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  • Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz by Mandel, Howard
    Howard Mandel

    Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz

    Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles,...
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  • Jazz Learning Paths For Improvisation Volume II: 30 Complete Lines - Patterns For The Contemporary Jazz Player/For Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet & all B-Fl by Lazou, Argyris
    Argyris Lazou

    Jazz Learning Paths For Improvisation Volume II: 30 Complete Lines - Patterns For The Contemporary Jazz Player/For Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet & all B-Fl

    This book is intended for the Contemporary Jazz Player. The ideal way to develop your own unique Jazz style and next step to Jazz Learning Paths For Improvisation: 30 Exercises for the Beginner to Advanced Jazz Player/For Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet & all B-Flat Instruments....
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  • The Ghetto Swinger: A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers by Schumann, Coco
    Coco Schumann

    The Ghetto Swinger: A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers

    Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Coco, it's not important what you play. It's important how you play it, said Louis Armstrong to jazz and swing guitarist Coco Schumann during...
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  • Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book I Walking Bass Lines: The Blues in 12 Keys - Bass Tab Edition by Mooney, Steven
    Steven Mooney

    Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book I Walking Bass Lines: The Blues in 12 Keys - Bass Tab Edition

    Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book I -The Blues in 12 Keys is a complete guide demonstrating the devices used to construct walking bass lines in the jazz tradition. Part 1 demonstrates the techniques used by professional jazz bassists to provide forward motion into...
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  • The Art of Jazz Trumpet [With CD] by McNeil, John
    John McNeil

    The Art of Jazz Trumpet Book/Online Audio [With CD]

    (Music Sales America). A comprehensive study of modern jazz trumpet playing by renowned jazz musician John McNeil. Contains a personal history of jazz trumpet, articulation, valve technique, and alternate fingerings. This complete edition combines and updates the earlier works and includes online recordings as...
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  • Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis by Freeman, Philip
    Philip Freeman

    Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis

    This book reassesses Miles Davis' "electric period" and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase - which encompasses the entire second half of his career, from 1967 until his death in 1991 - this book takes a...
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  • Singing Jazz by Crowther, Bruce
    Bruce Crowther

    Singing Jazz

    Singing Jazz looks at the ups and downs of this tough profession through the eyes of legendary jazz singers, well-established performers, and some newcomers. Drawing on accounts from vocalists of yesterday and today in all major jazz styles, the book explores the musical influences...
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  • Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union by S Frederick Starr
    S Frederick Starr

    Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union

    "...that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining...Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been associated with the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, is also a professional jazz musician, and his knowledgeable affection for the music...
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  • Black Music: Harlem Renaissance by Floyd
    Floyd

    Black Music: Harlem Renaissance

    Author: FloydISBN-10: 0870498002ISBN-13: 9780870498008Publisher: Univ Tennessee PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/1993Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.07w x 0.53d
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  • Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz by Borge, Jason
    Jason Borge

    Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz

    In Tropical Riffs Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines,...
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  • Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity by Siddall, Gillian
    Gillian Siddall

    Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity

    The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered,...
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  • Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana by Feld, Steven
    Steven Feld

    Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana

    In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with local instruments and worldviews. Combining...
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  • Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan by Atkins, E. Taylor
    E. Taylor Atkins

    Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan

    Japan's jazz community--both musicians and audience--has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz "can't swing." In Blue Nippon E. Taylor...
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  • Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz by Gibbs, Terry
    Terry Gibbs

    Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz

    Good Vibes is a rollicking autobiography that tracks jazz from the turbulent post-war years through the rise of bebop, traversing its changes through the eyes of one of its greatest practitioners. Gibbs's hilarious, poignant, and always fascinating anecdotes reveal little-known attributes and quirks about...
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  • Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 by Lawson, R. a.
    R. a. Lawson

    Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945

    In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form--the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians...
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  • Joey Defrancesco's Concepts for Improvisation [With CD (Audio)] by Defrancesco, Joey
    Joey Defrancesco

    Joey Defrancesco's Concepts for Improvisation Book/Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]

