Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Swingin' on Central Avenue
African American Jazz in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians from Chicago and the southwestern states. In Swingin’ on Central: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles,...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
It's Easy to Play Blues is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of 18 popular Blues songs for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing.
Song List:
- A Blues Serenade
- Another Shade Of Blue
- Basin...
Stomping 'Em Along Slow
The Guitar Playing of Lonnie Johnson, Bo Carter, Rev. Gary Davis, Buddy Moss, Josh White & Tommy McClennan
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
This collection presents six legendary blues guitarists from the 1920s to early 1940s. Each has his own unique approach, style and techniques for playing. Some like Rev. Gary Davis favored regular tuning while Josh White was equally at home playing in Open D tuning as well as standard tuning. Lonnie...
by Roberto Caselli
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Il blues è la voce dell’anima. Il blues è l’avventura del nero americano che cerca di scuotersi di dosso la schiavitù, che cerca una diversa identità. Il blues è la voce intima dello swing, del be bop, ma anche del jazzista free quando negli anni ’60 lo rinnegherà perché in esso vedrà...
Myself When I Am Real
The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression...
Mitchell & Ruff
An American Profile in Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"Highly recommended"—Library Journal
"In this account of the world adventures of two splendid jazz artists, Bill Zinsser has given us one of the most exciting books about America's original art form that I've ever read. It's a revelation."—Studs Terkel
Since...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a...
The Penguin Jazz Guide
The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked...
by Buzzy Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
The women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live and sing the blues.
An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with...
Glorious Days and Nights
A Jazz Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Glorious Days and Nights is a personal account of the fifty-year career of jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on his years in New York City from 1957 to 1964. A photojournalist for Life, Look, and Fortune, Snitzer was the photo editor and later associate editor of the influential...
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
Insights and Opinions from the Players
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2000
There is no better authority on jazz than the creators, educators, and writers who have made this enigmatic musical style a major force internationally as well as in American history. The answer to the question what is jazz? is as complex and diverse as those involved in it. This book takes the question...
Weather Bird
Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of...
Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, A Love Supreme is widely considered John Coltrane's magnum opus and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. In Beyond A Love Supreme, Tony Whyton explores both the musical complexities of A Love Supreme and the album's seminal importance in...
When Genres Collide
Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock...