Music-Genres & Styles-Jazz

This generously illustrated book records the story of Russia's bells--the thousands of awe inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors of Russian Orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the tsars. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities...

Long before it was paired with wine and sold to the white middle-classes, jazz had been the 'unapologetic expression' of an oppressed people, a music defined as much by its rhythms and harmonies as it was by the transatlantic forces of slavery and imperialism...

Tom has earned the reputation of one of New York's finest jazz trumpet players and is quickly becoming known for the refreshing style of composition. Here we have 12 of Tom's hand picked favorites representing a wide range of different styles and grooves. All...

The goal of this series is to introduce students to the rhythms, harmonies and other unique characteristics of jazz. Students will be motivated by the variety of styles and sounds that have that special Dennis Alexander sound. From lyrical melodies to infectious rhythms and...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...

Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques.Author: Gary MotleyISBN-10: 1032399236ISBN-13: 9781032399232Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2023Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 11.00h...

From top-performing Jazz pianist Jeff Colella comes this groundbreaking book on music theory, skill development, and the art of improvisation.Jeff Colella is one of California's most in-demand Jazz pianists. His post-bop style has granted him multiple tours, a faculty position, and a widely successful...

From top-performing Jazz pianist Jeff Colella comes this groundbreaking book on music theory, skill development, and the art of improvisation.Jeff Colella is one of California's most in-demand Jazz pianists. His post-bop style has granted him multiple tours, a faculty position, and a widely successful...

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly...

When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the "Great American Songbook"...

Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses the major figures and various movements from the racist poems of the 1920s to contemporary times when the tone of jazz...

Author: Kenneth M. O'GormanISBN-10: 1505415284ISBN-13: 9781505415285Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2014Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.37d

The Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1959 album Time Out changed the sound of jazz and American music. Brubeck's experimentation with meter, harmony and even Turkish rhythms eventually earned him the cover of Time Magazine; the first jazz musician to achieve such a feat. Saxophonist Paul...

In this masterful compilation, world-recognized discographer Chris Sheridan draws together the most comprehensive reconstruction of Thelonious Monk's performances and recordings. Woven through the chronological listing of Monk's work is the story of his rise to acceptance as one of the key pianists and composers...

"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"Gene Harris, the "Blues Man From Boise," as the "Wall Street Journal" once called him, died at the start of a new millennium, but he left a legacy of music that will outlive us all....

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...

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge...

"ARE YOU IN THE POCKET?" - What does that really mean? Discover the secrets of jazz drumming and explore the music of some of the greatest jazz legends of all time with IN THE POCKET - JAZZ SNARE DRUM SOLOS WITH THE LEGENDS. Those...

Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. I is written at the easy to intermediate-easy level. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble to improve your playing, whenever you want. As you play with and listen to the outstanding...

Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance offers a new and exciting way to listen to and understand jazz. When describing a performance, most jazz writers focus on the improvised lines of the soloist and their underlying harmonic progressions. This approach overlooks the basic...

The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called 'Easy Listening'. Like its contemporary, rock 'n' roll, it took the world by storm, introducing romance and chic into a world brutalised by war....

Playing Solo Jazz Piano is an essential new book for creative jazz pianists. The second edition adds two new chapters and audiovisual content to the original. Readers will learn essential solo jazz piano concepts like stride piano, one-handed shell voicings, comping, using basslines, shared-hand...

The Jazzin' Up Christmas series offers carefully crafted, graded arrangements of favorite Christmas carols with jazz-style accompaniments. Titles: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Good King Wenceslas * I Saw Three Ships...

Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of small group swing jazz. Coming into being in the early 1940s, small group swing answered the need in the Black community for a form of jazz that...

Born with a beat in his soul and a drumstick in hand, Warren I. Smith's destiny with music was inevitable. His musical chops took him from the smoky jazz clubs of Chicago, through the intoxicating energy of New York's music scene, to global tours,...

Anyone with knowledge of basic chords and guitar scale fingerings can dig in and start learning to play jazz right away with this best-selling book and CD by renowned jazz guitarist and educator Jody Fisher, now in a standard-notation-only edition. Spanning topics like the...

Simply Gershwin is a collection of the most famous compositions by George and Ira Gershwin. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering and dynamics have been included to aid with interpretation, and a large print size makes the notation easy to read. Titles: Bidin' My Time *...

(Musicians Institute Press). Learn innovative improvisation concepts from Musicians Institute instructor Sid Jacobs with this book/CD pack designed from the famous school's elective courses. Explores: voice-leading melodic lines, symmetrical scales, triad pairs and much more. The CD includes 48 demonstration tracks each example is...

When live jazz arrived in France towards the end of World War I, it was seen from the start as a fertile symbol of other things. It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modernism, it was America, it was African primitivism, sexual...

Apex Blues chronicles the extraordinary lives and musical legacies of two generation-spanning Jazz clarinet virtuosos: Jimmie Noone Sr. and his son Jimmy Noone Jr.Jimmie Noone Sr. rose to fame in the 1910s New Orleans French Quarter jazz scene, forging his iconic 'Sweet Lorraine' style...

Fun to play This play-along includes a traditional rhythm section accompaniment (provided by the Rascals of Ragtyme band) that includes piano, banjo, wash board or drums, and tuba. It's the perfect companion to Volume 100: St. Louis Blues. Rhythm Section: Bob Stevens (banjo); Roger...

The post-war jazz revival marked the beginning of an independent British youth culture with music as its focus. Although it always remained a minority enthusiasm, jazz actually embodied the vaguely felt sentiments, dissatisfactions and aspirations of the post-war generation more fully than any other...

Jazz is essentially an aural tradition and is dependent on this method of learning for success in developing a true understanding of the style. It is impossible to become a jazz musician without familiarity of the players that have brought about its development. The...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...

Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. In Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness, Sam V. H. Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the...

Fifteen favorite jazz tunes arranged for intermediate to advanced piano. Includes: Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Georgia on My Mind * Killing Me Softly with His Song * Mood Indigo * On Green Dolphin Street * The Shadow of Your Smile * Take...

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...

Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 3) is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind's welcoming, clear, and detailed guide to modal and modern jazz piano study.Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 3) guides intermediate jazz students through the jazz piano world of artists like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Herbie...

A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started...

Jacob Hardesty is Dean of the College of Social Science, Commerce, and Education and Associate Professor of Education at Rockford University.Author: Jacob W. HardestyISBN-10: 1438494645ISBN-13: 9781438494647Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2024Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

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...

Standard Lines Book III in the Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines series for the 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 chord progressions with...

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself...

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In 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...

Wynn-Anne Rossi's Jazzin' Americana for Two series is a journey through the jazz genre, honoring the history, the diverse styles, and the fabulous musicians who made this music great. Students will become familiar with the names of famous musicians such as Chet Baker, McCoy...

Just for Fun: Swing Jazz Banjo is designed for your total enjoyment. Each featured song is arranged in the authentic early jazz-era style, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically very satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord...

ATTENTION GUITARISTS!!Improvisation is the art of composing in the moment with freedom of expression. Do you want to get on the fast track to improvising with modern jazz style?The second book in the Master Arpeggio System series continues where the first one left off,...

What does jazz have to do with human spirituality? In Thriving on a Riff, Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter shows us how jazz, in its quest for transcendence, bridges the gap between the secular and the sacred and, further, that these two...

Discover The Language of the World's Greatest Jazz Fusion GuitaristsWhether you're struggling to get started in the complex world of Fusion guitar, or simply looking to enhance your vocabulary with 100 authentic licks in the style of the Fusion legends, this is the solution...