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Author:Janie Harris
Elegant Soul: The Life and Music of Gene Harris
"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"Gene Harris, the "Blues Man From Boise," as the "Wall Street Journal" once called him, died at the start of a new millennium, but he left a legacy of music that will outlive us all....- $24.95
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Author:Reva Marin
Outside and Inside: Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography
Outside and Inside: Representations of Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography is the first full-length study of key autobiographies of white jazz musicians. White musicians from a wide range of musical, social, and economic backgrounds looked to black music and culture as the...- $110.00
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Author:David Gilbert
The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace
In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge...- $32.50
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Author:Albie Berk
In the Pocket - Jazz Snare Drum Solos with the Legends: Play along with Chick, Keith, Bird, Ella & more
"ARE YOU IN THE POCKET?" - What does that really mean? Discover the secrets of jazz drumming and explore the music of some of the greatest jazz legends of all time with IN THE POCKET - JAZZ SNARE DRUM SOLOS WITH THE LEGENDS. Those...- $14.95
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Author:Alfred Music
Sittin' in with the Big Band, Vol 1: Trombone, Book & Online Audio [With CD]
Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. I is written at the easy to intermediate-easy level. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble to improve your playing, whenever you want. As you play with and listen to the outstanding...- $15.99
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Author:Robert Hodson
Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz
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...- $64.95
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Author:Derek Taylor
The Golden Age of Easy Listening
The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called 'Easy Listening'. Like its contemporary, rock 'n' roll, it took the world by storm, introducing romance and chic into a world brutalised by war....- $22.95
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Author:Fred Hersch
Playing Solo Jazz Piano: A New Approach for Creative Pianists (2nd Edition)
Playing Solo Jazz Piano is an essential new book for creative jazz pianists. The second edition adds two new chapters and audiovisual content to the original. Readers will learn essential solo jazz piano concepts like stride piano, one-handed shell voicings, comping, using basslines, shared-hand...- $24.99
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Author:Mike Springer
Jazzin' Up Christmas, Bk1: 11 Christmas Carols with Jazz-Style Accompaniments
The Jazzin' Up Christmas series offers carefully crafted, graded arrangements of favorite Christmas carols with jazz-style accompaniments. Titles: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Good King Wenceslas * I Saw Three Ships...- $7.99
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Author:Tad Richards
Jazz with a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940-1960
Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of small group swing jazz. Coming into being in the early 1940s, small group swing answered the need in the Black community for a form of jazz that...- $99.00
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Author:Warren I. Smith
Crossing Borders and Playing with Pioneers: My Life in Music: My Life In Music
Born with a beat in his soul and a drumstick in hand, Warren I. Smith's destiny with music was inevitable. His musical chops took him from the smoky jazz clubs of Chicago, through the intoxicating energy of New York's music scene, to global tours,...- $19.99
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Author:Jody Fisher
Beginning Jazz Guitar: The Complete Jazz Guitar Method [With CD (Audio)]
Anyone with knowledge of basic chords and guitar scale fingerings can dig in and start learning to play jazz right away with this best-selling book and CD by renowned jazz guitarist and educator Jody Fisher, now in a standard-notation-only edition. Spanning topics like the...- $20.99
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Author:George Gershwin
Simply Gershwin: The Music of George & Ira Gershwin -- 20 of Their Most Popular Works
Simply Gershwin is a collection of the most famous compositions by George and Ira Gershwin. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering and dynamics have been included to aid with interpretation, and a large print size makes the notation easy to read. Titles: Bidin' My Time *...- $17.99
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Author:Sid Jacobs
Modern Jazz Concepts for Guitar: Master Class Series [With CD (Audio)]
(Musicians Institute Press). Learn innovative improvisation concepts from Musicians Institute instructor Sid Jacobs with this book/CD pack designed from the famous school's elective courses. Explores: voice-leading melodic lines, symmetrical scales, triad pairs and much more. The CD includes 48 demonstration tracks each example is...- $19.99
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Author:Colin Nettelbeck
Dancing with de Beauvoir: Jazz and the French
When live jazz arrived in France towards the end of World War I, it was seen from the start as a fertile symbol of other things. It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modernism, it was America, it was African primitivism, sexual...- $34.00
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Author:Cecile J. Picou
Apex Blues
Apex Blues chronicles the extraordinary lives and musical legacies of two generation-spanning Jazz clarinet virtuosos: Jimmie Noone Sr. and his son Jimmy Noone Jr.Jimmie Noone Sr. rose to fame in the 1910s New Orleans French Quarter jazz scene, forging his iconic 'Sweet Lorraine' style...- $15.95
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Author:Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Down by the Riverside, Vol 133: 15 Traditional Dixieland Classics!, Book & Online Audio
