Jazz category: 919 books

A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey). In...

Né du contact entre la musique des esclaves noirs du sud des États-Unis et la culture occidentale, le blues va exercer une influence majeure sur de nombreux courants musicaux du XXe siècle. Ce dictionnaire, dont les articles sont empruntés au fonds de l’Encyclopædia Universalis, explore l’histoire...

Explore a whole range of slide guitar styles and tunings with Rick Payne's 'Beyond The Delta'. The journey begins in the Delta and moves through Texas and Chicago to Hawaii and beyond. The course includes exercises, tips, tunings and tricks that will inspire you to journey even further....

In Bronzy Blues by Rick Payne you'll be exploring Big Bill broonzy's solo acoustic technique, using six classic Broonzy style instrumentals: 'The Guitar Shuffle', 'Hey Hey', 'House Rent Stomp', 'St Louis Blues', 'Slow Blues' and 'The...

Every guitar player loves the blues, but how many of us were actually born into poverty in Mississippi? And can anyone honestly claim to have heard the complete recordings of Charley Patton? Never mind... It's Easy To Bluff gives you all the skills you need! Learn to play some impressive blues licks, and discover how to look the part and hold your own in any blues conversation.

En Texas Mexicano: La cuna del blues, Juan Avila nos demuestra, a lo largo de diversos artículos publicados en las redes sociales y páginas dedicadas a tales menesteres divulgativos, que el origen del género musical, conocido como BLUES, es mayormente mexicano que estadounidense. te llevará a...

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK collects in a single volume the blues and gospel songs written by African Americans about the presidency of John F. Kennedy and offers a close analysis of Kennedy's hold upon the African American imagination. These blues and gospel songs...

The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers...

These tunes were inspired by the great "first generation" acoustic blues guitarists: Huddie Ledbetter, Mance Lipscomb, Gary Davis, Jesse Fuller, Blind Blake, and others. Author Fred Sokolow's tunes convey some of the same feelings as these early blues artists and are fun to play. Several...

A popular and easy to understand book which teaches and explores the many aspects of bottleneck/slide guitar techniques developed nearly a century ago and made famous through the recordings of legendary blues greats like Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Muddy Waters. Much of the book...

Seasoned guitar instructor Fred Sokolow offers a wealth of classic blues licks that can be applied in a variety of blues performance situations. Sokolow has divided the licks into categories to aid in thought organization about the guitar fretboard. Some of the licks are based on scales, and others on chords. Written in standard notation and tablature.

A collection of the world's finest ragtime and blues piano classics. This expansive volume contains the best of Scott Joplin's piano rags, as well as his masterful collaborations with Scott Hayden, Louis Chauvin and Arthur Marshall. Here is the true legacy of the ragtime era, featuring the brilliant solos of James Scott, Artie Matthews, Joseph Lamb, Eubie Blake, Tom Turpin and many others.

10 original funk blues guitar licks from the Minor scale in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate level and above. 55 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.5 bars) Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) Backing tracks...

Though Pink Floyd created enormous radio-friendly classics during the 1970s, the legendary group started out as a British blues band. Jimi Hendrix offered up a wildly innovative interpretation of “The Star Spangled Banner,” pioneered the use of octaves with an over-amplified Fender Stratocaster®...