Overview
Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas piano album of stylish, swinging arrangements. Favourite Christmas carols and songs receive the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, harmony, grooves, and solos all carefully notated. The expertise of the arranger, a celebrated jazz pianist and composer, guarantees an authentic jazz sound, and a range of styles from Nat King Cole to John Coltrane. While paying homage to American Christmas jazz, the collection also reflects a European tradition, in such time-honoured classics as 'In the bleak mid-winter'.
Full Product Details
Author: Nikki Iles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 23.00cm
, Height: 0.40cm
, Length: 31.20cm
Weight: 0.157kg
ISBN: 9780193365902
ISBN 10: 0193365901
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 27 August 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Undefined
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
An authentic jazz sound can be easily created using Nikki's notated rhythms, grooves, harmonies and solos, and the expertise of the arranger guides players through the diversity of jazz characters. These stylish arrangements and compositions are the perfect introduction to jazz. * Piano Professional, September 2018 * Jazz music and Christmas have a beautifully nostalgic association for many, and it's no surprise that jazz pianist Nikki Iles' Jazz on a Winter's Night has been such a huge success since its 2009 publication, spawning outstanding sequels in Jazz in Springtime, Jazz on a Summer's Day and Jazz in Autumn, - each including a selection of seasonally themed jazz standards and originals from Nikki herself . . . Jazz on a Winter's Night has established itself as my all-time favourite Christmas music book. * www.pianodao.com *
Author Information
Multi award-winning jazz pianist and composer, Nikki Iles, was a founder member of the innovative Creative Jazz Orchestra. She has a busy freelance career, with over 25 CDs recorded over 3 decades, and has been described as the Heroine of British Jazz. Composition remains a major part of her musical life with commissions from The London Sinfonietta, the International Society of Jazz Composers and Arrangers, and The National Youth Jazz Orchestra. With a parallel career as a much loved and respected teacher, Nikki is also Professor of Jazz Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and The Guildhall Music and Drama. Recent awards that Nikki has won include the Ivors Academy Gold Badge for exceptional contribution to music (2019), the Jazz Education award, The Parliamentary Jazz Award (2019), and the Nikki Iles Big Band won Jazz Ensemble of the Year in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards (2020).