Fun to play This play-along includes a traditional rhythm section accompaniment (provided by the Rascals of Ragtyme band) that includes piano, banjo, wash board or drums, and tuba. It's the perfect companion to Volume 100: St. Louis Blues. Rhythm Section: Bob Stevens (banjo); Roger...- $17.90
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Author:Dave Gelly
An Unholy Row: Jazz in Britain and Its Audience, 1945-1960
The post-war jazz revival marked the beginning of an independent British youth culture with music as its focus. Although it always remained a minority enthusiasm, jazz actually embodied the vaguely felt sentiments, dissatisfactions and aspirations of the post-war generation more fully than any other...- $39.95
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Author:Andrew Lilley
The Jazz Style: A Comprehensive Introduction
Jazz is essentially an aural tradition and is dependent on this method of learning for success in developing a true understanding of the style. It is impossible to become a jazz musician without familiarity of the players that have brought about its development. The...- $22.99
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Author:Larry Tye
Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...- $51.99
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Author:Sam V. H. Reese
Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness
Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. In Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness, Sam V. H. Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the...- $30.00
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Author:Tom Roed
Favorite Jazz for Piano Solo: Intermediate to Advanced
Fifteen favorite jazz tunes arranged for intermediate to advanced piano. Includes: Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Georgia on My Mind * Killing Me Softly with His Song * Mood Indigo * On Green Dolphin Street * The Shadow of Your Smile * Take...- $10.99
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Author:Ofer Gazit
Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians
Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to...- $99.00
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Author:Jeremy Siskind
Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 3)
Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 3) is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind's welcoming, clear, and detailed guide to modal and modern jazz piano study.Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 3) guides intermediate jazz students through the jazz piano world of artists like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Herbie...- $27.99
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Author:W. Royal Stokes
Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers
A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started...- $43.99
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Author:Jacob W. Hardesty
The Jazz Problem: Education and the Battle for Morality During the Jazz Age
Jacob Hardesty is Dean of the College of Social Science, Commerce, and Education and Associate Professor of Education at Rockford University.Author: Jacob W. HardestyISBN-10: 1438494645ISBN-13: 9781438494647Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2024Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d- $34.95
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Author:Stan Bh Tan-Tangbau
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội (Hardback)
Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a pioneer in the country, Minh is often publicly...- $110.00
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Author:Steven Mooney
Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book III - Walking Bass Lines - Standard Lines Bass Tab Edition
Standard Lines Book III in the Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines series for the Electric Bassist is a comprehensive guide demonstrating the devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz standard tradition. Book III covers 24 standard jazz chord progressions with...- $19.95
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Author:Gerhard Kubik
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic TitleIn Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and...- $35.00
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Author:Gerhard Kubik
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II: Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
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 influenced musicians in Africa from the end of World War...- $110.00
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Author:Wynn-Anne Rossi
Jazzin' Americana for Two, Bk 2: 5 Early Intermediate to Intermediate Piano Duets That Celebrate American Jazz
Wynn-Anne Rossi's Jazzin' Americana for Two series is a journey through the jazz genre, honoring the history, the diverse styles, and the fabulous musicians who made this music great. Students will become familiar with the names of famous musicians such as Chet Baker, McCoy...- $7.99
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Author:Alfred Music
Just for Fun -- Swing Jazz Banjo: 12 Swing Era Classics from the Golden Age of Jazz
Just for Fun: Swing Jazz Banjo is designed for your total enjoyment. Each featured song is arranged in the authentic early jazz-era style, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically very satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord...- $14.99
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Author:Dennis Roberts
The Master Arpeggio System for Jazz Improvisation II: Minor & More
ATTENTION GUITARISTS!!Improvisation is the art of composing in the moment with freedom of expression. Do you want to get on the fast track to improvising with modern jazz style?The second book in the Master Arpeggio System series continues where the first one left off,...- $7.99
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Author:William G. Carter
Thriving on a Riff: Jazz and the Spiritual Life
