Includes instructional pages, and exercises exploring the 12-bar blues, swing rhythm, and the blues scale - historical information - and an explanation of jazz and blues styles (64 pages). Contents include: After You've Gone - Alexander's Ragtime Band - Basses Loaded - Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? - Crazy Blues - Early Morning Blues - Fascination - Fat Cat Boogie - Frankie and Johnny - House of the Rising Sun - I Ain't Got Nobody - I Love a Piano - Quiet Waters - Royal Garden Blues - The St. James Infirmary - St. Louis Blues - Tishomingo Blues - When the Saints Go Marching In.