- an impressive range of jazz styles, from New Orleans to contemporary
- all tunes suitable for less experienced players, with pitch range, chords and technical level carefully considered
- Tunes in their most commonly played keys, with reliable melodies and chord changes
- arrangements – by jazz arrangers – that include sections for improvised solos, with helpful guideline pitches
- arrangements included on the syllabus have ‘minus-one’ backing-tracks, available on CD for purchase separately
- written-out piano accompaniments and individual lead sheets are available
- a resource for bands and individuals, this book comes in B flat, E flat, C Treble-Clef and C Bass-Clef editions
- Blues Connotation [Ornette Coleman]
- Straight, No Chaser [Thelonious Monk]
- Blue Daniel [Frank Rosolino]
- Ory's Creole Trombone [Kid Ory]
- Lucky Rhumba [Stan Sulzmann]
- Gaviota [Clare Fischer]
- Fotografia [Antonio Carlos Jobim]
- Samba de Orfeu [Luis Bonfa / Antonio Maria]
- Time Dis-Played [Andreas Panayi]
- Gotta Dance [Jimmy Giuffre]
- Such Sweet Thunder [Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn]
- Blue Samba [Lee Konitz]
- Papo Furado [Hermeto Pascoal]
- Tenderly [Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence]
- Icarus [Ralph Towner]
- Laugh For Rory, A [Rahsaan Roland Kirk]
- Child Is Born, A [Thad Jones / Alec Wilder]
- Sandu [Clifford Brown]
- Blues For Wood [Woody Shaw / Ronald Mathews]
- My Man's Gone Now [George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / Dubose Heyward / Dorothy Heyward]
- Sing, Sing, Sing [Louis Prima]
- Rockin' in Rhythm [Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Harry Carney]
- Caravan [Duke Ellington / Juan Tizol / Irving Mills]
- Fungii Mama [Blue Mitchell]
- Fraz and Em [Nikki Iles]
- A Walk in the Park [Pete Hurt]
- Dearly Beloved [Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer]
- Perdido [Ervin Drake / Harry Lenk / Juan Tizol]
- El Gaucho [Wayne Shorter]
- Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo [Don Cherry]
- Little Jazz [Roy Eldridge / Buster Harding]
- Charleston [James P. Johnson / Cecil Mack]
- Sugar Loaf Mountain [George Duke / Carl Czerny]
- Odessa [Arthur Blythe]
- Seventy Four Miles Away [Joe Zawinul]
- Walkin' [Richard Carpenter]
- The Twitch [Duke Ellington]
- Almost Like Being In Love [Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe]
- Jive Samba [Nat Adderley]
- It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) [Duke Ellington / Irving Mills]
- Phase Dance [Pat Metheny / Lyle Mays]
- A Little Bit Sad [Milcho Leviev]
- The Fourth Man [Jim Clarke]
- Visions [Mark Bassey]
- Blues March [Benny Golson]
- Flood Warning [Mark Nightingale]
- Mood Indigo [Duke Ellington / Barney Bigard / Irving Mills]
- Diga Diga Doo [Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh]
- Limehouse Blues [Philip Braham]
- Saturday Night In The Cosmos [Frank Dean / Don Pullen]
- Greens [Huw Warren]
- To Dudu [Annie Whitehead]
- At the Mambo Inn [Grace Sampson / Bobby Woodlen / Mario Bauza / Fred Guirty]
- Bessie's Blues [John Coltrane]
- All Blues [Miles Davis]
- Going Home [Mark Lockheart]
- Beale Street Blues [William Christopher Handy]
- There Is No Greater Love [Isham Jones / Marty Symes]
- Heavy Plant Crossing [Pete Churchill]
- Mandela [Abdullah Ibrahim]
- Blue ‘n' Boogie [Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli]
- Hackensack [Thelonious Monk]
- Homeboyz [Bheki Mseleku]
- The Samba Dancer [Shanti Paul Jayasinha]
- For Jan [Kenny Wheeler / Norma Winstone]
- Mr P.C. [John Coltrane]
- The Sidewinder [Lee Morgan]
- Nostalgia In Times Square [Charles Mingus]
- Corner Pocket [Freddie Green]
- In A Mellow Tone [Duke Ellington]
- Jive Hoot [Bob Brookmeyer]
- The Mountain [Abdullah Ibrahim]
- Melody for Candy [Malcolm Earle-Smith]
- The Window [Gunther Kuermayr]
- Vignette [Gary Peacock]
- Kelly Blue [Wynton Kelly]
- Tenor Madness [Sonny Rollins]
- Blue Room [Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart]
- What Is This Thing Called Love? [Cole Porter]
- At A Georgia Camp Meeting [Kerry Mills]
- Gotcha (Theme from Starsky & Hutch) [Tom Scott]
- Entering [Jan Garbarek]
- Brazilian Beat [Barney Kessel]
- Small World [Martin Speake]
- Broken Wing [Richie Beirach]
- Sugar [Stanley Turrentine]
- Cantaloupe Island [Herbie Hancock]
- Stars Fell on Alabama [Frank Perkins / Mitchell Parish]
- Introduction To No Particular Song [Kenny Wheeler]
- Broadway [Bill Bird / Teddy McRae / Henri Woode]
- The Wedding [Abdullah Ibrahim]
- Winin' Boy Blues [Jelly Roll Morton]
- A Night in Tunisia [Dizzy Gillespie]
- My Ship [Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin]
- Five Spot After Dark [Benny Golson]
- Basin Street Blues [Spencer Williams]
- Red Top [Lionel Hampton / Ben Kynard]
- Keepin' in The Groove [Bud Powell]
- Tin Roof Blues [Walter Melrose / George Brunies / Paul Mares / Ben Pollack / Leon Rapollo / Melville Stitzel]
- Nutty [Thelonious Monk]
- Going Home [Mark Lockheart]