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  • Everyone Has Sight: But It Takes A Photographer To See by Moody, Boston
    Boston Moody

    Everyone Has Sight: But It Takes A Photographer To See

    After my honorable discharge from the Army, I found myself working for a company that manufactured stereo receivers and speakers. As a traffic manager, my days were filled with routine tasks, and after three years, I grew increasingly restless. Seeking guidance, I visited one...
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  • Jazz Legends Alphabet by Feiner, Beck
    Beck Feiner

    Jazz Legends Alphabet

    From Coltrane to Davis, Fitzgerald to Armstrong, Jazz Legends Alphabet is the quintessential A to Z of the smoothest, coolest, hippest cats to have ever made jazz music. Written with rhythm and illustrated with style, Jazz Legends Alphabet will make your little legend the...
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  • Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies by Marvin, Elizabeth West
    Elizabeth West Marvin

    Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies

    Interdisciplinary articles bridge the gulf between classical and popular music. Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music. Topics discussed fall into three sections: compositional poietics (poietics being the pre-compositional activities of composer...
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  • Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz by Terrill, Richard
    Richard Terrill

    Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz

    Writes Richard Terrill, "The name fakebook derives from recognition that a jazz musician who is improvising over a set of chord changes is "faking," making up his or her own melody. The fakebook then is a place to start, the structure upon which music...
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  • Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity by Cisneros, Carol
    Carol Cisneros

    Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity

    Author: Carol CisnerosISBN-13: 9798893245028Publisher: Franklin Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
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  • Jazz Among the Discourses by Gabbard, Krin
    Krin Gabbard

    Jazz Among the Discourses

    The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and...
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  • Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924 by Wondrich, David
    David Wondrich

    Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

    The early decades of American popular music are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music -- black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude -- made it onto records for all to...
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  • John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3 by Johnson, Bruce
    Bruce Johnson

    John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3

    A study of John Sangster's jazz suite Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. At more than 6 LP recordings, the Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books,...
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  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by Atkins, E. Taylor
    E. Taylor Atkins

    Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

    A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the...
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  • The Lion Roars: The Musical Life of Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre by Sandford, Phil
    Phil Sandford

    The Lion Roars: The Musical Life of Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre

    By day a mild-mannered accountant, by night a roaring jazz pianist and singer. A boogie and stride pianist, Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre was a leading figure in the traditional jazz boom in Melbourne after World War II. He sang in a Fats Waller style...
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  • In Love with Voices: A Jazz Memoir by Torff, Brian Q.
    Brian Q. Torff

    In Love with Voices: A Jazz Memoir

    "A career in music ... is a calling with such a strong pull; you'd think a tide was sucking you under. It becomes an intense obsession of such great intensity that you can almost think of nothing else, it drives you with a fever...
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  • The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States by Floyd, Samuel A., Jr.
    Samuel A. Jr. Floyd

    The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the...
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 1: Epistrophy: Historical and Hermeneutical Background by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 1: Epistrophy: Historical and Hermeneutical Background

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • Waits/Corbijn '77-'11 by Corbijn, Anton
    Anton Corbijn

    Waits/Corbijn '77-'11

    Now back in print, this stunning, award- winning visual odyssey encapsulates the essence of Tom Waits' enigmatic persona and Anton Corbijn's distinctive photographic style. Spanning over three decades, this extraordinary book showcases the enduring collaboration between a legendary musician and a renowned Dutch photographer--a...
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  • John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3 by Johnson, Bruce
    Bruce Johnson

    John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3

    A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. In three volumes and more than six LP recordings, The Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based...
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  • How to Improvise in Modern Music: Tools and Exercises for music and jazz improvisation by Schneider, Ricky
    Ricky Schneider

    How to Improvise in Modern Music: Tools and Exercises for music and jazz improvisation

