Jazz Blues category: 910 books

Cover of Boom's Blues

Boom's Blues

Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

by Wim Verbei
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G. Boom (1920-1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African American...
Cover of Blues, How Do You Do?

Blues, How Do You Do?

Paul Oliver and the Transatlantic Story of the Blues

by Christian O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015

Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white “outsider” observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and...
Cover of Il jazz questo sconosciuto conosciuto - Prima parte
by Enrico De Carli
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2011

Il mio primo contatto con questa musica avvenne quando avevo appena svestito i pantaloni corti. Arrivai al Teatro Manzoni alle tre del pomeriggio per conquistarmi un posto a sedere al concerto di Armstrong.Quando entrò sul palcoscenico Louis venne giù il teatro dagli applausi. Poi attaccò West...
Cover of Il jazz questo sconosciuto conosciuto - Seconda parte
by Enrico De Carli
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 27, 2011

Il mio primo contatto con questa musica avvenne quando avevo appena svestito i pantaloni corti. Arrivai al Teatro Manzoni alle tre del pomeriggio per conquistarmi un posto a sedere al concerto di Armstrong.Quando entrò sul palcoscenico Louis venne giù il teatro dagli applausi. Poi attaccò West...
Cover of Essential Jazz Etudes..The Blues - Alto Sax
by Jack Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

This collection of jazz etudes with an accompanying audio gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. The audio tracks provide a professional rhythm section (piano, bass, drums) to play along with, plus recordings of professional jazz musicians playing each etude....
Cover of Jazz (Collins Need to Know?)
by Bob Blumenthal
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014

The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music. Do you have a hard time differentiating between hard bop, bebop, and the blues? Need to Know?Jazz puts jazz in its musical and historical context, and gets you started with stories of famous artists...
Cover of The Hearing Eye

The Hearing Eye

Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art

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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009

The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in Harlem Renaissance...
Cover of Ragtime, Blues & Jazz for Banjo
by Fred Sokolow
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018

If you are a banjo player whose enjoyment of music isn't limited to bluegrass and country, you'll find this collection of tunes fun and sometimes challenging. Contains ragtime, blues, old-time jazz, and bluegrass blues, G tuning. Banjo tab. **For five-string banjo.
Cover of Blues and Jazz Preludes for Classical Guitar
by Alexander Vinitsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

These 21 original pieces for classical guitar feature bright melodies, convenient fingering, and exquisite harmonies. They are composed so that their performance gives an impression of two or three instruments sounding simultaneously. The collection contains 12 12-bar blues, all in different keys,...
Cover of Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65

Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65

Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65

by Kenny Mathieson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories. Cookin' examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, hard bop and its related offshoot, soul jazz. Hard bop was the most exciting jazz style of its day,...
Cover of Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited

The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music

by Gene Santoro
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary...
Cover of The Blues Scales - Eb Version
by Music, Greenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011

The only book that shows how the Blues Scales (Major and Minor) are used to create jazz solos. Designed to help beginners quickly learn how to create meaningful solos without having to first master all the scales and chords of a tune. Great transcriptions of solo phrases by Miles Davis, Dave Sanborn,...
Cover of The Blues Scales - C Version
by SHER Music, Dan Greenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011

The only book that shows how the Blues Scales (Major and Minor) are used to create jazz solos. Designed to help beginners quickly learn how to create meaningful solos without having to first master all the scales and chords of a tune. Great transcriptions of solo phrases by Miles Davis, Dave Sanborn,...
Cover of Blues & Jazz for Fingerstyle Guitar
by Franco Morone
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

A collection of 20 different 4-bar patterns and 10 original solo compositions by one of Europe's finest guitarists. Designed for the serious fingerstyle guitar student, this book presents rhythm patterns in a wide range of moods written in standard notation and tablature, along with new concepts about...
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