Jazz category: 919 books

Cover of Sarò Franco
by Franco Cerri, Pierluigi Sassetti
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 30, 2013

Franco Cerri è un musico di altri tempi. Ha l'età per andare in pensione e invece preferisce strapazzare ancora la sua Gibson L5, suonare con i suoi allievi, vivere di musica come ha sempre fatto, raccontarci il suo jazz. Desiderio allo stato puro, una forza che lascia spazio a pochi altri calcoli,...
Cover of Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature
by Steven C. Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music—minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially blues—emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both...
Cover of Epistrophies
by Brent Hayes Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017

Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Brent Hayes Edwards writes. He explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature—both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves.
Cover of Cinema&Jazz
by Filomena Iavarone
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 23, 2016

Nel tentare un accostamento tra le due arti, oltre a comprendere una breve analisi comparata della storia del cinema e della storia del jazz, evidenzia il carattere sociologico che costituisce uno dei punti focali intorno a cui prende vita tutto il libro.
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Jazz Guitar Technique

Breaking the Skill Barrier

by Andrew Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018

When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined by what your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception as an improviser is determined by your technique. If you can't play certain types of ideas, you are simply not going to conceive of them while you are...
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Intents and Purposes

Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation

by Eric Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019

How do we define improvised music? What is the relationship of highly improvised performances to the work they are performances of? How do we decide what are the important parts of an improvised musical work? In Intents and Purposes, Eric Lewis uses a series of case studies to challenge assumptions...
Cover of Jazz Violin
by Matt Glaser, Stephane Grappelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1981

Over 25 transcribed solos. Original interviews and tips on improvising from the masters. Plus complete analysis of each solo. Rare historical photos, and an informative discography.
Cover of Amari accordi
by Marcello Rosa
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 7, 2014

Questa non è un’autobiografia. Potremmo considerarlo un manuale di consultazione, utile per tutti quelli che vogliano saperne di più su quanto non si ha il coraggio di chiedere sul jazz di cosa nostra (e non è un refuso). In questo senso può essere addirittura considerato come un manuale di...
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Funny Valentine

La vita di Chet Baker

by Matthew Ruddick
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 20, 2014

"Funny Valentine. La vita di Chet Baker" è la biografia definitiva del formidabile trombettista americano, una delle voci più struggenti, inconfondibili, e anche sottovalutate, della storia del jazz. L'opera di Matthew Ruddick colma infatti un vuoto inspiegabile negli studi sulla vita...
Cover of Charlie Parker
by Wolfram Knauer
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2014

Es gibt wohl keinen Jazz-Fan, der nicht ein entscheidendes Initiationserlebnis der ersten gehörten Aufnahme von Charlie Parker verdankt. Am Anfang steht meist ein tiefes Befremden über ein fast außerirdisches Tempo und die gleißende Kälte der Melodieführung, dann eine Faszination, schließlich...
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La Cosa

Nota di lettura di Paolo Fabbri

by Georges Perec
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2018

Questo testo risale al 1967, anno in cui Perec entra a far parte dell'OuLiPo, l'opificio di letteratura potenziale, con Raymond Queneau, Jacques Roubaud e Italo Calvino. La forza di rottura che il free jazz – o new thing – porta nello stallo e nella stagnazione che seguono la morte di Charlie...
Cover of Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues

The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography

by Billie Holiday, William Dufty
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011

Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir, updated with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David...
Cover of Duke

Duke

A Life of Duke Ellington

by Terry Teachout
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013

A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to...
Cover of Rant & Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Wilmott
by William E. (Bill) Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014

Rant & Dawdle is a fictional memoir comprising thirty-eight interwoven stories from the perspective of a grumpy old man living on a small island off the west coast of Canada and an expectant young boy born into the poverty of WW2 English working class. The old man dreaming in retrospect,...
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