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  • Change: The New Thing and Modern Jazz by Coleman, Kwami
    Kwami Coleman

    Change: The New Thing and Modern Jazz

    By 1960, musicians, critics, record buyers, and club patrons in New York City agreed that a "new thing" in jazz had arrived. That new thing was what we in the twenty-first century call free jazz, and it represented a significant change within and, for...
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  • Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart by Hart, Billy
    Billy Hart

    Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart

    Oceans of Time Charts the Rhythmic Course of Jazz Master Billy HartFew drummers have traversed more stylistic terrain or logged more miles behind the world's greatest jazz musicians than Billy Hart. From Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock to McCoy Tyner and Wes Montgomery, Hart...
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  • Soundtrack to the Revolution: Free Jazz and Leftist Nationalism in Quebec 1967-1975 by Fillion, Eric
    Eric Fillion

    Soundtrack to the Revolution: Free Jazz and Leftist Nationalism in Quebec 1967-1975

    "I am a revolutionary first, a musician second. Instead of a machine gun, I have a trumpet," explained Yves Charbonneau, co-founder of the Montreal-based group Jazz Libre, in May of 1969.Upbeat excitement resonated throughout Montreal and across the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec in...
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  • Modern Jazz Bass Exercises & Etudes by Patitucci, John
    John Patitucci

    Modern Jazz Bass Exercises & Etudes

    Author: John Patitucci, Tim Pettingale, Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1789334527ISBN-13: 9781789334524Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2025Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.18d
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  • Jazz Favorites: Pro Vocal Women's Edition Volume 21 [With CD (Audio)] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Jazz Favorites: Pro Vocal Women's Edition Volume 21 [With CD (Audio)]

    (Pro Vocal). Whether you're a karaoke singer or preparing for an audition, the Pro Vocal series is for you. The book contains the lyrics, melody, and chord symbols for eight hit songs. The CD contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so you...
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  • Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation by Goodall, Mark
    Mark Goodall

    Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation

    From Mozart to Miles Davis, it is a matter of record that over many centuries composers and musicians have been consistently inspired by the occult. Few music lovers' curiosity can fail to have been piqued by the rumours of magick and mysticism that surround...
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  • Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation Through Historical Models by Levy, Brian
    Brian Levy

    Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation Through Historical Models

    In Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models, authors Brian Levy and Keith Waters use solos by famous jazz musicians to outline a melodic and rhythmic vocabulary of jazz improvisation. In contrast to mainstream approaches based on rote memorization and generic chord/scale...
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  • The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word by Jones, Meta Duewa
    Meta Duewa Jones

    The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

    This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers,...
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  • Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots by Peress, Maurice
    Maurice Peress

    Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots

    Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which Dvorák so presciently spoke, Maurice Peress's lively and convincing narrative treats readers to a rare and delightful glimpse behind the scenes of the...
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  • Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by Gavin, James
    James Gavin

    Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker

    Reprint, with minor corrections. Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.Author: James GavinISBN-10: 1569767572ISBN-13: 9781569767573Publisher: Chicago Review PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.34w x 1.03d
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  • The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance by Henry, Dollie
    Dollie Henry

    The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance

    Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic,...
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  • Choruses by Troupe, Quincy
    Quincy Troupe

    Choruses

    Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses. Merging traditional poetic form with contemporary content, Troupe fashions "words & sounds that build bridges toward a new tongue", as...
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  • Ragtime Piano Solos And How To Play Them by Taylor, Billy
    Billy Taylor

    Ragtime Piano Solos And How To Play Them

    Ragtime Piano Solos And How To Play Them is a comprehensive guidebook for anyone looking to learn how to play ragtime piano music. Written by renowned pianist and composer Billy Taylor, this book provides a detailed overview of the history and development of ragtime...
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  • The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life by Gennari, John
    John Gennari

    The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

    How a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place. This is a book about what happened in the 1950s in a...
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  • Jazz Greats by Perry, David
    David Perry

    Jazz Greats

    This lively and fascinating account of the lives and musical innovations of twelve of America's greatest jazzmen traces how, through their remarkable playing and improvisational skills, they are considered to be among the twentieth century's most groundbreaking composers. Legendary figures such as Buddy Bolden,...
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  • The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World by Rosenthal, Elizabeth J.
    Elizabeth J. Rosenthal

    The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World

    From the early 1930s onward, Gene Krupa was a drum-centric rarity in the jazz world. Never before had a drummer been in the forefront as a solo artist. His galvanizing, unrestrained passion for percussion demanded it. Rocking the rafters, Gene thrilled audiences in ballrooms,...
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  • Tod Papageorge, Garry Winogrand, Paul McDonough: And It's Again: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill by Papageorge, Tod
    Tod Papageorge

