Violin Jazz on a Winter's Night + CD : 11 Christmas classics

ISBN-13: 9780193393448 / Angielski

Nikki Iles

Opis

Violin Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas album of stylish, swinging arrangements for violin and piano. Favourite Christmas carols and songs are given the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, embellishment, grooves, and solos all carefully notated. The expertise of the arranger, a celebrated jazz musician 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'.

Recenzje

The arrangements are at an intermediate level (Grades 4-7) and encompass a wide range of jazz styles and influences, from swing to contemporary, including Frank Sinatra, Bill Evans, and Diana Krall. The solos are well edited and the rhythms, embellishments, grooves, and bowings all combine to give the intermediate soloist the maximum opportunity to create an authentic jazz sound. . . It's a fun and well-crafted volume, one I definitely would recommend to students.

O autorze

Multi award-winning jazz pianist and composer, Nikki Iles, was a founder member of the innovative Creative Jazz Orchestra. She has a busy freelance career, with over 25 CDs recorded over 3 decades, and has been described as the Heroine of British Jazz. Composition remains a major part of her musical life with commissions from The London Sinfonietta, the International Society of Jazz Composers and Arrangers, and The National Youth Jazz Orchestra. With a parallel career as a much loved and respected teacher, Nikki is also Professor of Jazz Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and The Guildhall Music and Drama. Recent awards that Nikki has won include the Ivors Academy Gold Badge for exceptional contribution to music (2019), the Jazz Education award, The Parliamentary Jazz Award (2019), and the Nikki Iles Big Band won Jazz Ensemble of the Year in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards (2020).