Fifteen essential standards have been restructured specifically for vocalists, featuring alternative jazz chord progressions, complete verses, introductions, and endings that enhance the singer's performance. This book adopts a traditional jazz format suitable for improvisational accompaniments, presenting the melody line, lyrics, and chords in a handwritten music engraving style. It includes both traditional chord changes and Steve Rawlins' innovative arrangements with alternative chords. The keys in the Women's Edition are typically set in a lower range, consistent with this genre, while the Men's Edition is presented in a medium range. Accompanying the book is a CD featuring a professional jazz trio comprising piano, bass, and drums.
Songs included in the Women's Edition are:
- Autumn in New York
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- I Could Write a Book
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
- It Might as Well Be Spring
- Just One More Chance
- Lush Life
- Manhattan
- My Romance
- Nature Boy
- The Nearness of You
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
- Solitude
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most