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.