Jazz Blues category: 910 books
¡Caliente!
Una historia del jazz latino
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2012
El carácter universal del jazz latino se manifiesta en la diversificación de sus repertorios. La importancia de este género de la música popular se aprecia por la influencia del Caribe y de Latinoamérica en todos los ámbitos de la cultura. Delannoy hace un registro de los músicos y las corrientes...
Convergencias
Encuentros y desencuentros en el jazz latino
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Delannoy aborda el desarrollo del jazz en el mundo latino. Lo hace destacando sobre todo el punto de vista humano, emociones, culturas, sin perder de vista en ningún momento su propia experiencia. La obra refleja los el carácter cosmopolita del autor, que refleja diferentes perspectivas y una grandísima...
Minor Scale Guitar Licks
10 Original Funk Blues Licks with Audio & Video
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2017
10 original funk blues guitar licks from the Minor scale in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate level and above.
55 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.5 bars)
Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable)
Backing tracks...
Dorian Guitar Licks
10 Original Smooth Jazz Licks with Audio & Video
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
10 original smooth jazz guitar licks from the Dorian mode in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate level and above.
53 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.3 bars)
Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable)
Backing...
Say No to the Devil
The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn’t name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis “one of the wizards of modern music.” Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead—who took lessons with Davis—claimed his musical...
by Yorktown Music Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1989
A second colourful repertory of popular piano pieces, includes Smoky On The Rocks, The Boll Weevil Boogie and Club Sayonara. Suitable for intermediate standard pianists.
by Maurice Waller, Anthony Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Thomas “Fats” Waller was a legendary stride pianist, a wildly entertaining comedic singer, and the composer of such classic melodies as “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and hundreds more. This is the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of his exuberant life, as told by his son,...
The Last Balladeer
The Johnny Hartman Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Just after recording with John Coltrane in 1963, baritone singer Johnny Hartman (1923–1983) told a family member that “something special” occurred in the studio that day. He was right – the album, containing definitive readings of “Lush Life” and “My One and Only Love,” resides firmly...
by The Steve
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
This is what nearly all critics consider to be Gravy Bones Johnson's greatest album. It is a dark, brooding album. Gravy Bones goes into the deepest depths of his soul to bring forth such soul wrenching blues that blues legend Leadbelly declared "This album is hotter than a Cadillac in Detroit".
by Mauricio Segura
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Brad succumbs to the white plague, Oscar too spends his days fighting disease, confined to a hospital. Playing the organ at night for a mysterious sickly girl, he discovers his own talent, although years after recovery, he finds himself desperate, poor, and depressed—until the devil, otherwise known...
Soul Covers
Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers—Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow—used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers’ statements about...
by Woody Mann
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Big Bill Broonzy's recording career spanned from 1927 until his death in 1958. His repertoire was well recorded, from solos and duets to ensemble playing. He was rediscovered just as the "folk-revival" began in the early 1950's. Broonzy was a master of ragtime and country blues guitar whose...
by Tarek Yamani
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
56 Melodic Exercises for Mastering Polyrhythms in Jazz and other Groove-Based Music (for all instruments) *
Internalizing 2 against 3 is every musician's wish.
As much as there are books extensively covering scale permutations, there are none that clearly illustrate all the possibilities...
Modern Chords
Advanced Harmony for Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
One of the world's great jazz guitarists, Vic Juris shares his insight into the wonderful world of harmony in this book. Not for the fainthearted, Vic teaches polychords and intervallic structures derived from the major, minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor and harmonic major scales in this must have...