Jazz
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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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Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer
$17.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Frisell, featuring exclusive interviews with Paul Simon, Bon Iver and more.
Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frise- Author: Watson, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0571361692
- Language: English
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Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews
$18.95 Read moreNamed one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times‘s reader poll
John Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and ri
- Series: Musicians in Their Own Words
- Author: DeVito, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1556520042
- Language: English
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Bill Evans Omnibook for Piano
$49.99 Add to cart(Jazz Transcriptions). The ultimate collection for jazz keyboardists to learn 40 Evans classics with exact note-for-note transcriptions. Includes: Alice in Wonderland * Autumn Leaves * Bill’s Hit Tune… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1540039536
- Language: English
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Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music
$25.99 Read moreThis immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular jazz pianists of all time.
Beginning with his childh
- Author: Lewis, Ramsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798200951727
- Language: English
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Making the Low Notes: A Life in Music
$18.99 Add to cartA bass player navigates his way through the muddy waters of Chicago’s music scene
Bill Harrison chronicles his journey from bumbling music student to successful professional bass player in late twenti
- Author: Harrison, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1956897283
- Language: English
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R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [With CD Audio]
$21.95 Add to cart“Gorgeous. One of the music–and art–books of the year.” (The Guardian)
A characteristically idiosyncratic tribute by an underground icon to the musical innovators who helped inspire him, R. Crumb’s- Author: Crumb, R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0810930862
- Language: English
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Moving and Grooving to Fillmore’s Beat
$18.99 Read moreFrom music to art to poetry, creativity filled the air in the Fillmore District. The creativity and inclusion brought communities together–with no exceptions. Everyone was welcome, and everyone was a… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1684467632
- 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
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Becoming the Instrument: Lessons on Self-Mastery from Music to Life
$24.95 Add to cartQuincy 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
- Author: Werner, Kenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985075007
- Language: English
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Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop
$25.95 Add to cartIn the early days of swing dancing, Frankie Manning stood out for his moves and his innovative routines. This is his autobiography, recalling how his first years of dancing as a teenager at Harlem’s S… [more below]
- Author: Manning, Frankie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1592135641
- Language: English
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
$0.00 Read moreFrom T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.
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- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0063031418
- Language: English
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First 50 Jazz Standards You Should Play on Guitar
$19.99 Add to cart(Guitar Collection). If you’re new to jazz guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides chord-melody style arrangements in standard notation and tab for the most popular song… [more below]
- Author: Hal Leonard Corp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: July 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1495076687
- Language: English
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Who Was Louis Armstrong?
$6.99 Add to cartIf not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw ta… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0448433680
- Language: English
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Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew
$14.95 Add to cartIt 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
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Grella, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2015
- ISBN10: 162892943X
- Language: English
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¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! the Dance That Crossed Color Lines
$17.99 Read moreNew York City’s desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mambo and Latin jazz.
Millie danced to jazz in her Italia- Author: Robbins, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1536206083
- Language: English
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Jazz Covers. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Read morePart 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
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Paulo, Joaquim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2022
- ISBN10: 383658817X
- Language: English
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Seven Guitars
$14.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh’s Hill di
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0452276926
- Language: English
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Ron Carter’s Comprehensive Bass Method
$49.95 Add to cartThis is the centerpiece of the Ron Carter Library. (He refers to it as “THE book” when talking to his students)
While other bass lesson books teach you arco techniques and how to audition for a classic
- Author: Carter, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: October 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 0578980878
- Language: English
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