    (Piano). This book by renowned young Hammond B-3 organist Joey DeFrancesco encompasses blues and bebop lines and progressions. It includes: music examples for practice and study; examples and lines in all 12 keys; transcriptions and improvisations with harmonic analysis for two tunes; and Joey...
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  • Jazz Guitar Structures by Andrew Green
    Andrew Green

    Jazz Guitar Structures

    For guitarists, the technical learning curve for improvisation is fairly steep. For this reason, it is important to find multiple uses for the musical structures that you learn to execute. This approach decreases the learning curve considerably. This book and accompanying audio show you...
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  • Jazz Theory Handbook by Peter Spitzer
    Peter Spitzer

    Jazz Theory Handbook

    Jazz Theory Handbook is a complete guide to all the essential topics of jazz theory, suitable for all treble instruments. Its approach is clear and concise, realistic and practical. This book will help you to understand how contemporaryjazz players think, and to apply theory...
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  • Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age by Milan, Jon
    Jon Milan

    Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age

    Detroit has always been at the forefront of American popular music development, and the ragtime years and jazz age are no exception. The city's long history of diversity has served the region well, providing a fertile environment for creating and nurturing some of America's...
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  • The Kenny Garrett Collection by Garrett, Kenny
    Kenny Garrett

    The Kenny Garrett Collection

    (Artist Transcriptions). 14 pieces from one of today's most significant members of the post-bop scene who came to prominence as a member of Miles Davis' band. Titles transcribed include: Countdown * Delfeayo's Dilemma * Giant Steps * Ja Hed * Jackie and the Beanstalk...
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  • The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time: Ranking Analysis & Photos by Rizzo, Gene
    Gene Rizzo

    The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time: Ranking Analysis & Photos

    THE 50 GREATEST JAZZ PIANO PLAYERS OF ALL TIMEAuthor: Gene RizzoISBN-10: 0634074164ISBN-13: 9780634074165Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2005Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 10.20h x 7.30w x 0.80d
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  • Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers by Goldsher, Alan
    Alan Goldsher

    Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

    HARD BOP ACADEMY THE SIDEMEN OF ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERSAuthor: Alan GoldsherISBN-10: 0634037935ISBN-13: 9780634037931Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 12/01/2002 pg. 130
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  • The Best of Django Reinhardt: A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Guitar Styles and Techniques of a Jazz Giant [With CD (Audio)] by Charupakorn, Joe
    Joe Charupakorn

    The Best of Django Reinhardt Book/Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]

    (Signature Licks Guitar). Explore the groundbreaking style of one of the most unique and influential guitarists in jazz This book with online audio explores 16 of his signature tunes: Ain't Misbehavin' * Belleville * Daphne * Dinah * Djangology * Honeysuckle Rose * Limehouse...
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  • The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture by Chapman, Dale
    Dale Chapman

    The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture

    Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble approaches the...
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  • Why Jazz Happened by Myers, Marc
    Marc Myers

    Why Jazz Happened

    Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles. Rich with the...
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  • Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music by Shim, Eunmi
    Eunmi Shim

    Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music

    "In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz's most important and most frequently misunderstood figures. Her insights into Tristano's personality are well nuanced, and the focus on his teaching makes a unique...
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  • Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, & the Birth of Concert Jazz by Howland, John
    John Howland

    Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, & the Birth of Concert Jazz

    The story of the African American contributions to the symphonic jazz vogue of the 1920s through the 1940s.During the early decades of the twentieth century symphonic jazz involved an expansive family of music that emulated, paralleled, and intersected the jazz tradition. Though now largely...
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  • Jazz: Essential Listening by Deveaux, Scott
    Scott Deveaux

    Jazz: Essential Listening

    Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to...
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  • Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop by Giddins, Gary
    Gary Giddins

    Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop

    Gary Giddins, winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, has a following that includes not only jazz enthusiasts but also pop music fans of every stripe. Writing here in a lyrical and celebratory style all his own, Giddins dazzlingly shows us among...
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  • Gershwin by Jablonski, Edward
    Edward Jablonski

