(Artist Transcriptions). Matching note-for-note piano transcriptions to the album of the same name featuring Peterson's interpretations of 12 Sinatra standards. Includes: All of Me * The Birth of the Blues * Come Dance with Me * How About You? * I Get a Kick Out of You * It Happened in Monterey * Just in Time * Learnin' the Blues * Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) * (Love Is) The Tender Trap * Witchcraft * You Make Me Feel So Young.

(Keyboard Instruction). Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has long been devoted to the education of piano students. In this book he offers dozens of pieces designed to empower the student, whether novice or classically trained, with the technique needed to become an accomplished jazz pianist.

'Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that,' Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant - and one of jazz's true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African-American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biography, Hershorn recounts Granz's story: creator of the legendary jam session concerts known as Jazz at the Philharmonic; founder of the Verve record label; pioneer of live recordings and worldwide jazz concert tours; manager and recording producer for numerous stars, including Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson.

Study and play these enduring jazz standards as performed by one of the greatest piano players of all time: All of Me * Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea * Falling in Love with Love * Fly Me to the Moon * Georgia on My Mind * I Love You * In a Mellow Tone * It's All Right with Me * It's Only a Paper Moon * My Heart Stood Still * On the Sunny Side of the Street * When Lights Are Low. The book includes instruction and transcriptions, and the CD includes demos of each piece.

A three-disc box set from England's Avid Records, Little Jazz Giant tracks trumpeter Roy Eldridge's career from his early work as part of the Delta Four in 1935 through his own efforts to front a swing combo in the late '30s, his work with bandleaders Teddy Hill and Fletcher Henderson, his brilliant early-'40s sides with Gene Krupa, his profitable stay with Artie Shaw, his uncertain position with the modern bop community, and finally, four concluding tracks with Oscar Peterson. In retrospect, it's interesting how many of the most striking cuts here were actually written by Eldridge, including "That Thing," "The Gasser," "Fish Market," "Wild Driver," "Yard Dog," and "They Raided the Joint," each of which has a perceptible modernist edge. Pound for pound, Eldridge was one of the finest upper-range trumpet players jazz has ever produced, and this set has countless examples of his jet-propelled solos (check out his lightning-fast solos in the version of "St. Louis Blues" that is included here). Avid has released each of the discs from this set as single packages as well, entitled The Gasser (1935-1946), Wild Driver (1944-1950), and The Heat's On (1951-1952). ~ Steve Leggett

Includes 8 Peterson classics for jazz piano: The Continental * Gravy Waltz * Hallelujah Time * Hymn to Freedom * Roundalay * Blues for Smedley * The Smudge * The Strut.