Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524749071Author Henry ThreadgillFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

"It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions." Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the best-selling piece of music in jazz history and, for many listeners, among the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789330137Author Tim PettingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint www.fundamental-changes.comPublisher www.fundamental-changes.comWeight(grams) 249g

THE LIFE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London's Notting Hill, the violence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128021Author Herbie HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 330g

Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the birth of Hollywood, and a glamorous gangster-led...

Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, and still sells...

Most listeners prefer tonal music to atonal music, but what exactly is the difference between them? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that jointly contribute to the sense of tonality, and shows how...

In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with...

Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, and consummate...

Features interviews with 14 jazz players, including Art Farmer, Cecil Taylor, Clark Terry, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Thelonius Monk, Big Joe Turner and Archie Shepp. It provides portraits of the often troubled lives of the musicians who changed the shape of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789330700Author Joseph AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212769Author Various WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Bringing together much-loved masterpieces with exciting new works, this accessible and inspiring guide is a celebration of classical music. With pieces ranging from Vaughan Williams's 'The Lark Ascending' and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony to the scores...

Improvising Jazz gives the beginning performer and the curious listener alike insights into the art of jazz improvisation. Jerry Coker, teacher and noted jazz saxophonist, explains the major concepts of jazz, including blues, harmony, swing, and the...

This stylish album for violin and piano takes players on a musical tour of autumn, presenting well-loved songs such as 'September in the Rain', 'Autumn Leaves', 'Danny Boy', and '(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow' and original compositions on other seasonal...

Over the span of his illustrious five-decade career, George Benson has sold millions of records, performed for hundreds of millions of fans, and cut some of the most beloved jazz and soul tunes in music history. But the guitarist/vocalist is much more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948274036Author Jerald SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Music MotivationPublisher Music MotivationWeight(grams) 216g

From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz - until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789333909Author Martin TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams)...

Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an...

This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789331486Author Martin TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comPublisher WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789332148Author John PisanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

The Smashing Pumpkins rose to fame during the grunge movement of the early nineties, however, the Chicago quartet's soaring guitar-driven anthems and beautifully crafted ballads instantly set them apart from their Seattle contemporaries. Possessing not...

In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America's unique music with intellectual bite, unprecedented insight, and the passion of unabashed fans. They explain what jazz is, where it came from, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997661750Author Jeb PattonPage Count 224Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 565g

It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999477649Author Phil WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Cymbal PressPublisher Cymbal PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

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...

Best known for his international hit, 'Streets of London', Ralph McTell has recorded over 300 songs in a career that spans more than 50 years. Due to his considerable melodic and lyrical gifts, a good many of McTell's compositions surpass 'Streets' in...

Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began,...

Martin provides a new overall assessment of the importance of Charlie Parker through an analysis of his improvisations in a variety of genres. Earlier studies of Parker argue that his style is based on an extensive network of melodic formulas that are...

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he...

Louis Prima infused the grit and grace of Dixieland jazz with swing and big band sounds, the first whiffs of rock 'n' roll, and a vaudevillian stage presence. Garry Boulard pens the biography of the underrated jazz musician, Las Vegas mainstay, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789332155Author Martin TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comPublisher WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comWeight(grams)...

Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia,...

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium...

The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions...

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