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So You Want to Sing Jazz
A Guide for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Since the 1930s and ̕40s, jazz has stood tall in American popular music, drawing into its embrace not only great horn players, percussionists, guitarists, bassists, and pianists, but also some of the greatest singers in America’s musical history. Jazz has laid the groundwork for important innovations...
Nikolay Myaskovsky
The Conscience of Russian Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as “one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music.” Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras; they were some of the most inspiring symphonic...
Experiencing Chick Corea
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
With twenty-three Grammy wins, Chick Corea is a legendary jazz figure and one of the most prolific and influential contemporary pianists of our time. He has produced hundreds of releases in multiple genres over five decades, and he is one of the hardest-working musicians in the industry, with a yearly...
Experiencing Ornette Coleman
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ornette Coleman, along with pianist Cecil Taylor, was one of the founding forces of the Free Jazz movement which took the music world by storm in the 1950s and 60s. His brilliance as an instrumentalist at first positioned him as a polarizing...
Rhythm Is My Beat
Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
In Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound, Alfred Green tells the story of his father, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, whose guitar work served as the pulse of the Count Basie Band. A quiet but key figure in big band jazz, Freddie Green took a distinct pride in...
Debussy's Paris
Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque explores how key works reflect not only the most appealing and innocent aspects of Paris but also more disquieting attitudes of the time such as racism, colonial domination, and nationalistic hostility. Debussy left no avenue unexplored, and...
Experiencing Leonard Bernstein
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile,...
Oboe Unbound
Contemporary Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
After decades of experimentation, musicians have begun to utilize a strikingly colorful palette of sounds on woodwind instruments. Flute, clarinet, and saxophone players, in many different musical settings, regularly use sounds that were unheard of in the middle of the twentieth century. Oboists,...
Neoclassical Music in America
Voices of Clarity and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant movements in American music. Today this music is largely in eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of music history, in spite of—and initially because of—its adherence to an expanded tonality. No previous...
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the counterculture, beginning with an examination of...
Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions
1983 and 1984
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Featuring insights on even more groundbreaking recording sessions, rehearsals, and sound checks, the expanded edition of Duane Tudahl's award-winning book pulls back the paisley curtain to reveal the untold story of Prince’s rise from cult favorite to the biggest rock star on the planet.
His...
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations, enabling...
U2
Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
U2’s significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative career...
Pat Patrick
American Musician and Cultural Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Saxophonist, multi-wind player, arranger, composer, music director, theater works producer, educator, and visionary, Pat Patrick performed with Duke Ellington’s and Quincy Jones’ orchestras, Thelonious Monk, Mongo Santamaria, Nat King Cole, James Moody, Eric Dolphy, Marvin Gaye, Patti Labelle,...