New Orleans Piano Styles: A Guide to the Keyboard Licks of Crescent City Greats

New Orleans Piano Styles - A Guide to the Keyboard Licks of Crescent City Greats by Todd Lowry is a piano instruction book with online audio that explores the signature sounds of New Orleans jazz and blues. Designed for intermediate pianists, it introduces the distinctive keyboard approaches of influential artists such as Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, and Dr. John while helping players expand their stylistic vocabulary and rhythmic feel.

This book is intended for piano and keyboard players who want to deepen their understanding of groove, phrasing, and authentic New Orleans styles. Through clear notation and practical examples, it supports both structured learning and creative exploration, making it suitable for individual practice, teaching, or performance preparation.

The collection includes standard notation with clearly written arrangements and stylistic examples that reflect authentic New Orleans techniques. The included online audio, accessed via a unique code, allows players to hear each concept in context and practice alongside demonstrations. With PLAYBACK+ functionality, the audio can be slowed down without changing pitch, looped for focused practice, transposed into different keys, or adjusted for left and right hand emphasis.

Players can internalize rhythmic feels such as second-line grooves, rolling triplets, and syncopated accents while building confidence across styles like stride, boogie woogie, R&B, and ballads. It works equally well for skill development, improvisation, and expanding performance repertoire.

Song List
Basin Street Blues * Big Chief * Pine Top's Boogie * Cry Me a River * Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans * Just a Closer Walk with Thee * Mess Around * Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) * On the Sunny Side of the Street * The Pearls * Saint James Infirmary * Tipitina And Me * When The Saints Go Marching In

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.