Blues category: 910 books
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Beatles: Music Roots delves into the influences behind the Fab Four’s early hits, analysing and teaching you to play the songs that Lennon and McCartney learned, played and loved. Each song is arranged for piano, voice and guitar, accompanied with extensive notes on its history and recording.
Through...
Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets
Cinemajazzamatazz
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular. The book examines other work on music in motion pictures which has dealt primarily with the traditional distinction between nondiegetic...
by Robert Scotto, Philip Glass
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
The basis of a full-length documentary.
"Moondog is one of America’s great originals."-Alan Rich, New York Magazine
Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century: a blind and homeless man who became the most...
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,...
by David Schiff
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately—classical, jazz, and popular—this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899–1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written...
by Catherine Tackley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural...
by Eric Hobsbawm
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history,...
Loft Jazz
Improvising New York in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower...
School for Cool
The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die—so some fear—at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their careers, in one of the many academic programs that now...
Knowing Jazz
Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community. Every jazz artist, critic, or fan understands jazz differently, based on each individual's unique experiences and insights. Through...
That's Got 'Em!
The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
William C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most truly important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career. His talent transformed...
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and...
by Leonard Feather
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1957) - Jazz at last has matured to a full-fledged art, not only in this country, hut throughout the world as well. What has been known as an American folk music is now becoming an international form of expression, with artists in all countries constantly exchanging ideas and...
Respect Yourself
Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal,...