Genres & Styles - Jazz
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital
$28.00 Add to cartExamines John Coltrane’s “late period” and Miles Davis’s “Lost Quintet” through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography
Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz,
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Veal, Michael E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0819569208
- Language: English
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Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
$28.00 Read moreWith striking photographs and personal insight, a compelling biography of the great American saxophonist and free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman.
Ornette Coleman’s career encompassed the glory years- Author: Golia, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145600
- Language: English
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Hear Me Talkin’ to YA
$18.95 Read more“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” — Charlie Parker
“What is jazz? The rhythm — the feeling.” — Coleman Hawkins
“The bes- Series: Dover Books on Music
- Author: Shapiro, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 01, 1966
- ISBN10: 0486217264
- Language: English
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Black and Blue: Jazz Stories
$17.95 Read moreAuthor and radio personality Stanley P饌n is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind
- Author: Péan, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1550656112
- Language: English
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The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music
$19.99 Add to cartThe Jazz Ear will be a permanent part of learning how to listen inside the musicians playing.–Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times
Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what t- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 080509086X
- Language: English
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
$16.95 Add to cartJazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and sits near the top of any list o… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0306815583
- Language: English
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Sittin’ in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s
$45.00 Read moreA rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-
- Author: Gold, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0062914707
- Language: English
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldo
- Series: Film and Culture
- Author: O’Meally, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0231104499
- Language: English
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Jazz with a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940-1960
$29.95 Add to cartThe neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s-60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Richards, Tad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1438496001
- Language: English
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The Boston Jazz Chronicles
$19.95 Add to cartThere has always been more to music in Boston than the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jazz, for example, dates to the early 1900s, but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that it truly sparkled. The Boston Jazz
- Author: Vacca, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0983991006
- Language: English
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The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1,001 Best Albums
$37.00 Add to cartRichard Cook and Brian Morton’s Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian Morton’s… [more below]
- Author: Morton, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 014104831X
- Language: English
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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
$24.93 Add to cart“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 speaker
Sophisticated Gia- Author: Gordon, Maxine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 520350790
- Language: English
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Free Jazz
$31.95 Add to cartA new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer.
- Series: Suny Press Jazz Styles
- Author: Schwartz, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1438490305
- Language: English
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Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
$27.95 Add to cartDespite the fact that most of jazz’s major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white … [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Willard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1478019034
- Language: English
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The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide
$37.48 Add to cartTHE GREAT JAZZ GUITARISTS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
- Author: Yanow, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1617130230
- Language: English
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Jazz: A History of America’s Music
$50.00 Read moreA masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music–jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed t… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0679765395
- Language: English
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From the Heart: The Story of Matrix
$28.95 Add to cartIn 1974, nine musicians came together in Appleton, Wisconsin, to form Matrix, a jazz fusion ensemble. Led by composer and keyboardist John Harmon, the group rose to prominence on the festival circuit
- Author: Harmon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1960329146
- Language: English
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As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977
$18.95 Read moreIn 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 bl… [more below]
- Author: Wilmer, Val
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1788160711
- Language: English
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Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews
$20.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends
During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews w… [more below]
- Author: Gleason, Ralph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0300255233
- Language: English
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Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
$24.95 Read moreHoly Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz.
Ayler synthesized children’s songs, La M
- Author: Koloda, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1911036939
- Language: English
