Download or read book West Coast Jazz written by Ted Gioia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Gioia tells the story of jazz as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Gioia provides readers with lively portraits of great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. 9 photos.
Download or read book Modern Jazz Voicings written by Ted Pease and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). The definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music, this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arrangers how to add color, character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting appropriate harmonic tensions, understanding jazz harmony, overcoming harmonic ambiguity, experimenting with unusual combinations and non-traditional alignments, and many more. The accompanying audio includes performance examples of several different arranging techniques.
Download or read book Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts written by JENS. LARSEN and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn modern jazz guitar and theory with virtuoso Jens Larsen
Download or read book Playing Changes written by Nate Chinen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.
Download or read book Modern Jazz Piano written by Brian Waite and published by Music Sales. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). Based on the author's experience in teaching in jazz workshops, this text explains the principles of the jazz art form. Useful for teachers wishing to include jazz in the music curriculum.
Download or read book Africa Speaks America Answers written by Robin D. G. Kelley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950's and '60's who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. This collective biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered politics and culture on both continents. In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists sought one another out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as indigenous, multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures.
Download or read book Jazz from Detroit written by Mark Stryker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz from Detroit explores the city’s pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker makes Detroit jazz come alive as he draws out significant connections between the players, eras, styles, and Detroit’s distinctive history. Stryker’s story starts in the 1940s and ’50s, when the auto industry created a thriving black working and middle class in Detroit that supported a vibrant nightlife, and exceptional public school music programs and mentors in the community like pianist Barry Harris transformed the city into a jazz juggernaut. This golden age nurtured many legendary musicians—Hank, Thad, and Elvin Jones, Gerald Wilson, Milt Jackson, Yusef Lateef, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, and others. As the city’s fortunes change, Stryker turns his spotlight toward often overlooked but prescient musician-run cooperatives and self-determination groups of the 1960s and ’70s, such as the Strata Corporation and Tribe. In more recent decades, the city’s culture of mentorship, embodied by trumpeter and teacher Marcus Belgrave, ensured that Detroit continued to incubate world-class talent; Belgrave protégés like Geri Allen, Kenny Garrett, Robert Hurst, Regina Carter, Gerald Cleaver, and Karriem Riggins helped define contemporary jazz. The resilience of Detroit’s jazz tradition provides a powerful symbol of the city’s lasting cultural influence. Stryker’s 21 years as an arts reporter and critic at the Detroit Free Press are evident in his vivid storytelling and insightful criticism. Jazz from Detroit will appeal to jazz aficionados, casual fans, and anyone interested in the vibrant and complex history of cultural life in Detroit.
Download or read book Modern Jazz written by Alun Morgan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [A] systematic attempt to cover every school and branch of the modern movement and to give everything a fair evaluation. I believe it is as near a textbook as a volume of this sort can be without actually going over the borderline of dullness that we associate with the name of textbook.from the Introduction by Peter Gammond
Download or read book Modern Jazz Guitar Styles written by ANDRE BUSH and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique book and audio package including extensive chapters on soloing, chords, rhythm and effects. With in-depth exercises on modern scale applicationsand intervallic choices, developing individual chord voicings, incorporating rock and funk concepts, exploring elements from world music such as odd meters and polyrhythms, and ideas for developing your own sonic textures and approach to tonal manipulation. Each section features an essay illustrating the musical history and specific innovations of modern jazz guitar masters, with insightful commentary accompanying each concept and example. The last section thoroughly analyzes studio performances of two original compositions incorporating all the above materials. Modern Jazz Guitar Styles provides the serious student or professional seeking to broaden his palette with a comprehensive overview of the current state of jazz guitar. Extensive chapters on soloing, chords, rhythm and effects In-depth exercises on modern scale applications and intervallic choices Ideas for developing your own sonic textures and approach to tonal manipulation Covers developing individual chord voicings, incorporating rock and funk concepts and exploring elements from world music Provides seriousstudent/professional a comprehensive overview of current state of jazzguitar Includes access to online audio
Download or read book Giant Steps written by Kenny Mathieson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bebop pioneers Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to the groundbreaking modal experiments of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Giant Steps traces the backbone of modern jazz, providing an entertaining and informative read for new fans and seasoned listeners alike.
Download or read book The Jazz Language A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation written by Dan Haerle and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1980 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents all of the materials commonly used by the jazz musician in a logical order dictated both by complexity and need. The book is not intended to be either an arranging or improvisation text, but a pedagogical reference providing the information musicians need to pursue any activity they wish.
Download or read book The Jazz of Physics written by Stephon Alexander and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics-a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim — The Jazz of Physics reveals that the ancient poetic idea of the "Music of the Spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics. The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.
Download or read book The Neo Soul Guitar Book written by SIMON. PRATT and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to Play Neo Soul Guitar With Mark Lettieri
Download or read book Future Jazz written by Howard Mandel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of vividly drawn portraits and in-depth interviews with musicians, composers, and others in the genre, this book takes an exciting look at the contemporary jazz scene and provides an invaluable road map to the music of tomorrow.
Download or read book A Pictorial History of Jazz written by Orrin Keepnews and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jazz Latin and Modern Collection written by Tim Richards and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano). From the bestselling author of Improvising Blues Piano , Exploring Jazz Piano 1 & 2, and Exploring Latin Piano comes a collection of new jazz, Latin and contemporary repertoire for solo piano. This collection is aimed at pianists looking to explore these styles in more depth, or those looking to expand their musical horizons - an ideal accompaniment to other Tim Richards publications. Original pieces by Tim Richards, as well as new arrangements of standards by three of the most iconic composers in jazz: Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker Notes on interpretation, technique, theory and performance Recordings of all pieces played by Tim are included Most pieces include fully notated improvisations Chord symbols are provided to encourage you to play your own solos too. Easy pieces at the beginning of the book give way to more challenging ones later on, suitable for intermediate to advanced players.
Download or read book The Jazz Harmony Book written by David Berkman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches the ideas behind adding chords to melodies. It begins with basic chords and progressions, and moves to more complex ideas. With an introduction and two appendices. Two CDs of additional material.
