Jazz Blues category: 910 books

It's Easy to Play Boogie-Woogie is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of 20 popular songs in the Boogie-Woogie style for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing. Song List: - Alright Okay You Win -...

With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory...

17 original compositions written and performed by the modern fingerstyle guitar master.

Ragtime music has a character all its own. While it lends itself ideally to a variety of settings and moods, it always maintains its unique joyful feeling. The banjo is an instrument ideally suited for ragtime. The bright crisp banjo sound truly adds a new dimension to the ragtime feeling. Mel Bay...

This book explains to the student how to start a phrase of Improvisation from any starting point of the scale (Major, dominant, minor, diminished, etc.)

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

The talented Scott Joplin was a pioneer of the Piano Rag and he wrote some of the most popular and recognisable pieces in this genre. Scott Joplin: Piano Rags, Book 1 is the first in a three-volume collection of the ragtime master’s works. Each piece has been carefully and faithfully arranged...

Seven outstanding solos in the Fats Waller post-ragtime style that gain a totally new flavor and life when played on fingerstyle guitar! In notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti. In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica. Non sono...

Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti. In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica. Non sono...

I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown’s legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class; that Motown’s creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues...

Mit seinem Tod 1980 wurde Bon Scott endgültig zu einer Ikone des Rock, und um jene kalte Februarnacht in London, in der AC/DCs charismatischer Leadsänger in einem abgestellten Auto nach einer Sauftour sein Leben aushauchte, ranken sich unzählige Legenden. Jedes Jahr gesellen sich ein paar neue...

Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti. In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica. L’analisi...

Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Wes Montgomery, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, Robert Fripp e Van Halen sono solo alcuni dei grandi solisti della chitarra elettrica protagonisti del libro “Eroi elettrici”....