Jazz Blues category: 910 books

A collection of tunes and studies that are accessible to the intermediate player, yet extremely musical. Many of the tunes are derived from jazz standards and may by used as variations or chords solos. Written in standard notation and tablature, each piece is accompanied by brief performance notes. A wide range of musical styles makes this book fun and challenging. Audio available online.

This eBook with available audio is a treasure-trove of improvisational techniques. Twenty-nine techniques are covered including: arpeggios, targeting, chromaticism, side-slipping, negative tonal space, poly-rhythms, resolution, melodic expansion and more. Anyone interested in the art of jazz improvisation,...

An excellent and thorough bass method designed to provide a musical foundation and expertise technique and theory in the jazz and rock idioms, ear training, transposition, modulation, syncopation, duets, progressions, substitutions, and much more are covered in this extensive volume. Notation only.

«Sarebbe illegale che vi dicessi “alzatevi e ballate”, perché è proibito farlo. Quindi non pensate che vi stia suggerendo niente del genere, però non capisco che cazzo ci fate lì seduti…Questo è rock’n’roll!» Un’interprete che ha cambiato la storia della musica, un’anima...

Dopo il primo volume, riservato interamente all’improvvisazione, questo secondo è dedicatoall’accompagnamento, un inesauribile e spesso inesplorato universo. Questo manuale si deve intendere come un luogo da cui attingere idee. GUITARlab nasce infatti da tale presupposto e ha lo scopo di aiutarti...

Músico e historiador, Ted Gioia une en Historia del jazz los conocimientos del erudito con las virtudes expresivas del divulgador entusiasta para componer el más completo panorama de este género: desde su prehistoria y la temprana africanización de la música americana, hasta las semblanzas de...

Un recorrido exhaustivo por los mejores temas del jazz, profundizando en anécdotas, hechos, compositores, interpretaciones, etc. vinculadas a cada tema. Original, torrencial, imprescindible para aficionados e intérpretes. Cada tema está acompañado con una lista de sus mejores grabaciones. Una obra de referencia para estudiantes y profesores.

"The story of a state long denied its place in soul capitals. Capouya tells quite a tale, taking us from the legends RC to KC; from Jackie Moore to Sam Moore; to many more. "--Jeffrey M. Lemlich, author of Savage Lost: Florida Garage Bands, the '60s and Beyond "Engaging and comprehensive....

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein...

Though you may not know the man, you probably know his music. Arkansas-born Louis Jordan's songs like "Baby, It's Cold Outside," "Caldonia" and "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" can still be heard today, decades since Jordan ruled the charts. In his five-decade career, Jordan influenced American popular...

"The best book ever produced about Louis Armstrong by anyone other than the man himself."—Terry Teachout, Commentary In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness....

In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics...

In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to...

Looking back at one of the most historical eras in America and American music. Throughout the history of the United States, music has always been a big part of the fabric that was woven to create the canvas that shaped this country. The author takes you on a journey from the minuet during the early...