Blues category: 910 books
by Olegario Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Chris Potter.These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve...
Uncharted
Creativity and the Expert Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset...
by Randy Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Randy Vincent's second Sher Music Co. book covers every aspect of the crucial three-note voicings every guitarist needs to know. It has received glowing endorsements from Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Mike Stern, Ben Monder, Vic Juris, Gene Bertoncinni, Julian Lage, etc. Three-Note Voicings and Beyond is...
by Tim Kliphuis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
This book is the first method ever for learning Gypsy Jazz Violin in the style of Stephane Grappelli. Have you, too, often listened to Grappellis solos thinking I wish I could do that, but it is way over my head? Here is the answer. Simple theory, licks and stylistic lessons point you towards your...
Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds
Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Café Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "Loves Me Like a Rock," the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups. Now, Jerry Zolten tells...
Yellow Music
Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion...
by Scott M. Santangelo
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Cincinnati, Ohio, might have seemed like an unlikely choice to host the nation's largest annual R&B concert, but thanks to local promoter Dino Santangelo, the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival would become the "Granddaddy of Them All." The first festival was held in 1962 at the Carthage Fairgrounds, but the...
Nothing but Love in God’s Water
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and...
by Sandra Jean Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and...
Nothing but Love in God's Water
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and...
Faces of Praise!
Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This full-color photo gift book that turns chart-topping contemporary gospel music into Bible-based devotions is a three-way blessing for readers: a perfect companion to favorite gospel recordings, an encouraging devotional and a unique photo collection.
FACES OF PRAISE! turns your favorite...
by Richard Zelade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Though renowned, Austin's contemporary music scene pales in comparison with the explosion of creative talent the city spawned during the Jazz Age. Dozens of musicians who started out in the capital city attained national and international fame--but music was just one form of artistic expression that...
by Josef Skvorecky
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophonebrilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas.
In Emoke,...
Birds of Fire
Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Birds of Fire brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of jazz, rock, and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the time, fusion was disparaged by jazz writers and ignored by rock critics. In the years since, it has come to be seen...