Janis Joplin - Janis: A Collection of 16 Janis Joplins Classics (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook)
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Author: Janis JoplinBrand: Hal Leonard
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1976-01-01
ISBN: 079355179X
Number of pages: 88
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
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- Published by Hal Leonard 88 Pages
- P/V/G
- Artist: Janis Joplin
Book Reviews of Janis Joplin - Janis: A Collection of 16 Janis Joplins Classics (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook)
Book Review: (Psst, hey, its really just 12 classics folks.)
Summary: 4 Stars
I have always LOVED Janis Joplin, and its not just the voice, but her choice in material as well. Big Mama Thorton, George Gerswin, Richard Rogers, all the way to Kris Kristofferson and Nick Gravenites, she showed such range, for a woman who only sang on four albums during her short life. So, here we have 16 songs, and only 12 of them matter? I'll let you in on a secret. "WALK RIGHT IN" she sang in 1962 with some country band back in Port Arthor Texas. It tells us NOTHING about her personality, nor her own budding composistional talents. Not only that, the version of that song with Janis singing, has been out of print for YEARS. "SAN FRANSESCO BAY BLUES" hails from the same out of print movie soundtrack, and is from her early 60s folk act. "TROUBLE IN MIND" she sang on the "typewriter tapes", a demo with Jorma back in 1965, that only appears on her JANIS boxset. Even tho Gerswin's "SUMMERTIME" is a signature song for her, it appears here in the original 1935 Operatic version. BIG BROTHER totally reworked the song, changed the chord structure, so it might have been nice to include their arrangement, so it WOULD be a Janis song. Here, it's not.
I dont mind that when a music collection has filler, but what if you bought a book of BEST OF BEATLES, and found songs like "AINT SHE SWEET" or "TIL THERE WAS YOU" from the MUSIC MAN, instead of "LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS" or "HEY JUDE"? So, that's the downside here. Also, why would you want to include "MERCEDES BENZ" in a book of sheet music for piano and guitar, when its a solo piece for voice? However, what is left over, is fantastic. Most of the songs only work on piano, tho, for you singers without a band. Some appear in EVERY 60s BEST OF book in the world, like PIECE OF MY HEART, so you wont grab new material there. For those who like to sing and play piano, or want to arrange some of these pieces for jazz ensemble, there exists enough material to make the book worth a purchase. KOZMIC BLUES is my favorite, MAYBE works well in here too. MOVE OVER has a strange arrangement, with only the bass part written for most of the song, consisting of two notes, E and D Sharp. Again, why arrange a song thats mostly vocals vamped over a drum and bass arrangement? If you only have 16 songs to tell her story, I would have liked to have heard a few more songs either JANIS wrote, or BIG BROTHER. Janis only worked her composistional (well, probibly lyrical skills) on three songs here, and that's a pity.
Bottom line, there's just very little JANIS JOPLIN music folios out there, so GET IT WHILE YOU CAN. It's a cheap price, but I would have paid a few more dollars, for a few more songs she had a hand in writing. I knocked my review down a star, cos of the poor selection of titles.
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