Music-Genres & Styles-Jazz

Let's go to the moon! Swingin' on the Moon is a medley of three great American standards is a perfect choice to teach or reinforce swing style to your students. Featuring Blue Moon," "Moonlight Serenade," and "How High the Moon," this arrangement by Michael...

Learn to improvise on saxophone and clarinet over the most recognised tune in jazzOnce you have learnt some simple strategies to improvise over jazz chord changes, the next step is chord tone soloing. Targeting the important notes of every chord in a sequence will...

Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche--a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes--is among France's most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded...

A delightful offering from classroom teacher and storyteller Susan Milligan and jazz singer and music teacher Louise Rogers, the Jazzy Fairy Tales Resource Guide and CD is designed to bring jazz music into your classroom. The activities provided in the manual may be used...

This book features 22 fantastic bass solos in bass clef from various recordings over Ron Carter's legendary career as a first-call bassist for many jazz greats. Titles: Bass Blues * Bessie's Blues * Bohemia after Dark * Corcovado * Dance of the Sugar Plum...

Eleven bandstand favorites composed and/or recorded by one of jazz's greatest trumpet innovators. Different than most of our other volumes where many tunes incorporate new musical influences and styles such as rock, Latin, and fusion. Perfect for anyone wishing to spice up their repertoire....

This book is for all songwriters, pianists, singers, musicians, music producers and music teachers wanting to learn how to play by ear on the piano. In Part 1 you will learn STEP by STEP how to add harmony to the tune Twinkle Twinkle Little...

Mark Barnett knows and loves jazz, and he has a special talent for explaining the music-and his passion for it-in words that everyone can understand. It's a talent that shines from every line in this book.The contents of the book originally appeared in columns...

Revised and expanded edition of the Miles Davis companion guide to the autobiography. In his autobiography, Miles talks in great detail about his recording sessions with various record labels and personnel. Use this annotated sequencing companion guide to help you find and listen to...

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...

The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph...

In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside--generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we'd have little on record of some of the most important music ever created. Discover the stories behind some...

"This book speaks for itself. Read it, and be transported to the smoked filled jazz clubs of the nascent bop era, and hear its music as you follow the roller coaster career of the trumpet-playing protagonist." -David ShireJazzman is the vivid tale of Lance...

WHAT'S SO DANGEROUS?Dangerous Pursuits is a wry allusion to philosopher Stephen Braude's obstacle-strewn career path over the past several decades--to the vindictive hostility, ridicule, and condescension he's encountered for his decision to look carefully at the data and theoretical issues of parapsychology. The diverse...

Erroll Garner (1921-1977) was an inimitable jazz pianist and composer who enjoyed international recognition performing for audiences in concert halls and clubs throughout the world. He released many of his own compositions as well as popular songs on more than forty record labels throughout...

Outside and Inside: Representations of Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography is the first full-length study of key autobiographies of white jazz musicians. White musicians from a wide range of musical, social, and economic backgrounds looked to black music and culture as the...

This book/audio set presents a clear, comprehensive, one-step-at-a-time method for learning how to accompany an improvised jazz solo. As a sequel to Hal Crook's text How to Improvise", "How to Comp" offers precise explanations, practical exercises, recorded musical examples, four play-along tracks, and daily...

Includes eight transcriptions of Chet's improvised solos for B flat and C concert instruments. Chet's solo were spliced out on eight audio tracks, so you can sit in" and play Chet's solos along with his original accompaniment, or improvise your own ideas. For inspiration...

This is a real ear training method that presents in an organized fashion a collection of study concepts that help you develop a functional knowledge and physical sensitivity to progressions, tensions, scales, intervals, and melodies. With clear step-by-step instructions all concepts are demonstrated live...

Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums as a leader. He is one of the most influential jazz...

For a century and more, the idea of democracy has fuelled musicians'　imaginations. Seeking to go beyond music's proven capacity to contribute to specific political causes, musicians have explored how aspects of their practice embody democratic principles. This may involve adopting particular approaches to compositional...

Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet...

Teaching middle school or high school jazz? Then you should be teaching jazz improvisation as soon as possible. Improvisation is an integral part of jazz. This book will provide exercises that guide students on the path to learning the jazz language. Scores and parts...

Minnesota Book Award-winning poet Richard Terrill is back with a new collection of poetic "conversations" with the work and wisdom of Walt Whitman, Diane Arbus, Miles Davis, Groucho Marx, and more. Tai qi, classic movies, environmental angst, and the inexorable passage of time are...

Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Cafe Society tells the personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary interracial New York City night clubs Cafe Society...

