Jazz Blues category: 910 books

The expression of innovative women in acoustic and electric blues music is both vital and far-reaching. From the beginning, remarkable female artists have helped shape popular music with important blues contributions. As a result, their legacy should be kept in mind.This book commemorates a...

According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at...

This vivid celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Waters, Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf; excursions into the blues-based Memphis rock 'n' roll of Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, and the Sun record label; and...

Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes: a definition of the blues and the major genres within it key artists such as Ma...

Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi. They didn't simply...

Learning the blues and the chords that are commonly used has never been easier. This book presents blues chord voicings along with applications in a logical, sequenced order. Dominant seventh, minor, minor seventh, chords and many others that are used in the blues are presented in standard notation and tab accompanied by a photo of the chord being executed on the guitar fingerboard.

In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature. Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information,...

Gravy Bones Johnson is one of the most important and greatest bluesmen who ever lived. Found on the side of railroad tracks by a blind sharecropper who raised him as his own, Gravy Bones embodies the Mississippi Delta Blues in a way no one ever did before or since.With an astonishing song catalog...

Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 is a compendium of lyrics by the great blues recording artists of the classic blues era. It includes over 2000 songs, transcribed directly from the original recordings, making it by far the most comprehensive and accurate collection of blues lyrics available.

Every guitar player loves the blues, but how many of us were actually born into poverty in Mississippi? And can anyone honestly claim to have heard the complete recordings of Charley Patton? Never mind... It's Easy To Bluff gives you all the skills you need! Learn to play some impressive blues licks, and discover how to look the part and hold your own in any blues conversation.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center...

A wonderful selection of easy-to-medium piano solos, in both blues and boogie styles, including Cotton Mill Blues and Whistling The Blues. These pieces have been arranged and edited by Denes Agay and Gerald Martin.

There are many intellectual curiosities about the blues. It has always seemed a phenomenon that the guitar styles that came out of the South during the twenties and thirties could be differentiated by their regional characteristics. On hearing a strange new artist, one can almost pinpoint his city...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center...