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Vendor: 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...- $40.00
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Vendor: Mick Burns
Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance
Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans...- $19.95
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Vendor: Mick Burns
Walking with Legends: Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey
Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view...- $18.95
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Christmas Classics Play-Along: Real Book Multi-Tracks Volume 9
(Real Book Multi-Tracks Play-Along). Today's best way to practice jazz! Accurate, easy-to-read lead sheets and professional, customizable audio tracks accessed online for 10 songs. The interactive, online audio interface includes: tempo control; looping; buttons to turn each instrument on or off; lead sheet with...- $17.99
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Vendor: George Gershwin
George Gershwin
(Jazz Piano Solos). 23 jazzy arrangements of Gershwin gems, including: Embraceable You * Fascinating Rhythm * A Foggy Day (In London Town) * How Long Has This Been Going On? * I Got Rhythm * I Loves You, Porgy * Let's Call the Whole...- $19.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Real Christmas Book Play-Along, Vol. A-G
(Real Book Play-Along). Make it a merry Christmas with these play-along CDs, now available to complement your favorite Christmas songs featured in the famous Hal Leonard Real Christmas Book Each of the three volumes contains three CDs with selections sorted alphabetically so instrumentalists can...- $24.99
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Vendor: Eric Wendell
Experiencing Herbie Hancock: A Listener's Companion
The musical output of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has toppled genre boundaries and influenced generations of musicians. A child prodigy who worked his way up through classical tradition, found a home for his insatiable creativity in jazz, and went on to influence...- $45.00
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Vendor: Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini [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...- $17.99
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Vendor: Steve Khan
Contemporary Chord Khancepts [With 2 CD's]
In this book, Steve Khan shares his approach to chord construction on guitar, an area in which he has become famous. He has taken a complex subject and broken it down into simple building blocks and small study units. Players will learn to extend...- $25.99
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Vendor: Arthur Rotfeld
Jazz Guitar Chord Voicings
(Guitar Educational). Here is a concise yet thorough way to learn the essentials of jazz chording on the guitar. From the very basics of harmony to the sophistication of chord alteration and substitution, no stone is left unturned. More than 100 musical examples demonstrate...- $12.99
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Vendor: Andy Laverne
Chords in Motion: Moving Quartal Voicings & Related Structures, Spiral-Bound Book
Noted jazz pianist, composer, recording artist and educator Andy LaVerne has drawn from his decades of experience playing with master musicians from Getz to Lovano to create this comprehensive compendium of contemporary moving voicings. Quartal, quintal, drop 2, dominant 7b9/diminished, triadic, whole tone and...- $24.95
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Vendor: Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold Jazz, -- Jazz Guitar, Vol 1: The Most Widely Used Improvisation Method on the Market!, Spiral-Bound Book & 2 CDs
Why should horn players have all of the fun? Now, the number one selling jazz improvisation book in the world has a whole new look! Introducing a new version of Jamey's world famous Volume 1: How to Play Jazz and Improvise, completely revised and...- $24.95
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Vendor: Mike Diliddo
Easy Jazz Guitar: Voicings & Comping, Book & 2cds
This book and 2 CD set, with simple comping over the standards on Jamey Aebersold's Volume 54: Maiden Voyage, is designed for the guitarist with little or no jazz experience. Chords and voicings are explained in a manner that even the most novice guitarists...- $24.95
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Vendor: Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Killer Joe, Vol 70: Easy to Play, Book & CD
Similar to the popular Volume 54: Maiden Voyage, this volume again meets the needs of the up-and-coming jazz player who is ready to make the transition from scales and chords to improvising on real standard chord changes. The selections feature slower tempos and easier...- $17.90
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Vendor: Benny Golson
Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Benny Golson, Vol 14: Eight Jazz Classics, Book & 2 CDs
Now with two CDs---one features slower tempos This set can help raise your playing to a higher level of proficiency. Benny is one of the most popular jazz composers. This set was produced by Benny Golson himself in a New York studio with his...- $19.95
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Vendor: Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training: Book & 2 CDs
Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training is a no-nonsense approach consisting of two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instructions before each. It starts very simply, with intervals and gradually increases in difficulty until you are hearing chord changes and progressions. All answers...- $15.00
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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 lined the vibrant thoroughfare were...- $31.99
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Vendor: Joseph Alexander
Chord Tone Soloing for Bass Guitar
Chord Tone Soloing for Bass Guitar teaches you to how to use arpeggios, extensions, chromatic ideas and substitutions over each of the thirteen essential jazz sequences, and how to combine these building blocks into authentic, melodic solos. Each progression is approached both logically and...- $19.99
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Vendor: Joseph Alexander
Jazz Blues Soloing for Guitar
The emphasis of Jazz Blues Soloing for Guitar is on creating smooth, flowing blues lines that are constructed from each concept taught in the book. Plenty of examples are given for every playing situation; however, the book focuses on teaching you to build your...- $19.99
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Vendor: Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor Walking Basslines for Jazz Guitar
Walking Basslines for Jazz Guitar teaches you Martin Taylor's own secret method for building a rock solid walking bassline on any jazz standard. You'll become a one-instrument rhythm section and be perfectly placed to accompany singers and soloists in a duo setting.Author: Martin Taylor,...- $19.99
