27, 2009
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- | Binding: Sheet music
- | ISBN-13: 9780193365902
- | ISBN-10: 0193365901
