Jazz category: 919 books

Delannoy aborda el desarrollo del jazz en el mundo latino. Lo hace destacando sobre todo el punto de vista humano, emociones, culturas, sin perder de vista en ningún momento su propia experiencia. La obra refleja los el carácter cosmopolita del autor, que refleja diferentes perspectivas y una grandísima...

10 original smooth jazz guitar licks from the Dorian mode in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate level and above. 53 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.3 bars) Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) Backing...

Thomas “Fats” Waller was a legendary stride pianist, a wildly entertaining comedic singer, and the composer of such classic melodies as “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and hundreds more. This is the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of his exuberant life, as told by his son,...

Just after recording with John Coltrane in 1963, baritone singer Johnny Hartman (1923–1983) told a family member that “something special” occurred in the studio that day. He was right – the album, containing definitive readings of “Lush Life” and “My One and Only Love,” resides firmly...

Brad succumbs to the white plague, Oscar too spends his days fighting disease, confined to a hospital. Playing the organ at night for a mysterious sickly girl, he discovers his own talent, although years after recovery, he finds himself desperate, poor, and depressed—until the devil, otherwise known...

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,...

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...

A collection of 20 different 4-bar patterns and 10 original solo compositions by one of Europe's finest guitarists. Designed for the serious fingerstyle guitar student, this book presents rhythm patterns in a wide range of moods written in standard notation and tablature, along with new concepts about...

This is a collection of 48 original jazz tunes in different styles, with fun melodies ideal for jamming. The pieces are in a variety of keys and are presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

56 Melodic Exercises for Mastering Polyrhythms in Jazz and other Groove-Based Music (for all instruments) * Internalizing 2 against 3 is every musician's wish.  As much as there are books extensively covering scale permutations, there are none that clearly illustrate all the possibilities...

One of the world's great jazz guitarists, Vic Juris shares his insight into the wonderful world of harmony in this book. Not for the fainthearted, Vic teaches polychords and intervallic structures derived from the major, minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor and harmonic major scales in this must have...

The Changes: Guide Tones for Jazz Chords, Lines, and Comping is offered for beginning to advanced players as a way to visualize guide tones on the fretboard. From these shapes lines can be created for soloing and voicings can be built for comping and chord melody. Most importantly, the changes of...

50 frasi di Alessio Menconi, per apprendere e sviluppare il fraseggio nel Jazz ed approfondire il linguaggio Bebop. Con videolezioni, partiture, tablature e analisi dettagliata delle frasi, in collaborazione con Andrea Golembiewski. Frasi sugli accordi maggiore, minore e settima Licks sulle progressioni II-V-I Frasi Bebop con cromatismi ed aggiramenti

For guitarists, the technical learning curve for improvisation is fairly steep. For this reason, it is important to find multiple uses for the musical structures that you learn to execute. This approach decreases the learning curve considerably. This book and accompanying audio show you how to expand...