Blues category: 910 books
Footprints
The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the...
You'll Know When You Get There
Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili...
What It Is
The Life of a Jazz Artist
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In addition to his recent recognition as a National Endowment for the...
by Mike Pinfold
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The life and times of Louis Armstrong
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Following the success of Shadows In The Night, Bob Dylan's latest album, Fallen Angels, rewrites 12 more American classics. This collection is arranged for Piano and Voice with full lyrics, chord symbols and Guitar chord boxes.
These unique versions of standards are essential for fans of Dylan,...
by David Toop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.
In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice...
Rosa’s Adult Piano Lessons Reharmonization Level 7 Advanced Level - Diminished 7 Chords (b3 + b5)
Learn Piano With Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Learn Piano Level 7 - Learn to reharmonize a song with Diminished 7 Chords
Do you want your piano playing to sound more like a professional?
You need to learn how to put in Diminished 7 Chords into your songs. They create great sounding bass lines whereby you move your chords chromatically...
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece presents the remarkable story of how The Queen of Soul created what Rolling Stone called “the greatest soul album ever made.”
The album she recorded that earned soul legend Aretha...
Magician of the Modern
Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance...
Jazz Anecdotes:Second Time Around
Second Time Around
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has....
Thinking Together
An E-Mail Exchange and All That Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Faulkner and Becker, sociologists and experienced musicians, wrote a book about their musical experiences—Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action—describing how musicians who didn’t know each other could perform competently and interestingly without rehearsing, or playing from written music....
Keeper of the Flame
A Biography of Nina Simone
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The life of Nina Simone is one of blocked paths and surprising detours. Some people are born to an obvious destiny, only to find that society, circumstance, and chance steer them onto an entirely different course. Had Nina been born at a different time, she could very well have been a superstar of...
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
An Improvisational Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow, or Hunter S. Thompson-writers to whom, for different reasons, he owes some allegiance. What makes him special is his devotion to the troubled musicians he idolizes, and a passion...
Clark
The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere,...