What does jazz have to do with human spirituality? In Thriving on a Riff, Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter shows us how jazz, in its quest for transcendence, bridges the gap between the secular and the sacred and, further, that these two...- $26.99
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Author:Nick Mellor
100 Jazz-Rock Fusion Licks for Guitar: Discover the Language & Techniques of the World's Greatest Fusion Guitarists
Discover The Language of the World's Greatest Jazz Fusion GuitaristsWhether you're struggling to get started in the complex world of Fusion guitar, or simply looking to enhance your vocabulary with 100 authentic licks in the style of the Fusion legends, this is the solution...- $19.99
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Author:Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck -- Nocturnes: Piano Solos
The 25 titles are: Audrey * Blue Lake Tahoe * Bluette * Chorale * The Desert and the Parched Land * Five for Ten Small Fingers * Going to Sleep * Home Without Lola * I See, Satie * Joshua Redman * Koto Song...- $12.95
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Author:Tom Roed
Favorite Jazz for Piano Solo
Fifteen favorite jazz tunes arranged for intermediate to advanced piano. Includes: Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Georgia on My Mind * Killing Me Softly with His Song * Mood Indigo * On Green Dolphin Street * The Shadow of Your Smile * Take...- $10.99
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Author:Chris Wong
Journeys to the Bandstand: Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver
What I didn't know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad facts are puzzle pieces...- $29.99
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Author:Anna Harwell Celenza
Jazz Italian Style: From Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra
Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World War I, it quickly became part of the local music culture. In Italy,...- $29.99
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Author:Joe Locascio
An Occasional Gentleman's Notes
A book of poetry and song lyrics focused on his personal experience of playing jazz, composing jazz, and his stage interactions with fellow jazz musician greats, this is sumptuous writing by composer Joe LoCascio who has spent a lifetime creating and performing music. He...- $19.95
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Author:Mike Gerber
Kosher Jammers: Jewish connections in jazz Volume 1 - the USA
Jews have been a major presence in America's jazz, as musicians and as jazz facilitators, and in Kosher Jammers: Jewish Connections in Jazz - The USA, Gerber tells that story with a rigour worthy of academia but with a feature writer's creative flair. Besides...- $25.99
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Author:Gareth Evans
Jazz Guitar Licks: 25 Licks from the Major Scale & its Modes with Audio & Video
25 original jazz guitar licks from the Major scale and its modes in tablature and notation. 117 bars of music over 25 licks (average lick length 4.68 bars) Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) Backing tracks at full...- $7.99
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Author:Robert Schultz
On Green Dolphin Street Plus 12 Jazz Classics for Piano
Robert Schultz has selected and arranged thirteen great jazz hits for piano solo with complete lyrics and chords, ranging in difficulty from intermediate to more advanced. This is an essential edition for all jazz and professional pianists, and great for the advancing student. Titles...- $10.95
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Author:Darren Mueller
At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz
In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. The LP's increased fidelity and playback capacity allowed lengthy compositions and extended improvisations to fit...- $31.95
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Author:Daniel Hardie
The Loudest Trumpet: Buddy Bolden and the Early History of Jazz
This Is the story of the First Jazz Musician and the birth of a new music we now call Jazz. It begins in New Orleans at the end of the 19th Century and you will learn of the development of Buddy Bolden's music and...- $15.50
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Author:Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Hot House, Vol 94: Book & Online Audio
This set is for all those looking for a good collection of bop favorites, jazz classics, and well-known standards . . . very much what you might encounter on a typical gig. The all-star rhythm section is one of the best in the business...- $17.90
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Author:Robin Kelley
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Author: Robin Kelley, Robin Dg KelleyISBN-10: 1665252723ISBN-13: 9781665252720Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2017Format: CD- $26.99
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Author:Howexpert
HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone: 101 Tips to Learn How to Practice, Play, and Perform the Saxophone for Beginners, Intermediates, and Advance
If you want to learn how to practice, play, and perform the saxophone for beginners, intermediates, and advanced saxophonists, then check out HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone.HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone will help you build your musicianship from your beginner days to...- $29.99
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Author:Al T. Cruz
Fruits and Vegetables Coloring Book: 50 Fruits and Vegetables Coloring Pages: Coloring Book For Kids and Toddlers
Let your children have fun and learn something new! The Fruits and Vegetables Coloring Book contains 50 pages with fruits and vegetables. 8 x 11.5 in size. Every page contains: the name of a fruit/ vegetable written in large font that can be coloredan...- $7.95
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Author:Chris Wong
Journeys to the Bandstand: Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver
What I didn't know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad facts are puzzle pieces...- $39.99
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