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  • Jazz Hanon by Hanon, Charles-Louis
    Charles-Louis Hanon

    Jazz Hanon

    (Music Sales America). Inspired by Charles-Louis Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist the essential technical method for any classical player these new volumes present a modern-day equivalent for the musician seeking to play the key piano styles of the 20th century. Each book develops basic technique...
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  • Jazz Piano Comping: Harmonies, Voicings, and Grooves (Bk/Online Audio) [With CD (Audio)] by Davis, Suzanne
    Suzanne Davis

    Jazz Piano Comping: Harmonies, Voicings, and Grooves (Book/Online Audio) [With CD (Audio)]

    (Berklee Guide). Learn the essentials of accompanying soloists and playing in jazz ensembles. Comping is the practice of using chords to accompany a melody. Whether supporting a soloist, playing in an ensemble, or performing solo, this book will help you to use chords effectively...
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  • Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane by Berkman, Franya J.
    Franya J. Berkman

    Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane

    Long-awaited biography of an African American avant-garde composerAlice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and...
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  • Jazz Piano Voicing Skills: A Method for Individual or Class Study by Haerle, Dan
    Dan Haerle

    Jazz Piano Voicing Skills: A Method for Individual or Class Study

    Applicable for all instruments, this graded course on piano voicing skills starts with simple block chords over major and minor, then logically and methodically progresses into more exotic and advanced polychords and substitutions. Includes 123 skills in all twelve keys, designed to initiate a...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: BB Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: BB 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...
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  • Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ratliff, Ben
    Ben Ratliff

    Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

    John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become who he was? And what would a John Coltrane...
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  • Classical Jazz Rags & Blues, Bk 3: 10 Classical Melodies Arranged in Jazz Styles for Intermediate to Late Intermediate Pianists by Mier, Martha
    Martha Mier

    Classical Jazz Rags & Blues, Bk 3: 10 Classical Melodies Arranged in Jazz Styles for Intermediate to Late Intermediate Pianists

    Classical melodies from piano, opera and orchestral literature are revisited in this unique series. The arrangements feature jazz styles including ragtime and blues. Students who are familiar with some of these gems will enjoy their new settings while those playing them for the first...
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  • Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee by Richmond, Peter
    Peter Richmond

    Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee

    I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant. So said Miss Peggy Lee. Albert Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her the Queen. With her platinum cool and inimitable whisper, Peggy Lee sold twenty million records, made more money than Mickey...
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  • Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by English, T. J.
    T. J. English

    Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

    From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America."[A] brilliant and courageous book." --Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of...
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  • Rhythm in the Rain: Jazz in the Pacific Northwest by Darroch, Lynn
    Lynn Darroch

    Rhythm in the Rain: Jazz in the Pacific Northwest

    Rhythm in the Rain is a nonfiction narrative about the jazz community in the Pacific Northwest that examines the people, places, and events that have made cities like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, so popular among musicians. From the genesis of Jackson Street and...
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  • Soul Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 11 by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Soul Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 11

    (Jazz Piano Solos). Solo arrangements with chord names of 20 soulful tunes: Dat Dere * Hot Toddy * The Jody Grind * Sister Sadie * Soul Eyes * Unchain My Heart * What'd I Say * When the Sun Comes Out * You Are...
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  • Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

    A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train." Yet all his life...
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  • Jazz & Blues: Instrumental Play-Along for Flute [With] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Jazz & Blues: Instrumental Play-Along for Flute [With]

    (Instrumental Play-Along). 14 songs for solo instruments, complete with play-along recordings. Includes: Bernie's Tune * Cry Me a River * Fever * Fly Me to the Moon * God Bless' the Child * Harlem Nocturne * Moonglow * A Night in Tunisia * One...
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  • Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Teachout, Terry
    Terry Teachout

    Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut...
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  • Django Reinhardt by Delaunay, Charles
    Charles Delaunay

    Django Reinhardt

    No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Club of France have meant "The Thirties" to several generations of listeners, influencing musicians as far afield as Larry Coryell, Leon...
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  • Ulf Wakenius' Bebop Saxophone Licks for Jazz Guitar: Master the Soloing Language of the Bebop Saxophone Legends for Jazz Guitar by Wakenius, Ulf
    Ulf Wakenius

    Ulf Wakenius' Bebop Saxophone Licks for Jazz Guitar: Master the Soloing Language of the Bebop Saxophone Legends for Jazz Guitar

    Unlock the Secrets of Bebop Saxophone Licks for Jazz GuitarAre you struggling to play authentic bebop guitar? The saxophone played a pivotal role in the development of bebop - the music that revolutionised jazz and opened the door to a whole new world of...
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  • Life in E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods by Woods, Phil
    Phil Woods

