Jazz category: 919 books

Piano Playbook: Smooth Jazz contains 47 jazz standards for Piano; from the cool sounds of Charlie Parker to the rhythms of the samba. This songbook boasts suburb arrangements of pieces from all realms of jazz, including Latin and contemporary, with each song has been chosen to reflect a variety...

Unlike most jazz arranging books, which focus on the rudiments of arranging (transposition, ranges, notation, and so forth), this book deals with the real substance of arranging for small jazz ensembles, in addition to the rudiments. Rinzler devotes a chapter to each of the following arranging elements:...

This 4th book in the Learn Jazz Piano series, called How To Solo, focuses on soloing techniques, using jazz standards as your guide. Everything you have learned from books 1 – 3 is now brought together to turn your jazz solos into an expression of your individuality.

Sonny Rollins is arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist that jazz has produced. He began his musical career at the tender age of eleven, and within five short years he was playing with the legendary Thelonius Monk. In the late forties (before his twenty-first birthday), Rollins was in full...

Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book presents an overview of the two central terms and...

The Jazz Piano Collection is a specially selected songbook that combines classic and contemporary jazz numbers with an abundant variety of styles to enjoy, including rich chords, contouring melodies, smooth sounds, swinging rhythms and much more! Each piece is arranged for intermediate solo...

Mel Bay's Master Anthology of Jazz Guitar Solos Volume Two presents 11 challenging tunes, improvised solos and solo guitar arrangements designed to enhance the repertoire of the intermediate to advanced jazz guitarist. Some of the world's finest jazz guitarists are represented, including Chris Buzzelli,...

Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to “cool” jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in...

Tra le tante culture che si sono fuse nel crogiuolo del jazz, quella degli emigrati russi in America rappresenta una fetta non trascurabile. Strumentisti, cantanti, impresari e songwriters hanno tutti contribuito alla nascita della musica popolare americana, una delle fondamenta più importanti, assieme...

This collection of jazz solos presents many relatively easy solos based on some of the most common jazz standard chord progressions. Technically, many of these are not overly difficult, but still will posses characteristics that group them within the jazz tradition. Each etude is presented on the...

Seventeen jazz standards arranged for classic guitar with contributions from John Carlini, Thomas Heck, Kirk Hanser, and Stephen Rekas. Written in standard notation with fingerings, these fine intermediate tunes serve as the perfect practice material for classic guitarists who want to add jazz music...

Il mio primo contatto con questa musica avvenne quando avevo appena svestito i pantaloni corti. Arrivai al Teatro Manzoni alle tre del pomeriggio per conquistarmi un posto a sedere al concerto di Armstrong.Quando entrò sul palcoscenico Louis venne giù il teatro dagli applausi. Poi attaccò West...

Il mio primo contatto con questa musica avvenne quando avevo appena svestito i pantaloni corti. Arrivai al Teatro Manzoni alle tre del pomeriggio per conquistarmi un posto a sedere al concerto di Armstrong.Quando entrò sul palcoscenico Louis venne giù il teatro dagli applausi. Poi attaccò West...

Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to ground American musicians in a core facet of their true cultural heritage. Ed Sarath applies an emergent consciousness-based...