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Thirty-Six Jazz Practice Ideas to Get the Most from Your Real BookYou already know about the REAL BOOK, but what you probably don't know is how much MUSICAL PROGRESS can be accomplished with only a single fake book Don't know what to practice? Don't...

The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore's underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie Blake and Cab Calloway, honors neglected figures such as Ellis Larkins, Hank Levy, and Ethel Ennis, pays tribute to the legacies...

Master Advanced Modern Jazz Guitar Chords with this Creative Method"Every book I've seen from Tim Pettingale is so well done. Lots of wonderful information and always very clearly delivered."-MIKE STERN"This is the kind of book I've wanted to see for a long time. I...

Stratusphunk - George Russell was a unique figure in jazz. He was a theoretician, a composer of note, a working musician, and an educator. He began his life's work developing the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization in the mid-forties. One of a rare...

Composer-arranger David Berger shares the secrets of writing vocal music that's fresh, original and memorable, distilled from a lifetime of writing for singers like Jon Hendricks and C cile McLorin Salvant, Betty Carter and Natalie Cole. Includes links to his scores and recordings of...

Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music, in which popular-music idioms are merged with lush string orchestrations and big-band instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and sound through...

Martin Taylor's Advanced Jazz Guitar Licks PhrasebookIf you're looking for the most direct pathway to beautiful jazz guitar soloing - here it is Get ready to master jazz guitar with over 130 jazz guitar licks carefully transcribed from Martin Taylor's secret personal repertoire. Ever...

As a founding father of bebop and brilliant jazz improviser, Charlie Parker has secured a reputation and legacy second to none since his birth nearly 100 years ago. Because of his excellence as an improviser, however, his compositions - while admired and still played...

Shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2022 Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a...

In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize--winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music-and to leading a good life.Writing from the road "between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig," Marsalis...

Since 1976, Dan Coates has arranged thousands of popular music titles. Composers and artists such as John Williams, Burt Bacharach, and Elton John have expressed total confidence in Dan's ability to create outstanding piano arrangements that retain the essence of the original music. The...

(Jazz Book). The second edition of this bestseller comes highly endorsed from the pros and is published at a new lower price It continues to be a "must-have" for students of improvisation, demonstrating developing new material for jazz-fusion.Author: Gary CampbellISBN-10: 0634000055ISBN-13: 9780634000058Publisher: Houston Publishing,...

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and...

What is jazz? What is gained--and what is lost--when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have...

When it appeared in 1950, this biography of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton became an instant classic of jazz literature. Now back in print and updated with a new afterword by Lawrence Gushee, Mister Jelly Roll will enchant a new generation of readers with the...

The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness),...

Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated, impossible to play for many of the older...

Sonny Rollins is one of jazz's great innovators, arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist, along with John Coltrane, in the history of modern jazz. He began his musical career at the age of eleven, and within five short years he was playing with the...

"A deeply felt portrait of an artist whose influence on a generation of vocalists was profound." -- New York Times Book Review Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy, Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and...

It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz; indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a composer, teacher, band leader, and iconoclast reached far beyond...

The names of Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy have become almost synonymous with jazz writing. Hentoff, editor of Jazz Review, writer for Downbeat, High Fidelity, New Yorker, and the Village Voice, and McCarthy, editor of Jazz Monthly, have raised jazz beyond mere appreciation...

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied...

Updated Content On February 17, 2018, Learn How To Play The Guitar Within A Few Days Of Training TodayFree BONUS IncludedThis book will help you to learn the basics of a guitar, and how to strum simple songs on your guitar within a few...

Featuring the piano sheet music for Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score 'The Entertainer'. Originally composed in 1902, 'The Entertainer' helped Scott Joplin to achieve fame for his ragtime compositions and eventually led to him becoming known as the king of ragtime. The famous song...

Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the...

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....

Celebrating the seventeen-year anniversary of our debut issue (December 2001), we're releasing a special-edition reissue, completely redesigned and hardbound. We've added many more photos and record covers. Author: Various AuthorsISBN-10: 0999212753ISBN-13: 9780999212752Publisher: Wax Poetics BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2019Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x...

