Jazz category: 919 books
by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, geb. 1936 in Gotha, war zehn Jahre lang Kulturredakteur beim »Spiegel«, initiierte das bahnbrechende »Rock-Lexikon« und schrieb zahlreiche Bücher über Jazz, Rock und Pop. Schon als Teenager mit dem Swing-Virus infiziert, leitete er als Student in Halle eine Jazz-Arbeitsgemeinschaft...
Thelonious Monk
The Life and Times of an American Original
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
The first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews. Now updated with an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.
Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga...
by Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time
In Herbie Hancock the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on a life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence on both acoustic...
Django
The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great...
Harold Jones
The Singer's Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
The Singers Drummer chronicles the music and times of Harold Jones, a world class musician whose career spans the last five decades of jazz and big band swing music. This book highlights Jones career as he evolved into the drummer of choice for some of our most popular vocal legends. But it is about...
Sophisticated Giant
The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice...
by Roberto Sánchez Picasso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Libro de ejercicios y conceptos básicos para la iniciación en la improvisación en la guitarra jazz y contemporánea, incluyeintervalos, triadas, escalas pentatónicas, mayor y menor de una octava, 7 formas de escala mayor, walking bass, acordes drop.
by Music, Levine
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride...
Benson
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Over the course of his fifty-year career, George Benson has performed for hundreds of millions of fans around the world, received ten Grammy Awards, and recorded with some of the most revered musicians of his era. In 2011, he earned a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Award. And he has finally...
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet
Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences...
Clark
The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere,...
Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing Blues dance,
Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians, Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing, Blues dance,
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by John Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Charles Mingus is among jazz’s greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player. He was blunt and outspoken about the place of jazz in music history and American culture, about which performers were the real thing (or not), and much more. These in-depth interviews, conducted several...
Miles, Ornette, Cecil
Jazz Beyond Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
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...