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The Blues Cookbook
Author(s): Laura A. Hoffman (Author), Joseph Gustitis (Editor), Melissa Chan (Illustrator)
- Publisher: Piano Lesson Sheet Music
- Publication Date: May 1, 2009
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 133 pages
- ISBN-10: 0615209025
- ISBN-13: 9780615209029
Book Description
The Blues Cookbook is for piano students everywhere who want to learn how to play in the Blues style. The book is user friendly and is written by Laura Hoffman, a Chicago born Jazz and Blues veteran. This book is divided into five chapters separated by cardboard tabs, and can be started at any point the reader wishes to focus on. There is a chapter on licks, one on musical tools, and another one on arranging songs in a Blues style. The author has included a CD and copious examples of styles such as Shuffle Blues, Boogie-Woogie, and even stride bass. The songs are purposefully written in a variety of keys, and there are musical nods to notables such as Mary Lou Williams and Bessie Smith. The Blues Cookbook is engaging and contains instructional text. The CD really helps aspiring students, and a companion DVD is in the works.
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About the Author
Laura Hoffman is a Chicago Jazz pianist, and has led trios and quartets for years in the Chicago area, and has toured nationally leading orchestras for Broadway shows such as Cy Coleman’s I Love My Wife and Evolution of the Blues. She also served as Music Director aboard the ships of Celebrity and Holland America Cruise Lines. She really loves com- posing, and has come with some clever pieces for her private students in her publishing company, Piano Lesson Sheet Music.