    Life in E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods

    2021 Book of the Year - Jazz Journalists AssociationPhil Woods was an American original. One of the greatest saxophonists of all time, he was the first call for Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Oliver Nelson. His iconic improvisation on Billy Joel's hit...
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  • This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz by Jones, Peter
    Peter Jones

    This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz

    If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks. His contributions to jazz were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and raconteur, a word-smith par excellence, and a fearless improviser, he took...
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  • John Coltrane & the Jazz Revolution of the 1960's by Kofsky, Frank
    Frank Kofsky

    John Coltrane & the Jazz Revolution of the 1960's

    Coltrane's role in spearheading the last major innovative development in jazz, and how the 1960s jazz revolution reflected an intense cultural, political, and ideological ferment -- marked especially by the rise of resistance to racial discrimination. Also contains the best-known interview with John Coltrane...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition - Mini Edition: BB Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition - Mini Edition: BB 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...
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  • The Boston Jazz Chronicles by Vacca, Richard
    Richard Vacca

    The Boston Jazz Chronicles

    There has always been more to music in Boston than the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jazz, for example, dates to the early 1900s, but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that it truly sparkled. The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937-1962 is...
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  • Jazz: A History of America's Music by Ward, Geoffrey C.
    Geoffrey C. Ward

    Jazz: A History of America's Music

    A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music--jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed ten-part PBS TV series is an exploration of the music that celebrates all Americans at their...
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  • Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole by Friedwald, Will
    Will Friedwald

    Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole

    One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times...
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  • Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film by Whitehead, Kevin
    Kevin Whitehead

    Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film

    Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has...
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  • Thelonious Monk for Guitar by Wittner, Gary
    Gary Wittner

    Thelonious Monk for Guitar

    (Personality). Explore the songs of one of the greatest jazz composers with this collection of 11 solo guitar arrangements in standard notation and tab. Songs: Bemsha Swing * Blue Monk * Little Rootie Tootie * Monk's Dream * Nutty * Played Twice * Reflections...
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  • Dexter Gordon - Jazz Saxophone Solos by Gordon, Dexter
    Dexter Gordon

    Dexter Gordon - Jazz Saxophone Solos

    (Jazz Book). The excitement of a musical career spanning over 30 years is captured here in the 22 solos composed by Gordon and transcribed highlights from his recordings. Chord changes for tenor sax and 'in concert' key are provided along with Gordon's own articulations.Author:...
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  • Jazz, Rags & Blues, Bk 2: 8 Original Pieces for the Early Intermediate to Intermediate Pianist, Book & CD [With CD (Audio)] by Mier, Martha
    Martha Mier

    Jazz, Rags & Blues, Bk 2: 8 Original Pieces for the Early Intermediate to Intermediate Pianist, Book & CD [With CD (Audio)]

    Jazz, Rags & Blues, Books 1-5 contain original solos for late elementary to early advanced-level pianists that reflect the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th century music. The CD includes...
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  • Classical Jazz Rags & Blues, Bk 4: 7 Classical Melodies Arranged in Jazz Styles for Late Intermediate Pianists by Mier, Martha
    Martha Mier

    Classical Jazz Rags & Blues, Bk 4: 7 Classical Melodies Arranged in Jazz Styles for Late Intermediate Pianists

    Classical melodies from piano, opera and orchestral literature are revisited in this unique series. The arrangements feature jazz styles including ragtime and blues. Students who are familiar with some of these gems will enjoy their new settings, while those playing them for the first...
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  • Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings by Ellison, Ralph
    Ralph Ellison

    Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings

    Before Ralph Ellison became one of America s greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fifty years. Now, jazz authority Robert O Meally has collected the very best of Ellison s...
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  • The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography by Espada-Brignoni, Teófilo
    Teófilo Espada-Brignoni

    The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography

    In The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography Teófilo Espada-Brignoni analyzes the autobiographies of New Orleans musicians (Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins) who throughout their texts construct New Orleans jazz as an authentic musical...
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  • Miles Davis, and Jazz as Religion: The Politics of Social Music Culture by Bracey, Earnest N.
    Earnest N. Bracey

    Miles Davis, and Jazz as Religion: The Politics of Social Music Culture

    This book about Miles Davis is more psychologically driven than a straight biography; but it does cover his musical career, as well his spirituality as a jazz musician. Davis rocketed to jazz fame as a trumpeter, making a plethora of jazz recordings during his...
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  • But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz by Dyer, Geoff
    Geoff Dyer

    But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

    "May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music,...
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  • Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Kahn, Ashley
    Ashley Kahn

    Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

    Jazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and sits near the top of any list of most important records of the century....
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  • Playtime Piano Jazz & Blues: Level 1 by Faber, Nancy
    Nancy Faber

