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Cocktail Piano Standards
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Piano Solo Piano/Keyboard - SMP Level 6 (Late Intermediate)
SKU: HL.311201
Arranged by Al Lerner. Piano Solo Songbook. Hal Leonard Piano Solo Songbook (Intermediate to advanced piano arrangements with no lyrics). Jazz and Standards. Softcover Audio Online. 56 pages. Hal Leonard #311201. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.311201).ISBN 9780634092947. UPC: 073999605099. 9.0x12.0x0.157 inches. Arranged by Al Lerner Book/Online Audio.
15 lush solo arrangements of jazz classics with online audio tracks containing performances of each piece by the arranger. Includes: April in Paris • Easy to Love • Misty • Moon River • Tenderly • The Way You Look Tonight • When Sunny Gets Blue • and more.
About SMP Level 6 (Late Intermediate)
4-note chords in both hands with large stretches and leaps. Irregular and complicated rhythms.
- Always
- Tenderly
- April In Paris
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Misty
- Moon River
- Moonlight Becomes You
- Out Of Nowhere
- The Sweetest Sounds
- There Will Never Be Another You
- The Way You Look Tonight
- When Sunny Gets Blue
- Yesterdays
- Easy To Love (You'd Be So Easy To Love)
- People
Ratings + Reviews
Based on 8 Reviews
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Sarah M.
December 17, 2025
Excellent for Advanced Student Challenge
This Al Lerner collection is superb for my late intermediate students. The SMP Level 6 designation is accurate, offering valuable practice with 4-note chords, large stretches, and those often-tricky irregular rhythms. The arrangements are clearly presented, providing a rewarding challenge that pushes students on both technical and musical fronts. A great resource for developing sophisticated jazz interpretation.
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David K.
December 15, 2025
Elegant Solo Piano, Needs Adaptation for Voice
These 'Cocktail Piano Standards' by Al Lerner are beautifully arranged for solo piano, showcasing a lush, full texture with sophisticated harmonies typical of late intermediate jazz. As a vocal coach, it's important to note these are not vocal-line accompaniments; the melody is integrated into the piano part. Expect to adapt considerably if using this book to support a singer, but excellent for solo performance.
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Carol K.
April 25, 2025
Great
I love the arrangements in this book.
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Anonymous
January 18, 2023
Disappointing
There are some books that you buy, and try really hard to find at least one arrangement to like in it, to justify having bought it. This book is sadly one of them. I did manage to find one arrangement that I liked, Tenderly but unfortunately that's about it. The hallmark of a good arranger is if you are hearing /playing the arrangement and if it is unfamiliar to it, you seek out the original song because the arrangement was so beautiful. This book doesn't do this for me, unclear melody lines, with too many clever and distracting chords and no genuinely interesting riffs or variations, style of which comes across as clunky and dissonant for the sake of being so. The tunes and style of all the songs sound similar. Maybe it is the style, but I found the arrangements by Rupert Austin and Brent Edstrom more elegant and interesting. If I was able to hear excerpts from the audio CD (which was made available only after purchase), I wouldn't have bought this book.
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Mary
November 04, 2018
Appropriate
Very nicely written.
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Anonymous
September 30, 2018
great
These pieces are a lot harder than they look because of the stretches and runs, but a lot of fun to play. The audio really helps you figure out what it's supposed to sound like.
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Anonymous
August 27, 2017
too advanced for me
I'm not sure if these arrangements were too advanced for me, or if I just didn't know how to read them. There were no lyrics, so I wasn't sure where the actual song started. But nothing sounded anything like what the song was supposed to sound like, on any of the songs! I'm going to continue to try to figure them out, but it won't be one of my regular go-to's.
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Blue H.
July 21, 2012
What I was looking for
Two part wispy moments alternate with blocks of notes - dissonant? challenging? lovely? all of the above? Modern harmonies - Hindemithian stacks of fourths. Just what I was looking for.
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