-
Vendor: Tadd Dameron
Hot House: Conductor Score & Parts
Hot House arranged by Mike Kamuf is an exciting swinger on a great jazz standard played at 154 BPM. The distinctive melody is handled by alto 1 and trumpet 2 with written solos for both. It also features a serious sax soli, optional vibes,...- $52.00
$52.00- $52.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gordon Goodwin
Change Is Good: Conductor Score
A Latin straight-eighth groove played at 125 BPM. Lead trumpet range is to written G-sharp on the staff, suggested written solos provided for flexibility for C, B-flat, E-flat, and bass clef instruments. Includes auxiliary percussion and vibes. Change Is Good by Gordon Goodwin is...- $11.00
$11.00- $11.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gordon Goodwin
Change Is Good: Conductor Score & Parts
A Latin straight-eighth groove played at 125 BPM. Lead trumpet range is to written G-sharp on the staff, suggested written solos provided for flexibility for C, B-flat, E-flat, and bass clef instruments. Includes auxiliary percussion and vibes. Change Is Good by Gordon Goodwin is...- $52.00
$52.00- $52.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Drew Zaremba
Brincando Com Fogo: (Dancing with Fire), Conductor Score
Brincando com Fogo by Drew Zaremba is a fiery bai縊 Latin played at half note = 100 BPM. Lead trumpet range is to written G on top of the staff, suggested written solos for tenor 1 and trumpet 2, space for drum fills, auxiliary...- $11.00
$11.00- $11.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Drew Zaremba
Brincando Com Fogo: (Dancing with Fire), Conductor Score & Parts
Brincando com Fogo by Drew Zaremba is a fiery bai縊 Latin played at half note = 100 BPM. Lead trumpet range is to written G on top of the staff, suggested written solos for tenor 1 and trumpet 2, space for drum fills, auxiliary...- $52.00
$52.00- $52.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Montgomery
Naptown Blues: Conductor Score & Parts
Naptown Blues arranged by Terry White is an accessible straight-ahead swinger played around 150 BPM, with a nice sax soli, written-out solos for alto 1, tenor 1, trumpet 1, and trombone 1. Trumpet 1 range is to written E top space with optional G,...- $42.00
$42.00- $42.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Zachary Smith
Curacao Blue: Conductor Score
Curacao Blue by Zachary Smith has a Latin groove with an easy bossa rhythmic pattern. Features a tempo around 134 BPM, trumpet 1 range to written E top space, a written tenor solo, clear articulation with complete rhythm section notation, and optional instrument parts...- $8.00
$8.00- $8.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Kris Berg
No Harm / No Fowl: Conductor Score
It's the annual chicken chart! No Harm / No Fowl by Kris Berg is a very accessible rock groove played around 146 BPM, and features written-out solo opportunities for all saxes and all brass, and lead trumpet range is to written G on the...- $9.00
$9.00- $9.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Buddy Bernier
Poinciana: Conductor Score
This jazz standard is treated with a light and sorta funky groove played around 92 BPM. Written-out solos provided for trumpet 1 (optional flugelhorn) and alto 1 with some very nice ensemble sections. Trumpet 1 range is to written G on top of the...- $9.00
$9.00- $9.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Tadd Dameron
Hot House: Conductor Score
Hot House arranged by Mike Kamuf is an exciting swinger on a great jazz standard played at 154 BPM. The distinctive melody is handled by alto 1 and trumpet 2 with written solos for both. It also features a serious sax soli, optional vibes,...- $11.00
$11.00- $11.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Ned Washington
My Foolish Heart: Conductor Score
My Foolish Heart arranged by Alan Baylock is a superb ballad featuring trumpet 2 played around 70 BPM. A double-time section with a suggested written solo, lush rubato sections, and the lead trumpet range is to written A above the staff. You will love...- $11.00
$11.00- $11.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Luc Delannoy
Pres: The Story of Lester Young
Author: Luc DelannoyISBN-10: 1557282641ISBN-13: 9781557282644Publisher: University of Arkansas PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1993Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.73d- $22.95
$22.95- $22.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Kenneth M. O'Gorman
Jazz Improvisation Fundamentals: Color Edition
There are three fundamentals to any great solo: Chords, Scales, and Tone Selection. Learn to use the fundamentals as your three-step approach to jazz improvisation. Over 80 images for Treble and Bass Clef. This book is perfect for beginners, struggling intermediates, and jazz instructors...- $39.99
$39.99- $39.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Janeen J. Larsen
Jazz Piano: A Primer for Classical Pianists
This unique book is especially designed for traditionally trained classical pianists who are interested in learning the rudiments of jazz piano. It uses a systematic, a step-by-step approach to learning to read jazz lead sheets, and provides simple techniques for beginning jazz and blues...- $21.99
$21.99- $21.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Stephane Wrembel
Getting Into Gypsy Jazz Guitar
This book focuses on the key elements of the Django Reinhardt Gypsy jazz orjazz Manouche guitar style. The information revealed here was gleaned from years of experience jamming with French Gypsies and studying with masters of the style. A native of France, Stephane Wrembel...- $19.99
$19.99- $19.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Travis A. Jackson
Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene Volume 16
New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence...- $34.95
$34.95- $34.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gretchen L. Carlson
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz
2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year--Honorable Mention Recipient On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'馗hafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream...- $30.00
$30.00- $30.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gretchen L. Carlson
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz
2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year--Honorable Mention Recipient On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'馗hafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream...- $99.00
$99.00- $99.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Dave Oliphant
Texan Jazz
Texas musicians and jazz share a history that goes all the way back to the origins of jazz in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie. Texans have left their mark on all of jazz's major movements, including hot jazz, swing, bebop, the birth of the cool,...- $44.95
$44.95- $44.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Bob Gluck
The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles
Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when he was...- $30.00
$30.00- $30.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Krin Gabbard
Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema
American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard shows, they create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music...- $37.00
$37.00- $37.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gabriel Solis
Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazz's creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for...- $34.95
$34.95- $34.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Phil Pastras
Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling...- $34.95
$34.95- $34.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Clora Bryant
Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles
