Music-Genres & Styles-Jazz

He who commands the ballad will command the audience! Here are eight soulful ballads enjoyed by both musicians and listeners for years. Ballads have always been a challenge to play, but when you hear the right changes played with great feeling by this outstanding...

Our first set of jazz and popular standards that players have always enjoyed recording and improvising on. A stellar representation of American popular music that will offer years of enjoyment for all musicians. You need to know these songs. Lyrics included. Rhythm Section: Dan...

The organ play-alongs have been some of our most popular. Staying in that tradition, this play-along features one of jazz's greatest B-3 players, Joey DeFrancesco, with his working trio groovin' on blues, standards, and originals. Features Organ, Guitar, and Drums. Titles: Big Easy *...

Fourteen of the greatest standards ever written now in keys specifically designed for singers. Includes a book and 2 CDs, one CD for high voice and the other CD for low voice, so all singers, men and women, can find a key comfortable for...

Since his days with Dave Brubeck in the 1980s, Jerry's influence as a modern jazz tenor man has been undeniable. Less well-known are his tasty compositions, presented here in this collection for your enjoyment. Jerry has recorded all these songs on various Double-Time Jazz...

After much debate, it seemed only fitting that Volume 100 should celebrate the music of the great innovators who started it all. Recorded in an authentic style, there is a purity to these songs that is refreshing to the ear and makes them fun...

Now with two CDs! The essence of modern music is bebop---considered by many to be the most important music of the 20th century. This set offers a tremendous way to learn 10 songs by the jazz legend, Charlie Parker, the foremost creator of bebop....

Legendary jazz educator Jerry Coker's newest contribution to jazz enlightenment Clear Solutions for Jazz Improvisers, identifies all of the most common problems Jerry has encountered in his nearly 50 years as a master teacher. In clear, easy-to-understand instruction and concise musical examples, Jerry first...

A concise description of David's approach to playing over the stated tonality using chromaticism, polychords, derived chords, and non-diatonic scales. Includes audio of David playing examples over selected piano chords. A sure way to hip up" and modernize your playing."Author: David LiebmanISBN-10: 156224051XISBN-13: 9781562240516Publisher:...

Includes compositions by and for famous bass players. Highly recommended! Album Contents: Bowin' the Blues * Festus Yukan * Grahi * Blues for Sarka * Gotta Git * Roll Down, Roll On. Transcribed Solos: Jimmy Blanton: Sophisticated Lady (Jimmy Blanton) * Mr. J. B....

THE FIRST CLOSE CRITICAL TREATMENT OF THE ALBUM THAT SHOOK JAZZ WITH ITS ELECTRIC SOUND AND ROCK-INFLUENCED STYLE Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for...

Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. That's the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather...

In 1910, the Tuxedo Jazz Band played its first show at the Tuxedo Dance Hall in Storyville under Oscar Celestin. The popular ensemble went on to play all over New Orleans, as well as across the South and the nation. In 1953, it became...

(Jazz Play Along). For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages...

Minor ii V Mastery is the definitive guide to bebop minor ii V soloing for guitar. Following hot on the heels of the best selling "Fundamental Changes for Jazz Guitar" this book delves deep into all the major soloing approaches to the minor ii...

Throughout Les McCann's incredible jazz career, he took hundreds of photos--at clubs, studios, and festivals around the world--and documented the vibrant cultural life of jazz and soul between 1960 and 1980. These photos include a very young Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sammy Davis Jr.,...

On the long road to becoming an Oscar-winning animation director, Gene Deitch became an intense jazz fan. At the age of 21, he discovered The Record Changer magazine, a jazz fan magazine filled with obsessive, scholarly, and purist essays about jazz as well as...

An analysis of the media's reaction to the lynching of a young black man Employing never-before-used historical materials, the au-thors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett...

The first notes of jazz hit Cape Cod in the very early days of the genre. Bournehurst-on-the-Canal hosted top bands, and emerging swing era dancers packed the hall. Cape Cod's "First Lady of Jazz," Marie Marcus, was a child prodigy in Boston and found...

(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...

(Real Book Multi-Tracks Play-Along). Today's best way to practice jazz! Accurate, easy-to-read lead sheets and professional, customizable audio tracks accessed online for 10 songs. The interactive, online audio interface includes: tempo control; looping; buttons to turn each instrument on or off; lead sheet with...

Check out samples from book: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Sarek-Guitar-and-Guitalele-preview.pdf These patterns were used in musical style Boogie wogie. They were played by piano or double bass. When you listen to these patterns you will find that lot of them were transformed and came to rock, funky...

-A monumental publication, Jazz is the definitive look at nearly thirty years of jazz from a man and his camera, who enjoyed unique access as the history of jazz unfolded "This is the best, most comprehensive jazz book I've ever seen - and I've...

Freedom is the oldest human value. Traditionally, though, freedom has been seen in rather abstract terms: as something that, since the Enlightenment in particular, is best couched in the complexities of a political philosophy of the sort associated with Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau....

