Jazz Blues category: 910 books

The Changes: Guide Tones for Jazz Chords, Lines, and Comping is offered for beginning to advanced players as a way to visualize guide tones on the fretboard. From these shapes lines can be created for soloing and voicings can be built for comping and chord melody. Most importantly, the changes of...

A meticulous collection of recordings, square and contra dances, fiddle contests, jam sessions and individual fiddlers. This magnificent book is meant to provide a snapshot of what American fiddlers were playing and listening to in the latter part of the 20th Century. Bowings, fingerings, and guitar...

50 frasi di Alessio Menconi, per apprendere e sviluppare il fraseggio nel Jazz ed approfondire il linguaggio Bebop. Con videolezioni, partiture, tablature e analisi dettagliata delle frasi, in collaborazione con Andrea Golembiewski. Frasi sugli accordi maggiore, minore e settima Licks sulle progressioni II-V-I Frasi Bebop con cromatismi ed aggiramenti

For guitarists, the technical learning curve for improvisation is fairly steep. For this reason, it is important to find multiple uses for the musical structures that you learn to execute. This approach decreases the learning curve considerably. This book and accompanying audio show you how to expand...

Franco Cerri è un musico di altri tempi. Ha l'età per andare in pensione e invece preferisce strapazzare ancora la sua Gibson L5, suonare con i suoi allievi, vivere di musica come ha sempre fatto, raccontarci il suo jazz. Desiderio allo stato puro, una forza che lascia spazio a pochi altri calcoli,...

Lincoln T Beauchamp, known artistically as Chicago Beau, was raised in an environment rooted in blues, literature, law, and travel.   An unlikely circumstance provided by his Great Migration, agrarian background parents. He is a musician, writer, publisher, and adventurer. He has published several...

Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Brent Hayes Edwards writes. He explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature—both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves.

Nel tentare un accostamento tra le due arti, oltre a comprendere una breve analisi comparata della storia del cinema e della storia del jazz, evidenzia il carattere sociologico che costituisce uno dei punti focali intorno a cui prende vita tutto il libro.

When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined by what your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception as an improviser is determined by your technique. If you can't play certain types of ideas, you are simply not going to conceive of them while you are...

How do we define improvised music? What is the relationship of highly improvised performances to the work they are performances of? How do we decide what are the important parts of an improvised musical work? In Intents and Purposes, Eric Lewis uses a series of case studies to challenge assumptions...

Over 25 transcribed solos. Original interviews and tips on improvising from the masters. Plus complete analysis of each solo. Rare historical photos, and an informative discography.

This Qwikguide gives you easy access to playing harmonica. This book uses the 12 or 16-hole chromatic harmonica in the key of C, as well as the 10-hole diatonic in the key of C, in standard tuning and blues harp style. The tunes are written in standard notation and tablature (arrows and numbers) with...

This book introduces children to bluesy violin techniques in a ground-breaking way that is both structured and fun. You will learn to slide the fingers using exercises and original composition that move from simple to intermediate levels. Suitable for adults as well. Comes with access to downloadable online audio.

Questa non è un’autobiografia. Potremmo considerarlo un manuale di consultazione, utile per tutti quelli che vogliano saperne di più su quanto non si ha il coraggio di chiedere sul jazz di cosa nostra (e non è un refuso). In questo senso può essere addirittura considerato come un manuale di...