The History of Jazz
A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself
The Jazz Theory Book
The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published!
Jazz Pedagogy
The Jazz Educator's Handbook and Resource Guide J. Richard Dunscomb, Willie Hill. • For the shout chorus , the rhythm section now assumes a different role . In ... JAZZ PEDAGOGY : THE JAZZ EDUCATOR'S HANDBOOK AND RESOURCE GUIDE 7.
Future Jazz
In a series of vividly drawn portraits and in-depth interviews with musicians, composers, and others in the genre, this book takes an exciting look at the contemporary jazz scene and provides an invaluable road map to the music of tomorrow.
Going for Jazz
It shapes our ideas about musical virtuosity, human action and new forms of social expression. In Going for Jazz, Nicholas Gebhardt shows how the study of jazz can offer profound insights into American historical consciousness.
Why Jazz Happened
. For its ingenuity, subtlety, surprises, and depth, Why Jazz Happened deserves to be ranked along the best recent studies of jazz.”—Jazz Lives Blog “Myers presents his argument of ‘why jazz happened’ in a concise, powerfully ...
Jazz Music
... jazz their quota of irrelevances . Jazz was a fad that wouldn't last . Jazz was the salvation of the art . Jazz was the intrusion of the cheap dance - hall into the sacred precincts of the symphonic concert auditorium . Jazz wasn't so ...
Swing Changes
Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Stowe looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions and tensions within swing--over race, politics, ...
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz
This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz.
John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960s
Revised edition of Black nationalism and the revolution in music.
Kansas City Jazz
" Here is the definitive account of the raw, hard-driving style that put Kansas City on the musical map. It is a must read for everyone who loves jazz or American music history.
The Imperfect Art
" Incorporating the thought of such seminal thinkers as Walter Benjamin, José Ortega y Gasset, and Roland Barthes, The Imperfect Art offers vivid portraits of the giants of jazz and startling insights into this vital musical form and the ...
Jazz in Its Time
A collection of reviews, magazine columns, artist profiles and record annotations.
Freedom Sounds
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of ...
Kings Jazz and David
... Jazz and American Composers in French and English , the others in English . Vingt - sept études sur la musique et des musiciens modernes : Les études sur le Jazz et des Compositeurs américains , en français et en anglais , les autres en ...
Ching-a Ling's Jazz Bazaar
... Jazz Ba - zaar . A b V V # V V You're bound to V V A V hear a Chi- na tune played on a jazz gui - tar , You'll see each A e Chi - na John , With swell ki - mo - nas on , And Sing Song girl - ies , Oh , boy ! Hop Toy ! Chung - a , Lung ...
Six Jazz Epigrams
Op. 30b Louis Gruenberg. LOUIS GRUENBERG JAZZ COMPOSITIONS JAZZ - KOMPOSITIONEN / COMPOSITIONS DE JAZZ PIANO SOLO * U . E. 8134 JAZZBERRIES , op . 25 ** U . E. 9643 JAZZ MASKS , op . 30 a , I. Chopin , Nocturne op . 9/2 ** U . E. 9644 JAZZ ...
Reading Jazz
Displaying keen intellectual discernment and great passion, Robert Gottlieb, former president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and former editor of The New Yorker, brings together more than 150 excerpts from books, journals, magazines, and ...
Piano jazz
... JAZZ 1001 Breaks , Trick Endings , Bass Forms , aks trick Space Fillers , Blue Rhythms and Syncopated Effects t HOW TO PLAY ANY POPULAR SONG LIKE · A · PLAYER PIANO ROLL t مان Learn to add Blue Notes Make Jazz Runs Play by Ear ...