    Tod Papageorge, Garry Winogrand, Paul McDonough: And It's Again: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill

    Three great American photographers capture the making of Carla Bley's award-winning jazz albumIn January 1967, jazz composer Carla Bley (1936-2023) received a poem in the mail from a writer friend of hers, Paul Haines. As she later said, it "fit mysteriously with a piece...
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  • Monk's Music: An Illustrated Discography by Taylor, Dub
    Dub Taylor

    Monk's Music: An Illustrated Discography

    Monk's Music, Thelonious Monk: An Illustrated Discography is the definitive and up-to-date guide to the recordings of one of the most important jazz composers and performers of the 20th century. A feast for the eye with the full color reproductions and a carefully researched...
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  • Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing: Solo With Extended Arpeggios, Chromatics, Bebop Extensions, Modes & Pentatonic Substitutions by Hayward, Nathan
    Nathan Hayward

    Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing: Solo With Extended Arpeggios, Chromatics, Bebop Extensions, Modes & Pentatonic Substitutions

    The Next Step on Your Jazz Piano Soloing JourneyAre you ready to elevate your jazz piano skills and bring more creativity to your solos? Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing by Nathan Hayward is your essential guide to mastering the art of jazz improvisation. This book...
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  • Motivic Soloing for Jazz Bass by Minh Doky, Chris
    Chris Minh Doky

    Motivic Soloing for Jazz Bass

    Motivic Soloing for Jazz BassHow do some players tell a story with their basslines/solos, while others struggle to break free from clichéd ideas?Designed for both upright and electric bass players, it's time to unlock the secrets to effortless groove on bass.In Motivic Soloing for...
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  • Jazz Improvisation Fundamentals: Black and White Edition by O'Gorman, Kenneth M.
    Kenneth M. O'Gorman

    Jazz Improvisation Fundamentals: Black and White Edition

    There are three fundamentals to any great solo: Chords, Scales, and Tone Selection. Learn to use the fundamentals as your three-step approach to jazz improvisation. Over 80 images for Treble and Bass Clef. This book is perfect for beginners, struggling intermediates, and jazz instructors...
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  • Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation by McClendon, Alphonso
    Alphonso McClendon

    Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation

    Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs,...
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  • I Remember Jazz: Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen by Rose, Al
    Al Rose

    I Remember Jazz: Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen

    Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out...
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  • How To Play Classic Jazz Guitar: Six Swinging Strings by Lydon, Michael
    Michael Lydon

    How To Play Classic Jazz Guitar: Six Swinging Strings

    Jazz Guitar Styles is an instruction book designed for the guitarist who already knows the fundamentals but wishes to explore the "classic" style of swing-era guitar. It offers a clear, concise introduction to the basics of jazz guitar, built on the student's basic knowledge...
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  • Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990 by Gray, John
    John Gray

    Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990

    The first bibliography devoted to a single jazz genre or era, Fire Music is concerned with the music of the jazz avant-gardists such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and Sun Ra. It makes accessible the most extensive and up-to-date scholarship of the...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies by Havas, ?d?m
    ?d?m Havas

    The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies

    The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories, and cultural criticism. It rests on the argument that diasporic jazz is...
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  • Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz by Brennan, Timothy
    Timothy Brennan

    Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz

    Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.Author: Timothy BrennanISBN-10: 1844672913ISBN-13: 9781844672912Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2008Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.14w x 0.90d
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  • Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss by Freelon, Nnenna
    Nnenna Freelon

    Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss

    Over a period of just six months, eminent jazz vocalist and composer Nnenna Freelon's life changed irrevocably. Her soulmate and husband of nearly forty years, the renowned architect Phil Freelon, passed away from ALS, her sister Debbie succumbed to cancer, and the family dog,...
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  • A Guide to Jazz in Japan by Pronko, Michael
    Michael Pronko

    A Guide to Jazz in Japan

    Whether you're visiting Japan, living there, armchair traveling, or just love jazz, this guide points you toward the best of Japan's vibrant jazz scene. With reviews of over 40+ clubs and 200+ musicians, this indispensable guide lets you know where to go, who to...
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  • Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 by Ainsworth, Alan John
    Alan John Ainsworth

    Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960

    A revelatory look at the photography that shaped the American Jazz Age. In this book, Alan John Ainsworth considers the work of a range of American jazz photographers from the turn of the twentieth century through the Jazz Age and into the 1960s. Drawing...
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  • Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited by Okiji, Fumi
    Fumi Okiji

    Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited

    A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests,...
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  • Jelly Roll Morton Bio: A Deep Dive Into The Life, Music, And Legacy Of A True American Legend by Rock, Slim
    Slim Rock

