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Vendor: Jared E. Davis
Atonal Improvisation and Jazz: A study of Chromatic Interval Pairs and Trichords
"Atonal Improvisation and Jazz" is extremely significant and near to my heart. I believe the concepts laid out in this book will progress the current state of music towards its next stages. Forget everything you know about chords, scales and keys, and learn to...- $24.99
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Vendor: Wax Poetics
Issue 34 The Jazz Issue John Coltrane
Our landmark Jazz Issue (#34) features the classic Blue Train photo of John Coltrane, uncropped, as well as trumpet star Freddie Hubbard. Behind both of these legends was jazz producer Creed Taylor, who left his mark on Impulse and Verve before starting his untouchable...- $23.99
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Vendor: John S. Garrison
Various Artists' Red Hot + Blue
Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment. Blending memoir and cultural history, Garrison recalls his coming out at the height of the AIDS crisis alongside the music...- $14.95
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Vendor: Howexpert
HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone: 101 Tips to Learn How to Practice, Play, and Perform the Saxophone for Beginners, Intermediates, and Advance
If you want to learn how to practice, play, and perform the saxophone for beginners, intermediates, and advanced saxophonists, then check out HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone.HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone will help you build your musicianship from your beginner days to...- $19.99
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Vendor: Darren Mueller
At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz
In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. The LP's increased fidelity and playback capacity allowed lengthy compositions and extended improvisations to fit...- $117.95
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Vendor: Derek Coller
Chicago Jazz: the Second Line
When Derek Coller decided to pay tribute to his late friend - the author, biographer, discographer and researcher, Bert Whyatt - he looked for a common theme under which to group some of the articles they had written together over the years. He found...- $28.95
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Vendor: Ondrej Sarek
Boogie woogie patterns for GDAD Bouzouki: And their new use
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...- $11.53
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Vendor: Scott Joplin
The Scores of Scott Joplin - The Chrysanthemum - Sheet Music for Piano
Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, The Chrysanthemum, originally composed in 1904. Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was known as the "King of Ragtime". Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Ofer Gazit
Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians
Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to...- $34.95
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Vendor: Wayne Shorter
Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Wayne Shorter, Vol 33: Jazz Classics, Book & 2 CDs
Wayne Shorter has been voted best composer in Down Beat polls for years. Here is a collection of some his most famous songs from the 60s and 70s. Contains some of the finest melodic and harmonic vehicles used in the Miles Davis and Art...- $21.95
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Vendor: Gary Giddins
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Within days of Charlie "Bird" Parker's death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to...- $17.95
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Vendor: Steven Mooney
Walking Bass Lines for Guitar: The Blues in 12 keys
Walking Bass Lines for Guitar Book IThe Blues in 12 Keys is a complete guide for the guitarist demonstrating the devices used to play walking bass lines and chords in solo or accompaniment settings. Including Bebop Blues progression, Minor Blues & Blues with a...- $24.95
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Vendor: Steven Mooney
Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book IV - Building a 12 Key Facility for the Jazz Bassist: Book & MP3 Playalong Bass Tab Edition
Including over 5hrs of backing tracks 333 tracks in total. Building a 12 key Facility for the Jazz Bassist breaks down the jazz bass vocabulary by outlining key areas of harmonic structure related to the jazz standard and bebop styles. As in the earlier...- $19.95
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Vendor: Steven Mooney
Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book III - Walking Bass Lines - Standard Lines
Standard Lines, Book III in the Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines series for the Double Bassist and Electric Bassist is a comprehensive guide demonstrating the devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz standard tradition. Book III covers 24 standard jazz...- $19.95
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Vendor: Andy Laverne
Quick Chords: Every Chord -- Every Key
Andy LaVerne has taken his years of experience as a first call jazz pianist and created this simple, pocket-sized, easy-to-use reference for playing chords that sound good instantly! Jazz pianists spend perhaps 80% of their practice time learning tunes and soloing. When they play...- $5.95
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Vendor: Ned Bennett
Getting Started with Improvisation: A Practical Guide for Instrumentalists and Pianists (Pre-Reading - Early Intermediate Level), Book & Enhanced CD [
Getting Started with Improvisation is a practical and imaginative introduction to improvising for instrumentalists and pianists of any age, from pre-reading to early intermediate stage. A journey around the world, you'll explore music from other cultures as well as developing your improvising skills and...- $11.99
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Vendor: Loren Schoenberg
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz
