Jazz category: 919 books
The Tao of Jazz Improvisation
A Martial Arts Training Method for Jazz Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
The Tao of Jazz Improvisation is designed to simultaneously train the ear, mind, and body; and to increase the symbiotic relationship of the three. Train the ear to guide the player more efficiently and quickly. Train the mind to process musical stimuli/information at a faster rate. Train the body to...
Civic Jazz
American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth...
More Important Than the Music
A History of Jazz Discography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and...
by Medea Isphording Bern
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
San Francisco is probably best known for its hills, ubiquitous fog, dungeness crab and the Golden Gate Bridge. But jazz music's threads are similarly woven into the fabric of the city and its environs. Whether performed in renowned clubs like So Different, Jimbo's Bop City, Black Hawk, and the Jazz...
by Sean J. O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
From the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeles�s rapidly expanding African American community inadvertently led to one of the most culturally rich avenues in the United States. From Downtown Los Angeles to the largely undeveloped city of Watts...
by Peter Spitzer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Jazz Theory Handbook is a complete guide to all the essential topics of jazz theory, suitable for all treble instruments. Its approach is clear and concise, realistic and practical. This book will help you to understand how contemporary jazz players think, and to apply theory concepts in your own...
by Benjamin Franklin V
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians, Benjamin Franklin V documents the careers of South Carolina jazz and blues musicians from the nineteenth century to the present. The musicians range from the renowned (James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie), to the notable (Freddie Green, Josh...
Scoring Race
Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What are the cultural implications of Louis Armstrong's 1960 visit to Africa? Why are so many postcolonial novels in French fascinated with jazz? In defining jazz as "black music", France's "jazzophilia" has had wide-reaching effects on contemporary perceptions of the artistic...
by Ahmad Alaadeen
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
"With this book, Alaadeen has opened the door to the complex mind of the jazz musician. The information inside this book is extremely personal and informative at the same time. It is very specific but still leaves room for the user to discover for themselves, their own paths to self expression...
by Olegario Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Chris Potter.These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve...
by Tim Kliphuis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
This book is the first method ever for learning Gypsy Jazz Violin in the style of Stephane Grappelli. Have you, too, often listened to Grappellis solos thinking I wish I could do that, but it is way over my head? Here is the answer. Simple theory, licks and stylistic lessons point you towards your...
Jazz in Short Measures
Jazz History in 10 “Lectures” with Selected Cd Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2001
Derived from years of teaching in the classroom and online, Dr. Lewis Rosengarten's Jazz in Short Measures offers a refreshingly succint yet thorough presenation of the struggles, styles and achievements in Jazz in a series of ten essential lectures. The history of Jazz is recovered from a variety...
The Jazz Bubble
Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble...
Jazz Diasporas
Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies...