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  • Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies by O'Meally, Robert
    Robert O'Meally

    Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

    Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz...
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  • Modern Jazz Piano Revealed!: An Intermediate Guide to Jazz Concepts, Improvisation, Techniques, and Theory by Cion, Sarah Jane
    Sarah Jane Cion

    Modern Jazz Piano Revealed!: An Intermediate Guide to Jazz Concepts, Improvisation, Techniques, and Theory

    Jazz is a living breathing thing- an entity- and a growing energy all its own. I'm excitedto present the building blocks that provide the foundation for jazz improvisation. Thisbook is geared toward the student who has already achieved an intermediate level ofsight-reading and technical...
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  • Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1 by Mehldau, Brad
    Brad Mehldau

    Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1

    For the first time, he offers an in-depth look at how he came to understand his adoption, survive sexual abuse, and overcome heroin addiction. The book creates a vibrantly-written portrait of the jazz world in New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s,...
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  • The History of Jazz by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    The History of Jazz

    An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the...
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  • Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music by Lewis, Ramsey
    Ramsey Lewis

    Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music

    This immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular jazz pianists of all time.Beginning with his childhood growing up in Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood, Ramsey Lewis recounts his memories...
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  • The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician's Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White by Longo, Mike
    Mike Longo

    The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician's Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White

    Regardless of our race, sex, ethnicity, color, religion or philosophical beliefs, music is a universal tie that binds us as human beings. Every note a nod to history, every tune a step on the trajectory toward a more compassionate understanding of each other. The...
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  • The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician's Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White by Longo, Mike
    Mike Longo

    The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician's Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White

    Regardless of our race, sex, ethnicity, color, religion or philosophical beliefs, music is a universal tie that binds us as human beings. Every note a nod to history, every tune a step on the trajectory toward a more compassionate understanding of each other. The...
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  • Free Jazz by Schwartz, Jeff
    Jeff Schwartz

    Free Jazz

    Jeff Schwartz is a writer, bassist, and librarian in Los Angeles, California.Author: Jeff SchwartzISBN-10: 1438490305ISBN-13: 9781438490304Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2023Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dReview Citation(s): Choice 10/01/2023
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  • John Coltrane: His Life and Music by Porter, Lewis
    Lewis Porter

    John Coltrane: His Life and Music

    John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force whose following continues to grow. This new biography, the first by a professional jazz scholar and performer, presents a huge amount of never-before-published material, including interviews...
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  • Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer by Watson, Philip
    Philip Watson

    Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

    The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Frisell, featuring exclusive interviews with Paul Simon, Bon Iver and more. Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established himself as one of the most innovative musicians at work today. A...
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  • Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good by Chapman, Con
    Con Chapman

    Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good

    The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct stylistic variation within the larger genre and a transitional stage between earlier forms of African-American music,...
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  • Stomping the Blues by Murray, Albert
    Albert Murray

    Stomping the Blues

    In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that "the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits,...
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  • Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris Volume 18 by Braggs, Rashida K.
    Rashida K. Braggs

    Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris Volume 18

    At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a...
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  • The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets by Shipton, Alyn
    Alyn Shipton

    The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

    The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a piano or guitar. Using original scores and detailed transcriptions of Mulligan's work, The Gerry...
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  • Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by English, T. J.
    T. J. English

    Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

    Author: T. J. EnglishISBN-10: 0063031426ISBN-13: 9780063031425Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2023Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 7.95h x 5.20w x 1.18d
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  • On Record - Vol. 4: 1981: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music by Brown, G.
    G. Brown

    On Record - Vol. 4: 1981: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music

    Chronicles the first stirrings of synth pop writ large (the Human League, Soft Cell), the gated reverb drum sound that became ubiquitous (Phil Collins), superstars from Stevie Nicks to Billy Joel to the Police, and a full complement of one-hit wonders and R&B, country...
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  • Martin Taylor: Rhythm Guitar Comping on Essential Latin Jazz Standards for Guitar by Taylor, Martin
    Martin Taylor

    Martin Taylor: Rhythm Guitar Comping on Essential Latin Jazz Standards for Guitar

    Discover Latin Jazz Rhythm Guitar with Martin TaylorReady to learn the art of Latin Jazz guitar?In Martin Taylor's Latin Jazz Rhythm Guitar, iconic guitar virtuoso Dr Martin Taylor shows you how to quickly master the basic bossa groove, then transform it into endless musical...
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  • Death, Resurrection, and the Spirit of New Orleans: Jazz on the Tube Conversations by McCarthy, Kenneth
    Kenneth McCarthy

    Death, Resurrection, and the Spirit of New Orleans: Jazz on the Tube Conversations

    Despite the catastrophe caused by the 2005 failure of the New Orleans levee system, the biggest engineering failure in U.S. history, New Orleans was re-inhabited, rebuilt, and re-ignited with the spirit that makes it one of the world's greatest cultural gems.This book tells the...
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  • Jazz Guitar Dominant Chord Substitutions: Arpeggio Soloing Vocabulary for The Most Important Chord in Jazz by Pettingale, Tim
    Tim Pettingale

