Blues category: 910 books

Vijay Iyer is one of the most significant contemporary composers and performers on the piano. This manuscript represents a compilation of small group compositions by Iyer during a period from 1999 through 2008. The bulk of the pieces were originally written for Vijay's quartet with altoist Rudresh...

When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard “Now’s The Time” by Charlie Parker, she was instantly hooked—and so began a seventy-year jazz journey. In 1962, she emerged as the first jazz singer to record on the prestigious Blue Note label with...

Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to ground American musicians in a core facet of their true cultural heritage. Ed Sarath applies an emergent consciousness-based...

Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Brent Hayes Edwards writes. He explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature—both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves.

An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of second...

When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies divulge the way many musical...

“Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself.” —John Zorn “Hamilton’s work may...

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 some of her most important instruction in the...

Jesus is the only one in which we may receive salvation, the only foundation laid, authorized, and ordained by God when the fullness of time had come. I ask God in the name of Jesus Christ to loose the bands of wickedness, destroy yokes, strongholds, and suffocate Satan and his devices in the name...

Partez à la découverte de la musique américaine avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! En quelques décennies, le panorama de l'Amérique musicale s'est peu à peu modifié du fait de l'exploration passionnée de nouvelles voies sonores que l'on qualifiait encore d'expérimentales à la mort...

Nel tentare un accostamento tra le due arti, oltre a comprendere una breve analisi comparata della storia del cinema e della storia del jazz, evidenzia il carattere sociologico che costituisce uno dei punti focali intorno a cui prende vita tutto il libro.

Mystère du jazz : ce passage du solo, à chacun tour à tour confié. Un au-delà de ce qui va ensemble. Et nous, écrivains, on en serait privé ? Marc Villard, un des principaux du polar français, a toujours été un explorateur, et un musicien du noir. Voilà ses 8 solos comme un seul,...

Stephen Bett's 12th book, Sound Off: a book of jazz, is loosely, a "serial" poem, a book of 76 linked poems, each responding (himself as a jazz fan) to the work of 76 very current jazz musicians. These "jazzers", as he calls them, are not the old tried & true names we all know—they...

When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined by what your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception as an improviser is determined by your technique. If you can't play certain types of ideas, you are simply not going to conceive of them while you are...