Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Kennedy's Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2007
Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK collects in a single volume the blues and gospel songs written by African Americans about the presidency of John F. Kennedy and offers a close analysis of Kennedy's hold upon the African American imagination. These blues and gospel songs...
by Paul Wolfle
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Though Pink Floyd created enormous radio-friendly classics during the 1970s, the legendary group started out as a British blues band. Jimi Hendrix offered up a wildly innovative interpretation of “The Star Spangled Banner,” pioneered the use of octaves with an over-amplified Fender Stratocaster®...
Chicago Jazz
A Cultural History, 1904-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until...
by Julia Simon
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Spontaneity, immediacy and feeling characterize the blues as a genre. Whether it's the movement of call and response, the expressive bends and wails of voice and instruments or the synergistic relationship between audience and performers, the blues embody a kind of "living in the moment" aesthetic....
Somebody's Been Playing with that Thing
Ragtime Blues Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
This book presents three of the greatest ragtime blues guitar players from the 1920s-1940s. They all possessed what Rev. Gary Davis called that sportin’ right hand. Each could sing the blues or play a dance instrumental. They favored first position chords but produced incredible textures and rhythms...
What It Is
The Life of a Jazz Artist
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In addition to his recent recognition as a National Endowment for the...
Jazz Anecdotes:Second Time Around
Second Time Around
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has....
by Arnie Fox
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
... over 2000 jazz pianists listing the title of album or CD
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Blues Mandolin Man
The Life and Music of Yank Rachell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Yank Rachell and his mandolin playing style moved every musician lucky enough to hear him perform in the early sixties. When he died in April 1997, he left behind a stack of unanswered requests to tour Europe and to play blues festivals in the United States. In Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and...
Jazz in the 1970s
Diverging Streams
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Breaking through pervasive misconceptions, Jazz in the 1970s explores a pivotal decade in jazz history. Many consider the 1970s to be the fusion decade, but Bill Shoemaker pushes back against this stereotype with a bold perspective that examines both the diverse musical innovations and cultural developments...
Watching Jazz
Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, the present book engages with a plethora of technologies and media from early film...
Cubano Be, Cubano Bop
One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage...
Jazz in New Orleans
The Postwar Years Through 1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970. Suhor, relying on his experiences as a listener, a working jazz drummer, and writer in New Orleans during this period, has done a great service...
Harlem Jazz Adventures
A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Timme Rosenkrantz (1911–1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the “Jazz Baron” because of his noble lineage, he was the first European...