Reprint of Wax Poetics Issue One, originally published December 2001.Author: Wax PoeticsISBN-10: 0999212745ISBN-13: 9780999212745Publisher: Wax Poetics BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2018Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.21d

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF POPS: FOSTER NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MANAuthor: Tom StoddardISBN-10: 0879308311ISBN-13: 9780879308315Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.02w x 0.67d

Janet Coleman and Al Young first met Charles Mingus in the 1950s at the University of Michigan. From there they followed him to New York, sitting in on Mingus's workshops and meeting leading jazz artists. Throughout, their friendship gave them a rare view into...

During his thirteen year career, between 1955 and 1968, Paul Chambers was one of the leading double bass players in jazz, performing with a variety of artists and in a range of the music's sub-genres. He recorded over three hundred LPs for labels such...

Easily master sophisticated voice leading on guitar - Voice Leading Jazz Guitar teaches you the most important principles of voice leading, substitution, secondary dominant and tritone use to quickly make your jazz rhythm guitar parts musical and rich. Using real life musical examples that...

In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context...

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call "jazz" arose in late nineteenth century North America--most likely in New Orleans--based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music...

A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel's timeless portraits of America's jazz legends, for readers of all ages Studs Terkel's first book, Giants of Jazz, is the master interviewer's unique tribute to America's jazz greats, The thirteen profiles in this "luminous" (Jazzwise) collection weave...

By popular request, here are world-famous works from the Bossa Nova's greatest master, played with exceptional taste and sensitivity in an authentic, relaxed style with a nylon string acoustic guitar rhythm section. For bossa novas with a discreet jazz" flavor, check out Volume 31:...

The new millennium suggests a need for revamping great standards of the 20th century. Highly respected pianist, composer, and author Andy LaVerne has designed a set for such a purpose. Showcased are the musical and playable reharmonizations in a way musicians will find entertaining...

A great way to study bebop This outstanding set includes transcribed solos written and played by Jimmy on the guitar. Used for play along purposes, the special demo track has Jimmy soloing with the rhythm section and playing all 10 solos from the book....

In Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and purpose of jazz improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of five African...

Gathering together shards of autobiography, poetry, and critical commentary on music and writing, Sheets of Sound evokes DeWald's experiences as a musician and poet, father and teacher, movie-lover and teenage skater. This debut collection of essays-by turns lyric and philosophic-reflects on jazz improvisation, poetic...

Bheki Mseleku is widely considered one of the most accomplished jazz musicians to have emerged from South Africa. His music has a profound significance in recalling and giving emphasis to that aspect of the African American jazz tradition originating in the rhythms and melodies...

Martin Taylor's Jazz Guitar Licks PhrasebookIf you're looking for the most direct pathway to beautiful jazz guitar soloing - here it is Get ready to master the jazz guitar with over 100 jazz guitar licks carefully transcribed from Martin Taylor's secret personal repertoire. Ever...

The Stooges Brass Band always had big dreams. From playing in the streets of New Orleans in the mid-1990s to playing stages the world over, they have held fast to their goal of raising brass band music and musicians to new heights--professionally and musically....

Jazz Soloing Basics for Guitar A step-by-step method for learning jazz phrasing with chromaticism and swing-feel linesThis book explains how you can train yourself to compose and improvise solos over standard jazz chord progressions, with a sense of movement and swing. We'll take our...

It's a Sin to Tell a Lie: My Life in Jazz is the autobiography of Marty Grosz, today's foremost jazz rhythm guitarist and chord soloist. Part memoir, part transcribed oral history, it serves up Marty's story raconteur style - full of sardonic wit with...

Martin Taylor's 3 in 1 Jazz Guitar Method Compilation Three best-selling jazz guitar books in one definitive edition Beyond Chord Melody Walking Bass for Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing for Jazz Guitar Never before has so much jazz guitar insight been gathered together in...

This book is about women in jazz. It charts their journeys, celebrates their presence, hears their voices, wonders at their prowess and revels in their being. We hear from female agents, arrangers, composers, musicians, PR people, radio hosts, record label managers, singers, writers and...

Cultural backgrounds to and close readings of the recorded and broadcast works of Ken Nordine. The postwar subcultural contexts of Nordine's experimental recordings. Analyses of individual tracks on extended play recordings, audio tapes and radio broadcasts. Author: Gregory Kent StephensonISBN-10: 8797156906ISBN-13: 9788797156902Publisher: Ober-Limbo VerlagLanguage:...

The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and...

In his eulogy of saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70), Duke Ellington ended with the words, "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes--this was Johnny Hodges. This is Johnny Hodges."...