A concise history of jazz The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington Classic songs and compositions The most...- $24.00
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Vendor: Jason Randall
How to Play the Jazz Trumpet for Beginners: Learn Jazz Trumpet Theory, Harmony, and Techniques from Scratch with Guided Audio Recordings
Unleash the melodic magic of jazz with "How to Play the Jazz Trumpet for Beginners" by renowned musician and educator, Jason Randall. Whether you're a complete novice or have some musical experience, this comprehensive guide is designed to help you master the art of...- $6.99
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Vendor: Martin Torgoff
Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
The gripping story of the rise of early drug culture in America, from the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of...- $32.00
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Vendor: Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Jazz Bossa Novas, Vol 31: Book & Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]
It has become standard practice today for the professional musician to play at least one Latin tune in each set for added interest and variety. This popular set contains ten beautiful and popular bossa novas that jazz players have enjoyed for years, played with...- $17.90
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Vendor: Joe Riposo
Developing a Jazz Vocabulary
Much has been written about the jazz language or the jazz vocabulary. Linguistic references are sensible and proper because, just as we speak in words and phrases derived from the alphabet, so do we improvise jazz in musical phrases derived from notes. In speech,...- $15.00
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Vendor: Vic Dapra
Es Believers Plus - By Vic Dapra & David Plues
(Book). Introduced by Gibson in the 1930s, the ES (Electric Spanish) series would transform the role of the guitar in the world of the big bands and jazz groups. With amplification, the guitarist could solo along with the horn sections and mix with the...- $85.00
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Vendor: Bill Shoemaker
Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic
This book examines the work of select musicians from the United Kingdom during the upheaval of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic and places them in contemporary and historical contexts. Bill Shoemaker profiles a diverse cast of subjects and enhances our understanding of experimental music...- $95.00
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Vendor: John L. Williams
Miss Shirley Bassey
In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Paul Tornbohm
The Carpenters: Every Album, Every Song
The brother and sister team of Karen and Richard Carpenter rank as one of the most successful acts in pop music history. Between the first Carpenters' album released in 1969 and their final studio album together in 1981, they achieved three Grammy awards, 18...- $22.95
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Vendor: Mark Osteen
Music at the Crossroads: Lives & Legacies of Baltimore Jazz
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...- $39.95
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Vendor: Elijah Wald
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored...- $32.00
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Vendor: Scott Saul
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
In the long decade between the mid-1950s and the late '60s, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time...- $33.00
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Vendor: Earnest N. Bracey
Miles Davis, and Jazz as Religion: The Politics of Social Music Culture
This book is about the late Miles Dewey Davis and his life as a Black musician. Davis was unquestionably the most important jazz man during his era. This work also explores the spirituality of jazz or "social music," as it relates to the music...- $39.99
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Vendor: Philip Arneill
Tokyo Jazz Joints
Documenting a vanishing world of Japanese jazz cultureJapanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insular worlds where time ceases to exist, removed from the speed and chaos of the modern urban landscape. Tokyo Jazz Joints is a visual chronicle of this unique culture that...- $54.00
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Vendor: Jacob W. Hardesty
The Jazz Problem: Education and the Battle for Morality during the Jazz Age
How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.Author: Jacob W. HardestyISBN-10: 1438494637ISBN-13: 9781438494630Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2024- $99.00
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Vendor: Edward Berlin
Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History
Ragtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America's popular musical expression. But the understanding of ragtime and its era has been clouded by a history of murky impressions, half-truths, and inventive...- $13.99
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Vendor: Jim Kalbach
Killer Walking Bass: Melodic Lines for the Advanced Jazz Bassist
Your search for the perfect walking line never ends. This book is unique. We focus on melody as a key driver in walking. Avoid playing the same thing over and over, and add to your walking vocabulary now.Here's what you'll get: Walking lines for...- $34.99
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Vendor: Rufus Reid
Rufus Reid Bass Lines: Transcribed from Volumes 1 & 3 of Jamey Aebersold's Play-A-Long Series
Rufus Reid Bass Lines complete bass line transcription book from Volume 1: Jazz How to Play and Improvise and Volume 3: II/V7/I Progression featuring the great jazz bassist Rufus Reid. While reading from the book, play along with the bassist on the recording (sold...- $19.95
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Vendor: Bill Gutman
