In his life and in his music, Cole Porter was the top—the pinnacle of wit and sophistication. From the 1910s through the ‘50s, from Yale pep rallies through the Broadway triumphs of Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate, he delighted audiences with a glittering torrent of song: “I Get a Kick Out of You.” “Night and Day,” “Love for Sale,” and “Just One of Those Things.” The bright surface of these gems—their catchy melodies and ingenious lyrics—made them instant pop hits. Their ...

The full eBook version of Cole Porter for Guitar in fixed-layout format. This dynamic collection brings together 13 of Cole Porter's iconic songs arranged for solo classical guitar by the late John W. Duarte. Suitable for classical guitar players from intermediate to advanced level, this unmissable compilation is complete with a unique foreword containing insights from the acclaimed guitarist himself. Many of these arrangements have been recorded by Francisco Correa on his album Songs from...

(Singer's Jazz Anthology). The Singer's Jazz Anthology is an exciting new series providing aspring jazz vocalists and pianists with staples of the jazz repertoire. The singer's portion, matching the original sheet music, is paired with fresh, unique accompaniments arranged in an authentic jazz style and designed to enable the singer to sound like they're being backed by an accomplished jazz pianist. The accompaniments can be performed as written but include chord labels for pianists who ar...

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth centuryFrom Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For Sale," and "Night and Day." Yet, alongside his professional success, Porter led an eclectic personal life which featured exuberant parties, scandalous affairs, and chronic health problems. This extensi...

(Jazz Play Along). For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and audio, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. For study, each tune includes audio with: * Melody cue with proper style and inflection * Professional rhythm tracks * Choruses for soloing * Removable bass part * Removable piano part. For performance, each t...

Cole Porter possessed to a singular degree the art of expressing depth through apparent frivolity. The effervescent wit and technical bravura of his songs are matched by their unguarded revelations of feeling. In the words of editor Robert Kimball, “Porter wrote tellingly of the pain and evanescence of emotional relationships. He gently mocked propriety and said that few things were simple or lasting or free from ambiguity.” Of the masters of twentieth-century American songwriting, Porter ...

(Singer's Jazz Anthology). The Singer's Jazz Anthology is an exciting new series providing aspring jazz vocalists and pianists with staples of the jazz repertoire. The singer's portion, matching the original sheet music, is paired with fresh, unique accompaniments arranged in an authentic jazz style and designed to enable the singer to sound like they're being backed by an accomplished jazz pianist. The accompaniments can be performed as written but include chord labels for pianists who ar...

Cole Porter (1891–1964) remains one of America’s most popular composer-songwriters, known for the many urbane, witty, romantic songs he wrote for stage musicals and Hollywood films. Porter was unique among his contemporaries for writing both the music and lyrics for his compositions. To this day, several of his numbers—“Night and Day,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “You’re the Top,” and “I Get a Kick Out of You,” to name a few—endure as standards.In The Musicals of Cole Porter...

A Editora Contracorrente tem o prazer de anunciar o lançamento do livro "Cole Porter – canções, versões – que de-lindo", do consagrado compositor, letrista, jornalista, produtor artístico e ativista socioambiental brasileiro, Carlos Rennó. A primorosa obra celebra o legado de um dos maiores compositores da música popular americana, Cole Porter, por meio de uma cuidadosa seleção de suas canções icônicas, traduzidas e vertidas com maestria por Carlos Rennó. Com textos de Augusto de Campos, C...

(Jazz Piano Solos). Solo arrangements with chord names of 22 selections by this legendary songwriter: Begin the Beguine * Easy to Love (You'd Be So Easy to Love) * Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye * From This Moment On * Get Out of Town * I Get a Kick Out of You * Just One of Those Things * Love for Sale * Night and Day * What Is This Thing Called Love? * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * and more.

In our time as members of the US Air Force we had lived in many places and gone through many things. We didn't expect that being stationed at Grissom AFB in Indiana would be the trial it turned out to be. We were leaving Germany, a foreign place, to come to middle America, supposedly home, but Grissom certainly didn't feel like home.Between the circus that seemed to run the town of Peru, the god-awful weather and the hostile locals we felt like we had moved into a war zone. But, mil...

Drawn from years of archive material, this collection, first published in 1993, portrays the voices and experience of over sixty gay men from all walks of life. Here are presented the difficulties of coming out, but also the diverse nature of gay relationships and the impact of HIV and AIDS. Sometimes raw, often humorous, frequently angry, the book gives an honest impression of what it was like to live as a homosexual man in the twentieth century.