Cocktail Jazz

(Jazz Piano Solos). 25 piano solo arrangements guaranteed to fill the tip jar! Includes: Alfie * As Time Goes By * Come Fly with Me * Days of Wine and Roses * I Get a Kick Out of You * If He Walked into My Life * I'll Be Seeing You * It Could Happen to You * It Had to Be You * Nancy with the Laughing Face * Scotch and Soda * September Song * and more.

""Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote under the Constitution's Nineteenth Amendment, jazz music, talking motion pictures, Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, Flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The decade opened, nonetheless, with a shock when Prohibition became the law of the land on Friday, January 16, 1920. American ingenuity promptly rose to its newest challenge. The law, riddled with loopholes, let the 1920s write a new chapter in the nation's saga of spirits. Men and women spoke knowingly of the speakeasy, the bootlegger, of rum-running, black ships, blind pigs, gin mills, and gallon stills. A new social event-the cocktail party staged in a private home-smashed the gender barrier that had long forbidden "ladies" from entering into the gentlemen-only barrooms and cafés. The drinks, savored in secret, were all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker went "underground." The danger of the illicit liquor trade was also memorialized in drinks like the "Original Gangster," the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," the "Tommy Gun," and others. Crime rose, fortunes were amassed, and a slew of new cocktails were shaken, stirred, and poured in hideaways to brand the "roaring" 1920s as the era of "Alcohol and Al Capone.""--

(Piano Solo Songbook). Cool, jazzy arrangements of 23 most-requested standards at the piano lounge, including: Blue Moon * Cocktails for Two * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * Georgia on My Mind * Hey There * I Left My Heart in San Francisco * I'm in the Mood for Love * The Lady Is a Tramp * Lullaby of Birdland * Mack the Knife * More (Ti Guardero Nel Cuore) * Over the Rainbow * Puttin' on the Ritz * Speak Low * The Very Thought of You * and more.

(Jazz Piano Solos). Each volume in the Jazz Piano Solos Series features exciting new arrangements of songs which define a series. This Christmas edition features 27 favorites perfect for your holiday gatherings: Christmas in New Orleans * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Cool Yule * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm * Merry Christmas, Baby * Santa Baby * Silver Bells * That's What I Want for Christmas * What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? * White Christmas * 'Zat You, Santa Claus? * and more.

Piano Stylings of the Great Standards is a series of books created for the pianist who longs to play the best-loved and most important songs of the popular genre in very special and elegant musical settings. The arrangements are represented in varying styles, written and influenced by the many great pianists who, over the years, have helped to shape popular piano performance. The series is designed to supply a broad scope of popular piano repertoire for solo performance, both for the working pianist and the amateur. As with all books in this series, it includes a unique lay-flat binding to help keep the music open on the music stand. Titles: Angel Eyes * Autumn Nocturne * Body and Soul * But Not for Me * I See Your Face Before Me * It Never Entered My Mind * I've Got the World on a String * Mean to Me * My Melancholy Baby * What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life

Get out your cocktail shaker and re-live the speakeasy experience with this collection of authentic cocktails. Gatsby Cocktails features more than 20 classic cocktails inspired by the 1920s. Try re-creating the classic Sidecar, comprising brandy, lemon juice, and Cointreau. Or discover the secret to Jay Gatsby’s tipple of choice; the cooling Mint Julep. Perfect the classic martini or try a tempting Raspberry Rickey from the sparkling selection of recipes. With more than 20 classic recipes, this collection captures the iconic elegance of the Prohibition era.

(Jazz Piano Solos). This cool collection features 24 film classics arranged in a jazzy style, including: Alfie * As Time Goes By * Call Me Irresponsible * Come Rain or Come Shine * Days of Wine and Roses * Easy Living * It Had to Be You * Pure Imagination * Smile * Stella by Starlight * The Way You Look Tonight * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * and many more. Includes chord symbols.

Winner of the 13th Annual Spirited Award, for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or Spirits A history of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris told through the lens of the cocktails they loved In the Prohibition era, American cocktail enthusiasts flocked to the one place that would have them--Paris. In this sweeping look at the City of Light, cocktail historian Philip Greene follows the notable American ex-pats who made themselves at home in Parisian cafes and bars, from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein to Picasso, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter, and many more. A Drinkable Feast reveals the history of more than 50 cocktails: who was imbibing them, where they were made popular, and how to make them yourself from the original recipes of nearly a century ago. Filled with anecdotes and photos of the major players of the day, you'll feel as if you were there yourself, walking down the boulevards with the Lost Generation.

A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of Cocktails The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the “cocktail.” The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and martini that can be ordered at any bar to this day. Scores of whiskey drinks, cooled with ice chips or cubes that chimed against the glass, proved doubly pleasing when mixed, shaken, or stirred with special flavorings, juices, and fruits. The dazzling new drinks flourished coast to coast at sporting events, luncheons, and balls, on ocean liners and yachts, in barrooms, summer resorts, hotels, railroad train club cars, and private homes. From New York to San Francisco, celebrity bartenders rose to fame, inventing drinks for exclusive universities and exotic locales. Bartenders poured their liquid secrets for dancing girls and such industry tycoons as the newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and the railroad king “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt. Cecelia Tichi offers a tour of the cocktail hours of the Gilded Age, in which industry, innovation, and progress all take a break to enjoy the signature beverage of the age. Gilded Age Cocktails reveals the fascinating history behind each drink as well as bartenders’ formerly secret recipes. Though the Gilded Age cocktail went “underground” during the Prohibition era, it launched the first of many generations whose palates thrilled to a panoply of artistically mixed drinks.

Sometimes hilarious, often poignant, Piano Girl Playbook--a sequel to Robin Meloy Goldsby's popular memoir Piano Girl--reveals the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the player's side of the Steinway.