Blues category: 910 books
Slideshow
poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
SLIDESHOW is Eugene Babb’s debut collection of poetry.
In these spare, vivid poems, Babb explores the fragments and moments that make up a person’s life. Bars, diners, street-corner fleeting encounters — the internal and external worlds interchange fluidly; searching for meaning in a word, a glance, a reflection.
Also by Eugene M. Babb: Grit & Roses: stories
Creole Trombone
Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the city's hottest...
by Michael Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
These 30 warm-ups are challenging for the intermediate to advance player (even professional) and intended to improve both right and left hand facility. They are jazz oriented making use of arpeggios, scales and patterns applicable for improvisation. Includes access to online audio.
Modern Chords
Advanced Harmony for Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
One of the world's great jazz guitarists, Vic Juris shares his insight into the wonderful world of harmony in this book. Not for the fainthearted, Vic teaches polychords and intervallic structures derived from the major, minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor and harmonic major scales in this must have...
by Barry Greene
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Written for the intermediate to advanced jazz guitarist, this book assumes an adequate knowledge of chord scales and jazz theory. The topics include playing modally, chord substitutions, Coltrane substitutions, diminished and melodic minor scales as well as dealing with pentatonics. Companion audio download available online.
by Gary Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The goal of this book is to bridge the gap between classical/traditional accordion solos and professional jazz-styled solos. The accompanying recording follows the music as written but with added rhythm, rubato, and slight improvisation. Audio download available online.
Talking Jazz With Ben Sidran
Volume 2: Solo Voices
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis, and Jack DeJohnette—these are just a few of the jazz musicians whose conversations with...
The Changes
Guide Tones for Jazz chords, Lines and Comping for Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Changes: Guide Tones for Jazz Chords, Lines, and Comping is offered for beginning to advanced players as a way to visualize guide tones on the fretboard. From these shapes lines can be created for soloing and voicings can be built for comping and chord melody. Most importantly, the changes of...
The God and Gigs Study Guide
Succeed as a Musician Without Sacrificing your Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This companion workbook to God and Gigs: Succeed as a Musician without Sacrificing your Faith provides in-depth questions, reflective exercises and action steps that will help you strenghten your faith, improve your career and enhance your most treasured relationships. By using this workbook...
DC Jazz
Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. That telling of history, however, overlooks the pivotal role the nation's capital has played...
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis
A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.
Keep It Real
The Life Story of James "Jimmy" Palao "The King of Jazz"
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Keep It Real: The Life Story of James Jimmy Palao, The King of Jazz
by Joan Singleton
This book will become a major resource for anyone interested in the beginning history of Jazz. It was written to develop an understanding of some of the events that caused Jazz to prosper and to give credit...
Finding Bix
The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to “cool” jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in...
by Vic Juris
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Vic played the solos in this collection with the student in mind. Each piece is based on the changes of popular jazz standards and will serve as great etudes for learning advanced jazz soloing techniques. Students will be able to see how to build a solo, use tension and release (outside and inside...