Best of Mike Cornick (book/CD)

Universal Edition
Exploring Popular Jazz Styles: Ragtime, Boogie, Blues, Swing, Ballad, Latin, Latin-Jazz, Classical styles for piano

This anthology with CD is a great resource for developing pianists of any age and also for teachers, covering a wide range of technical levels from the early years to more advanced stages.

Pieces are mainly for solo piano, but there are some duets and even one title for three players at one piano with historical notes and style tips from Mike Cornick.


Titles:

• Ragtime
• Honeysuckle Rag
• The One-Minute Rag
• Walking Bass
• Walkabout
• Just Walkin'
• Modus Operandi
• Butterfly Blues
• Blues for Two
• Boogie Etude 2
• Basic Boogie
• The Metamorphic Rock Boogie
• Hat Trick
• Bossa Nova
• Slow Tango
• Wednesday's Child
• Introducing to the Waltz
• Waltz for Michael
• Londonderry Air
• Foregone Conclusion
• One for Theo
• Sarabande from "English Suite No. 2"
• Time Warp
• Sarabande from "French Suite No. 1"
• Fiver
• Dancer
• Module Five (Hommage to Paul Desmond)