    Playtime Piano Jazz & Blues - Level 1

    (Faber Piano Adventures ). PlayTime Piano Jazz & Blues is a fun collection of beginning jazz and blues pieces. The book offers a pleasing variety of sounds from soulful blues to jazz originals and standards and is a wonderful supplement for the late Level...
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  • Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century by Chinen, Nate
    Nate Chinen

    Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century

    One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, "playing changes" refers to an improviser's resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on...
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  • Eberhard Weber: A German Jazz Story by Weber, Eberhard
    Eberhard Weber

    Eberhard Weber: A German Jazz Story

    Eberhard Weber is a virtuoso who revolutionized jazz bass playing. He brought his instrument from the far corner of the stage into the spotlight - and turned it into a solo force. He began his career as a jazz bassist in the 1960s, and...
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  • The Real Book: C Instruments by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book: C Instruments

    (Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition...
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  • Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz by Morgan, Thomas L.
    Thomas L. Morgan

    Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz

    New Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world came to New Orleans to hear authentic New Orleans jazz played by real jazz musicians. The sixties brought Preservation Hall,...
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  • Maiden Voyage Jazz Solos: As Played by Greg Fishman, Book & Online Audio by Niehaus, Lennie
    Lennie Niehaus

    Maiden Voyage Jazz Solos: As Played by Greg Fishman, Book & Online Audio

    This book teams up GRAMMY(R) Award-winner Lennie Niehaus with the great jazz saxophonist and educator Greg Fishman for a set of exciting jazz solos written for the intermediate sax player. These 14 jazz solos were written to be played with Jamey's popular Volume 54:...
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  • The Music of Paul Chambers by Nurmi, Mikko
    Mikko Nurmi

    The Music of Paul Chambers

    A comprehensive analysis of the bass lines of one of the greatest legends of jazz bass. Includes several full-length transcriptions as well as theory, exercises and insights to his style. Revised edition."I've just finished reading the book, "THE MUSIC OF PAUL CHAMBERS". As a...
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  • Classical Jazz Rags & Blues, Bk 1: 10 Classical Melodies Arranged in Jazz Styles for Early Intermediate Pianists by Mier, Martha
    Martha Mier

    Classical Jazz Rags & Blues, Bk 1: 10 Classical Melodies Arranged in Jazz Styles for Early Intermediate Pianists

    Classical melodies from piano, opera and orchestral literature are revisited in this unique series. The arrangements feature jazz styles including ragtime and blues. Students who are familiar with some of these gems will enjoy their new settings while those playing them for the first...
    $7.99
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  • Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Approach by Fewell, Garrison
    Garrison Fewell

    Jazz Improvisation for Guitar - A Melodic Approach Book/Online Audio

    (Berklee Labs). Melodies based on triads and melodic extensions sound more natural and musical than ones developed exclusively from scales. Triads the fundamental building blocks of harmony are a simple and effective remedy for scale dependency in improvisation. In Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A...
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  • Why Jazz Happened by Myers, Marc
    Marc Myers

    Why Jazz Happened

    Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles. Rich with the...
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  • Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis by Chambers, Jack
    Jack Chambers

    Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis

    This invaluable biography of trumpeter and jazz-bebop-fusion innovator Miles Davis (1926-1991) includes a substantial new introduction that for the first time details Davis's turbulent last decade; the drawing and painting that became an additional creative outlet; the musical lows of his final "Freaky Deaky"...
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  • Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History by Driggs, Frank
    Frank Driggs

    Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History

    There were four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print. But there has never been a serious history of the fourth, Kansas City, until now. In this colorful history, Frank...
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  • Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend by Dregni, Michael
    Michael Dregni

    Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend

    Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait...
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  • Earth, Wind, Water, & Fire by Hanna, Andrew
    Andrew Hanna

    Earth, Wind, Water, & Fire

    Taking inspiration from a class room assignment and John Coltrane's interpretation of Mongo Santamaría's Afro Blue, Earth, Wind, Water, & Fire is a jazz composition for sextet composed by Andrew Hanna. It features soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, bass, and drum set....
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  • Life In E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods by Woods, Phil
    Phil Woods

    Life In E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods

    2021 Book of the Year - Jazz Journalists AssociationPhil Woods was an American original. One of the greatest saxophonists of all time, he was the first call for Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Oliver Nelson. His iconic improvisation on Billy Joel's hit...
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  • DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC by Jackson, Maurice
    Maurice Jackson

    DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC

    The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. That telling of history, however, overlooks the pivotal...
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  • The Real Book, Volume IV by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book, Volume IV

    (Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition...
    $49.99
    $49.99
    $49.99

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