Simply Swing

John Kember

Simply Swing

Self-published
15 original pieces in swing styles from John Kember.
First published in 2015, Simply Swing has 15 original tunes on 28 pages.
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CD Included!
Includes a CD of John playing the pieces from Simply Swing, recorded at Porcupine Studios, London.
The fifteen pieces in Simply Swing provide echoes of many of the great and diverse swing arrangements that developed from the 1930s through to the present day:
  1. Bouncing back
  2. The time of my life
  3. The low down blues
  4. This is the day
  5. Idyll
  6. Just for kicks
  7. Bittersweet blues
  8. Getting into your stride
  9. Wistful Waltz
  10. Is that you?
  11. I'm OK
  12. Grass roots
  13. Two-way stretch
  14. I'm getting nowhere
  15. Putting down roots

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The Simply Series Simply Jazz (Self)
An indispensable introduction to jazz styles.
32 short and easy original pieces in a variety of jazz styles. Including ballads, swing, Latin, Ragtime, Blues, Rock and beat rhythms.
Simply Latin (Self)
Twelve original Latin American dance pieces by John Kember, in a variety of styles and rhythms: Begiune, Tango, Samba, Hemiola, Calypso, Bossa Nova, Lambada, Mambo and Rumba.

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