13 best blues pianos

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Jazz & Blues

Here are three collections to inspire beginning pianists:

• Jazz: 21 easy-to-play melodies:Gershwin's "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise," "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Irving Berlin, "Indiana," "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do," and other jazz standards (0486481301)
• Ragtime: 24 rollicking melodies by "The Big Three" of ragtime — Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb and more. (048648128X)
• Blues: Sixteen popular blues melodies include traditional songs such as "St. James Infirmary" and "Careless Love" as well as several numbers by blues giants Jelly Roll Morton and W. C. Handy, including "St. Louis Blues," "Joe Turner Blues," and "The Hesitating Blues." (0486481298)

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite

This collection features Tchaikovsky's entire original suite, which includes Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Waltz of the Snowflakes, as well as two extended arrangements, March and Russian Dance. As a special bonus, five selections from the ballet that the composer omitted from the suite appear here. Most of these pieces are accompanied by brief notes from the editor with performance suggestions. (0486826872)

Folk & Ethnic

• Irish Songs & Celtic Dances Music and lyrics for perennial favorites such as The Irish Washerwoman, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, The Mulligan Band, and more. (0486404056)
• Cowboy Songs 21 lively songs include Home on the Range; Shenandoah; Red River Valley; My Darling Clementine ; She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain; Sweet Betsy from Pike; The Streets of Laredo; On Top of Old Smoky; Down in the Valley and more.(0486243117)
• Latin Music More than two dozen beloved songs include "La Cintura," an Ecuadorian folksong; the ever-popular "La Cucaracha"; the Mexican hat dance; and songs such as "La Golondrina," and "Cielito Lindo" (0486797562)
• American Folk Songs Includes I've Been Working on the Railroad; Polly-Wolly-Doodle; Pop Goes the Weasel!; Blow the Man Down!; Skip to My Lou; Buffalo Gals; Sweet Betsy from Pike; Down by the Riverside; The Farmer in the Dell; Turkey in the Straw; Yankee Doodle Dandy and more. (0486288854)

Christmas & Spiritual

• First Book Of Christmas Songs Twenty holiday favorites include Silent Night; O, Come All Ye Faithful; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Jingle Bells; Deck the Hall; O Christmas Tree; and more. (0486780074)
• First Book Of Hymns & Spirituals Twenty-six traditional songs of faith include "Amazing Grace," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "Gimme That Ol'-Time Religion," "This Train," "Go Down, Moses," "Rock of Ages," "Were You There?," "Deep River," "Go Tell It on the Mountain," and other favorites. (0486408493)

Product description

10CD SET : Original albums by some of the greatest blues pianists of all time. Including Jelly Roll Morton, Champion Jack Dupree, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Memphis Slim, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, James P. Johnson and others.