Jazz Blues category: 910 books

A complete guide to the fingerpicking styles of six of the greatest exponents of country blues and ragtime. Techniques include down-home ragtime, rural sounds, open tunings and bottleneck.

This is the most important instruction guide to blues style piano playing in print. It covers all styles of playing from 1900 to the present day and includes transcriptions of the recordings of twenty-two of the greatest exponents of barrelhouse and boogie piano. Among these are such greats as Memphis...

I Wish You Love is the inspiring story ofa courageous woman overcoming terrible adversities--a story of triumph over tragedy, of heartbreaking and heart-mending and a jazz career that would span four decades.It is also an important piece of American history, a first-hand account of the African-American...

Duke Ellington (1899–1974) is widely considered the jazz tradition's most celebrated composer. This engaging yet scholarly volume explores his long career and his rich cultural legacy from a broad range of in-depth perspectives, from the musical and historical to the political and international....

Like most ground-breaking art forms, contemporary creative music is rarely understood or accepted in its own time, and for those reasons, can largely go unheard. Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde aims to give today's brightest music innovators due...

The mysteries of blues legend Robert Johnson’s live and death long ago became myth. Part researched reconstruction, part vivid imagination, this lyrical novel brings Johnson alive through the voices of his six wives, revealing the husband and son inside the legend, illuminating the vacuum Johnson left in the worlds of those who loved him and those he would never meet.

This Omnibus Ebook for the first time brings together pioneering folklorist William Ferris's books on the music and arts of the South. Included in this ebook are: Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ferris toured his home state...

Though renowned, Austin's contemporary music scene pales in comparison with the explosion of creative talent the city spawned during the Jazz Age. Dozens of musicians who started out in the capital city attained national and international fame--but music was just one form of artistic expression that...

Né du contact entre la musique des esclaves noirs du sud des États-Unis et la culture occidentale, le blues va exercer une influence majeure sur de nombreux courants musicaux du XXe siècle. Ce dictionnaire, dont les articles sont empruntés au fonds de l’Encyclopædia Universalis, explore l’histoire...

**A new volume of the singular, ongoing, great American jazz novel ** Nathaniel Mackey’s Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.’s jazz sextet, Molimo m’Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune:...

A collection of the world's finest ragtime and blues piano classics. This expansive volume contains the best of Scott Joplin's piano rags, as well as his masterful collaborations with Scott Hayden, Louis Chauvin and Arthur Marshall. Here is the true legacy of the ragtime era, featuring the brilliant solos of James Scott, Artie Matthews, Joseph Lamb, Eubie Blake, Tom Turpin and many others.

teach yourself... Jazz Piano Comping guides you as you learn basic accompaniment chording. This book is for entry-level and experienced pianists who want to move into the realm of jazz and standards accompaniment and big band playing. With the knowledge you learn in this book and a disciplined...

My approach is clear and systematic with 78 illustrations. Scales lead to chords and the chords link into sequences. The object is to solo through a jazz standard with a full understanding of scales, modes and chord symbols. We will cover the following topics: The circle of 5thsTurnaroundsThe...

In Reaching Beyond, Buddhist thinker and activist Daisaku Ikeda explores the origins, development,and international influence of jazz with legendary artists Herbie Hancockand Wayne Shorter.Reflecting on their lives and careers, Mr. Hancock and Mr. Shorter sharethe lessons they have learned from their...