Jazz category: 919 books
by Gerhard Kubik
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through...
Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental
(suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book is the fundamental chapter of solo fingerstyle blues guitar. This first book introduces basic elements of Blues music, specifically on chord, scale, rhythm, expressions and etc to do simple practices and trials. And integrated melodic demo practices are designed in a later section, allowing...
by Woody Mann
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2002
Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles.
by Larry McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book and online audio has been carefully prepared for guitarists who are starting to learn blues fingerpicking-and yes, the book can actually be used by an ambitious total beginner. The arrangements, written in tab and standard notation, include new blues songs, standards, introductions, turnarounds,...
Memphis Blues
Birthplace of a Music Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006
The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, and since that fateful night in 1903 when W. C. Handy heard the mournful sound of a pocketknife sliding over the strings of an acoustic guitar and the plaintive song of a long-forgotten musician in the hot night of Tutwiler, Mississippi, the blues has been...
Broadcasting the Blues
Black Blues in the Segregation Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings. Noted...
Lightnin' Hopkins
His Life and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Based on scores of interviews with the artist’s relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans, this brilliant biography reveals a man of many layers and contradictions. Following the journey of a musician who left his family's poor cotton farm at age eight carrying only...
Mojo Hand
The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin’ Hopkins became one of America’s greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War,...
Willie Dixon
Preacher of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player. A singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, Dixon's work influenced countless artists across the music spectrum. In Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues, Mitsutoshi Inaba examines...
In the Midnight Hour
The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included "In the Midnight Hour," "634-5789," "Land of 1000 Dances," "Mustang Sally," and "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You." Remarkably handsome and with the charisma...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Beatles: Music Roots delves into the influences behind the Fab Four’s early hits, analysing and teaching you to play the songs that Lennon and McCartney learned, played and loved. Each song is arranged for piano, voice and guitar, accompanied with extensive notes on its history and recording.
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Respect Yourself
Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal,...
Detroit 67
The Year That Changed Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up...
Showtime At The Apollo
The Story of Harlem's World Famous Theater
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Showtime at the Apollo is the definitive history of Harlem’s world-famous showplace. Home to nearly every great black star including: James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Richard Pryor, Gladys Knight, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Redd Foxx, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn and “Bojangles”...