Standard Lines
Author: Steven Mooney
Standard Lines Book III in the Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines series for the Electric Bassist is a comprehensive guide demonstrating the devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz standard tradit ... |
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Lives & Legacies of Baltimore Jazz
Author: Mark Osteen & Frank J. Graziano
The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore's underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie Blake and Cab Calloway, honors neglected figures such as Ellis Larkin ... |
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Author: Mervyn Cooke & David Horn
The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen special ... |
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Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene
Author: Travis A. Jackson
New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. "Blowin' the Blues Away" examines how jazz has thrived in New York following it ... |
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Author: Mervyn Cooke & David Horn
The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen special ... |
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Author: Mike Tomaro & John Wilson
(Instructional). Instrumental Jazz Arranging consists of a systematic presentation of the essential techniques and materials of jazz arranging. Authors Mike Tomaro and John Wilson draw upon 50+ years of combined teaching ... |
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Music, Poems and Tales
Author: Richard Leach
"Richard Leach brings the joy and angst of making his living as a professional musician to his poetry. Richard's poems swing with music and soul." - Wanda VanHoy Smith, Redondo Beach Poet Vibrato is a collec ... |
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South African Women Thinking in Jazz
Author: Carol Ann Muller & Sathima Bea Benjamin
Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and l ... |
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The Best Musicians and Recordings
Author: Scott Yanow
On the heels of swing, bebop lifted jazz from the dance floor into an art form powered by virtuoso players. This engaging collection of essays, biographies and reviews by veteran jazz journalist Scott Yanow probes the li ... |
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Imaginings of Africa in Jazz
Author: Norman C. Weinstein
(Limelight). ..".his economical writing style ... manages to pack lots of information and opinion into a few carefully chosen words ... Besides detail work well-grounded in scholarship...the author isn't afraid to interp ... |
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Author: Christopher Wilkinson
A study of how jazz greats dazzled and enlivened coal towns during the Great Depression The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous Afri ... |
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An Army Bandsman in World War II
Author: Frank Furlong Mathias
Frank Mathias was a teenager in a small town when the draft swept him into the army and then halfway around the world to the jungles of the South Pacific. He served in the huge invasion force in the Battle of Manila, the ... |
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Author: Jimmy Cozier
Volume 3 of The Jazz Improviser's Woodshed explores the use of musical patterns and sequences for improvisation. This volume can be a starting point for the creative improviser to develop his own musical ideas. Material ... |
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Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa
Author: Ingrid Monson
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism ... |
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Author: Marc Myers
"Why Jazz Happened" is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to ... |
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Author: Mark Tucker
Duke Ellington is universally recognized as one of the towering figures of 20th-century music, both a brilliant composer and one of the preeminent musicians in jazz history. In The Duke Ellington Reader, Mark Tucker offe ... |
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Author: Jimmy Cozier
Volume 1 contains basic musical rudiments and fundamental Jazz studies, presented in a progressive order. It serves as a reference of scales, chords and basic Jazz vocabulary. The tools you need to become a Jazz Soloist. ... |
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Author: Martin Williams
A companion volume to his prize-winning book The Jazz Tradition. Martin Williams has been described by The Washington Post as 'the most knowledgeable, open-minded, and perceptive American jazz critic today'. |
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Popular Music in the 1920's
Author: Arnold Shaw
It all happened in America in the 1920s: blues, jazz, band music, torch ballards, operettas, and musicals. Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington, Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, and Porter, all burst on to the mus ... |
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