CONTENTSOrigins: A sampling of the sphere of influence for Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), the debut album of the Digable Planets.The System: A shadowy synth-pop album unearthedRaymond Scott: Synthesizer innovator and composer sampled by DillaSusaye Greene: Singer-songwriter who worked with Ray...

Please find the song index (103 Jazz Standards Progressions Reharmonized with upper structure triads and quartals) at the end of this description.This volume is part of the complete set of 1000+ Jazz Standards in three volumes split alphabetically in 3 books (A to F,...

Please find the song index (94 Jazz Standards Progressions with upper structure quartals) at the end of this description.This volume is part of the complete set of 1000+ Jazz Standards in three volumes split alphabetically in 3 books (A to F, G to O,...

Taking the sequence of 88 piano keys as a reference, from the bass to treble, J. Rosa G. pays tribute to Keith Jarrett's music in the same number of images, meant to evoke the musical universe of the pianist.For the author Keith Jarrett replaces...

Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. Isaac Hayes' theme from Shaft. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their debuts back when movie studios and TV production companies employed full orchestral ensembles to provide...

Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry's arrangement of the James Bond theme. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their debuts in the late 1950s and early '60s: a "golden decade" that...

Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate Schools Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the...

Hot Club Jazz: Understanding Django Reinhardt & Gypsy Jazz, is the perfect, easy-to-read guide for this popular style of swing music and the man who helped make if famous. This edition covers the fundamentals, definitions, history & popular artists associated with gypsy jazz. Contemporary...

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct...

An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz. Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more centrally than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters such as Harold Arlen, Irving...

Frank Gambale's new improvisation book is a twelve-chapter course, with seven lessons per chapter, that covers the twelve most important scales and modes. Each lesson explores the chords, voicings and licks that are derived from each scale. The online audio includes 119 recorded music...

Stan Kenton (1911-1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra sums up the...

Essays written by critics and sources ranging from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jelly Roll Morton detailing the anatomy of jazz's musical elements to the forefathers of its style.Author: Ralph De ToledanoISBN-10: 1565540433ISBN-13: 9781565540439Publisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/1994Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.97w x...

This 2-CD set is filled with 20 fantastic standards from the Golden Age of American songwriting. Rhythm Section: Steve Allee (p); Tyrone Wheeler (b); Jonathan Higgins (d). Titles: Pennies from Heaven * Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone * Somebody Loves Me...

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:...

Recording artist and master improviser Walt Weiskopf presents the simple technique of triad pairs" (using only two triads) to create long, exciting phrases for all improvisers. You will find yourself suddenly sounding much more hip and modern with this technique, and yet it is...

When Charlie Parker made his famous with strings" recordings, jazz musicians realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their own creativity. Legendary players soon followed suit, making a "with strings" album almost an essential rite of passage. Here are 10 beautiful standards...

Lennie's reputation as a jazz and film composer, arranger, and jazz recording artist is second to none. His musical and playable style of writing has made his many solo/etude books among the most popular jazz books in the world. Lennie has personally assembled the...

Featuring Take Five!" Don't feel uncomfortable every time someone calls a tune in an odd meter. At last, here is a thorough workout in odd time signatures, including 5/4, 6/8, 11/4, and alternating time feels that will give you the confidence and proficiency to...

Legendary multi-instrumentalist/composer Benny Carter has granted us the impressive honor of compiling a remarkable play-along of his favorite works. Mr. Carter's fine harmonic awareness and keen melodic ear combine for unforgettable jazz compositions for every taste. Intermediate level. Rhythm Section: Harry Pickens (p); Tyrone...

A truly outstanding collection of tunes with emphasis on melody. As usual, Jazzmen have made each of these songs standards" through their own performing. In particular, John Coltrane, Tommy Dorsey, Sarah Vaughn, and Benny Carter have enjoyed the songs well enough to record them...

Play along for fun or use as an opportunity to learn nine important songs you can use on almost any gig. Ellington's historic compositions have proven themselves equally as worthwhile for small groups as they were for his famous Big Bands and have been...

Harmonically speaking, Bill Evans remains one of the most influential musicians and composers in jazz. His compositions are among the richest and most original---laced with beautiful, lush alterations and passing chords. This set represents a sampling of Bill's illustrious career from Waltz for Debby,"...

Jam with this all-star rhythm section on nine fresh, original tunes by the great Cedar Walton, with Cedar on piano! Many of these tunes are well on their way to becoming jazz standards. Several tunes have Cedar's own harmony parts as used on his...

These are tunes everyone has heard and every musician should know. The names of the composers and lyricists read like a musical Hall of Fame. Nineteen tunes from the cream of the Golden Age of songwriting in America. Lyrics are included. Note to bassists:...