Jennifer Bowman's Jazz Nocturnes

Jennifer Bowman is a music creator, educator and performer based out the Pacific Northwest. She writes music in many genres. Her solo piano pieces are featured on all major streaming services. She writes music for media in several genres (piano, orchestral, trailers). She also writes pedagogical pieces for piano, published by 80 Days Publishing (as well as a piece in EVC’s Nocturnes for Chopin).

Trained at the Juilliard School, Northern Illinois University, and Whitman College, Jennifer Bowman is a versatile musician who enjoys performing in a variety of musical venues every year. Her YouTube channel, Olympia Piano, features quality piano tutorials on a variety of piano related areas.

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Jazz Nocturnes is a wonderful new book from Jennifer. It contains 8 Nocturnes, inspired by Chopin initially, but to put it in the composer’s own words:

“These nocturnes were greatly influenced by both my classical piano training and the many hours spent at the piano playing and singing through traditional musicals and the Great American Songbook with my sisters. I modelled many of the chord progressions after those used in “The Real Book” and structured the pieces after Chopin’s Nocturnes, with a few twists here and there. The pieces should feel familiar to the listener. Some are simple, some are rhapsodic, some are more intimate. It is my hope that you enjoy playing them and feel free to make them your own.”