Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Boston Boy
Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discovers his love of jazz music as he follows, and...
Fashion and Jazz
Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion...
People Get Ready
The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s...
by Francesco Piccolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Questa breve storia del Blues intende presentare in maniera organica quelli che furono gli eventi, gli stili, i protagonisti della prima espressione artistica originale della comunità nera degli Stati Uniti d’America.
Lo svolgersi degli avvenimenti è raccontato dagli anni della schiavitù, passa...
Shaping Jazz
Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated...
The Blues Come to Texas
Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick's Unfinished Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
From October 1959 until the mid-1970s, Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick collaborated on what they hoped to be a definitive history and analysis of the blues in Texas. Both were prominent scholars and researchers—Oliver had already established an impressive record of publications, and McCormick was...
Experiencing Herbie Hancock
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
The musical output of pianist and composer Herbie Hancock is a design rarely seen in jazz; a child prodigy working their way up the ranks to elder statesman and influencing an entire generation of musicians across numerous genres. Sowing his oats in classical repertoire, Hancock used jazz to satiate...
Know It All Jazz
The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
For non-aficionados, jazz can be slippery and difficult to grasp. Jazz can leave a novice baffled, unsure how to listen, and with the question “How is it that they know what to play?”
Know-It-All Jazz takes readers from the African-American roots and all the way to the global mix of styles...
Wisconsin Riffs
Jazz Profiles from the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
An extensive, upbeat compilation of Wisconsin’s jazz musicians
Although New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago are often considered the epicenters of American jazz, this extensive, upbeat compilation of jazz musician biographies details Wisconsin’s rich association the genre since its...
Jazz Son
Selected Poetry, Lyrics, and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2003
In Jazz Son, Elliot F. Bratton makes a powerful contribution to creative Jazz literature. A Jazz scholar, one-time New York Jazz DJ, and practicing Jazzpoet, his poems are celebrations of the Jazz life in all of its spirituality, sensuality, pathos, and joy. There are poems dedicated to several Jazz...
by Steve Grieve
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Intended for beginning to intermediate level players, this blues guitar tutorial offers progressive lessons addressing chords, comping, scales, phrasing, and solo improvising. The book’s numerous musical examples and tunes are written in both standard notation and guitar tablature as well as in...
Playing Changes
Jazz for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
One of jazz’s leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playing Changes is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling...
by Woody Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1995
Over 200 blues songs from the twenties to the present are included in this deluxe edition. Features many artists representing a wide variety of styles and includes rare photographs. Songs include: Basin Street Blues * Bulldoze Blues (Goin' Up the Country) * Everyday (I Have the Blues) * Five Long...
Growing up with Jazz
Twenty Four Musicians Talk About Their Lives and Careers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
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 them on the road...