Genres & Styles - Jazz

  • Becoming the Instrument: Lessons on Self-Mastery from Music to Life

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    Quincy Jones calls him, “My kind of musician.”

    Herb Alpert praised him for helping him regain his musical voice after a fierce creative block.

    When he performed with Dizzy Gillespie…

    Werner mastered an

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    • Author: Werner, Kenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 294
    • Publish Date: January 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 9798985075007
    • Language: English
  • Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew

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    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

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Grella, George
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 22 2015
    • ISBN10: 162892943X
    • Language: English
  • Jazz Covers. 40th Ed.

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    Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles

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    • Series: 40th Edition
    • Author: Paulo, Joaquim
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: October 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 383658817X
    • Language: English
  • Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s Saturn Label

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    Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, exotica, Afro-hybrids, electronic, big band, solo piano, orchestral, experimental, and … [more below]

    • Author: Ra, Sun
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1683966589
    • Language: English
  • Blues People

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    “A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America’s most popular music.” — Langston Hughes

    “The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And

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    • Author: Jones, Leroi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 20 1999
    • ISBN10: 068818474X
    • Language: English
  • William Claxton. Jazzlife

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    In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted musicologist Joachim E. Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz. Through music halls and marching bands, side streets and subways, t

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    • Author: Berendt, Joachim E.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 600
    • Publish Date: July 22 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836542935
    • Language: English
  • Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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    From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family’s archives, dozens of interviews, and a… [more below]

    • Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 624
    • Publish Date: November 2, 2010
    • ISBN10: 1439190461
    • Language: English
  • The History of Jazz

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    An updated new edition of Ted Gioia’s universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music’s past, present, and future.

    Ted Gioia’s The History of Jazz has been universall

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    • Author: Gioia, Ted
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 608
    • Publish Date: March 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 0190087218
    • Language: English
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