Jazz
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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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A Supreme Love: The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel
$26.99 Add to cartThe Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction–Arts and Culture
ECPA Top Shelf Award Winner
For practitioners and fans, jazz expresses the deepest meanings of life. Its rich history and its distinctive elem
- Author: Edgar, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1514000660
- Language: English
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
$23.99 Add to cartA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such sta- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475121
- Language: English
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Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography
$24.00 Add to cartThis exhaustively researched, revised edition of Ian Carr’s classic biography throws new light on Davis’ life and career: from the early days in New York with Charlie Parker; to the Birth of Cool; thr… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: December 21 2006
- ISBN10: 1560259671
- Language: English
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Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
$32.00 Add to cartA bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz.
In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, El… [more below]
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0306831406
- 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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The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People
$24.99 Add to cartFrancis Davis’s The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mis… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812967
- Language: English
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Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
$26.99 Add to cartArt Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book–it is one of the most explos… [more below]
- Author: Pepper, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: July 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0306805588
- Language: English
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Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History
$13.99 Add to cartRagtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America’s popular musical expression. But the understanding of ragtime an… [more below]
- Author: Berlin, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 150402981X
- Language: English
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John Coltrane: His Life and Music
$24.95 Add to cartJohn Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force whose following continues to grow. This new biography, the first by a professional jazz scholar and p… [more below]
- Series: Michigan American Music
- Author: Porter, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 11 2000
- ISBN10: 047208643X
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz
$42.99 Add to cartNew Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world came to New Orleans to hear authentic New Orleans jazz played b
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Morgan, Thomas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1684420970
- 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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Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar
$28.48 Add to cartGRANT GREEN REDISCOVERING THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF JAZZ GUITAR
- Author: Green, Sharony Andrews
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 087930698X
- Language: English
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Jazz Guitar Fake Book – Volume 1: Lead Sheets for 200 Jazz Standards
$44.99 Add to cart(Guitar Book). Lead sheets for 200 jazz standards, including the melodies, chord symbols and professionally arranged guitar chord diagrams for each song. Songs include: All the Things You Are * At Las… [more below]
- Author: Hal Leonard Corp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495019276
- Language: English
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Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 1)
$19.99 Add to cartJazz Piano Fundamentals is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind’s welcoming, clear, and detailed guide to the first stages of jazz piano study. Each of the book’s twelve units presents lessons, exercises, li
- Author: Siskind, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1735169536
- Language: English
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Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus
$18.00 Add to cartBass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocki… [more below]
- Author: Mingus, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 1991
- ISBN10: 0679737618
- Language: English
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Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
$27.99 Add to cartLouis Armstrong’s New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years of Armstrong’s life. Drawing on a stunning body of f
- Author: Brothers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039333001X
- Language: English
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Finding the Right Notes
$29.95 Add to cartRON CARTER is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz history, with more than 2,200 albums to his credit, an accomplishment honored in the 2015 Guinness Book of World Recor
- Author: Carter, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0989982513
- Language: English
