Music-Genres & Styles-Jazz

Unlock the Modern Sound of Modal Jazz Guitar - From Miles and Coltrane to Today's Great InnovatorsHow do the world's finest modern jazz guitarists - players like Kurt Rosenwinkel, Gilad Hekselman, Lage Lund, Julian Lage, Mike Moreno, and Jonathan Kreisberg - craft solos that...

Author: Alicja UrbanowiczISBN-13: 9798265172457Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2025Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.11d

A complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or approaching their creative peak, from its inception in 1949 until 1972. It...

Graham Earnshaw is a publisher and media businessman who has spent most of his career in the China world. But throughout, he has been writing songs, while also recording them and playing them live to anyone who will listen. The topics addressed in his...

How the claim to jazz knowledge forges community and forms an understanding of canon Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community....

SLIDESHOW is Eugene Babb's debut collection of poetry. In these spare, vivid poems, Babb explores the fragments and moments that make up a person's life. Bars, diners, street-corner fleeting encounters -- the internal and external worlds interchange fluidly; searching for meaning in a word,...

Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career. His talent...

"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music--through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz...[If] the Negro represents,...

The life of jazz trumpeter Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1942) resembles nothing less than an ancient Greek tragedy: a heroic figure who rises from obscurity to dizzying heights, touches greatness, becomes ensnared by circumstances, and comes to a disastrous early end. In this panoramic...

This study examines the migration of African American jazz musicians to other parts of the world from 1919 to the present. It provides evidence that African American jazz musicians fared better in the diaspora than they did in America where jazz and its inventors...

Liederbuch (in deutsch und english) mit 12 Songs von Scott Joplin, notiert für die Mandoline.Scott Joplin (1868 - 1917) war ein US amerikanischer Komponist und Pianist. Aufgrund der Berühmtheit, die er für seine Ragtime-Kompositionen erlangte, wurde er als "King of Ragtime" bezeichnet. Während seiner...

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.Author: A. L. JamesISBN-10: 1032534842ISBN-13: 9781032534848Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2024Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.37d

The life of jazz trumpeter Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1942) resembles nothing less than an ancient Greek tragedy: a heroic figure who rises from obscurity to dizzying heights, touches greatness, becomes ensnared by circumstances, and comes to a disastrous early end. Berigan was intimately...

Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland and Detroit. Disenchanted with the strictures of bebop, musicians forged a new style--free jazz--that took inspiration from a vast range of sources, including figures such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor,...

Many describe jazz asa the one true form of American music. Arising out of the syncopated rhythms of African music, Cajun songs, and Ragtime, jazz evolved in many 'scenes' throughout the country. The Young Lions jazz movement in New Orleans spread up the Mississippi...

With peerless talent and unrivalled international presence, few stars shone brighter in the heady firmament of the Jazz Age than Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson. Electric, charismatic, and unforgettable, both ignited the modern imaginations of cosmopolitan centers across Europe. Unabashedly themselves, they inspired poets,...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award - An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism,...

Swing Street, NYC is a ferocious excavation of the one city block that briefly became the molten core of American music. From the mid-1930s through the early 1950s, Manhattan's 52nd Street-unassuming, narrow, overbuilt-hosted the nightly revolution of jazz. Cramped clubs like The Three Deuces,...

(Jazz Play Along). For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages...

(Jazz Play Along). For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages...

Gems From An Old Drummer's Grip is a book written by Nelson R. Streeter and first published in 1889. The book is a collection of stories and anecdotes from Streeter's life as a drummer in the Civil War. The stories range from humorous to...

(Jazz Play Along). For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages...

America's most popular introduction to jazz For undergraduate courses in Jazz History, Jazz Survey, Evolution of Jazz, Introduction to Jazz, and Jazz Appreciation. America's most widely used introduction to jazz text captures the minds of students by teaching the history of the style and...

Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy provides a step-by-step, research-based, field-tested set of pedagogical tools specific to vocal jazz.Covering topics from choosing the best jazz repertoire for one's distinct voice to expressing the aesthetics of swing,...

Two-time GRAMMY(R) Award winner Howard Levy delivers a musical memoir that will stop you in your tracks-bold, unpredictable, and as soulful as his playing. Having spent his life moving effortlessly through classical, blues, jazz, world music, rock, and pop, Howard tells his story from...

