1. Ryedale Boogie
2. Snowflake
3. Half Moon
4. Rock Steady
5. Spring Carol
6. Natasha’s Hedgehog
7. Eva’s Tango
8. Wheels Within Wheels
9. Moving On
10. Storybook Waltz
11. Bonjour
12. Elgar Takes A Stroll
13. Pictures From The Past
14. Groove Is a Verb
15. Horizon
16. The Old Country
17. After Hours
18. Westfields Rock
19. The Garden Tiger
20. Velvet
21. Calypso Facto
22. Laura’s Lament
23. Serpentine
24. The Coolest Camel
25. Soft Song
26. Direct Action
27. Dancing In The Rain
28. Home At Last
29. Bee Line
30. Moonrock
31. Adam’s Eel
32. Ski-Ing Slowly
33. June In Paris
34. Waterfall
35. Jane And Fritz
36. Cantata
37. Powder Snow
38. Street Scene, New York
39. Whale Meat, Again!
40. Stage Struck
41. Wonderful, Wonderful, Wolverhampton
42. Runway
43. The Swinging Roundabout
Trinity Grade 3 Group A: The Coolest Camel or Direct Action
Trinity Jazz Grade 1 Group A: Wheels Within Wheels
Graham Lyons started the piano at the age of six but at thirteen, inspired by Benny Goodman, switched to clarinet lessons. He continued to play the piano, but without formal tuition, using it to investigate harmony and jazz improvisation. His first clarinet teacher was George Draper, whom he remembered with great affection. For five years his weekly high spot was his clarinet lesson. After National Service as a Radar Fitter, Graham went to Oxford to read physics. At Oxford, music, not physics, took priority and, not surprisingly, he was sent down at the end of the first year. After Oxford he studied bassoon and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, paying his way by working in a jazz club on piano, clarinet and saxophone.
For the next twenty years Graham worked as a performer in symphony orchestras, musicals, clubs and on broadcasts. He also composed advertising jingles and television background music, and arranged for bands, cabaret and various (now defunct) BBC Radio orchestras. In addition he also taught woodwind instruments part-time in schools. In fact he is best-known for his educational publications, comprising more than sixty tutors and albums, with combined sales of more than 300,000. Many of his compositions are on the wind syllabuses of the music examining boards.
This new edition of “Compositions” includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U132) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only… on CD. The ‘Graham Lyons Compositions’ series was originally created by Useful Music in 2005 which subsumed the pieces found in ‘New Tenor Sax Solos Book 1’ (U9). Previously published by Useful Music Former catalogue number: U132
