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Vendor: Joseph Alexander
The Complete Jazz Guitar Soloing Compilation
With hours of audio to download for free, this compilation includes three best-selling books: Fundamental Changes in Jazz Guitar, Minor ii V Mastery and Jazz Blues Soloing for Guitar. They each study three essential jazz chord progressions. The Jazz Blues, The Major ii V...- $39.99
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Vendor: Mark Stryker
Jazz from Detroit
Jazz from Detroit explores the city's pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker makes Detroit jazz come alive as he...- $39.95
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Vendor: Thomas Brothers
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years of Armstrong's life. Drawing on a stunning body of first-person accounts, this book tells the rags-to-riches tale of Armstrong's early life and the...- $27.95
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Real Book - Volume IV: BB Edition
(Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition...- $49.99
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Vendor: John Novello
The Invisible Architect: How to Design Your Perfect Life from Within
What would it mean if your perfect life was awaiting your discovery? What if you knew the exact steps that would allow you to discover and achieve this perfect life? And what if you had an Invisible Architect-an all-powerful all-knowing best friend at your...- $18.95
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Vendor: John Patitucci
John Patitucci Walking Bass: How to Play Walking Basslines On Any Chord Sequence - For Upright & Electric Bass
Play jazz basslines by thinking like a composerAt the heart of his walking bass method, John Patitucci teaches you to think compositionally, and you'll discover that walking bass is not just a way to connect the chords by any means. He demonstrates how every...- $19.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: USB Flash Drive Play-Along
(Real Book Play-Along). This USB stick includes backing tracks for 240 songs from The Real Book Volume 1 so you can play along with a real rhythm section (piano, bass and drums) professionally recorded for these products.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1476877246ISBN-13: 9781476877242Publisher: Hal Leonard...- $50.00
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Vendor: John Szwed
Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz
A vital tool in understanding and appreciating jazz -- introducing the key figures, theory, and the controversies that shaped it development -- that explores how it became North America's most popular music in less than fifty years. Often called America's only original art form,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Gunther Schuller
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz...- $14.99
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Vendor: Maria Golia
Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
With striking photographs and personal insight, a compelling biography of the great American saxophonist and free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman. Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the...- $23.95
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Vendor: Richard Brent Turner
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
**FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts** **Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz, given by the 2022 Association for Recorded Sounds Collection Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research** Explores how jazz helped propel the rise...- $30.00
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Vendor: Kimberly Hannon Teal
Jazz Places: How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History
The social connotation of jazz in American popular culture has shifted dramatically since its emergence in the early twentieth century. Once considered youthful and even rebellious, jazz music is now a firmly established American artistic tradition. As jazz in American life has shifted, so...- $29.95
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Real Book - Volume 1: Book/USB Flash Drive Pack [With Flash Drive]
(Real Book Play-Along). The Real Book you know and love has now been updated to include backing tracks for 240 songs on one convenient USB flash drive stick The play-along CDs alone are worth $100 so this is an amazing package price The Real...- $85.00
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Vendor: Ross Russell
Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
"The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of the entire jazz life in this...- $24.99
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Vendor: Paul F. Berliner
Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of...- $37.50
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Vendor: Jeremy Siskind
Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 1)
Jazz Piano Fundamentals is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind's welcoming, clear, and detailed guide to the first stages of jazz piano study. Each of the book's twelve units presents lessons, exercises, licks, activities, listening guides, and practice plans to keep studies organized, productive, and creative.Step-by-step lessons...- $19.99
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Vendor: Cisco Bradley
Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums as a leader. He is one of the most influential jazz...- $30.95
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Vendor: Christopher Washburne
Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz
Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from...- $30.99
