Jazz category: 919 books
by Paul Musso
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
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.
by Jay Umble
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
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,...
by Vincent Bredice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
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.
by Ted Gioia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
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...
El canon del jazz
Los 250 temas imprescindibles
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
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.
Monk, Bud o viceversa
Appunti per una discografia jazz su vinile
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Oltre 200 musicisti con la segnalazione di un migliaio di incisioni su vinile rendono questo volume una vera e propria enciclopedia del jazz, dedicata non solo ai collezionisti di vecchia data, ma anche ai giovani che intendono avvicinarsi al mondo della musica afro-americana.
Pepper Adams' Joy Road
An Annotated Discography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history. It's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times, thanks to colorful interview vignettes, drawn from the author's unpublished conversations with Adams and other musicians....
Kansas City Lightning
The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.
Throughout his...
Miles & Me
Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the journalist and poet Quincy Troupe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An intimate story of Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the young journalist and poet Quincy Troupe--soon to be a major motion picture.
Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great...
Deep in a Dream
The Long Night of Chet Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of cool” jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously...
by Chet Baker
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Le memorie di Chet Baker: l’unica testimonianza scritta che ci abbia lasciato il grande trombettista jazz. Questi preziosi testi, scoperti a dieci anni dalla sua morte misteriosa, ci permettono di «ascoltare» la vita di Chet in presa diretta, narrata dalla sua vera voce. I ricordi d’infanzia,...
Monk!
Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
"Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then—quickly, before the spell breaks!—play one of Monk's records." —Saul Williams
She is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius fighting...
Once Upon a Time in New York
Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt,and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
A flavorful account of New York City politics during the 1920s Jazz Age centering on the intersecting careers of the city's popular "Night Mayor," Jimmy Walker, and the state's patrician governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mitgang's extensive use of newspaper quotes and legal transcripts helps paint...
by David Toop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.
In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice...