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  • America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley by Furia, Philip
    Philip Furia

    America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley

    America's Songs tells the "stories behind" the most beloved popular songs of the last century. We all have songs that have a special meaning in our lives; hearing them evokes a special time or place. Little wonder that these special songs have become enduring...
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  • Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. XVI, No. 1: On the Future of Aesthetics, by Blake, Ran
    Ran Blake

    Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. XVI, No. 1: On the Future of Aesthetics,

    The Winter 2023 issue of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics features a new music column, Off Minor, with an essay by Ran Blake on legendary composer and pianist Thelonious Monk. Other material herein spans Central and Eastern Europe and beyond and includes an...
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  • Issue 27 - Grandmaster Flash / Eddie Harris cover by Wax Poetics
    Wax Poetics

    Issue 27 - Grandmaster Flash / Eddie Harris cover

    WAX POETICS ISSUE #27 Grand Master Flash & Eddie Harris Wax Poetics' first issue of 2008 showcases a strong redesign. Hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash gets cover honors, but it's the whole Furious Five who get the props inside. The late, great Eddie Harris is...
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  • Quick Reference Guide for Band Directors Who Teach Jazz by Kearns, Ronald E.
    Ronald E. Kearns

    Quick Reference Guide for Band Directors Who Teach Jazz

    This book helps band directors teach and develop successful jazz programs in middle schools and high schools. Ronald E. Kearns provides a step-by-step approach to starting a jazz program, teaching jazz performance, and maintaining the program once it has been established. He addresses a...
    $90.00
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  • Thelonious Monk Favorites - Jazz Play-Along Volume 91 Book/Online Audio [With CD (Audio)] by Monk, Thelonious
    Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Monk Favorites - Jazz Play-Along Volume 91 Book/Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]

    (Jazz Play Along). For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included audio, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning...
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  • Modern Jazz Guitar Ensemble Vol. 1 by Fryer, Nick
    Nick Fryer

    Modern Jazz Guitar Ensemble Vol. 1

    "Modern Jazz Guitar Ensemble" Vol. 1 is a collection of four original compositions arranged for five guitars, bass, and drums. The arrangements range in style from swing, rock, 3/4, and straight eighth. The arrangements feature chromatic melodies and modern chord voicings that create a...
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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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  • Microgroove: Forays into Other Music by Corbett, John
    John Corbett

    Microgroove: Forays into Other Music

    Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from oral history and...
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  • The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God by Silvester, Peter J.
    Peter J. Silvester

    The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God

    The Story of Boogie-Woogie presents a comprehensive history of boogie-woogie from the early 20th century to the present, describing the style's appearance and development, its offshoots, and the pianists who made it famous, and studying its impact on rhythm and blues, urban blues, and...
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  • Jazz in Black and White: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Jazz Community by Gerard, Charley
    Charley Gerard

    Jazz in Black and White: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Jazz Community

    Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form? Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles caught the interest of their musical...
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  • Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz by Stewart, Alexander
    Alexander Stewart

    Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz

    The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though big bands lost the spotlight once the bebop era began,...
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  • The Jazz Scene: An Informal History from New Orleans to 1990 by Stokes, W. Royal
    W. Royal Stokes

    The Jazz Scene: An Informal History from New Orleans to 1990

    No one can tell us more about jazz than the musicians themselves. Unfortunately, most oral histories have limited scope--focusing on a particular era or style--and fail to capture the full, rich story of jazz. Now, in this vivid oral history, W. Royal Stokes presents...
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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 Revolutionary by Grasse, Jonathon
    Jonathon Grasse

    Jazz Revolutionary

    Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to Paris, where sixty years ago he died from the...
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  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel by Nwadiogbu, Ngozi
    Ngozi Nwadiogbu

    Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel

    Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of jazz with Ella Fitzgerald: the official graphic novel, capturing her life, music, and indomitable spirit. Experience her journey from humble beginnings to becoming the First Lady of Song. In this vibrant graphic novel, follow the remarkable journey...
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  • Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation by Spicer, Daniel
    Daniel Spicer

    Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation

    Explores the heroic life and revolutionary music of the pioneering German saxophonist, and the radical social and political convictions that informed them. Peter Br?tzmann is the first ever, full-length, English-language biography of one of the most fascinating and inspiring personalities in the history of...
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  • Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field by Burford, Mark
    Mark Burford

    Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field

    Nearly a half century after her death in 1972, Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Born in the backstreets of New Orleans in 1911, Jackson during the Great Depression joined the Great Migration to Chicago, where she became...
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  • Yours Truly, John: A Memoir by Pattillo, Joyce S.
    Joyce S. Pattillo

    Yours Truly, John: A Memoir

    John Stubblefield stands as one of the most highly respected jazz saxophonists of his generation, leaving an indelible mark through his collaborations with legendary musicians. Over three decades, he crafted a legacy as a composer, writer, arranger, bandleader, and sought-after studio and live performer....
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  • Quick Reference Guide for Band Directors Who Teach Jazz by Kearns, Ronald E.
    Ronald E. Kearns

    Quick Reference Guide for Band Directors Who Teach Jazz

    This book helps band directors teach and develop successful jazz programs in middle schools and high schools. Ronald E. Kearns provides a step-by-step approach to starting a jazz program, teaching jazz performance, and maintaining the program once it has been established. He addresses a...
    $34.00
    $34.00
    $34.00
  • Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland, with a New Preface by de Barros, Paul
    Paul de Barros

    Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland, with a New Preface

    The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing biographyFrom Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33-year run of the acclaimed radio show Piano Jazz, Marian McPartland conversed and played piano duets with jazz...
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  • Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons by Barson, Benjamin
    Benjamin Barson

    Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons

    A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musiciansBrassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of...
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  • Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre by Goldsmith, Melissa Ursula Dawn
    Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

    Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre

    Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre explores jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, composers, bands, groups, albums, and songs. Rather than focusing on jazz as as solely as an American...
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  • Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Tick, Judith
    Judith Tick

    Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

    Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears...
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  • Chet Baker, his life and music by Valk, Jeroen de
    Jeroen de Valk

    Chet Baker, his life and music

    Finally: the ultimate revised, updated, and expanded edition! Chet Baker was a star at 23 years old, winning the polls of America's leading magazines. But much of his later life was overshadowed by his drug use and problems with the law. 'Chet Baker: His...
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  • Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 by Toop, David
    David Toop

    Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970

    In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context...
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  • Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton by Lock, Graham
    Graham Lock

    Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton

    In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were each influenced by a common musical and...
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  • Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz, the Swing Years by Korall, Burt
    Burt Korall

    Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz, the Swing Years

    In the 1930s swing music was everywhere--on radio, recordings, and in the great ballrooms, hotels, theatres, and clubs. Perhaps at no other time were drummers more central to the sound and spirit of jazz. Benny Goodman showcased Gene Krupa. Jimmy Dorsey featured Ray McKinley....
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  • Artistic Research in Jazz: Positions, Theories, Methods by Kahr, Michael
    Michael Kahr

    Artistic Research in Jazz: Positions, Theories, Methods

    This book presents the recent positions, theories, and methods of artistic research in jazz, inviting readers to critically engage in and establish a sustained discourse regarding theoretical, methodological, and analytic perspectives. A panel of eleven international contributors presents an in-depth discourse on shared and...
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  • To Be, or Not... to Bop by Gillespie, Dizzy
    Dizzy Gillespie

    To Be, or Not... to Bop

    Innovative memoir of jazz genius Dizzy Gillespie tells the story of black American music during one of its greatest periods You don't have to know John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie's songs to feel his influence. The self-taught trumpet player rose from a poor but musically...
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  • Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 by Lampert, Sara E.
    Sara E. Lampert

    Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850

    Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other...
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  • 9 songs from the years 1899-1920 for C/F melodeon by Sarek, Ondrej
    Ondrej Sarek

    9 songs from the years 1899-1920 for C/F melodeon

    The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from books: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Preview-Anglo-concertina.pdf In this book I edited 9 well-known songs from the years 1889-1920, which will be played and sung today. So have nice moments spent with them. Songs: Hello Ma...
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  • The Big Time: A Memoir by Ingrid Lucia by Lucia, Ingrid
    Ingrid Lucia

    The Big Time: A Memoir by Ingrid Lucia

    The Big Time is a coming-of-age story of a young entertainer whose musical family lived on homemade paddle wheel showboats as they roamed the world performing on the streets. Ingrid danced in two traveling Mexican circuses, sang in the grandest locations around the world,...
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  • Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams by Murphy, Clifford R.
    Clifford R. Murphy

    Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams

    The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo "Ink" Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murphy tells the story of an ambitious, upwardly...
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  • Early Jazz: A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929 by Tomita, Fumi
    Fumi Tomita

    Early Jazz: A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929

    A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.Author: Fumi TomitaISBN-10: 1438496370ISBN-13: 9781438496375Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
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  • A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album by Kahn, Ashley
    Ashley Kahn

    A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

    Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same...
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  • Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams by Murphy, Clifford R.
    Clifford R. Murphy

    Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams

    The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo "Ink" Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murphy tells the story of an ambitious, upwardly...
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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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  • Atonal Improvisation and Jazz: A study of Chromatic Interval Pairs and Trichords by Davis, Jared E.
    Jared E. Davis

    Atonal Improvisation and Jazz: A study of Chromatic Interval Pairs and Trichords

    "Atonal Improvisation and Jazz" is extremely significant and near to my heart. I believe the concepts laid out in this book will progress the current state of music towards its next stages. Forget everything you know about chords, scales and keys, and learn to...
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  • Issue 34 The Jazz Issue John Coltrane by Wax Poetics
    Wax Poetics

    Issue 34 The Jazz Issue John Coltrane

    Our landmark Jazz Issue (#34) features the classic Blue Train photo of John Coltrane, uncropped, as well as trumpet star Freddie Hubbard. Behind both of these legends was jazz producer Creed Taylor, who left his mark on Impulse and Verve before starting his untouchable...
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  • Various Artists' Red Hot + Blue by Garrison, John S.
    John S. Garrison

    Various Artists' Red Hot + Blue

    Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment. Blending memoir and cultural history, Garrison recalls his coming out at the height of the AIDS crisis alongside the music...
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  • HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone: 101 Tips to Learn How to Practice, Play, and Perform the Saxophone for Beginners, Intermediates, and Advance by Howexpert
    Howexpert

    HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone: 101 Tips to Learn How to Practice, Play, and Perform the Saxophone for Beginners, Intermediates, and Advance

    If you want to learn how to practice, play, and perform the saxophone for beginners, intermediates, and advanced saxophonists, then check out HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone.HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone will help you build your musicianship from your beginner days to...
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  • At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz by Mueller, Darren
    Darren Mueller

    At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz

    In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. The LP's increased fidelity and playback capacity allowed lengthy compositions and extended improvisations to fit...
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  • Chicago Jazz: the Second Line by Coller, Derek
    Derek Coller

    Chicago Jazz: the Second Line

    When Derek Coller decided to pay tribute to his late friend - the author, biographer, discographer and researcher, Bert Whyatt - he looked for a common theme under which to group some of the articles they had written together over the years. He found...
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  • Boogie woogie patterns for GDAD Bouzouki: And their new use by Sarek, Ondrej
    Ondrej Sarek

    Boogie woogie patterns for GDAD Bouzouki: And their new use

    Check out samples from book: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Sarek-Guitar-and-Guitalele-preview.pdf These patterns were used in musical style Boogie wogie. They were played by piano or double bass. When you listen to these patterns you will find that lot of them were transformed and came to rock, funky...
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  • The Scores of Scott Joplin - The Chrysanthemum - Sheet Music for Piano by Joplin, Scott
    Scott Joplin

    The Scores of Scott Joplin - The Chrysanthemum - Sheet Music for Piano

    Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, The Chrysanthemum, originally composed in 1904. Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was known as the "King of Ragtime". Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the...
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  • Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians by Gazit, Ofer
    Ofer Gazit

    Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians

    Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to...
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  • Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker by Giddins, Gary
    Gary Giddins

    Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker

    Within days of Charlie "Bird" Parker's death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to...
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  • Walking Bass Lines for Guitar: The Blues in 12 keys by Mooney, Steven
    Steven Mooney

    Walking Bass Lines for Guitar: The Blues in 12 keys

    Walking Bass Lines for Guitar Book IThe Blues in 12 Keys is a complete guide for the guitarist demonstrating the devices used to play walking bass lines and chords in solo or accompaniment settings. Including Bebop Blues progression, Minor Blues & Blues with a...
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  • Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book IV - Building a 12 Key Facility for the Jazz Bassist: Book & MP3 Playalong Bass Tab Edition by Mooney, Steven
    Steven Mooney

    Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book IV - Building a 12 Key Facility for the Jazz Bassist: Book & MP3 Playalong Bass Tab Edition

    Including over 5hrs of backing tracks 333 tracks in total. Building a 12 key Facility for the Jazz Bassist breaks down the jazz bass vocabulary by outlining key areas of harmonic structure related to the jazz standard and bebop styles. As in the earlier...
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  • Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book III - Walking Bass Lines - Standard Lines by Mooney, Steven
    Steven Mooney

    Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines Book III - Walking Bass Lines - Standard Lines

    Standard Lines, Book III in the Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines series for the Double Bassist and Electric Bassist is a comprehensive guide demonstrating the devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz standard tradition. Book III covers 24 standard jazz...
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