Duke: The Musical Life of Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of jazz's greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy-five. Interviewing Duke's friends, fans, and...- $14.99
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Vendor: Daryl Lawrence
Linda Ronstadt 1969 to 1989: Every Album, Every Song
Linda Ronstadt is one of the most important women and people in the history of popular music. Starting her solo career in 1969, she redefined what a music superstar could be by expanding her repertoire from her country rock roots, crossing over to mainstream...- $22.95
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Vendor: Miguel Covarrubias
Jazz: America's Gift: From Its Birth to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue & Beyond
An Innovative Look at the Defining Moments of Jazz Music is both a unifying force and a deeply personal expression of the self. Over the millennia, melody and lyrics have served as a multilayered mode of storytelling and expression of joy, sorrow, and hope....- $27.95
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Vendor: Mervyn Cooke
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz
The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many angles, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays offers informed and accessible guidance to the challenge,...- $110.00
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Vendor: WR Book House
The Real Christmas Book Play-Along: C Edition - Second Edition Songbook with 150 Select Backing Tracks
(Real Book Play-Along). Make it a merry Christmas with this collection over 160 custom arrangements with lyrics of carols and contemporary holiday songs with sophisticated jazz chord changes in the famous, user-friendly "Real Book" format. This edition includes access to online recordings of 150...- $49.99
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Vendor: Charles L. Granata
Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording
Featuring 100 photographs of Frank Sinatra working with orchestras and arrangers, listening to playbacks, and, of course, singing, this book tells the whole story of how he created the Sinatra sound and translated the most intense personal emotions into richly worked-out songs of unrivalled...- $21.99
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Vendor: Jerald Simon
Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know: Learn jazz basics, including blues scales, ii-V-I chord progressions, modal jazz improv
Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is a book everyone can use to improve their understanding of jazz basics, blues scales, the ii-V-I chord progressions, modal jazz improv, other fun jazz chord progressions, and more. Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano...- $25.95
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Vendor: Tom Perchard
Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture
This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72). He was a prodigy- recruited to Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still a teenager, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers not much after. By his early twenties Morgan had played on four...- $29.95
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Vendor: Robert Goffin
Horn Of Plenty: The Story Of Louis Armstrong
Horn of Plenty: The Story of Louis Armstrong is a biographical book written by Robert Goffin. The book chronicles the life and career of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, from his humble beginnings in New Orleans to his rise to international fame as a musician...- $46.95
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Vendor: Robert Goffin
Horn Of Plenty: The Story Of Louis Armstrong
Horn Of Plenty: The Story Of Louis Armstrong is a biography written by Robert Goffin. The book tells the story of the legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong, from his humble beginnings in New Orleans to his rise as one of the most influential musicians...- $31.95
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Vendor: L. Dow Balliett
Complete Writings V2
Complete Writings V2 by L. Dow Balliett is a comprehensive collection of the author's literary works. The book is divided into several sections, each of which covers a different topic related to personal development and spiritual growth. Some of the topics covered in the...- $35.95
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Vendor: Billie Burke
With a Feather on My Nose
With a Feather on My Nose is an autobiographical book written by Billie Burke, an American actress famous for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. The book chronicles her life from childhood to her rise...- $30.95
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Vendor: L. Dow Balliett
Complete Writings V2
The Complete Writings V2 is a comprehensive collection of writings by L. Dow Balliett, an American author and metaphysical teacher. This book is the second volume in a series that brings together all of Balliett's works, including her famous books on numerology, astrology, and...- $50.95
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Vendor: Roberta Piket
Jazz Piano Vocabulary: Volume 2 Dorian Mode
This book is the 2nd volume in a series designed to help the student of jazz piano learn and apply jazz scales by mastering each scale and its uses in improvisation. Each book focuses on a different scale, illustrating the scale in all twelve...- $14.99
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Vendor: Roberta Piket
Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 3: The Phrygian Mode
Author: Roberta PiketISBN-10: 1594899541ISBN-13: 9781594899546Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.11d- $14.99
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Vendor: Vladimir Simosko
Serge Chaloff: A Musical Biography and Discography
Simosko details the life and music of Serge Chaloff in an engaging style, from his childhood in Boston, Massachusetts, through his untimely death in 1957. He also provides a discography of Chaloff's recorded output, much of which has been made available by the 1993...- $97.00
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