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Book Just Jazz Guitar Articles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Wilkins
  • Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
  • Release : 2010-10-07
  • ISBN : 1609745612
  • Pages : 73 pages

Download or read book Just Jazz Guitar Articles written by Jack Wilkins and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is with great pleasure that we here at Mel Bay Publications, Inc. offer this project by guitar legend Jack Wilkins. Jack's skills as a session player, jazz player and all around guitar virtuoso have been honed by playing countless gigs and recording sessions. This book compiles many of Jack's lessons originally written for "Just Jazz Guitar" magazine. Subjects including comping, harmonization, and single-note soloing in the jazz setting are covered in this text by one of the world's greatest...so practice hard. This material is tried and tested and will make you a better player. the difficulty is intermediate to advanced.

Book A Rock Guitarist s Gate Way to Jazz

Download or read book A Rock Guitarist s Gate Way to Jazz written by Glen Rose and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows rock and folk guitarist's how to make the most useful jazz chords and jazz progressions in the easiest way possible without reading music.

Book Three note Voicings and Beyond

Download or read book Three note Voicings and Beyond written by Randy Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides discussion and exercises for the use of three-note voicings in jazz guitar. The book also includes some four and five-note voicings. Includes chapters on shell voicings, walking guitar, triad pairs, quartal and secundal harmony, and more. With an introduction.

Book Jazz  Rags   Blues  Book 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Mier
  • Publisher : Alfred Music
  • Release : 2005-05-03
  • ISBN : 9781457444111
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book Jazz Rags Blues Book 1 written by Martha Mier and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz, Rags & Blues, Book 1 contains original solos for late elementary to early intermediate-level pianists that reflect the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th century music.

Book Introduction to Jazz Guitar Soloing

Download or read book Introduction to Jazz Guitar Soloing written by Joe Elliott and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Musicians Institute Press). Perfect for seasoned rockers seeking new challenges and jazz newcomers looking for a good start, this book/CD pack covers scales, chords, licks, techniques and other vital jazz improv concepts step by step. The accompanying CD features 65 full-band demo and play-along tracks.

Book Modern Lusts

Download or read book Modern Lusts written by Detlef Siegfried and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman’s journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial) transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative structure organized around the human senses, this biography memorably portrays a figure whose far-flung obsessions comprised a microcosm of postwar intellectual life.

Book Jazz Baby

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Wheeler
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780152025229
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Jazz Baby written by Lisa Wheeler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby and his family make some jazzy music.

Book Lush Life

Download or read book Lush Life written by David Hajdu and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Arguably the finest biography yet written about a jazz musician . . . [It] will fascinate readers who have never heard a note of Strayhorn’s music.” —Joel E. Seigel, Washington City Paper A 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 standards as “Take the ‘A’ Train.” Yet all his life Strayhorn was overshadowed by his friend and collaborator Duke Ellington, with whom he worked for three decades as the Ellington Orchestra’s ace songwriter and arranger. A “definitive” corrective (USA Today) to decades of patchwork scholarship and journalism about this giant of jazz, David Hajdu’s Lush Life is a vibrant and absorbing account of the “lush life” that Strayhorn and other jazz musicians led in Harlem and Paris. While composing some of the most gorgeous American music of the twentieth century, Strayhorn labored under a complex agreement whereby Ellington took the bows for his work. Until his life was tragically cut short by cancer and alcohol abuse, the small, shy composer carried himself with singular style and grace as one of the few jazzmen to be openly homosexual. Lush Life has sparked an enthusiastic revival of interest in Strayhorn’s work and is already acknowledged as a jazz classic. “A book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life.” —Lena Horne “It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Book Not Just Another Jazz Book  Bk 3  8 Original Piano Solos with Optional CD Accompaniments  Book   Online Audio  With CD  Audio

Download or read book Not Just Another Jazz Book Bk 3 8 Original Piano Solos with Optional CD Accompaniments Book Online Audio With CD Audio written by Mike Springer and published by Not Just Another. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From captivating ragtime to smoky blues, the Not Just Another Jazz Book series has it all. The carefully graded arrangements are perfect for concerts, parties and recitals, or they can be used simply for fun. The books are truly unique because they contain accompanying CDs that feature bass and drum parts to create the sense of playing in a jazz trio. Pianists can play along with the CDs at both practice and performance tempos. Book 3 features selections at the late intermediate level. Titles: Ballad for Christian * Ballroom Big Band * Cruising Down the Coast * Far Away Friend * Fiesta * Hot Summer Hop * Saturday Morning Jam * Tropical Dreams.

Book Django

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Dregni
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2004-11-01
  • ISBN : 0198037430
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Django written by Michael Dregni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium, he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed, Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician, commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. He examines his long musical partnership with violinist Stéphane Grappelli--the one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette du Hot Club de France. Indeed, the author spotlights Django's amazing musical diversity, describing his swing-styled Nouveau Quintette, his big band Django's Music, and his later bebop ensemble, as well as his many compositions, including symphonic pieces influenced by Ravel and Debussy and his unfinished organ mass inspired by Bach. And along the way, the author offers vivid snapshots of the jazz scene in Paris--colorful portraits of Josephine Baker, Bricktop, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and countless others--and of Django's vagabond wanderings around France, Europe, and the United States, where he toured with Duke Ellington. Capturing the extraordinary life and times of one of the great musicians of the twentieth century, Django is a must-read portrait of a true original.

Book Stars of Jazz

    Book Details:
  • Author : James A. Harrod
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2020-03-25
  • ISBN : 1476637792
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Stars of Jazz written by James A. Harrod and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an educational television series featuring America's greatest jazz artists in performance, airing every week from 1956 to 1958 on KABC, Los Angeles. Stars of Jazz was hosted by Bobby Troup, the songwriter, pianist and vocalist. Each show provided information about the performance that heightened viewers' appreciation. The series garnered praise from critics and numerous awards including an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. A landmark series visually, too, it presented many television firsts including experimental films by designers Charles and Ray Eames. All 130 shows were filmed as kinescopes. Surviving films were donated to the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where 16 shows have been restored; 29 additional shows are in the collection. The remaining 85 kinescopes were long ago discarded. This first full documentation of Stars of Jazz identifies every musician, vocalist, and guest who appeared on the series and lists every song performed on the series along with composer and lyricist credits. More than 100 photographs include images from many of the lost episodes.

Book The Jazz Theory Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Levine
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2011-01-12
  • ISBN : 1457101459
  • Pages : 725 pages

Download or read book The Jazz Theory Book written by Mark Levine and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

Book Popular Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roman Iwaschkin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-14
  • ISBN : 1317223446
  • Pages : 726 pages

Download or read book Popular Music written by Roman Iwaschkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.

Book Mickey Baker s Complete Course in Jazz Guitar

Download or read book Mickey Baker s Complete Course in Jazz Guitar written by Mickey Baker and published by Ashley Pub. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides exercises for jazz guitar techniques, including jazz riffs, breaks, fill-ins, and solos.

Book Straighten Up and Fly Right

    Book Details:
  • Author : Klaus Teubig
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1994-06-14
  • ISBN : 0313064857
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Straighten Up and Fly Right written by Klaus Teubig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-06-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years of collecting and 15 years of research have resulted in this discography that features all known recordings, transcriptions, and films made by Cole until 1950, when his jazz style faded away, and a selection of his later jazz-related trio sides. It includes for the first time Cole's unknown 16 transcriptions of his Wild Root broadcasts. This volume documents the development of a gifted pianist into a ballad-singing star and leader of the most famous jazz trio of the 1940s. All routes and recording activities by Cole and his fellow musicians from 1936 to the 1950s are chronicled here. Nat King Cole is widely known as a singer of unforgettable fame, but that he was a true King of Jazz Piano in its heyday and the inventor of today's piano trios is almost forgotten. This discography gives all details of the King Cole Trio's activities, listing recording sessions, available broadcasts on discs, film soundtracks, and guest appearances by the trio or by Cole alone, on such shows as Jubilee, Command Performance, Supper Club, Mail Call, and Kraft Music Hall. A special listing is included of those occasions when Cole participated as unknown or unnamed pianist on radio transcriptions for singers like Anita Boyer, Anita O'Day, The Dreamers, The Barrie Sisters, Bonnie Lake, Rose Murphy, Maxine Johnson, and Juanelda Carter. In addition, the book includes the Cole Trio's engagement routes with exact dates if known, names of promoters, and much more. The biographical portion is a fascinating period piece of Jazz-age memorabilia.

Book JAZZ RAGS   BLUES 3

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Mier
  • Publisher : Alfred Music
  • Release : 2010-09
  • ISBN : 9780739075302
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book JAZZ RAGS BLUES 3 written by Martha Mier and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz, Rags & Blues, Books 1-5contain original solos for late elementary to early advanced-level pianists that reflect the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th century music. The CD includes dynamic recordings of each song in the book.

Book Being Jazz

Download or read book Being Jazz written by Jazz Jennings and published by Ember. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Pride every day with the teen advocate, trailblazer, and reality show star Jazz Jennings—one of Time Magazine's "25 Most Influential Teens" of the year. In this groundbreaking memoir, she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths through sharing her very public transgender journey. "Jazz is one of the transgender community's most important activists." —Cosmopolitan "A role model for teens everywhere." —Seventeen At the age of five, Jazz Jennings’s transition to life as a girl put her in the public spotlight after she shared her story on national television. She’s since become one of the most recognizable and prominent advocates for transgender teens, through her TV show, interviews, and social media. Jazz’s openness has led to bullying and mistreatment from those who don’t understand her choices. She’s fought for the right to use the girls’ bathroom and to play on a girls’ soccer team, paving the way for others. And in this book, Jazz faces an even greater struggle—dealing with the physical and social stresses of being a teen. But being on the front lines of trans activism doesn't stop Jazz from experiencing the joys of growing up, from day camp to first dates. Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. This remarkable memoir is a testament to the power of accepting yourself, learning to live an authentic life, and helping everyone to embrace their own truths.