    Gershwin

    This still unrivaled biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life--from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall--of George Gershwin (1898-1937), a man whose music (Lady Be Good, Of Thee I Sing, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, An American...
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  • Jazz PB by Sales, Grover
    Grover Sales

    Jazz PB

    Jazz: America's Classical Music is a delightful introduction and guide to this complex and compelling music and to its rich history. In an engaging and conversational style, renowned jazz teacher Grover Sales tells of the lives and music of the greats--Ellington, Tatum, Hawkins, Coltrane,...
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  • The Big Band Almanac by Walker, Leo
    Leo Walker

    The Big Band Almanac

    With more than 500 pictures, and extensive entries on more than 350 orchestras, this complete coverage of black and white bands--from the almost-forgotten to Basie, Ellington, Miller, Shaw, and Dorsey--will prompt memories and establish important facts about a glorious era of jazz and popular...
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  • Jazz Masters of the 20s by Hadlock, Richard
    Richard Hadlock

    Jazz Masters of the 20s

    The jazz decade saw the emergence of many of the great figures who defined the music for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher Henderson--these giants set the standards for blues singing, big band arrangements, and...
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  • The Jazz Life by Hentoff, Nat
    Nat Hentoff

    The Jazz Life

    The last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many potential jazz fans turned to rock. Now the pendulum is on the backswing, and vintage and modern jazz as well as...
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  • The Jazz Cadence of American Culture by O'Meally, Robert
    Robert O'Meally

    The Jazz Cadence of American Culture

    A comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis,...
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  • Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction by Monson, Ingrid
    Ingrid Monson

    Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction

    This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go...
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  • Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago by Steinbeck, Paul
    Paul Steinbeck

    Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago

    This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique performance practices--members played hundreds of...
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  • You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band by Gluck, Bob
    Bob Gluck

    You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

    As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become...
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  • Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960 by Fry, Andy
    Andy Fry

    Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960

    The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit...
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  • Thelonious Monk Quartet Featuring John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall by Solis, Gabriel
    Gabriel Solis

    Thelonious Monk Quartet Featuring John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

    In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Long considered one of the most important musical meetings in modern...
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  • Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers by Stokes, W. Royal
    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...
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  • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music by Brown, Leonard
    Leonard Brown

    John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

    Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom. A wide-ranging...
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  • Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany by Kater, Michael H.
    Michael H. Kater

    Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany

    When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast caf駸 reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere." Eager to look...
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  • Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz by Stokes, W. Royal
    W. Royal Stokes

    Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz

    No music is as individual as jazz. And no writer is as deft at bringing out what is individual in each jazz artist as W. Royal Stokes. As a reviewer, feature writer, public radio host, and author, Stokes has spent three decades covering the...
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  • Myself When I Am Real by Santoro, Gene
    Gene Santoro

    Myself When I Am Real

    Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century, and ranks with Charles Ives and Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life...
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  • The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists by Furia, Philip
    Philip Furia

    The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists

    From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart--even today these giants remain household names, their musicals regularly revived, their methods and styles analyzed...
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  • Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea by Waters, Keith
    Keith Waters

    Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea

    Innovations in postbop jazz compositions of the 1960s occurred in several dimensions, including harmony, form, and melody. Postbop jazz composers such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea broke with earlier tonal jazz traditions. Their compositions marked a departure from the techniques of...
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  • Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years by Douskey, Franz
    Franz Douskey

    Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years

    An intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends. Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over sixty years. One...
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  • Creative Jazz Improvisation by Reeves, Scott
    Scott Reeves

    Creative Jazz Improvisation

    The leading textbook in jazz improvisation, Creative Jazz Improvisation, Fifth Edition represents a compendium of knowledge and practice resources for the university classroom, suitable for all musicians looking to develop and sharpen their soloing skills. Logically organized and guided by a philosophy that encourages...
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  • Sound Experiments: The Music of the Aacm by Steinbeck, Paul
    Paul Steinbeck

    Sound Experiments: The Music of the Aacm

    A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is the most influential...
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