Music-Genres & Styles-Jazz

The 25 titles are: Audrey * Blue Lake Tahoe * Bluette * Chorale * The Desert and the Parched Land * Five for Ten Small Fingers * Going to Sleep * Home Without Lola * I See, Satie * Joshua Redman * Koto Song...

What I didn't know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad facts are puzzle pieces...

Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World War I, it quickly became part of the local music culture. In Italy,...

A book of poetry and song lyrics focused on his personal experience of playing jazz, composing jazz, and his stage interactions with fellow jazz musician greats, this is sumptuous writing by composer Joe LoCascio who has spent a lifetime creating and performing music. He...

Jews have been a major presence in America's jazz, as musicians and as jazz facilitators, and in Kosher Jammers: Jewish Connections in Jazz - The USA, Gerber tells that story with a rigour worthy of academia but with a feature writer's creative flair. Besides...

25 original jazz guitar licks from the Major scale and its modes in tablature and notation. 117 bars of music over 25 licks (average lick length 4.68 bars) Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) Backing tracks at full...

Robert Schultz has selected and arranged thirteen great jazz hits for piano solo with complete lyrics and chords, ranging in difficulty from intermediate to more advanced. This is an essential edition for all jazz and professional pianists, and great for the advancing student. Titles...

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...

This Is the story of the First Jazz Musician and the birth of a new music we now call Jazz. It begins in New Orleans at the end of the 19th Century and you will learn of the development of Buddy Bolden's music and...

This set is for all those looking for a good collection of bop favorites, jazz classics, and well-known standards . . . very much what you might encounter on a typical gig. The all-star rhythm section is one of the best in the business...

Author: Robin Kelley, Robin Dg KelleyISBN-10: 1665252723ISBN-13: 9781665252720Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 5.67h x 6.06w x 1.81d

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...

Let your children have fun and learn something new! The Fruits and Vegetables Coloring Book contains 50 pages with fruits and vegetables. 8 x 11.5 in size. Every page contains: the name of a fruit/ vegetable written in large font that can be coloredan...

What I didn't know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad facts are puzzle pieces...

(Jazz Duet). 15 duets for any combination of these instruments, including: Alfie * Blue Skies * Let's Fall in Love * Star Dust * Unforgettable * When Sunny Gets Blue * When You Wish Upon a Star * and more.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0793549132ISBN-13:...

The Jazz Guitar Chord Bible Complete solves one of the greatest problems in jazz...the knowledge and use of chords. It is a complete guide to three- and four-string guitar chords. Every application is covered including passing chords and altered chords, but only the most...

A book of poetry and song lyrics focused on his personal experience of playing jazz, composing jazz, and his stage interactions with fellow jazz musician greats, this is sumptuous writing by composer Joe LoCascio who has spent a lifetime creating and performing music. He...

The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents over forty commissioned articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of enquirey. Each chapter reflects on developments within jazz studies over the last twenty-five years.Author: Nicholas GebhardtISBN-10:...

Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally. Author: Noam LemishISBN-10: 0367488787ISBN-13: 9780367488789Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

In the realm of singer songwriters, few have been as influential as Neil Young, whose music has always been creative and relevant throughout six decades. Neil is a chameleon for whom boundaries of genres do not exist. He has delved into folk, country, r&b,...

Challenging Jazz Duets, Volume 1 is a set of five jazz duets for players of multiple combinations of instruments. The purpose of these duets is to provide players challenging arrangements based on the chord changes to standard jazz tunes. The song titles are an...

This book tells the story of the first Thirty Years of Jazz during which the basic jazz of Buddy Bolden developed into Classic Jazz and passed into history. It covers the first twenty years before recordings appeared and uncovers the Saga of the first...

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only...

(Duet Piano Education). Includes seven duets from this legendary ragtime composer: The Cascades * The Easy Winners * The Entertainer * Gladiolus Rag * Maple Leaf Rag * Scott Joplin's New Rag * Stoptime Rag.Author: Scott JoplinISBN-10: 0793567041ISBN-13: 9780793567041Publisher: Edward B. Marks Music CompanyLanguage:...

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...

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh's Hill District was the heart of the city's Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped...

