Jazz category: 919 books

Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white “outsider” observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and...

Popular Favourite Chorals includes five timeless jazz and blues standards arranged for SATB Choir with Piano accompaniment. All crowd-pleasing numbers are sure to have your audience clapping, humming and singing along. Songlist: - Blue Moon - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Over The Rainbow - Try A Little Tenderness - Georgia On My Mind

This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

New York, anni Venti. Tra i club dalle insegne luminose e gli ampere degli studi di registrazione, quello di Rick Martin è un nome che viene pronunciato con rispetto, quasi sottovoce. Degli altri musicisti si dice che sì, sono bravi, ma non sono certo lui, come se il suo talento fosse il metro di...

Per molti era un nuovo Charlie Parker. Oggi, a ventun anni di distanza dalla scomparsa, per tutti Massimo Urbani è stato il miglior jazzista italiano di sempre. Grazie alla tecnica mostruosa, alla musicalità sopraffina, alla creatività bruciante, all'energia che era in grado di produrre, e altrettanto...

The artistry exhibited by Wes Montgomery ultimately led to a redefinition of jazz guitar. These transcriptions from Wes' landmark early recorded work capture him in contrasting settings and roles as a sideman, leader and with various group configurations. All solos were carefully transcribed in notation...

The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colourful characters he has known and played with - from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong. He also recalls his early life as the son of a famous housemaster at Eton, where he was educated.

This comprehensive book combines three volumes by jazz guitar great Frank Vignola; 52 choruses of funky, bluesy and bop-oriented guitar solos played over blues changes in common key signatures. Vignola's solos will allow the reader to feel and hear what it is like to play a well-constructed solo....

Impressive recordings and mesmerizing live performances have sealed jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's reputation as one of the most innovative players and composers on the current scene. The new Mel Bay publication is a transcription of the highly renowned live recording East Coast Love Affair. This...

This book presents nine original guitar solos written for the six-string guitar by jazz guitarist George Van Eps. His arrangements and chord symbols illustrate advanced harmonic melodic concepts. In standard notation and tablature with carefully annotated fingerings and pick direction indications....

The life and times of Billie Holiday.

From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.

This is the story of no ordinary life...Josephine Baker emerged from sordid poverty and racial intolorance in early 20th-century St Louis to delight audiences across the world becoming a genuine star of the stage.

Lonnie Johnson (18941970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out...