In the course of almost a century, European jazz musicians not only produced a corpus of work worthy of much wider appreciation, but also adopted strategies to adapt to the varied reception that the music evoked, which ranged from joyful acceptance to outright prohibition,...

Graham Collier's career in jazz lasted over five decades. He was a bassist, a band-leader, a composer, an educator and an author, who wrote extensively about the music. His working life was littered with 'firsts'. Amongst his many achievements, he was the first British...

Born in 1905, Bill Russell demonstrated diverse musical interests from an early age. A contemporary of John Cage, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, his significance as a percussion composer is well known among aficionados and his work as a musicologist of New Orleans jazz...

This book is intended for the beginner to advanced Jazz player and is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 includes Major & Minor Pentatonic scale exercises.Chapter 2 includes Major & Minor Blues scale exercises. Chapter 3 includes Major & Minor 7th & 9th exercises.Chapter...

15 Original Walking Bass Guitar lines in tablature and notation for the intermediate to advanced bassist. 176 bars of music over 15 Bass lines (average Bass line length 11.7 bars) Audio demonstrations and backing tracks for each Bass line at slow (70bpm), medium (135bpm)...

Life Lessons from the Horn is collection of compelling essays revealing saxophonist Sam Newsome's unique insights as an artist, educator, and jazz musician of the 21st Century. Mr. Newsome, who teaches jazz studies at LIU Brooklyn, brings to each chapter, decades of experience as...

New York City Jazz explores many of the haunts and hideaways that have played host to iconic jazz musicians and singers like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lester Young. Considered the jazz capital of the world,...

Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of ragtime music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.Author: Chas B. EnnisISBN-10: 1528701933ISBN-13: 9781528701938Publisher: Classic Music CollectionLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Jazz Licks: Treble Clef Version is meticulously crafted to enrich and expand the melodic vocabulary of improvising musicians. Featuring over 1500 jazz licks in standard notation, this volume covers the most popular chord progressions across all keys. In addition to essential progressions like 2-5-1...

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic TitleIn Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the end...

Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship. Until now, there has been no in-depth inquiry into what he meant when he said, "I figure singing and...

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...

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed...

(Fake Book). Legendary drummer Billy Cobham made his name by playing with jazz icons like Miles Davis, George Benson, and Horace Silver and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in addition to his own band Dreams and a fruitful solo career. This Real Book includes 16 Cobham...

(Real Book Multi-Tracks Play-Along). Today's best way to practice jazz! Accurate, easy-to-read lead sheets and professional, customizable audio tracks accessed online for 10 songs. The interactive, online audio interface includes: tempo control; looping; buttons to turn each instrument on or off; lead sheet with...

(Real Book Play-Along). The Real Book you know and love has now been updated to include backing tracks for 240 songs accessed online for download or streaming The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted...

(Fake Book). Your new official bebop bible Over 200 classics arranged for C instruments in Real Book style. Titles include: Anthropology * Au Privave * Be-Bop * Boneology * Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) * Byrd Like * Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * Confirmation *...

San Francisco is probably best known for its hills, ubiquitous fog, dungeness crab and the Golden Gate Bridge. But jazz music's threads are similarly woven into the fabric of the city and its environs. Whether performed in renowned clubs like So Different, Jimbo's Bop...

TONY BENNETT: Harold Jones is one of the finest men I know. I have reviewed "The Singer's Drummer" and it is a Knock-Out I am happy that someone is putting together a history of what really happens on the road. This is a very...

Author: Joan SingletonISBN-10: 146200721XISBN-13: 9781462007219Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2011Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

(Jazz Transcriptions). These three CDs contain rhythm section backing tracks for all 60 songs in the popular Charlie Parker Omnibook lead sheet books.Author: Charlie ParkerISBN-10: 145844077XISBN-13: 9781458440778Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2012Pages: 4Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.74h x 8.90w x 0.04d

(Jazz Play Along). The Hal Leonard Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate tool for all jazz musicians. In this special instructional edition, the II-V-I progression is covered in detail from chords and scales to major and minor progressions to melodic and harmonic patterns and...

More than any other musician, Herbie Mann was responsible for establishing the flute as an accepted jazz instrument. Prior to his arrival, the flute was a secondary instrument for saxophonists, but Mann found a unique voice for the flute, presenting it in different musical...

(Jazz Piano Solos). 20 MJQ favorites arranged for piano solo, including: Afternoon in Paris * Bags' Groove * Blues in H (B) * Bluesology * Concorde * Connie's Blues * Delauney's Dilemma * Django * Echoes * The Golden Striker * La Ronde *...

Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories divided into three parts; My Last Flappers, Fantasies and Unclassified Masterpieces each touching on separate subject matter. Each stands alone in style and interest, May Day contrasts drunken debutantes with a mob...

Eleanora "Lady Day" Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, played a primary role in the development of American jazz culture and in African American history. Devoted to the enduring jazz icon, covering many aspects of her career, image and legacy, these fresh essays range...