Jazz category: 919 books
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...
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...
Moving to Higher Ground
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and...
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 John S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Jazz is a music formed from a combination of influences. In its infancy, jazz was a melting pot of military brass bands, work songs and field hollers of the United States slaves during the 19th century, European harmonies and forms, and the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean. Later, the blues and...
by Arnie Fox
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
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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...
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...
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...
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 Jerry Coker
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
With musical scores and helpful charts, noted jazz educator and featured jazz soloist, Jerry Coker, gives the beginning performer and the curious listener insights into the art of jazz improvisation.
Improvising Jazz gives the beginning performer and the curious listener alike insights into...
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...