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Vendor: Helene Lafaro-Fernandez
Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro
Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009.Selected for "The Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Conference, 2010.Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz,...- $18.95
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Vendor: WR Book House
The Real Book Play-Along Volume 1 (Sixth Edition) Audio Online
ISBN-10: 1495079457ISBN-13: 9781495079450Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2017Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.70h x 11.70w x 0.20d- $49.99
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Vendor: Ian Carr
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography
This exhaustively researched, revised edition of Ian Carr's classic biography throws new light on Davis' life and career: from the early days in New York with Charlie Parker; to the Birth of Cool; through his drug addiction in the early 1950s and the years...- $24.00
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Vendor: Jim Hall
The Best of Jim Hall
(Guitar Recorded Versions). 14 of this jazz guitar virtuoso's finest songs, in note-for-note guitar transcriptions with tablature. Includes: Angel Eyes * I Can't Get Started with You * Softly As in a Morning Sunrise * Things Ain't What They Used to Be * and...- $24.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Jazz & Blues - Play-Along Solos - Tenor Sax Book/Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]
(Instrumental Play-Along). 14 songs for solo instruments, complete with play-along accompaniment tracks. Includes: Bernie's Tune * Cry Me a River * Fever * Fly Me to the Moon * God Bless' the Child * Harlem Nocturne * Moonglow * A Night in Tunisia *...- $14.99
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Vendor: Siv B. Lie
Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France
Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche--a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes--is among France's most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded...- $30.00
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Vendor: Quincy Troupe
Miles & Me: Miles Davis, the Man, the Musician, and His Friendship with the Journalist and Poet Quincy Troupe
Soon to be a major motion picture from the producers of Fences and The Hurricane "Brilliant, poetic, provocative, Quincy Troupe's Miles & Me reveals the man behind the dark glasses and legend."--Ishmael Reed Poet, activist, and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship...- $15.95
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Vendor: Count Basie
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
Count Basie was one of America's pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Goin' to Chicago Blues," "Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today," and "One O'Clock Jump." In Good Morning Blues,...- $22.95
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Vendor: Jerry Coker
Improvising Jazz
Improvising Jazz gives the beginning performer and the curious listener alike insights into the art of jazz improvisation. Jerry Coker, teacher and noted jazz saxophonist, explains the major concepts of jazz, including blues, harmony, swing, and the characteristic chord progressions. An easy-to-follow self-teaching guide,...- $14.00
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Vendor: Count Basie
Count Basie [With CD (Audio)]
(Jazz Play Along). For use with all Bb, Eb 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, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning...- $19.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Jazz Ballads Jazz Play-Along Volume 4 Book/Online Audio [With CD]
(Jazz Play Along). For use with all Bb, Eb, 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 audio, this first-of-its-kind package makes...- $19.99
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Vendor: Richard Gazarik
History of Pittsburgh Jazz: Swinging in the Steel City
Pittsburgh's contributions to the uniquely American art form of jazz are essential to its national narrative. Fleeing the Jim Crow South in the twentieth century, African American migration to the industrial North brought musical roots that would lay the foundation for jazz culture in...- $40.99
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Vendor: Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival
From Thelonius Monk to John Coltrane, Miles Davis to Nina Simone, Jim Marshall's defining photographs of the 1960s jazz sceneJim Marshall is known as the defining father of music photography and his intimate photographs of the greats of rock & roll, country, folk, blues...- $49.95
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Vendor: Bopland
Jazz Licks: Bass Clef Version
Jazz Licks: Bass Clef Version is designed to build and extend the melodic vocabulary of improvising musicians. The volume contains over 1500 jazz licks in standard notation for the most popular chord progressions available in all keys. In addition to the essential 2-5-1 and...- $21.95
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Vendor: Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 42
(Jazz Piano Solos). 23 standards as played by Brubeck in accessible arrangements to make anyone sound like a jazz expert. Includes: Blue Rondo a La Turk * Bossa Nova U.S.A. * The Duke * I Feel Pretty * In Your Own Sweet Way *...- $19.99
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Vendor: Monika Herzig
Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener's Companion
With twenty-three Grammy wins, Chick Corea is a legendary jazz figure and one of the most prolific and influential contemporary pianists of our time. He has produced hundreds of releases in multiple genres over five decades, and he is one of the hardest-working musicians...- $44.00
