Blues category: 910 books
by Stan Toler, Dean Hickman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Revive America will give tried and tested steps for drawing closer to God in a world that seems to be going the other direction. In its pages, you will find some of your favorite song lyrics which will remind you of the importance of music and its role in great renewals as well as challenge you to...
Reaching Beyond
Improvisations on Jazz, Buddhism, and a Joyful Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Reaching Beyond, Buddhist thinker and activist Daisaku Ikeda explores the origins, development,and international influence of jazz with legendary artists Herbie Hancockand Wayne Shorter.Reflecting on their lives and careers, Mr. Hancock and Mr. Shorter sharethe lessons they have learned from their...
The Jazz Bubble
Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble...
Making Jazz French
Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms...
by Chris Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
A journey, yes, of sorts.
With purpose, yes, that too. An author from another time, endeavouring to unearth space in today’s cyber world – and hopefully be less ambiguous with his planetarian/galactic metaphors. And to generally find his way around in the attempt; all with the lofty dream...
Jazz Diasporas
Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies...
Jazz and Postwar French Identity
Improvising the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
This Jazz Standards edition of the Piano Playbook series is a delectable collection of 45 timeless jazz tunes that have become some of the most well-known and well-loved songs of all time, arranged for Piano and Vocals.
Each of the Jazz Standards in this Piano Playbook shows the kind of incredibly...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1999
Instant no-frills arrangements of over 190 great jazz standards. Each song consists of melody line, chord symbols and lyrics (where appropriate). That's all there is to it! Just open the book and start playing.
Ukulele Song Book 3 - 20 Jazz Standards With Lyrics Chord Tabs
Learn Piano With Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
This is a Ukulele Song Book 3 I put together for parents who participated in my Ukulele Workshops. These are the 20 all-time-favorite Jazz Standards that everyone enjoys singing. The songs are in the keys of the vocal range so that the song book can be used for singalongs in gatherings and parties.The...
Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice
A Guide for Small Ensembles
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
Unlike most jazz arranging books, which focus on the rudiments of arranging (transposition, ranges, notation, and so forth), this book deals with the real substance of arranging for small jazz ensembles, in addition to the rudiments. Rinzler devotes a chapter to each of the following arranging elements:...
by Christopher Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those involved with the coal industry was there for jazz tours would seem equally improbable. Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia,...
In The Break
The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton...
Number 1 With A Bullet
The Real GQ Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
From GQ's meager beginning holding rehearsals in a Bronx, New York basement, to their debut song, "Disco Nights" instantaneously becoming a chart-topping hit, Tony Lopez's page-turning tell-all memoir, Number 1 With A Bullet: The Real GQ Story, is on fire.
Lopez was walking his...