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"Solid research" in this behind the music story about a record industry legend has been "fashioned . . . into a very readable narrative." ( New York Times ). A pioneering producer and talent spotter……続きを見る

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Ella Fitzgerald's story is one of music, resilience, and a journey through the vibrant world of jazz. In this compelling biography, readers follow Ella from her……続きを見る

Mellifluous Meetings: A Measure of Music in the Multifaceted Jazz Community' follows the life of jazz drummer Darius Robaire as he entangles himself into a diverse and occasionally calamitous commun……続きを見る

A comprehensive study text for students beginning a serious study of jazz. The first part of the book begins by teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato and interpretation of rhythm……続きを見る

For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, he composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom st……続きを見る

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their artーnot to “japanize” jazz, but to ass……続きを見る

Fourteen interviews with distinguished jazz writers that explore the exciting challenges of writing about jazz. Finalist for the 2026 Book of the Year Award presented by the Jazz Journalists Associa……続きを見る

Eight arrangements of jazz standards from 1928 for serious jazz pianists. These arrangements incorporate the styles of pianists like Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Robert Gla……続きを見る

The Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies provides students and researchers with the means to think about how the performance, recording, and publishing of music could be if we do things diffe……続きを見る

What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philosophy of Jazz is among the first book-length philos……続きを見る

Nominated for the 2023 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research Everybody knows John Altman's music, but not so many people know his nam……続きを見る

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. In three volumes and more than six LP recordings, The ……続きを見る

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse. In this psychoanalytic, philosophical and musical meditation on what it……続きを見る

Break the mold with this collection of 300 progressive and genre-bending chord combinations. Designed for songwriters who want to experiment with fresh, innovative sounds, Creative Chords will help ……続きを見る

Una storia di un pianista jazz di talento che lotta per emergere nel mondo della musica, può offrire un mix di emozioni, conflitti interiori ed esterni, e un'introspezione profonda nel sogno artisti……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining ……続きを見る

In New York City during the first decades of the new millennium, over two hundred professional musicians play music that combines jazz with Brazilian genres. Blending American and Brazilian music, t……続きを見る

Contemporary plectrum guitar playing often requires versatility in combining plectrum and fingerstyle techniques. While flatpicking logically dominates the plectrum playing style, hybrid picking, i.……続きを見る

Tony Carter, a retired college professor and project manager, has spent a lifetime immersed in the world of Jazz. His passion for the genre began in his teenage years, sparked by the discovery of Ki……続きを見る

Created in the innovative teaching style of jazz great Paul Smith, this book and online audio presents 12 solos and studies in the jazz idiom designed to build strength and dexterity in both the rig……続きを見る

To add yet another study to the already voluminous material of this kind available on the market today might at first glance, seem somewhat optimistic. This is not a book on technique, although you ……続きを見る

In this collection Stanley Solow presents 12 original jazz solos that are both musically and technically challenging. These outstanding melodies are scored meticulously for fingerstyle or classic gu……続きを見る

The author's stated purpose in writing this series of books is "to bring the player from student to pro status." This masterful teaching text begins with the premise that a jazz player should not us……続きを見る

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue……続きを見る

Once a lively presence on radio, jazz now finds itself relegated to satellite broadcasters and low-watt stations at the edge of the dial. Aaron J. Johnson examines jazz radio from the advent of Blac……続きを見る

Il jazz è musica di rottura. Rottura delle convenzioni sociali, rottura degli stilemi di genere. Il jazz è la musica del cambiamento. Inafferrabile e chimerico, il jazz continua a mutare, a evolvers……続きを見る

Offers fingerstyle transcriptions of Joe's famed Virtuoso #3 recording, composed during Joe's 1978 European tour. These tunes are extensions of Joe's improvisational chord/melody style with prominen……続きを見る

An ideal study for any guitarist regardless of style. Mastery of this text will do much to add tone color, performance ability and knowledge of theory to the guitarist. This is book 2 in the Sal Sal……続きを見る

Joe Pass was a legend in the world of jazz guitar. One of the most distinctive features of Joe's playing was funky, yet technically demanding blues lines. This book brings into print some of his ver……続きを見る

The purpose of this series of books is to bring the player from student to pro-status. If this book is studied carefully, page by page, I believer this goal can be achieved. 続きを見る