Swing Jazz Violin

Instrumentation: Violin (with optional second violin or recorded accompaniment*).  Includes some songs for 3 violins or string quartet

Authors: Jeremy Cohen and Dix Bruce

Publisher: String Letter Publishing

Size: 9″ x 12″.  79 pages

*Demonstration and backing tracks included on two CD’s

Contents:

• Chicago – Fred Fisher
• Some of These Days – Sheldon Brooks
• After You’ve Gone – Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
• Sheik of Araby – Harry Smith and Francis Wheeler
• Margie – Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson
• Swingin’ Like 42 – Dix Bruce
• My Melancholy Baby (for 3 violins) – George A. Norton and Ernie Burnett
• Baby Won’t You Please Come Home? – Charles Williams and Clarence Williams
• Dark Eyes – Traditional
• China Boy –  Phil Boutelje and Dick Winfree
• Swing in Minor – Dix Bruce
• The Japanese Sandman – Richard Whiting and Raymond Egan
• Rose Room – Art Hickman
• The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise – Ernest Seitz and Eugene Lockhart
• Avalon (for 3 violins) – Vincent Rose and Al Jolson
• St. Louis Blues – W. C. Handy
• St. Louis Blues (for string quartet) – Handy, arr. Cohen
• Some of These Days (for string quartet) – Brooks, arr. Cohen