    Jazz Guitar Dominant Chord Substitutions: Arpeggio Soloing Vocabulary for The Most Important Chord in Jazz

    Dominant Arpeggio Substitutions to Instantly Revolutionize Your Jazz Solos Bored of playing the same old jazz guitar ideas? Ready to learn how Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jonathan Kreisberg, and Julian Lage solo on dominant chords? Want to use jazz arpeggio substitutions to instantly make your playing...
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  • From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life by Crow, Bill
    Bill Crow

    From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life

    In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incomparable Charlie "Bird" Parker...
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  • SOLID. Life and Death of a Jazz Genius. SCOTT LAFARO by Staiano, Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Staiano

    SOLID. Life and Death of a Jazz Genius. SCOTT LAFARO

    It is the first hours of Thursday, July 6, 1961 and a young man lies dead on a road near Geneva, 300 miles from New York, his body burnt beyond recognition on a hot summer night. A star of the American jazz scene has...
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  • The Ellington Century by Schiff, David
    David Schiff

    The Ellington Century

    Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately--classical, jazz, and popular--this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899-1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written during the composer's lifetime...
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  • Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France by Moore, Celeste Day
    Celeste Day Moore

    Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France

    In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military's wartime records and radio...
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  • Five Lines No Waiting by McDermott, Tom
    Tom McDermott

    Five Lines No Waiting

    Poetry. Art. Music. Now in an expanded second edition, this collection of alert, witty, and world-wise limericks by the great New Orleans jazz pianist and composer Tom McDermott, illustrated with his own drawings, is a snapshot of a restlessly creative mind and heart at...
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  • Martin Taylor Single Note Soloing For Jazz Guitar by Taylor, Martin
    Martin Taylor

    Martin Taylor Single Note Soloing For Jazz Guitar

    Master the art of single-note improvised solos with Martin Taylor MBE In Single Note Soloing for Jazz Guitar Martin Taylor MBE distils more than 40 years of knowledge and wisdom into a comprehensive resource for jazz guitarists. Learn how a virtuoso guitarist thinks and...
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  • The Hexatonic Soul Scale: An Alternative to the Blues Scale for the Novice Jazz Improvisor by McFadden, Jacob
    Jacob McFadden

    The Hexatonic Soul Scale: An Alternative to the Blues Scale for the Novice Jazz Improvisor

    After years of experience of being a jazz musician, the author reveals a scale that the novice jazz musician can use to create soulful solos.The author also explains an unusual approach to circular breathing to help wind players master this skill. And more...Note: This...
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  • Claude Ranger: Canadian Jazz Legend by Miller, Mark
    Mark Miller

    Claude Ranger: Canadian Jazz Legend

    Even before Claude Ranger disappeared in late 2000, his fate unknown, he had attained legendary status among Canada's jazz musicians as an extraordinary drummer who repeatedly challenged the status quo on bandstands in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Willful, uncompromising and charismatic, cigarette invariably tucked...
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  • Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century by Beuttler, Bill
    Bill Beuttler

    Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century

    As jazz enters its second century it is reasserting itself as dynamic and relevant. Boston Globe jazz writer and Emerson College professor Bill Beuttler reveals new ways in which jazz is engaging with society through the vivid biographies and music of Jason Moran, Vijay...
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  • Harold Jones: The Singer's Drummer by Jacobs, Gil
    Gil Jacobs

    Harold Jones: The Singer's Drummer

    TONY BENNETT: Harold Jones is one of the finest men I know. I have reviewed "The Singer's Drummer" and it is a Knock-Out I am happy that someone is putting together a history of what really happens on the road. This is a very...
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  • Wes Montgomery: 10 Favorite Tunes [With CD (Audio)] by Montgomery, Wes
    Wes Montgomery

    Wes Montgomery: 10 Favorite Tunes [With CD (Audio)]

    (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...
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  • The Poconos in B Flat: The Incredible Jazz Legacy of the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania by Burke, Debbie
    Debbie Burke

    The Poconos in B Flat: The Incredible Jazz Legacy of the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania

    The Poconos In B Flat shines a warm and loving light on the incredible jazz culture of the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Through personal interviews, the book brings to life the unique insights, observations and motivations of a group of very talented musicians -...
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  • Phoebe's Fantasy: The Story of a Mafia Insider Who Helped Rescue Jazz by Hugh, Wyatt
    Wyatt Hugh

    Phoebe's Fantasy: The Story of a Mafia Insider Who Helped Rescue Jazz

    Was she a member of the Jewish Mafia or was she just another groupie idolizing musical stars? Was she having fantasies of the glamour and glitz of the jazz scene or was she living the harsh realities of it? Phoebe's Fantasy attempts to answer...
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  • Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium by Corbett, John
    John Corbett

    Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium

    From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting...
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  • The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Acts by Heble, Ajay
    Rebecca Caines

    The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Acts

    Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a cornerstone of both practical and theoretical approaches to performance....
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  • Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James by Levinson, Peter J.
    Peter J. Levinson

    Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James

    Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players dominated that era more than Harry James, whose soaring trumpet solos and romantic hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Now, Peter J. Levinson,...
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  • Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse by Stanbridge, Alan
    Alan Stanbridge

    Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse

    Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses - especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism - that have influenced its creation,...
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  • Living Existentialism: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening by Heter, T. Storm
    T. Storm Heter

    The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening

    A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press, while ignoring critiques of the white consumption of black culture. Ironically, critiques of...
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  • The Invisible Architect: How to Design Your Perfect Life from Within by Novello, John
    John Novello

    The Invisible Architect: How to Design Your Perfect Life from Within

    What if you knew the exact principles that would allow you to achieve your perfect life? This is what award-winning musician & author John Novello offers in the pages of his extraordinary new transformational book the Invisible Architect.Author: John NovelloISBN-10: 1647193273ISBN-13: 9781647193270Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Jazz and Psychotherapy: Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation by Alev, Simeon
    Simeon Alev

    Jazz and Psychotherapy: Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation

    Blending the insights of musicians and psychologists from D.W. Winnicott to Gregory Bateson to Ornette Coleman, Jazz and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking exploration of improvisation that reveals its potential to transform our experience of ourselves and the challenges we face as a species.What we...
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  • The Destruction of Time by Morgan, Thomas G.
    Thomas G. Morgan

    The Destruction of Time

    The Destruction of Time is the second of Tom Morgan's "trilogy of time poems". The first, Not of Our Time was published in 1989. On the cover was Victor Vasnetsov's 1882 painting Warrior at the Cross-roads. In a desolate rocky landscape, a weary knight...
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  • Three Australian feature film scripts by Levy, Peter
    Peter Levy

    Three Australian feature film scripts

    "A way to live" is a black comedy about revenge when there's nothing more to lose. "Where there's a Will" is a film about a struggling country jazz band that receives a helping hand from long dead musicians. "The third player" tells the tale...
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  • Panama's Story: My History as a Jazz Drummer by Francis, David Albert
    David Albert Francis

    Panama's Story: My History as a Jazz Drummer

    INTRODUCTION My name is David Albert Francis. However, I am known in the music world as "Panama" Francis, a name that was given to me by Roy Eldridge when I joined his band in 1939. I was born in Miami, Florida, on December 21,...
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  • Remixing European Jazz Culture by McGee, Kristin
    Kristin McGee

    Remixing European Jazz Culture

    Remixing European Jazz Culture examines a jazz culture that emerged in the 1990s in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, London, and Oslo - energised by the introduction of studio technologies into the live performance space, which has since developed into internationally recognised, eclectic,...
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  • Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz, 1960-75 by Heining, Duncan
    Duncan Heining

    Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz, 1960-75

    The 1960's was a decade of major transformation in British jazz and in British popular music in general. The British jazz scene had been, arguably, the first outside America to assert its independence. At first slowly but with gathering speed, it began to define...
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  • Jazz Me Blues: The Autobiography of Chris Barber by Barber, Chris
    Chris Barber

    Jazz Me Blues: The Autobiography of Chris Barber

    Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he formed in 1952 and has led continuously from 1954, after parting company with trumpeter Ken Colyer, that has established all kinds of records for success...
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  • Bobby Hackett: His Life In Music by Hulme, George
    George Hulme

    Bobby Hackett: His Life In Music

    Jazz musician Bobby Hackett - 'one of the finest natural musicians in the business' according to Muggsy Spanier - began his career in the 1930s; it ended with his death in 1976. An extensively researched discography of the vast number of recorded sessions in...
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  • The Godfather of British Jazz: The Life and Music of Stan Tracey by Tracey, Clark
    Clark Tracey

    The Godfather of British Jazz: The Life and Music of Stan Tracey

    This is the first biography of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey CBE (1926-2013). Drawing on personal diaries, Stan's many interviews over a career that spanned 70 years, and his own recollections of working with his father, Clark Tracey draws a picture of what...
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  • Sax Madmen by Archer, Mark
    Mark Archer

    Sax Madmen

    It is often said that madness is the other side of the coin from genius, and the saxophonists described in this book certainly qualify for both adjectives. This book is an enthusiastic distillation of numerous heavy tomes on the life and work of some...
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  • Singing Bones by Curkpatrick, Samuel
    Samuel Curkpatrick

    Singing Bones

    Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land, passed down over generations and containing vital cultural knowledge.Singing Bones foregrounds the voices of manikay singers from Ngukurr in southeastern Arnhem Land, and charts their critically acclaimed collaboration with jazz musicians from the Australian Art Orchestra,...
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  • Jazz Learning Paths For Improvisation: 30 Exercises for the Beginner to Advanced Jazz Player/For Alto Saxophone, E-Flat Trumpet & all E-Flat Instrumen by Lazou, Argyris
    Argyris Lazou

    Jazz Learning Paths For Improvisation: 30 Exercises for the Beginner to Advanced Jazz Player/For Alto Saxophone, E-Flat Trumpet & all E-Flat Instrumen

    This book is intended for the beginner to advanced Jazz player and is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 includes Major & Minor Pentatonic scale exercises. Chapter 2 includes Major & Minor Blues scale exercises. Chapter 3 includes Major & Minor 7th & 9th...
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