Jazz category: 919 books

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...

Jazz Rhythm Changes for Small Orchestra One © Music Klaus Bruengel. Instruments: Flute, Oboe, Violine, Cello, Harp, Bass. Original Musicscore & Parts of the Soundtrack (youtube). The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively...

John Coltrane's recording "Giant Steps" introduced a system of chord progressions and chord substitutions that has challenged even the best jazz musicians. The tri-tonic systems (sometimes referred to as "Coltrane Changes") found in the tunes Giant Steps and Countdown is taught...

These 30 warm-ups are challenging for the intermediate to advance player (even professional) and intended to improve both right and left hand facility. They are jazz oriented making use of arpeggios, scales and patterns applicable for improvisation. Includes access to online audio.

The Gig Book returns with a volume of jazz classics. Presented with melody lines in standard notation, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song Songlist: -...

The goal of this book is to bridge the gap between classical/traditional accordion solos and professional jazz-styled solos. The accompanying recording follows the music as written but with added rhythm, rubato, and slight improvisation. Audio download available online.

Vic played the solos in this collection with the student in mind. Each piece is based on the changes of popular jazz standards and will serve as great etudes for learning advanced jazz soloing techniques. Students will be able to see how to build a solo, use tension and release (outside and inside...

La prima guida completa alle grandi canzoni e composizioni che costituiscono la struttura portante della musica jazz e la lingua comune degli interpreti di questo genere di tutti i paesi e di tutte le epoche. La storia, le caratteristiche, le versioni più celebri di oltre 250 successi che spaziano...

La storia del Jazz Classico narrata in modo interattivo, con fotografie e, in aggiunta, ascolti e visioni di filmati d'epoca da Internet, oltre alla possibilità di accedere in ogni momento a un glossario (con tutti i termini tecnici di più difficile comprensione).

The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with their ugly...

An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of second...

Mystère du jazz : ce passage du solo, à chacun tour à tour confié. Un au-delà de ce qui va ensemble. Et nous, écrivains, on en serait privé ? Marc Villard, un des principaux du polar français, a toujours été un explorateur, et un musicien du noir. Voilà ses 8 solos comme un seul,...

John Coltrane spielte unüberhörbar und maßgeblich am bestverkauften Jazz-Album aller Zeiten mit – "Kind of Blue" von Miles Davis – , und wenige Jahre später produzierte er selbst sein Album für die Hall of Fame, das zum Maßstab des Jazz-Saxophons erhobene "A Love Supreme"....