Boulevard Blues is a contemporary piano solo that blends traditional harmonic textures with bluesy inflection. It is distinctive for its syncopated inner voices and harmonic richness.
Achieving the correct 'blues' feel requires subtle control of timing and touch weight.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Boulevard Blues is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 5.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 4 — meaning you can already play level 3–4 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Boulevard Blues lasts about 4 minutes.
Boulevard Blues is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Berceuse by Daniel Léo Simpson, Blue Jeans by Daniel Léo Simpson, Befiehl du deine Wege in A minor by Daniel Léo Simpson — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.