(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.

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