Accompanying audio is included./ Recueil / Guitareįlatpicking Guitar has taken an interesting journey since its inception first with Maybelle Carter then Don Reno Doc Watson and Clarence White. This volume includes the songs Lady Be Good, Take the A Train, Solly's Blues, Back Home In Indiana, There'll Never Be Another You and Georgia On My Mind. Tunes like Limehouse Blues, All of Me, and Honeysuckle Rose were exciting challenges to explore after becoming comfortable with bluegrass and fiddle tunes.īarry Solomon always thought that bluegrass and jazz were a wonderful combination, and the most gratifying challenge has been to create arrangements that meld both styles in a tasteful and exciting manner. When first listening to flatpicking Guitar legends Doc Watson and Clarence White, Barry Solomon was particularly attracted to their use of swing and jazz licks and phrasing, and their choices of songs straight from Tin Pan Alley and the Great American Songbook. Learn to play bluegrass jazz Guitar with this instructional book and 3 x CD set. Lullaby of Broadway Smile Put On A Happy Face The Very Thought Of You The Shadow Of Your Smile Rags To Riches The Good Life Cold, Cold Heart The Best Is Yet To Come For Once In My Life Are You Havin' Any Fun' Because Of You Just In Time The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams I Wanna Be Around Sing, You Sinners I Left My Heart in San Francisco How Do You Keep the Music Playing' If I Ruled The World. Unlike some other celebrity duets efforts where performances were made separately and then combined by producers, such as Frank Sinatra's 1993 Duets, Bennett was physically present with each of his partners during recording and, in addition, the singing was done live as the band was playing.It debuted at No.3 on The Billboard 200 and was certified Gold in less than four weeks of release. The songs selected were mostly ones that Bennett had played a major role in introducing into the Great American Songbook. What a Wonderful World), Tony Bennett (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), Rosemary Clooney (Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep), Nat “King” Cole (Route 66), Bing Crosby (True Love), Doris Day (Bewitched), Ella Fitzgerald (How High the Moon), Judy Garland (Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody), Dean Martin (Everybody Loves Somebody), Frank Sinatra (Young at Heart), Barbra Streisand (People), Mel Tormé (Heart and Soul), and many, many more.Tony Bennett's album, Duets: An American Classic, was released in September 2006 in conjunction with Bennett's 80th birthday the previous month.This folio features 100 of these classics by Louis Armstrong (Hello Dolly Their interpretations entertained us, moved us to tears, and wove lyrics and music into the fabric of our lives, making us see ourselves in these quintessentially American songs. They sang in nightclubs and concert halls, on television and in films, and left us a legacy of recordings still in play today. Crooners, wailers, shouters, balladeers – some of our greatest pop vocalists have poured their hearts and souls into the musical gems of the Great American Songbook.
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