Jazz

**WINNER OF BEST JAZZ PUBLICATION AT THE 2020 PRESTO MUSIC AWARDS** The Faber Music Jazz Piano Anthology is a timeless collection of some of the best Jazz music ever written, beautifully presented in progressive order and specially arranged for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634055072Author Wolf MarshallPage Count 88Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 229mm...

A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. She struck a chord with bluesy jazz ballads like "Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and powerful protest songs such as...

Fifteen tunes that reflect the breadth and diversity of jazz, from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant and multicultural sounds of jazz today. Introduces an approach that encourages playing by ear. Includes playalong rhythm-section tracks...

In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness. A dark-skinned, impoverished child, he grew up under low expectations, Jim Crow...

When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent's investigation into the murder of a...

Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526631Author Graham MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

A Book of the Year in Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, The Telegraph and the Glasgow HeraldThis troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.Last...

Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society. Free to...

The phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to the false notions that undergird this tedium. Traditional...

Fifteen tunes that reflect the breadth and diversity of jazz, from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant and multicultural sounds of jazz today. Introduces an approach that encourages playing by ear. Includes a CD with playalong...

Within one of the most complex musical categories yet to surface, Cal Tjader quietly pioneered the genre as a jazz vibraphonist, composer, arranger and bandleader from the 1950s through the 1980s. Reid tells the life story of a humble musician,...

No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of...

As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience from his performances. With Formation, Brad seeks to extend that experience...

Violin Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas album of stylish, swinging arrangements for violin and piano. Favourite Christmas carols and songs are given the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, embellishment, grooves, and solos all carefully notated...

Linda Ronstadt is one of the most important women and people in the history of popular music. Starting her solo career in 1969, she redefined what a music superstar could be by expanding her repertoire from her country rock roots, crossing over to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476813158Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 156Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789330403Author Joseph AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams)...

Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a ground-breaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago...

As a founding father of bebop and brilliant jazz improviser, Charlie Parker has secured a reputation and legacy second to none since his birth nearly 100 years ago. Because of his excellence as an improviser, however, his compositions - while admired and...

Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael...

In the early spring of 1959, six musicians went into the 30th Street Studio in New York. Nine hours later, they had recorded one of the finest albums of the twentieth century. Kind of Blue traces Miles Davis's development into an artist capable of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800688728Author Sammy SteinFormat PaperbackImprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing Network

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991077380Author Tim ArmacostFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 657g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789331806Author Buster BirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

Up-Grade! Jazz Piano Grades 3-4 is a fun addition to Pam Wedgwood's popular Up-Grade! Series, featuring well-loved jazz hits in cool new arrangements. Featuring hip classics such as Fly Me To The Moon, My Baby Just Cares For Me and It Don't Mean A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789330663Author Tim PettingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint www.fundamental-changes.comPublisher Fundamental Changes Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789332230Author Mike SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comPublisher WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comWeight(grams) 216g

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789330243Author Jens LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint www.fundamental-changes.comPublisher Fundamental Changes Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789332278Author Oz NoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

Although he died in a tragic car accident at twenty-five, Clifford Brown is widely considered one of the most important figures in the history of jazz, a trumpet player who ranks with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, and a leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789333749Author Tim PettingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams)...

The Jazz Sax Collection (Alto/Baritone Saxophone) is an unmissable selection of authentic jazz, written and arranged by professional jazz saxophonist Ned Bennett for Intermediate to Advanced-level players (approximately Grade 4 to 7). It includes...

For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the records...

This stylish piano album takes players on a musical tour of springtime, presenting well-loved jazz standards such as 'April in Paris' and 'Honeysuckle Rose' alongside cool original compositions by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles. The nine pieces...

This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789331981Author Robin NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...