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Vendor: John McCusker
Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the...- $40.00
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Vendor: Josef Woodard
Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth
Saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd has been a strong and important voice in the jazz world since the late 1950s. This freewheeling, fascinating unauthorized biographybased on twenty years' worth of interviews covers the extreme ups and downs of an uncommonly eventful life, often in...- $18.95
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Vendor: Anthony Reed
Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production
In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958-1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the...- $102.95
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Vendor: Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald -- Forever Ella: 19 Ella Fitzgerald Classics (Piano/Vocal/Chords)
Includes: Someone to Watch Over Me * I Love Paris * Summertime * Misty * Gone with the Wind * I Can't Give You Anything but Love * Tenderly * I Only Have Eyes for You * These Foolish Things * The Very Thought...- $22.99
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Vendor: Elliott H. Powell
Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music
A sixty-year history of Afro-South Asian musical collaborations From Beyonc 's South Asian music-inspired Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane's use of Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and Missy Elliott's high-profile collaborations with...- $22.50
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Vendor: Lenard D. Moore
The Geography of Jazz
A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration.In The Geography of Jazz, Moore celebrates jazz music and jazz musicians. Some of the poems address specific events. Others honor individual artists. Many do...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jimmy Katz
Jimmy Katz: Closed Session
Portraits of New York's jazz and blues greats, from Ray Charles to Miles DavisIn a career spanning nearly 30 years, the New York-based music photographer Jimmy Katz (born 1957) has become a key figure on the American jazz scene, and is best known for...- $35.00
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Vendor: Leo T. Sullivan
Swing Street: The Rise and Fall of New York's 52nd Street Jazz Scene: An Illustrated Tribute, 1930-1950
Swing Street was the name given to 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City, where there were more jazz clubs and bars per square block than anywhere else in the world, all showcasing the finest jazz musicians of the era. This illustrated...- $24.99
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Vendor: Vaughn A. Booker
Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century
Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate Schools Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the...- $35.00
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Vendor: 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,...- $68.95
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Vendor: 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....- $19.99
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Vendor: 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...- $16.95
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Vendor: 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...- $19.95
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Vendor: 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...- $24.99
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Vendor: 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...- $19.99
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Vendor: 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...- $17.99
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Vendor: 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...- $18.95
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Vendor: 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- $29.95
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Vendor: 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,...- $102.95
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Vendor: 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,...- $29.95
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Vendor: 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...- $28.95
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Vendor: 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...- $30.95
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Vendor: 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...- $76.00
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Vendor: 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...- $24.95
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Vendor: 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...- $32.99
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Vendor: 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...- $24.99
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Vendor: 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...- $24.99
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Vendor: Caleb Chapman
The Articulate Jazz Musician: Mastering the Language of Jazz (Teacher Edition), Book & Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]
Award-winning jazz educator Caleb Chapman and multiple GRAMMY(R) Award-winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin have created a highly effective approach to jazz articulation. Step by step, The Articulate Jazz Musician details Caleb's proven approach for mastering the fundamentals of jazz articulation, phrasing, and interpretation. The play-along...- $16.99
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Vendor: Robert D. Vandall
Celebrated Jazzy Solos, Bk 3: 9 Solos in Jazz Styles for Early Intermediate to Intermediate Pianists
Boogie, blues, ragtime, swing and other jazz styles are irresistible to most pianists, but not always accessible to student pianists. Composer Robert Vandall has removed all barriers to successful student performances, by making sure that each jazzy solo" in this Celebrated series cleverly introduces...- $7.99
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Vendor: Robert D. Vandall
Celebrated Jazzy Solos, Bk 1: 10 Solos in Jazz Styles for Late Elementary Pianists
Boogie, blues, ragtime, swing and other jazz styles are irresistible to most pianists, but not always accessible to student pianists. Composer Robert Vandall has removed all barriers to successful student performances, by making sure that each jazzy solo" in this Celebrated series cleverly introduces...- $7.99
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