Blues category: 910 books
The American Songbook
Music for the Masses
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
With their unforgettable melodies, timeless messages, and stylistic indebtedness to both jazz and Broadway, American popular standards have proven to be among the most widely performed and enjoyed songs of the past century. Shaped in many ways by the technological and cultural developments of the...
Know It All Jazz
The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
For non-aficionados, jazz can be slippery and difficult to grasp. Jazz can leave a novice baffled, unsure how to listen, and with the question “How is it that they know what to play?”
Know-It-All Jazz takes readers from the African-American roots and all the way to the global mix of styles...
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra
Five Musical Years in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with local instruments and worldviews. Combining...
by Elina Hytonen-Ng
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The term 'flow' refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious forces. An essential part of the jazz tradition, which often serves as the foundation of the musician's identity, flow is recognised...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book presents an overview of the two central terms and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1995
The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz.
Challenging...
The Uncrowned King of Swing
Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it. Drawing on an unprecedented combination...
Negotiated Moments
Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered, sexed,...
Wisconsin Riffs
Jazz Profiles from the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
An extensive, upbeat compilation of Wisconsin’s jazz musicians
Although New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago are often considered the epicenters of American jazz, this extensive, upbeat compilation of jazz musician biographies details Wisconsin’s rich association the genre since its...
by Ben Monder
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This book of twenty compositions spans an approximately 20-year period of writing. They can all be found on one or another of Ben's four solo releases: Flux, Dust, Excavation, and Oceana. It reflects a broad sample of work involving the exploration of various harmonic, technical, and textural elements...
by Buster Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Although his scorching fingerpicking was most impressive at first glance, a closer look at "Just Us" reveals that he is equally adept at what many musicians consider as a more difficult task: playing fewer notes... ones that mean more, and say more with less, as he does on album opener "A...
Jazz Son
Selected Poetry, Lyrics, and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2003
In Jazz Son, Elliot F. Bratton makes a powerful contribution to creative Jazz literature. A Jazz scholar, one-time New York Jazz DJ, and practicing Jazzpoet, his poems are celebrations of the Jazz life in all of its spirituality, sensuality, pathos, and joy. There are poems dedicated to several Jazz...
The Amy Winehouse Song Guide
40 Songs By Amy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Amy Winehouse's debut album, Frank (2003), was a critical success in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her follow-up album, Back to Black (2006), led to five 2008 Grammy Awards, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made her the first British...
Happy Birthday to You - Tune Mildred J. Hill 1893
Sheet Music for Violin & Piano
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Happy Birthday To You sheet music for Violin & Piano arranged and produced by Viktor Dick. It's an instrumental duet. Happy Birthday to you sheet music for Violin & Piano arranged and produced by Viktor Dick. It's an instrumental duet.