    Jelly Roll Morton Bio: A Deep Dive Into The Life, Music, And Legacy Of A True American Legend

    Jelly Roll Morton: A Deep Dive into the Life, Music, and Legacy of a True American LegendJelly Roll Morton is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz, a genre that reshaped the landscape of American music and...
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  • The Real Bebop Book: Eb Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Bebop Book: Eb Edition

    (Fake Book). Your new official bebop bible Over 200 classics arranged for Eb instruments in Real Book style. Titles include: Anthropology * Au Privave * Be-Bop * Boneology * Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) * Byrd Like * Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * Confirmation *...
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  • Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature by Feinstein, Sascha
    Sascha Feinstein

    Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature

    Ask Me Now explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for...
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  • Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion by Marmot, Andr?
    Andr? Marmot

    Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion

    A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to the birth of the genre itself. "Not solely a book about jazz, or even a nascent cultural shift; it's a record of a pivotal moment...
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  • Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions by Bragalini, Luca
    Luca Bragalini

    Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions

    Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions, the culmination of a decade-long study of Ellington's compositions for the symphony orchestra by author Luca Bragalini, is the first book entirely dedicated to Ellington's symphonic music. Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions unfolds across five chapters, each dedicated to a distinct...
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  • Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions by Bragalini, Luca
    Luca Bragalini

    Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions

    Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions, the culmination of a decade-long study of Ellington's compositions for the symphony orchestra by author Luca Bragalini, is the first book entirely dedicated to Ellington's symphonic music. Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions unfolds across five chapters, each dedicated to a distinct...
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  • Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams by Bowie, Steven C.
    Steven C. Bowie

    Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams

    Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny...
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  • Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams by Bowie, Steven C.
    Steven C. Bowie

    Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams

    Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny...
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  • Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 4 the Lydian Mode by Piket, Roberta
    Roberta Piket

    Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 4 the Lydian Mode

    The amount of theoretical knowledge required to become a fluent improvisor on the piano can be overwhelming to the aspiring jazz pianist. Jazz Piano Vocabulary is a series of books designed to help students master each scale and learn how to apply it in...
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  • Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz by Muller, Carol Ann
    Carol Ann Muller

    Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz

    Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She...
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  • Jazz Worlds/World Jazz by Bohlman, Philip V.
    Philip V. Bohlman

    Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

    Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jazz in the clubs...
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  • The Last Musical Hurrah: : Jazz and Pop Singing and the Onslaught of Rock by Reed, Bill
    Bill Reed

    The Last Musical Hurrah: : Jazz and Pop Singing and the Onslaught of Rock

    The Last Musical Hurrah: Jazz and Pop Singing and the Onslaught of Rock. The title alone should give you some idea of the subject matter. To elaborate just a bit, it is about the impact of the tsunami of rock and roll as it...
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  • Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography by Carner, Gary
    Gary Carner

    Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography

    Pepper Adams' Joy Road not only compiles the sessions and gigs of the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history, but it's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times through colorful interviews with Adams and other musicians. These candid observations open a window onto...
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  • Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume One Major Scale by Piket, Roberta
    Roberta Piket

    Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume One Major Scale

    This book is the first volume in a series designed to help the student of jazz piano learn and apply jazz scales by mastering each scale and its uses in improvisation. Volume 1 focuses on the major scale, illustrating the scale in all twelve...
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  • Time of My Life: A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans by Wilson, Clive
    Clive Wilson

    Time of My Life: A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans

    New Orleans is a kind of Mecca for jazz pilgrims, as Whitney Balliett once wrote. This memoir tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson, who fell in love with New Orleans jazz in his early teens while in boarding school in his...
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  • Mitchell & Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz by Zinsser, William
    William Zinsser

    Mitchell & Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz

    "Highly recommended"--Library Journal"In this account of the world adventures of two splendid jazz artists, Bill Zinsser has given us one of the most exciting books about America's original art form that I've ever read. It's a revelation."--Studs TerkelSince 1955, Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff...
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  • Jazz Radio America by Johnson, Aaron J.
    Aaron J. Johnson

    Jazz Radio America

    Once a lively presence on radio, jazz now finds itself relegated to satellite broadcasters and low-watt stations at the edge of the dial. Aaron J. Johnson examines jazz radio from the advent of Black radio in 1948 to its near extinction from the commercial...
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  • Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road by Brubeck, Darius
    Darius Brubeck

    Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road

    Catherine and Darius Brubeck's 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering academic program in jazz music and...
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  • Jazz and Literature: An Introduction by Lima, Maria Ant?nia
    Maria Ant?nia Lima

    Jazz and Literature: An Introduction

    Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections including improvisation, multicultural influences, poetry, modernism, the Beat movement, jazz forms, noir, solo and collective expression, global perspectives on jazz and...
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