The musical and social history of Los Angeles's black community from the 1920s through the early 1950s comes to life in this exceptional oral history collection. Through the voices of musicians who performed on L.A.'s Central Avenue during those years, a vivid picture of...- $33.95
$33.95- $33.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Scott Deveaux
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
The richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz-the birth of bebop-and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment....- $36.95
$36.95- $36.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Ross Firestone
Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman
Before Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll, another King ruled the roost of American popular music. His name was Benny Goodman and his domain, the gilded age of Swing. Benny's concerts, records, and radio shows catapulted the hot and controversial sounds of jazz into the hearts...- $35.00
$35.00- $35.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Thomas W. Jacobsen
The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective
In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen,...- $25.00
$25.00- $25.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Jaron K. Eames
Historical Jazz Conversations
Legendary names. Names that helped create and shape this music we call jazz. I'm deeply blessed because each of these musical legends and others have sat with me on my local New York Cable TV show in a one -on- one conversation. My show...- $24.95
$24.95- $24.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gary Giddins
Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation
In a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd, Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide an essential guide to the jazz world. Moving with ease from sweeping surveys of jazz history to precise,...- $21.99
$21.99- $21.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Bill Milkowski
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius - Anniversary Edition
A fitting tribute to the troubled genius who revolutionized electric bass playing and bridged the gaps between jazz, R&B, rock and funk. From his early days in R&B club bands through his international stardom with fusion group Weather Report and on to his solo...- $26.95
$26.95- $26.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Black Music: Essays
"Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music." --WBGO (Newark Public Radio)In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's...- $39.95
$39.95- $39.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Scott Joplin
The Entertainer: Sheet
One of Scott Joplin's most famous and recognizable ragtime compositions. A good right hand reach is recommended for playing the octave chords cleanly in this edition which presents the original material, unsimplified. There are short biographical notes and other historical information included.Author: Scott JoplinISBN-10:...- $4.99
$4.99- $4.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Horace Silver
Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver
Horace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as "hard bop" in the 1950s. This freewheeling autobiography of the great composer, pianist, and bandleader takes us from his childhood in...- $34.95
$34.95- $34.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Robin D. G. Kelley
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk's 2017 centennial.Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of...- $23.00
$23.00- $23.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: C Edition
(Fake Book). The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any regard...- $49.99
$49.99- $49.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Jessica Levant
San Francisco Bay Area Jazz and Bluesicians, Volume 2
Bay Area Jazz and Bluesicians Volume 2 is here With such a positive reception of Volume 1 it was a natural to produce a second volume. This one captures another 134 talented jazz and blues artists active on the local scene in 2013 and...- $27.50
$27.50- $27.50
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: André Hodeir
The André Hodeir Jazz Reader
First trained as a violinist, then as a composer, André Hodeir began writing about jazz in the 1940s. As editor-in-chief of the French magazine Jazz Hot, he was an early proponent of bebop and its practitioners, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Downbeat called Hodeir's...- $29.95
$29.95- $29.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Philippe Carles
Free Jazz/Black Power
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long-ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....- $110.00
$110.00- $110.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Frederick J. Spencer
Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer, M.D., conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies...- $50.00
$50.00- $50.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Eugene Marlow
Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression
Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism "Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces...- $35.00
$35.00- $35.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Eugene Marlow
Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression
Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism "Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces...- $110.00
$110.00- $110.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Steven Loza
The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson
Jazz great Gerald Wilson (1918-2014), born in Shelby, Mississippi, left a global legacy of paramount significance through his progressive musical ideas and his orchestra's consistent influence on international jazz. Aided greatly by interviews that bring Wilson's voice to the story, Steven Loza presents a...- $110.00
$110.00- $110.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Howard Mandel
Future Jazz
Jazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream, searching for the new. As Howard Mandel reveals in Future Jazz, jazz today is still reaching out in exciting new directions. In a series of vividly drawn portraits and intimate,...- $19.95
$19.95- $19.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: John Swenson
New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans
At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of...- $31.99
$31.99- $31.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gary Giddins
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time...- $26.99
$26.99- $26.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: James Lester
Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in pyrotechnical passages...are miracles of performance." Whitney Balliett wrote "no pianist has ever hit...- $37.99
$37.99- $37.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: William Howland Kenney
Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930
The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses,...- $43.99
$43.99- $43.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Martin Williams
The Jazz Tradition: Second Revised Edition
When it was first published in 1970, this lively and fascinating book was greeted with almost universal acclaim. The American Record Guide called it "the best one-volume of jazz we have," and the Jazz Journal praised it as "a brilliant study of the whole...- $43.99
$43.99- $43.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gunther Schuller
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat...- $80.00
$80.00- $80.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Vendor: Gunther Schuller
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz...- $80.00
$80.00- $80.00
- Unit price
- per