Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Reggio Emilia Jazz 1925 - 1991
Dalla provincia al mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Dalle prime orchestre della metà degli anni ’20, all'esplosione dello swing nell'immediato dopoguerra, dall'arrivo dei nuovi musicisti hot americani, alla presenza dei discussi musicisti legati al free jazz, dalla nascita di “Reggio Emilia Jazz” nel 1979 fino alle diffuse iniziative dei nostri...
Fascinating Rhythm
Reading Jazz in American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style,...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the...
by Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....
Jazz/Not Jazz
The Music and Its Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions...
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 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: June 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
The Blues Piano Collection combines classic songs, well-known favourites and contemporary works with an abundant variety of styles to enjoy, including rich chords, contouring melodies, smooth sounds, funky rhythms and much more.
Each piece is carefully arranged for solo piano, suitable for...
Blues Traveling
The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This acclaimed travel guide, hailed as the bible of blues travelers throughout the world, will shepherd the faithful to such shrines as the intersection where Robert Johnson might have made his deal with the devil and the railroad tracks that inspired Howlin’ Wolf to moan “Smokestack Lightnin’.”...
DC Jazz
Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. That telling of history, however, overlooks the pivotal role the nation's capital has played...
The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000
A Personal Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident...
Jazz Child
A Portrait of Sheila Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard “Now’s The Time” by Charlie Parker, she was instantly hooked—and so began a seventy-year jazz journey. In 1962, she emerged as the first jazz singer to record on the prestigious Blue Note label with...
Jazz and Death
Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies divulge the way many musical...
by Robert Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance offers a new and exciting way to listen to and understand jazz. When describing a performance, most jazz writers focus on the improvised lines of the soloist and their underlying harmonic progressions. This approach overlooks the basic...