Piano and Vocal
In my Real Jazz Fake Book are pieces by Monk, Basie, Coltrane, Holiday and Sondheim. Sondheim? Stephen Sondheim? Doesn't he write for Broadway? Indeed he does and what he has in common with the aforementioned Jazz Greats is that he writes beautiful compositions and touches a place only music can communicate.
He is not the first Broadway Composer I have found in the pages of my Jazz Books. Johnny Green's Body and Soul, Irving Berlin , Gershwin, Loesser and Lowe ,
Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife for god's sake!
The list goes go on and on but the point is that good music transcends style and place.
I hope I did this piece proud.
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