Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Broadcasting the Blues
Black Blues in the Segregation Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings. Noted...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Jazz is typically characterized as a uniquely American form of artistic expression, and narratives of its history are almost always set within the United States. Yet, from its inception, this art form exploded beyond national borders, becoming one of the first modern examples of a global music...
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From
Lyrics and History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined...
by Mort Weiss, Cary Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Sex and the Jazz Musician - The Hollywood Years and Beyond is an intriguing glimpse into the life and times of "the world's greatest unemployed jazz clarinetist," the 80-year old Mort Weiss. Inspired by Mort's column on the popular website All About Jazz, The Mort Report, Sex and the Jazz...
I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now
Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Billie Holiday, also known as the Lady Day was a very talented jazz and blues singer during the Great Depression and beyond in the United States. She lived and coped during the most difficult times in the United States, especially when it comes to gender inequality, racism and discrimination. In fact,...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1987
It's Easy To Play Duke Ellington aims to bring the music of this jazz genius to the beginner pianist. This superb selection of Duke Ellington’s best-known creations provides beautiful, simplified arrangements which are perfect for beginner’s looking to improve their playing or more advanced players...
by James E. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Unlike other books on the blues, which tend to focus on musician biographies, Listen to the Blues! devotes time to the compositions, recordings, and musical legacies of blues musicians from the early 20th century to the present. Although the author references musical structure, harmony, form, and...
Blue Nippon
Authenticating Jazz in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2001
Japan’s jazz community—both musicians and audience—has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz “can’t swing.”...
Jazz Greats Speak
Interviews with Master Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Between 1972 and 1987, freelance teacher and music journalist Roland Baggenæs conducted a series of interviews with jazz musicians for CODA magazine. Upon recently re-discovering the interviews, he was once again fascinated by the enthusiasm of the musicians and their profound dedication to their...
Early Blues
The First Stars of Blues Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt.
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Pioneers of Jazz
The Story of the Creole Band
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century....