    Develop and exercise musical improvisationHow to Improvise in Modern Music is a book, oriented to the learning and practice of musical improvising with any instrument in every style of modern music: Jazz, Blues, Rock, etc. Examples and exercises in this book are accompanied by...
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  • Electro Swing: Resurrection, Recontextualisation, and Remix by Inglis, Chris
    Chris Inglis

    Electro Swing: Resurrection, Recontextualisation, and Remix

    Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music. Author: Chris InglisISBN-10: 1032184302ISBN-13: 9781032184302Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 3 by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 3

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941 by Oliphant, Dave
    Dave Oliphant

    Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941

    The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history. Major big bands and individual artists established important styles that brought...
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  • 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by Kaplan, James
    James Kaplan

    3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

    Author: James KaplanISBN-10: 0525561021ISBN-13: 9780525561026Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.50w x 1.00d
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 2 by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 2

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • Doctor Jazz by Carruth, Hayden
    Hayden Carruth

    Doctor Jazz

    Hayden Carruth is a major literary figure and no survey of American poetry is complete without inclusion of his work.In this newest book of poems--the first since his 1996 National Book Award--Carruth confronts the threadbare memories of old age and the fading winter view....
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  • The John Coltrane Reference by Porter, Lewis
    Lewis Porter

    The John Coltrane Reference

    The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008.Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and...
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  • 101 Walking Jazz Bass Lines: Learn to Build & Play Walking Basslines on Every Essential Jazz Chord Sequence by Cox, Johnny
    Johnny Cox

    101 Walking Jazz Bass Lines: Learn to Build & Play Walking Basslines on Every Essential Jazz Chord Sequence

    Master All The Changes With 101 Walking Jazz Bass LinesDo you struggle with creating smooth, engaging basslines in jazz? Tired of feeling lost when navigating complex jazz chord progressions? 101 Walking Jazz Bass Lines is your complete guide to creating fluid, articulate basslines for...
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  • Sonny Rollins

    Sonny Rollins Play-Along: Real Book Multi-Tracks Volume 6

    (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...
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  • Martin Taylor's Latin Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes: Master the Art of Latin Jazz Guitar In 7 Beautiful Etudes by Taylor, Martin
    Martin Taylor

    Martin Taylor's Latin Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes: Master the Art of Latin Jazz Guitar In 7 Beautiful Etudes

    Ready to master Latin Jazz guitar soloing?Discover the intricacies of Latin Jazz guitar with Martin Taylor's Latin Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes. You'll take an intimate look into the techniques and pieces that define Latin Jazz, brought to life by one of the world's foremost...
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  • Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression by Buscatto, Marie
    Marie Buscatto

    Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression

    Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art--not to "japanize" jazz, but to assert one's creativity, passion, and capacity for self-expression--establishing it as an art form with its own...
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  • Philosophy of Jazz by Feige, Daniel Martin
    Daniel Martin Feige

    Philosophy of Jazz

    What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philosophy of Jazz is among the first book-length philosophical discussions devoted to jazz. Daniel Martin Feige explores the relationship...
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  • Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words by Gluck, Bob
    Bob Gluck

    Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words

    An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of our time, has for five decades toured with his many creative musical projects,...
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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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  • Jazz Habana by Vidal, Gonzalo
    Gonzalo Vidal

    Jazz Habana

    Author: Gonzalo Vidal, Enrique 'Kike' SmithISBN-10: 1914278704ISBN-13: 9781914278709Publisher: Amaurea PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2024Pages: 96Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.38d
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  • Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso by Ansell, Derek
    Derek Ansell

    Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso

    Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...
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  • The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Tye, Larry
    Larry Tye

    The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...
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  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by Atkins, E. Taylor
    E. Taylor Atkins

    Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

    A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan. In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from...
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  • Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society by Sarath, Edward W.
    Edward W. Sarath

    Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society

    Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a...
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  • Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion by Fellezs, Kevin
    Kevin Fellezs

    Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion

    Birds of Fire brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of jazz, rock, and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the time, fusion was disparaged by jazz writers and ignored by rock critics....
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  • The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association by Adler, David R.
    David R. Adler

