EZ Play Today 142 Classic Jazz Songbook | Piano Gallery Idaho Falls
EZ Play Today No. 142: Classic Jazz from Hal Leonard is an easy keyboard songbook with 55 great jazz tunes in the beginner-friendly EZ Play Today format. It covers bebop, swing, hard bop, and smooth jazz, from “Song for My Father” and “St. Thomas” to “Waltz for Debby” and “A Night in Tunisia.” Find it at Piano Gallery in Idaho Falls or order online.
Product Overview
This collection brings together tunes from many of jazz’s greatest composers and players, including Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, and Miles Davis.
Highlights range from swing-era favorites like “C-Jam Blues” and “Moten Swing” to bebop classics like “Billie’s Bounce” and “Well You Needn’t,” plus later hits like “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” “Pick Up the Pieces,” and “Just the Two of Us.”
Every song is arranged in EZ Play Today notation, so beginning and casual players can read and play these jazz melodies with ease.
Ideal For
- Beginning keyboard and piano players who want to play real jazz tunes
- Home organ players expanding their library with jazz standards
- Jazz fans looking for easy versions of the tunes they love
- Adult and returning players exploring jazz for the first time
- Gift shoppers looking for an easy songbook for a jazz lover
Key Features
55 Jazz Classics
A wide-ranging collection of swing, bebop, hard bop, Latin, and smooth jazz tunes.
Legendary Composers
Music associated with Ellington, Monk, Parker, Gillespie, Silver, Evans, and other jazz greats.
EZ Play Today Format
Hal Leonard’s beginner-friendly notation makes jazz melodies easy to read and play.
Piano, Organ, and Keyboard Friendly
Arrangements work across piano, home organ, and electronic keyboard.
Contents
- All Blues
- Au Privave
- Bag’s New Groove
- Billie’s Bounce
- Bluesology
- C-Jam Blues
- A Child Is Born
- Dear Old Stockholm
- Detour Ahead
- Django
- Estate
- I Mean You
- In Walked Bud
- In Your Own Sweet Way
- Isfahan
- Jordu
- Jump for Joy
- Just the Two of Us
- Killer Joe
- La Ronde
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Line for Lyons
- Manteca
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
- Morning Dance
- Moten Swing
- Nica’s Dream
- A Night in Tunisia
- Nuages
- Operator
- Pick Up the Pieces
- Playboy’s Theme
- Reunion Blues
- Robbin’s Nest
- Rockin’ in Rhythm
- Ruby, My Dear
- St. Thomas
- Save the Bones for Henry Jones
- Shiny Stockings
- Sidewinder
- Skating in Central Park
- Song for My Father
- Stolen Moments
- Street Life
- Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
- Topsy
- Up Jumped Spring
- Waltz for Debby
- Warm Valley
- Well You Needn’t
- West Coast Blues
- When Joanna Loved Me
- Whisper Not
- Woody’n You
- Work Song
BP D2.1B
