Jazz category: 919 books
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dictionnaire du Jazz
(Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Découvrez ou red****écouvrez le jazz sous toutes ses formes.
Extrait de deux ouvrages monumentaux, le Dictionnaire des Musiciens et le Dictionnaire des Musiques, précédemment parus dans la même collection, ce dictionnaire se consacre au jazz sous toutes ses formes : les styles (COOL, FUSION,...
Il Jazz: un gioco da ragazzi
Propedeutica e didattica dell'improvvisazione nella scuola di base
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Il Jazz: un gioco da ragazzi nasce da una rilettura critica del Jazz, della sua evoluzione e delle sue caratteristiche fondanti, volta ad individuare dei presupposti pedagogici trasferibili in una didattica che privilegi l'ascolto, il gioco e la creatività, senza togliere spazio alle tradizionali...
The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming...
Norman Granz
The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential,...
by Raymond A. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Read This eBook If Youíre Looking For A Great eBook On The Many Stlyes Of Jazz Music, The History Of Vocal Jazz, Creating Jazz Music, Lena Horne- Jazz Legend, Billie Holiday, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Jazz Music Today.. Plus Much More!
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Jazz can be difficult for the novice, but 30-Second Jazz proves the ideal companion for the newcomer to the subject, taking readers from the African-American roots of jazz all the way to today’s global mix of musicians and styles. Along the way, it looks at the shape, style and instruments of jazz,...
I Walked With Giants
The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Composer of more than 100 jazz pieces, three-time Grammy nominee, and performer on more than 125 albums, Jimmy Heath has earned a place of honor in the history of jazz. Over his long career, Heath knew many jazz giants such as Charlie Parker and played with other innovators including John Coltrane,...
DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews
A 75th Anniversary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
(Book). Culled from the DownBeat archives includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat 's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious...
by Marc Myers
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters,...