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music.90 contributors represent the finest music writers and photographers alive todayTheir skill, wisdom, insight, and generosity...
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  • The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association by Adler, David R.
    David R. Adler

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music. This deluxe dust-jacketed hardcover edition is an essential collectible for any music library.90 contributors represent...
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  • Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 by Wilkinson, Christopher
    Christopher Wilkinson

    Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942

    Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Jazz Music-Certificate of Merit (2013) The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those...
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  • Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod - From the Revival to Acid Jazz by Piller, Eddie
    Eddie Piller

    Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod - From the Revival to Acid Jazz

    This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then... WHAAAM! An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with...
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  • Fusion!: From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother by Coles, Alex
    Alex Coles

    Fusion!: From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother

    The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From...
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  • The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography by Espada-Brignoni, Te?filo
    Te?filo Espada-Brignoni

    The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography

    In this book the author analyzes the autobiographies of Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins by integrating social, psychological, and literary theories. He argues that the autobiographies of New Orleans jazz musicians construct a sense of self and the collective grounded...
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  • Samba [With CD (Audio)] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Samba [With CD (Audio)]

    (Jazz Play Along). For use with all Bb, Eb, C and bass clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultiimate 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...
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  • Jazzed about Christmas: 18 Christmas Songs in the Key of C Major for Early Intermediate Piano Students by Simon, Jerald
    Jerald Simon

    Jazzed about Christmas: 18 Christmas Songs in the Key of C Major for Early Intermediate Piano Students

    Jazzed about Christmas contains 18 fun and easy to play, teacher friendly Christmas favorites. The arrangements are for the early intermediate piano student. Each arrangement is in the key of C. The songs are fun and upbeat. The book has lessons that teach students...
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  • The Compassion of Jazz: My Incredible Life in Music & the Movement by Cassell, Jim
    Jim Cassell

    The Compassion of Jazz: My Incredible Life in Music & the Movement

    The Compassion of Jazz chronicles the career of Jim Cassell, a native Californian born in la Jolla, as he navigates his way from student to sailor to hippie to political activist with the United Farm Workers in their unionizing efforts in the 1970s. And...
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  • Vocal Jazz (Low Voice) [With CD (Audio)] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Vocal Jazz (Low Voice) [With CD (Audio)]

    (Jazz Play Along). These vocal editions from the Jazz Play-Along Series are the ultimate learning tool for all jazz vocalists. With musician-friendly lead sheets, lyrics, melody cues and jazz trio backing tracks on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while...
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  • Marshal Royal by Royal, Marshal
    Marshal Royal

    Marshal Royal

    Marsgal Royal was a core member of the Count Basei Orchestra for twenty years during its resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s. Before that, he was a pioneer of jazz on the West Coast, playing with many bands in and around Los Angeles. A...
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  • Enclosure Studies For Jazz Violin: A Complete Guide to The Art of Jazz Soloing With Diatonic & Chromatic Enclosures by Holborn, Matt
    Matt Holborn

    Enclosure Studies For Jazz Violin: A Complete Guide to The Art of Jazz Soloing With Diatonic & Chromatic Enclosures

    Enclosure Studies for Jazz ViolinAre you a violinist struggling to bring authentic jazz sounds into your solos?Do you find it challenging to incorporate chromaticism and melodic ideas like those heard in classic bebop recordings?Are you looking for structured ways to expand your jazz vocabulary...
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  • Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood by Harper, Colter
    Colter Harper

    Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood

    From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh's Hill District was the heart of the city's Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped...
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  • The Blue Note: Seattle's Black Musicians' Union - A Pictorial History by Keller, David
    David Keller

    The Blue Note: Seattle's Black Musicians' Union - A Pictorial History

    This book documents a portion of American cultural history not often chronicled. Focused on Seattle's black American Federation of Musicians' Local 493, it is an upbeat story of race, jazz, gender, and union culture, set in the Pacific Northwest and the wider jazz world....
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