Blues category: 910 books
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”...
by Degen Pener
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation...
by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Discover how you can understand and love the genre of music we call jazz. Jazz...For Those Who Don't Appreciate It is a guide for helping people appreciate jazz music more. It contains important information on how to listen to jazz, history of jazz and helpful techniques for listening to jazz. Everyone who loves music should read this important, amazing book.
The Tao of Jazz Improvisation
A Martial Arts Training Method for Jazz Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
The Tao of Jazz Improvisation is designed to simultaneously train the ear, mind, and body; and to increase the symbiotic relationship of the three. Train the ear to guide the player more efficiently and quickly. Train the mind to process musical stimuli/information at a faster rate. Train the body to...
Music Is My Life
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural...
Civic Jazz
American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth...
Swing Shift
"All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2000
Theforgotten history of the “all-girl” big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions—isolated from loved ones—sought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and...
More Important Than the Music
A History of Jazz Discography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and...
Jazz in the 1970s
Diverging Streams
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Breaking through pervasive misconceptions, Jazz in the 1970s explores a pivotal decade in jazz history. Many consider the 1970s to be the fusion decade, but Bill Shoemaker pushes back against this stereotype with a bold perspective that examines both the diverse musical innovations and cultural developments...
Listen to This
Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis...
Watching Jazz
Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, the present book engages with a plethora of technologies and media from early film...
Creole Trombone
Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the city's hottest band leader....