Jazz

Edward ""Kid"" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732582712Author M D Christine M TheardFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint They Are Divine Books, LLCPublisher They Are Divine Books, LLCWeight(grams)...

During its eighty years under London's legendary Oxford Street everyone from Louis Armstrong to rock icons the Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols and Chuck Berry have played the historic 100 Club. In Ace of Clubs, with foreword by Jools Holland, we read its...

What does jazz "mean" 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions left to explore? Has the destruction of the...

Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African American composer and musician was the zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas...

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.In this psychoanalytic, philosophical and musical meditation on what it means to follow, A. L. James presents an approach to the...

Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017. In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom:...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974201Author Wynton MarsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 133gDimensions(mm)...

Today, Billie Holiday is an icon - an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary music is unquestionable. But when eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793572793Author Thomas "Fats" WallerPage Count 128Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 415g

A personal, and sometimes controversial, selection by three jazz critics of the "best" 250 jazz records - mostly LP collections of 78 rpm originals - from the earliest roots of music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Each record is placed in its...

The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo "Ink" Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murphy tells the story of an...

Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African American composer and musician was zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues...

"The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape."-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest musical legends, longtime friend and jazz historian Stanley Dance recounts the life of the incomparable Duke...

Jazz Piano Studies 2 is the second of two Jazz Study books from the pen of John Kember, they are fantastic collections of original studies and study pieces for the developing jazz pianist. Each book spans a host of jazz idioms from blues, traditional and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493059997Author Curt BianchiFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Backbeat BooksPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Graded tests as preparation for the jazz trumpet exams. Contains compositions that introduce the melodic and harmonic vocabulary of jazz in an impressive range of styles, in swing or straight 8s, using rock, Latin or swing grooves. Includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955090899Author Peter KingFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Northway PublicationsPublisher Northway Publications

Poised to become a jazz classic, Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no fewer than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank...

When originally published in 1974, Ekkehard Jost's Free Jazz was the first examination of the new music of such innovators as Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jost studied the music (not the lives) of a selection of...

Noted jazz author Ashley Kahn brings to life the behind-the-scenes story of Impulse Records, one of the most significant record labels in the history of popular music. "Kahn mingles engaging stories of corporate politics with insider accounts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733305532Author Marty GroszFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Golden Alley PressPublisher Golden Alley PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This book reassesses Miles Davis' electric period and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase a which encompasses the entire second half of his career from 1967 until his death in 1991 a this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490304Author Jeff SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The first comprehensive biography of the Swing Era's pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-39) was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the "Savoy King," who reigned at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495075087Author Miles DavisPage Count 51Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

`The best one-volume history of jazz.' That is how the American Music Guide described the book that Louis Armstrong once said `held ol' Satch spellbound'. A unique blend of history and criticism, this lively and perceptive book includes chapters on such...

Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach, originally published in French as Analyser le jazz, is available here in English for the first time. In this groundbreaking volume, Laurent Cugny examines and connects the theoretical and methodological...

"An occasion to appreciate Dexter's resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation."-Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, author, and speakerSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist...

In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. The LP's increased fidelity and playback capacity allowed lengthy compositions...

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art-not to "japanize" jazz, but to assert one's creativity, passion, and capacity for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470632922Author Alfred MusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 302mm * 226mm * 13mm

The Definitive Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia, now fully updated from the illustrated edition, is the ultimate guide to two musical styles that have fundamentally influenced popular music. Divided into chapters, each covering a different era, the book traces...

'Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that,' Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was...

Is Jazz Dead? examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop styles, while the work of the '60s avant-garde and even '70s and '80s jazz-rock is roundly...

The influence of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," consisting of Davis (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) continues to resonate. Jazz musicians, historians, and critics...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937187972Author Steven MooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Steven MooneyPublisher Steven MooneyWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470970239Author Rob MasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 12mm