Jazz Blues category: 910 books

Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Palm Leaf Rag, originally composed in 1903. Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was known as the "King of Ragtime". Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive...

Great Standards (PVG) is a songbook packed with over 25 of the most memorable songs ever written, arranged for Piano and Voice, with guitar chord boxes. ... These are some of the most evocative melodies of all time, a classic collection of unforgettable popular songs from across the decades. Song...

Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a cornerstone of both practical and theoretical...

Jools Holland has had a fascinating life. From playing on bomb sites as a boy in the East End, to skiving off school and then selling millions of records with Squeeze, the first twenty years of his life were eventful, chaotic and colourful. Then came The Tube with Paula Yates, the seminal live music...

From Introduction: "Huddie Ledbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly, died in December, 1949 at the age of 64. He had come out of the deep South, settled down in a little apartment on New York's lower East Side, determined to build a successful career as a musician. Unfortunately, there was not much interest...

Buried Treasure is a colorful smorgasboard of music. Revered musicians, actors, and pop culture icons each contribute their favourite albums to create a fantastically eclectic collection.

A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and,...

From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend’s mind, documenting and reflecting on his...

This book is designed to teach the fundamentals of bass playing to anyone, regardless of the style of music or level of the player. For electric or acoustic bass, it shows how to practice scales, arpeggios, rhythms, ear training, bass line construction, and more in a creative way that makes learning...

Music therapy is recognised as being applicable to a wide range of healthcare and social contexts.　 Since the first edition of Music Therapy: An art beyond words, it has extended into areas of general medicine, mainstream education and community practice. This new edition revises the historical...

The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting...

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, The Entertainer, originally composed in 1902. Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was known as the "King of Ragtime". Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive...

Experiencing Bessie Smith, John Clark chronicles Bessie Smith’s vital contribution to and influence on music, the music industry, and the recording industry. While her recording career lasted only a decade, she toured long before setting her music to vinyl, with much of her early career amply documented....