Download or read book Jazzthink written by Brian J. Fraser and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success is elusive. That's the conclusion a lot of people have come to. When one dream of success is realized, another takes shape on a distant horizon. Our thinking about success is often driven by what we don't have. It's driven by an obsessive striving for something more, something out there, something that never seems to come. Jazzthink: Playing with the Stuff of Success is not another set of rules for achieving that kind of success. It takes you within, to the true source of your successes. It encourages you to play with the unique talents of your brilliance. Jazzthink: Playing with the Stuff of Success focuses on the basic elements of deeply satisfying success that we already enjoy. It invites you to grow down into your true genius and find success in expressing your unique brilliance. Jazzthink: Playing with the Stuff of Success provokes you to think differently. It challenges you to imagine contributing your unique talents to a great jazz performance. It deals with genius, audiences, confidence, core charts, performance, focus and appreciation. These are the seven basic elements of deeply satisfying success. You find them deep within, itching to be expressed. And the result in your everyday life is sheer delight.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jazz written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

Download or read book Africanness in Action written by Juan Diego Díaz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba and, more importantly, essentialized notions about Africa which have been fueled over centuries of contact between the "West," Africa, and the African diaspora. These notions, of course, tend to reduce and often portray Africa and the diaspora as primitive, exotic, and monolithic. In Africanness in Action, author Juan Diego Díaz explores this dynamic through the perspectives of Black musicians in Bahia, Brazil, a site imagined by many as a diasporic epicenter of African survivals and purity. Black musicians from Bahia, Díaz argues, assert Afro-Brazilian identities, promote social change, and critique racial inequality by creatively engaging essentialized tropes about African music and culture. Instead of reproducing these notions, musicians demonstrate agency by strategically emphasizing or downplaying them.

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Download or read book Chak r Das written by S.C. Mae and published by Space Badger Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last six standard months Jazz Healy has been scouring the Independent Fringes for her father. He’s been missing, presumed dead, for over a decade. But new information has come to light and Jazz is determined to leave no asteroid unturned. However, the same troubling questions keep popping up. If he still lives, why has he never come looking for her? Twelve years, and not a single comm? Other things weigh on her, too. Like how she feels about Darren Tollett. Not long ago he knocked her unconscious while trying to steal some valuable cargo. Now is she, if not in love, in quite-like with him? Those dilemmas are soon on the backburner, though, as Jazz finds herself entangled in the political machinations of a royal family. She and Tollett will need all their wits, and maybe some luck, to get themselves out of this predicament in one piece.

Download or read book Eurojazzland written by Luca Cerchiari and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical role of Europe in the music, personalities, and analysis of jazz

Download or read book Teaching School Jazz written by Chad West and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an experienced and diverse lineup of veteran jazz educators, Teaching School Jazz presents a comprehensive approach to teaching beginning through high school-level jazz. Thoroughly grounded in the latest research, chapters are supported by case studies woven into the narrative. The book therefore provides not only a wealth of school jazz teaching strategies but also the perspectives and principles from which they are derived. The book opens with a philosophical foundation to describe the current landscape of school jazz education. Readers are introduced to two expert school jazz educators who offer differing perspectives on the subject. The book concludes with an appendix of recommended audio, visual, digital, and written resources for teaching jazz. Accompanied by a website of playing exercises and audio examples, the book is invaluable resource for pre- and in-service music educators with no prior jazz experience, as well as those who wish to expand their knowledge of jazz performance practice and pedagogy.

Download or read book I Hunt Killers written by Barry Lyga and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in this thrilling, terrifying series by New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga is perfect for fans of Dexter. It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field. Except for the body. Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer, some might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, "Take Your Son to Work Day" was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could--from the criminals' point of view. And now, even though Dad has been in jail for years, bodies are piling up in the sleepy town of Lobo's Nod. Again. In an effort to prove murder doesn't run in the family, Jazz joins the police in the hunt for this new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret--could he be more like his father than anyone knows? From acclaimed author Barry Lyga comes a riveting thriller about a teenager trying to control his own destiny in the face of overwhelming odds.

Download or read book The World of Author Karen Wiesner A Compendium of Fiction written by Karen Wiesner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Time Out Copenhagen written by The Editors of Time Out and published by Time Out. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copenhagen is an easy to navigate town for tourists, from its many cobbled squares and narrow streets, to Stroget, the world's largest pedestrian street for shoppers. This guide includes dining tips from the most elegant to the most well-known, frikadeller (meatballs) and polser (hot dogs) and a complete overview of the restaurants that change during the day from cafes to hot clubs at night. Discover where to shop for edgy Danish fashion and home goods, as well as the best flea markets. Out of town day trips to Malmo (Sweden) and the Danish Riviera, home of the famed Louisiana Museum of Art are also covered.

Download or read book Aurora written by William Wirges and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Shoulders of Giants written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and living legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares how the power of the Harlem Renaissance led him to become the man he is today—basketball superstar, jazz enthusiast, historian, and Black American icon. In On the Shoulders of Giants, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites us on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace of Harlem through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in history. He reveals the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life. Travel deep into the soul of the Renaissance—the night clubs, restaurants, basketball games, and fabulous parties that have made footprints in Harlem’s history. Meet the athletes, jazz musicians, comedians, actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, and writers who not only inspired Kareem’s rise to greatness but an entire nation.

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Download or read book The Jazz Standards written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential copmprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening tuide to more than 2000 recordings

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Download or read book Murray Talks Music written by Albert Murray and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916–2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence musicians far and wide, it was also a foundational text for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which he cofounded with Wynton Marsalis and others in 1987. Murray Talks Music brings together, for the first time, many of Murray’s finest interviews and essays on music—most never before published—as well as rare liner notes and prefaces. For those new to Murray, this book will be a perfect introduction, and those familiar with his work—even scholars—will be surprised, dazzled, and delighted. Highlights include Dizzy Gillespie’s richly substantive 1985 conversation; an in-depth 1994 dialogue on jazz and culture between Murray and Wynton Marsalis; and a long 1989 discussion on Duke Ellington between Murray, Stanley Crouch, and Loren Schoenberg. Also interviewed by Murray are producer and impresario John Hammond and singer and bandleader Billy Eckstine. All of thse conversations were previously lost to history. A celebrated educator and raconteur, Murray engages with a variety of scholars and journalists while making insightful connections among music, literature, and other art forms—all with ample humor and from unforeseen angles. Leading Murray scholar Paul Devlin contextualizes the essays and interviews in an extensive introduction, which doubles as a major commentary on Murray’s life and work. The volume also presents sixteen never-before-seen photographs of jazz greats taken by Murray. No jazz collection will be complete without Murray Talks Music, which includes a foreword by Gary Giddins and an afterword by Greg Thomas.

Download or read book Q written by Quincy Jones and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-04-23 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks. Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago’s South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother’s descent into madness. But when his father moved the family west to Seattle, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows Ironside, Sanford and Son, and The Cosby Show; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award—winning Back on the Block, a striking blend of jazz, African, urban, gospel, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-seven Grammy nominations, and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and television producer, tireless social activist, and business entrepreneur–one of the most successful black business figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor. Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a complex, many-faceted man with far more than his share of talents and an unparalleled vision, as well as some entirely human flaws. It also features vivid testimony from key witnesses to his journey–family, friends, and musical and business associates. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants, and provides the raw material for one of the great African American success stories of this century.