Jazz category: 919 books
Jazz Christmas
Jazz, Love and Death in Soho
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A music tale Jazz Christmas by Al Gromer Khan portrays the attitude to life in the late sixties in and around Ronnie Scott´s Jazz Club in Jack Kerouac style. The story tells of love and jazz, sex and ecstasy and death in Soho. A young musician wins the trust and the friendship of a famous jazz saxophonist...
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....
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Are you a dance lover? Do you like to tone your body with dancing? Are you planning to learn any particular dance form? If the answer to all these questions is yes... then you can go for jazz dancing.
Jazz dancing is one of the most exhilarating and fashionable forms of modern dance.
It is...
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...
Chicago Jazz
A Cultural History, 1904-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until...
Creating Jazz Counterpoint
New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that...
Jazz in the 1970s
Diverging Streams
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Breaking through pervasive misconceptions, Jazz in the 1970s explores a pivotal decade in jazz history. Many consider the 1970s to be the fusion decade, but Bill Shoemaker pushes back against this stereotype with a bold perspective that examines both the diverse musical innovations and cultural developments...
Jazz in New Orleans
The Postwar Years Through 1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970. Suhor, relying on his experiences as a listener, a working jazz drummer, and writer in New Orleans during this period, has done a great service...
Fascinating Rhythm
Reading Jazz in American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style,...
by Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
This Jazz Standards edition of the Piano Playbook series is a delectable collection of 45 timeless jazz tunes that have become some of the most well-known and well-loved songs of all time, arranged for Piano and Vocals.
Each of the Jazz Standards in this Piano Playbook shows the kind of incredibly...
DC Jazz
Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. That telling of history, however, overlooks the pivotal role the nation's capital has played...
The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000
A Personal Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident...