Download or read book Jelly Roll Morton The Piano Rolls Songbook written by Artis Wodehouse and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Artist Transcriptions). This unique collection features transcriptions of legendary jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton's playing on piano rolls recorded in 1924. Includes his classics: Grandpa's Spells * King Porter Stomp * London Blues (Shoe Shiner's Drag) * Original Jelly Roll Blues * Shreveport Stomps * Stratford Hunch (Chicago Breakdown).
Download or read book The Best of Jelly Roll Morton Songbook written by Jelly Roll Morton and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Solo Composer Collection). 20 pieces from this popular jazz composer, including titles featured in the Tony Award-winning musical Jelly's Last Jam. Includes: Billy Goat Stomp * Jelly Roll Blues * London Blues * Queen of Spades * Shreveport Stomp * and more.
Download or read book Jazz Etude Inspirations Songbook written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Educational Piano Solo). Jazz Etude Inspirations is a collection of eight original piano etudes inspired by some of the most important jazz pianists in history. Etudes in the style of legendary greats Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Jelly Roll Morton, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Count Basie and Herbie Hancock will help students master some technical challenges posed by each artist's individual style. The performance notes include a biography, practice tips and a list of significant recordings. Tunes include: Count on Me * Hand Battle * Jelly Roll Me Home * Minor Tyner * Oscar's Bounce * Pineapple Woman * Repeat After Me * Tears Falling on Still Water. Intermediate to Late Intermediate level.
Download or read book Jelly Roll Morton and his scene catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 2009* with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists material held that is directly related to Jelly Roll Morton, but also extends to musicians who accompanied Morton or crossed his path during his career.
Download or read book Erroll Garner Concert by the Sea Songbook written by Erroll Garner and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Artist Transcriptions). This collection matches exactly the 11 songs from the original 1955 release by jazz pianist Erroll Garner of Concert by the Sea which achieved gold record status. It includes piano/keyboard transcriptions of: April in Paris * Autumn Leaves * Erroll's Theme * I'll Remember April * It's All Right with Me * Mambo Carmel * Red Top * Sultry Serenade (How Could You Do a Thing like That to Me) * Teach Me Tonight * They Can't Take That Away from Me * Where or When.
Download or read book Listening for America Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim written by Rob Kapilow and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City Star Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook, bringing many of our favorite classics to life through the songs and stories of eight of the twentieth century’s most treasured American composers—Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Rodgers, Bernstein, and Sondheim. Hardly confi ning himself to celebrating what makes these catchy melodies so unforgettable, Kapilow delves deeply into how issues of race, immigration, sexuality, and appropriation intertwine in masterpieces like Show Boat and West Side Story. A book not just about musical theater but about America itself, Listening for America is equally for the devotee, the singer, the music student, or for anyone intrigued by how popular music has shaped the larger culture, and promises to be the ideal gift book for years to come.
Download or read book Jazz Makers written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Makers gathers together short biographies of more than 50 of jazz's greatest stars, from its early beginnings to the present. The stories of these innovative instrumentalists, bandleaders, and composers reveal the fascinating history of jazz in six parts: * The Pioneers, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Bessie Smith * Swing Bands and Soloists, with Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday * The Piano Giants, featuring Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and Mary Lou Williams * Birth of Bebop, including Dizzy Gillepsie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis * Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, and Fusion, with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Stan Getz * A Century of Jazz, featuring Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and other contemporary greats.
Download or read book Jelly Roll Bix and Hoagy written by Rick Kennedy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively and anecdotal history” of the tiny family-run studio where jazz greats from Jelly Roll Morton to Louis Armstrong made their first recordings (Jazz Times). From 1917 to 1932, in a primitive studio next to the railroad tracks, the Gennett family of Richmond, Indiana, recorded some of the earliest performances of jazz, blues, and country greats—including Jelly Roll Morton, Big Bill Broonzy, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Gene Autry, Bix Beiderbecke, and native Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael (whose “Stardust” debuted on Gennett as a dance stomp). Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy is the first thoroughly researched account of the people and events behind this unique company and its outsized impact on American music. Alive with personal details and anecdotes from musicians, employees, and family members, it traces the colorful history of a pioneer recording company.
Download or read book The Blues Encyclopedia written by Edward Komara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues K Z index written by Edward M. Komara and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2006 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues written by Edward M. Komara and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.
Download or read book Ferdinand jelly Roll Morton the Collected Piano Music written by Jelly Roll Morton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music and Technology written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the most significant technological developments in music making and listening, including such topics as metronomes and the development of music notation as well as synthesizers, the latest music collaboration apps, and other 21st-century technologies. Rather than focusing on technical and mechanical details, Music and Technology: A Historical Encyclopedia features the sociological role of technological developments by highlighting the roles they have played in society throughout time. Students and music fans alike will gain valuable insight from this alphabetized encyclopedia of the most significant examples of technological changes that have impacted the creation, production, dissemination, recording, and/or consumption of music. The book also contains a chronology of milestone events in the history of music and technology as well as sidebars that focus on several key individual musicians and inventors.
Download or read book Complete piano rags written by Scott Joplin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted from the publishers' original editions, offers all thirty-eight piano rags by the respected master of the form, along with the original sheet music covers.
Download or read book Black Bottom Stomp written by David A. Jasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.
Download or read book Rags and Ragtime written by David A. Jasen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive history traces the genre's growth and diversification from its 19th-century origins through its heyday and modern revival. Discusses 48 major composers and 800 rags. More than 100 photos.
Download or read book Hip Hop Inc written by Richard W. Oliver and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the strategies of some of hip-hop music's most successful entrepreneurs, tracing the genre's meteoric rise throughout the past two decades while sharing the personal stories of such figures as Russell Simmons, Sean "P Diddy" Combs, and Dr. Dre.
