Blues category: 910 books

A Drummer's Story chronicles the adventures of Warren Benbow, a kid drummer just out of the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. His stories describe the changing world of jazz in the 1970s, from acoustic music to electric jazz fusion. Warren narrates his experiences with the legendary musicians...

Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has been pushing the jazz envelope for more than a decade and is recognized as one of today's premier soloists and composers. This book showcases solo transcriptions of Kurt's critically acclaimed album ""Deep Song"" as well as lead sheets for many...

One of jazz’s leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playing Changes is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling...

The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this original sound set the stage for the prominence of arrangers, whose...

With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory...

In the 20th century, jazz was an important artistic form. Depending on the particular European country, jazz music carried different social, political and aesthetic meanings. It brought challenges in the areas of racial issues, the politics of the Cold War between East and West, and in the exploration...

Jazz Intros and Endings offers 60 intros and endings for songs in many keys and styles. Ron is a well known and admired guitar player having played with Ray Brown, Gene Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, among many others. These harmonically rich phrases offer many great ideas and insight into creating your...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

What is the “Parrallel Universe”?It occurred to me while living in Paris between the years 2004-2005, that jazz music compositions written about energy, with all the interest worldwide in astrological signs and the phenomenon about spirit, might have artistic relevance for me in terms of...

A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz , he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road...

56 Melodic Exercises for Mastering Polyrhythms in Jazz and other Groove-Based Music (for all instruments) * Internalizing 2 against 3 is every musician's wish.  As much as there are books extensively covering scale permutations, there are none that clearly illustrate all the possibilities...

Joe Diorio is an accomplished guitarist and composer as well as a respected music educator. In this book hecombines his skills to present innovative "intervallic designs" for the guitar. Written in standard notation and tab, these linear, often 12-tone flavored studies reflect Diorio's jazz...

Jazz Rhythm Changes for Small Orchestra One © Music Klaus Bruengel. Instruments: Flute, Oboe, Violine, Cello, Harp, Bass. Original Musicscore & Parts of the Soundtrack (youtube). The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively...

Great Jazz Piano Solos offers a silky-smooth, fresh and funky collection of Jazz classics from across the years and styles, all arranged as sumptuous Piano solos. These stunning arrangements allow you, the Piano soloist, to add a great selection of Jazz standards to your performance repertoire...