Jazz Blues category: 910 books
by Edo Castro
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book is a culmination of the music that I have written over the past 36 years. This is not all of the music I’ve written but the ones I felt represented major turning points in my writing. I grew up with a piano in the house. No one was really musically inclined and there’s no recollection of...
Before Elvis
The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll surveys the origins of rock ’n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of...
Blues
La música del Delta del Mississippi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Si alguien puede hablar de música con la documentación de un investigador, la pasión de un novelista y el amor por la anécdota de un fan, ése es Ted Gioia. Tras su monumental Historia del Jazz (1977), ahora invita al lector a un viaje desde las plantaciones del Mississippi, donde nació el blues,...
by Roberto Sánchez Picasso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Libro de ejercicios y conceptos básicos para la iniciación en la improvisación en la guitarra jazz y contemporánea, incluyeintervalos, triadas, escalas pentatónicas, mayor y menor de una octava, 7 formas de escala mayor, walking bass, acordes drop.
Words on Music
Quotations from the greats of popular music
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
You've heard the music and read the biographies. Now gain insight to the greats of popular music through their own words. This book is a collection of some of the most memorable quotes from the premier artists of pop, rock, jazz, and the blues.
Comments on the business of making music are found here as well as many fascinating and often surprising observations on life in general.
by Joel Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
*Cool. *It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein...
Music Makes Me
Fred Astaire and Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire’s work as a dancer and choreographer —particularly in the realm of tap dancing—made...
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy
Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
“A lively and anecdotal history” of the tiny family-run studio where jazz greats from Jelly Roll Morton to Louis Armstrong made their first recordings (Jazz Times).
From 1917 to 1932, in a primitive studio next to the railroad tracks, the Gennett family of Richmond, Indiana, recorded some of...
Che razza di musica
Jazz, blues, soul e le trappole del colore
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Un libro che mette radicalmente in discussione le categorie frequentemente legate al jazz e alla musica afroamericana. Musica “nera”, “jazz bianco”, cantanti neri che possiedono il senso del “soul”, lo swing come attitudine “naturale” dei neri americani: quale fondamento hanno espressioni...
Shadows Across The Moon
Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans And The Making Of Ibiza Clubland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Once a fabled pirate garrison, the Balearic island of Ibiza has been colonised and continually fought over since the era of the Phoenicians. During the 20th century it gained its reputation as a countercultural hotbed after it became a melting pot for bohemians and dropouts who had come there in search...
Modern Blues
Advanced Blues Reharmonizations and Melodic Ideas for Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Modern Blues is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and audio is included in which the more difficult exercises are played at a slower as well as faster tempo. The audio was recorded with...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The Gig Book returns with a volume of jazz classics. Presented with melody lines in standard notation, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song
Songlist:
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Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental
(suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book is the fundamental chapter of solo fingerstyle blues guitar. This first book introduces basic elements of Blues music, specifically on chord, scale, rhythm, expressions and etc to do simple practices and trials. And integrated melodic demo practices are designed in a later section, allowing...
Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 2 : Advanced & Improvisation
(suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book TWO is a separate enhancement on "Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental".
Book TWO is comprised of 2 big chapters.
Chapter TWO includes different variations in rhythmic styles, fret positions of chord and changes in applications, integrated...