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Vendor: Hannah Rothschild
The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild and Jazz's Secret Muse
Beautiful and spirited, Pannonica Rothschild, known as Nica, was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege and a storied family history. After marrying well, she settled into a French chateau to bear children and support her husband's war career. But when Nica heard "Round Midnight"...- $17.95
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Vendor: Iain Anderson
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of...- $29.95
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Vendor: Keith Hatschek
The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
Winner of the 2023 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book AwardRecipient of a 2023 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck,...- $25.00
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Vendor: Oz Noy
Inside Outside Guitar Soloing
Discover Oz Noy's Outside Guitar Soloing for Rock, Jazz, Blues & Fusion"One mark of a great guitarist is their ability to use notes from outside the key to take you on a melodic journey..." As one of the world's most innovative guitar players, Oz...- $19.99
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Vendor: Maxine Gordon
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
"An occasion to appreciate Dexter's resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation."--Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, author, and speaker Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of...- $19.95
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Vendor: Various Authors
Wax Poetics Journal Issue 68 (Paperback): Digable Planets b/w P.M. Dawn
CONTENTSOrigins: A sampling of the sphere of influence for Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), the debut album of the Digable Planets.The System: A shadowy synth-pop album unearthedRaymond Scott: Synthesizer innovator and composer sampled by DillaSusaye Greene: Singer-songwriter who worked with Ray...- $24.99
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Vendor: David Leander Williams
Indianapolis Jazz:: The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue
Get into the music with David Leander Williams as he charts the rise and fall of Indiana Avenue, the Majestic Entertainment Boulevard of Indianapolis, which produced some of the nation's most influential jazz artists. The performance venues that once lineAuthor: David Leander WilliamsISBN-10: 1626194033ISBN-13:...- $23.99
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Vendor: Bob Porter
Soul Jazz: Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975
Soul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War. Previous histories reflect the perspective of an integrated America, yet the United States...- $19.99
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Vendor: Victor Svorinich
Listen to This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock-and-roll...- $25.00
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Vendor: Jack Reilly
The Harmony of Bill Evans
(Keyboard Instruction). Bill Evans, the pianist, is a towering figure acknowledged by the jazz world, fans, musicians and critics. However Bill Evans, the composer, has yet to take his place alongside the great masters of composition. Therein lies the sole purpose of this book....- $22.99
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Vendor: Dana Suesse
Jazz Nocturne and Other Piano Music with Selected Songs
Nicknamed "the Girl Gershwin," Tin Pan Alley jazz pianist Dana Suesse was also a composer of film scores and Broadway show tunes. This collection of more than twenty-five piano pieces and songs is the first published folio of her music. Popular songs include "Ho...- $19.95
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Vendor: Diane Wood Middlebrook
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989. Over a fifty-year performing career, Billy Tipton fooled nearly everyone, including Duke Ellington and Norma Teagarden,...- $18.99
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Vendor: Richard Smith
Can't You Hear Me Calling: The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass
Considering the range of stars that have claimed Bill Monroe as an influence--Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Garcia are just a few--it can be said that no single artist has had as broad an impact on American popular music as he did. For...- $24.99
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Vendor: Ben Sidran
Talking Jazz
"As you read, light bulbs switch on: that's what was going when she recorded that; now I can see where he got that sound."--LA Weekly43 Jazz Conversations Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny...- $25.99
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Vendor: Alyn Shipton
On Jazz: A Personal Journey
Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melodies and rhythms, with its key players and singers discussed by aficionados with a respect that borders on reverence. Some books on jazz offer little more than theory or...- $24.95
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Vendor: Tish Oney
Jazz Singing: A Guide to Pedagogy and Performance
Tish Oney merges the worlds of jazz and classical singing in a comprehensive guide for those teaching and singing jazz. Legendary jazz singers' performance strategies are discussed providing unique insights. Jazz Singing combines jazz stylization and improvisational techniques with classic voice pedagogy to outline...- $40.00
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