Unlock the Art of Melodic Chord Phrasing to Create Beautiful, Expressive Jazz Guitar HarmonyIf you've ever wondered how the great jazz guitarists, from Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery to George Benson, craft lush, harmonically rich chord passages, this is the complete guitar course for...

Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924-1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and creativity in twentieth-century America. Dorham was born in Freestone County to a...

Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924-1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and creativity in twentieth-century America. Dorham was born in Freestone County to a...

A complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or approaching their creative peak, from its inception in 1949 until 1972. It...

Author: Carolyn Glenn BrewerISBN-10: 1574416669ISBN-13: 9781574416664Publisher: University of North Texas PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2017Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d

The purpose of this monograph is threefold: to explore the development of modern black nationalist thought of the 1960s and 1970s and locate it within the tradition of modern black nationalism and cultural revitalization that emerged during the early decades of the 20th century;...

Shimmering Shadows recounts the life of genre-defying pianist and maverick educator, Ran Blake. Written over a 15-year-period, the book is based on interviews between Ran and his student, Leo McFadden. Author Janet McFadden weaves these into the narrative, allowing Blake to tell his own...

More Than the Music features twenty-seven unique jazz stories--stories that came about through my own experience. Most of them began so long ago, even as far back as the 1950s during my teenage years. In those days, jazz was still the new kid on...

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism. Outlining the relation of improvisatory practices to local and global power structures, they...

Tracy Chapman's story begins with a little girl who loved to dream big and sing from her heart. Growing up in a small neighborhood, Tracy didn't have much, but she had a voice - soft, deep, and full of feeling. She loved to write...

WAIL is the first book devoted exclusively to the pioneering album cover designers of Prestige Records, home to such musical giants as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins. Unprecedented in detail, WAIL documents a vital decade (1949-1960) of creative brilliance. An independent New...

This memoir by the internationally renowned jazz pianist Art Hodes, born in Russia in 1904, is in its own way a blues, a lament for and a celebration of music and musicians we have lost. The last of the living legends among Chicago jazz...

Drawing on an extensive, four-year field research project, including ethnographic observations and 27 in-depth interviews, this book is the first to explore the hidden diasporic narrative(s) of Hungarian jazz through the system of historically formed cultural distinctions. Author: Ádám HavasISBN-10: 0367677822ISBN-13: 9780367677824Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This collection of interviews with nine of the world's greatest living musicians shines light on the jazz piano trio, one of the genre's most enduring formats. Interviewed musicians include Jeff Hamilton, Richard Davis, Joanne Brackeen, Jeff Ballard, Fred Hersch, Chuck Israels, Peter Erskine, Eric...

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in...

Jazz is a vibrant and a living art, and this volume serves to remind us of that fact through interviews with Art Tatum, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck, along with almost 20 other jazz greats. Meet the greatest musicians in the history...

Containing over 500 annotated entries for individual poets and several anthologies, this work presents a substantial collection of poems that have been inspired by blues and jazz. Thousands of poems written between 1916 and the present are included. References to individual jazz figures addressed...

One of the few American composers to earn an international reputation in both classical and popular music, Alec Wilder (1907-1980) was a true innovator in every phase of composition he chose to pursue. In addition, his life and associations in the world of music,...

Author: Tony MuhammadISBN-10: 125739553XISBN-13: 9781257395538Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2025Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.09d

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in...

All That Disney JazzForeword by Emmy-Nominated Composer Don DiNicola***Winner of a 2020 Gold Award from the Nonfiction Authors Association***Winner of a 2020 Literary Titan Silver Book AwardWhat does a 'King, ' a 'Queen, ' a 'Duke, ' and a talking mouse have in common?...

Anatomy of a Melody: The Interactive Guide to Jazz Improvisation unlocks the mysteries of jazz improvisation - one of music's greatest enigmas. Musicians are guided step-by-step through engaging, interactive material, developing an understanding of (and an ear for) the essential details needed to learn...

The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated...

Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era. Author: Andrew Wright HurleyISBN-10: 1032840366ISBN-13: 9781032840369Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2025Pages: 230Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize:...

Author: Billy C. OsbyISBN-13: 9798269316321Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2025Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d