Jazz Blues category: 910 books

In Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and Global Contexts, a wide range of scholarly contributions on the local and global significance of American popular music examines the connections between selected American blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop music and their equivalents from...

Instant no-frills arrangements of over 190 great jazz standards. Each song consists of melody line, chord symbols and lyrics (where appropriate). That's all there is to it! Just open the book and start playing.

In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton...

An historical survey of Blues music. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

After the first volume, reserved entirely to improvisation, this second one is dedicated to the comping, an inexhaustible and often unexplored universe. Here too, you will need to understand this manual as a place from which to get ideas. GUITARLab in fact was created by this assumption and is designed...

George Goodman's Harmonica Cheat Sheet is a combination of three great tools to kick-start your harmonica playing.Included are- The Blues Harp Chart: provides chords, cross harp key, 12 Bar Blues Progression, and Blues Scale harmonica tabs covering all 12 keys.- Major Key Degrees of Scale: unveils...

Fourteen delightful blues pieces for beginner pianists. Suitable for pianists of pre-Grade One standard.

The 17 tunes presented in this book teach aspiring musicians how to play fiddle in the style of masters such as Papa John Creach, Sugarcane Harris, Howard Armstrong, Remo Biondi, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, and Lonnie Johnson. Covering the history of the blues fiddle, this book also presents correct ways to introduce and end tunes, right- and left-hand styles, and backup techniques.

"Although it will be of primary interest to those who are engaged in composition themselves, [this] book is also recommended for readers who may wish to gain further insight into just what makes jazz composition so different from traditional approaches."—Malcolm Bessom, The Music Magazine

A Drummer's Story chronicles the adventures of Warren Benbow, a kid drummer just out of the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. His stories describe the changing world of jazz in the 1970s, from acoustic music to electric jazz fusion. Warren narrates his experiences with the legendary musicians...

Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has been pushing the jazz envelope for more than a decade and is recognized as one of today's premier soloists and composers. This book showcases solo transcriptions of Kurt's critically acclaimed album ""Deep Song"" as well as lead sheets for many...

A sparkling collection of 12 classic American blues songs arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar. All arrangements are in notation and tablature and convey the exciting yet earthy moods found in this popular genre. Audio is available as a FREE download. Difficulty from easy-intermediate to advanced. Chord symbols are included for use in ensemble situations. Standard notation and tablature.

Jazz Intros and Endings offers 60 intros and endings for songs in many keys and styles. Ron is a well known and admired guitar player having played with Ray Brown, Gene Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, among many others. These harmonically rich phrases offer many great ideas and insight into creating your...

Joe Diorio is an accomplished guitarist and composer as well as a respected music educator. In this book hecombines his skills to present innovative "intervallic designs" for the guitar. Written in standard notation and tab, these linear, often 12-tone flavored studies reflect Diorio's jazz...