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

Includes 12 exciting jazz/rock and fusion tracks composed and performed by well-known keyboardist Dan Haerle. These tracks were recorded with a real drummer, giving them the important human" touch often missing in all-electronic play along tracks. Here's the real thing: exciting, full sounding tracks...

This book is great for keyboardists who have learned the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation. It introduces the modes of the major scale, chord extensions, making the changes, using chromatic and guide tones, chord substitution, rhythm changes," the blues, altered dominant chords, and...

Premier Piano Course, Jazz, Rags & Blues 2B includes original pieces that reinforce concepts introduced in the Lesson Book 2B. Popular composer Martha Mier has composed all new music in a variety of styles, including ragtime, boogie, and jazz. Each piece has a duet...

When Crowded House arrived with their debut album and hit single 'Don't Dream It's Over' in 1986, the seed of a unique musical journey was planted into our collective musical consciousness. The Aussie/Kiwi trio created a sound as playful as Split Enz - out...

Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photographyLiving Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two...

The third and final edition about the legendary Double Door Inn music venue, which brought many to Charlotte, NC for over 43 years. This is the story of the musicians that played the Double Door, and the family that brought it to life.Author: Debby...

Written by jazz musician Bob Mintzer, 14 Jazz & Funk Etudes presents practice and performance aids and explanations in a variety of jazz and funk styles. In addition, the books include a recording containing combo accompaniment that's ideal for practice sessions.Author: Bob MintzerISBN-10: 0769230288ISBN-13:...

Praised by the Washington Post as a "tough, unblinkered critic," James Lincoln Collier is probably the most controversial writer on jazz today. His acclaimed biographies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman continue to spark debate in jazz circles, and his iconoclastic articles...

Once you've collected every 7" from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there's nothing more to learn, what's a punk to do? Try jazz, recommends Bob Suren....

(Evans Piano Education). Features 11 jazzy Christmas tunes arranged at the intermediate level in Lee Evans' inimitable style. Includes: Caroling, Caroling * The Christmas Song * The Christmas Waltz * Feliz Navidad * Frosty the Snow Man * (There's No Place Like) Home for...

This swinging new series from Warner Bros. Publications is guaranteed to jazz up any musician. This great book features full backing tracks, demonstration tracks, chord symbols in concert pitch, and wonderful arrangements. An essential tool in jazz education, this text is a must have...

Koop Kooper, the Cocktail universe's high priest of all things hep, swinging, and swank, and cyber disc-jockey of his radio show, "The Cocktail Nation," has unleashed the definitive guide to the Lounge universe. Replete with gassin interviews and cool pixeramas, he reveals the incredible...

(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...

Author: Robin J. MillerISBN-10: 1420835661ISBN-13: 9781420835663Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2005Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.09d

A culmination of nearly six decades of writing from the mind of iconoclastic film, literary, and music critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.Looking back at his more than 50 years of writing, where many flights of fancy and fantasy prove to suggest certain duties as well as...

Award-winning jazz educator Caleb Chapman and multiple GRAMMY(R) Award-winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin have created a highly effective approach to jazz articulation. Step by step, The Articulate Jazz Musician details Caleb's proven approach for mastering the fundamentals of jazz articulation, phrasing, and interpretation. The play-along...

Art Pepper is generally considered the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. This text contains interviews, in which Pepper talks of his musical influences, childhood and drug habit. It also features a discography and photos of Pepper at different stages of his...

The Five Pennies: The Biography of Jazz Band Leader Red Nichols by Grady Johnson is a comprehensive account of the life and career of one of the most influential jazz musicians of the early 20th century. The book delves into the personal and professional...

A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.Author: Fumi TomitaISBN-10: 1438496389ISBN-13: 9781438496382Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Arguably the greatest jazz drummer of all time, the legendary Buddy Rich exhibited his love for music by dedicating his life to the art. His career spanned seven decades, beginning when he was 18 months old and continuing until his death in 1987. This...

This addition to the Really Easy Jazzin' About series offers young recorder players funky jazzy tunes that will be fun to play as well as building technique. Written in Pam Wedgwood's inimitable style and tailor-made to suit the absolute beginner, Really Easy Jazzin' About...

Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before...

(Guitar Educational). The world of solo jazz guitar is as vast and limitless as your imagination. Chord-melody style harmonizes a song's melodies and solos with full chord voicings and puts every facet of a guitarist's abilities to the test. This book introduces intermediate and...