Jazz Blues category: 910 books

Mel Bay's Master Anthology of Jazz Guitar Solos Volume Two presents 11 challenging tunes, improvised solos and solo guitar arrangements designed to enhance the repertoire of the intermediate to advanced jazz guitarist. Some of the world's finest jazz guitarists are represented, including Chris Buzzelli,...

Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to “cool” jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in...

This collection of jazz solos presents many relatively easy solos based on some of the most common jazz standard chord progressions. Technically, many of these are not overly difficult, but still will posses characteristics that group them within the jazz tradition. Each etude is presented on the...

Seventeen jazz standards arranged for classic guitar with contributions from John Carlini, Thomas Heck, Kirk Hanser, and Stephen Rekas. Written in standard notation with fingerings, these fine intermediate tunes serve as the perfect practice material for classic guitarists who want to add jazz music...

Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to ground American musicians in a core facet of their true cultural heritage. Ed Sarath applies an emergent consciousness-based...

“Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself.” —John Zorn “Hamilton’s work may...

Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters’...

Fifty five years after it was first released, the best-selling Know About Jazz compendium is being re-released as an Ebook by G2. Written by Peter Clayton, who from October 1968 until his death in August 1991, presented jazz recordings, interviews, studio performances, and live performances on BBC...

Pendant près d’un demi-siècle (1920–1970), Montréal a été un centre névralgique du jazz en Amérique du Nord. Le légendaire nightlife de la ville et l’abondance de travail qu’il offrait attiraient des musiciens de tout le continent. Dans ce livre, John Gilmore décrit l’effervescence...

Das "Jazz Age" – zum Leben erweckt! Chicago und New York in den 20er Jahren, die Prohibition in vollem Gange und mittendrin eine Gruppe jazzbegeisterter Kids: Inspiriert von den schwarzen Ursprüngen der damals noch anstößigen Musikrichtung, finden sich junge Künstler aus weiten Teilen...

Jazz – das ist hochlebendige Musik von enormer Ereignisdichte. Umso mehr man darüber weiß, umso mehr hört man. Anders als bisherige Lehrmaterialien, die sich mit der Harmonik des Jazz oder seinen melodischen oder rhythmischen Mustern beschäftigen, versucht dieses Buch einen neuen, umfassenderen...

Gioia nos presenta una introducción al arte de escuchar jazz: la estructura de la música, los cimientos de la improvisación, y las estrategias de escucha que ayudarán al lector a amar el jazz durante el resto de su vida. Un recorrido por los autores, los artistas, los temas, las versiones y los sonidos que le abrirán las puertas del jazz.

Providing a clear look into the life of one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, this is the first biography of the late Skip James, perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. His 1931 performances of "Devil Got My Woman," "I'm So Glad," and "22-20...

Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires. Born...