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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 ……続きを見る

As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience from his performanc……続きを見る

**The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year “A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is hi……続きを見る

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it. Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural……続きを見る

El Libro de las Escalas es un texto diseñado para el estudio de las escalas musicales y los elementos relacionados con estas (intervalos, construcción y escritura de acordes, correcta escritura y le……続きを見る

Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage ha……続きを見る

This book presents material that will help the intermediate guitarist improve the playing and sight-reading of big band guitar parts, while expanding their knowledge of the instrument at the same ti……続きを見る

This continuation of Jimmy Wyble's book "The Art of Two-Line Improvisation" includes five duets in which each part is a two-line contrapuntal piece! Also includes three new solo compositions, all in……続きを見る

This book includes Denin Koch’s transcriptions of solo improvisations from Kurt Rosenwinkel’s 2012 album, Star of Jupiter. Koch provides insight into Rosenwinkel’s techniques and concepts, giving th……続きを見る

Remixing European Jazz Culture examines a jazz culture that emerged in the 1990s in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, London, and Oslo – energised by the introduction of studio ……続きを見る

In Getting Into Jazz Fusion Guitar, author Scott Miller presents the most common scales used in Jazz Fusion and other modern music styles. Scott discusses each mode of the Major, Melodic Minor, Harm……続きを見る

This book is a guide to some of the techniques needed for "getting into latin jazz guitar." There are 5 independent sections: References and definition of terms; exercises and/or pieces which demons……続きを見る

Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans……続きを見る

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth accoun……続きを見る

Brazilian jazz is the combination of the energizing rhythms of Brazilian and North American jazz music. Playing this style requires special skills not normally taught to the guitar student. This com……続きを見る

This is a collection of jazz music arranged for fingerstyle guitar and spanning the years from the turn of the last century until the end of the 1930s. There are classical ragtime numbers, jazz band……続きを見る

A collection of tunes and studies that are accessible to the intermediate player, yet extremely musical. Many of the tunes are derived from jazz standards and may by used as variations or chords sol……続きを見る

A how-to memoir tracing the learning curves of group music improvisation, the peaks and pitfalls of African hand drumming with electric instruments. 続きを見る

In the tradition of Django Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène is one of most highly regarded Gypsy jazz, bebop, and fusion guitarists of recent decades. Once regarded as a child prodigy, he has performed wit……続きを見る

This method book by renowned jazz artist Mimi Fox utilizes a unique approach to helping guitarists develop strong solos. Scales, arpeggios, patterns, and syncopated rhythms are introduced in a logic……続きを見る

Seven outstanding solos in the Fats Waller post-ragtime style that gain a totally new flavor and life when played on fingerstyle guitar! In notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio. 続きを見る

For guitarists, the technical learning curve for improvisation is fairly steep. For this reason, it is important to find multiple uses for the musical structures that you learn to execute. This appr……続きを見る

Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This ……続きを見る

Jazz Ear Training: Learning to Hear Your Way Through Music, focuses the student on developing the ability to hear and react to harmonic structures common to the modern Jazz idiom, while adhering to ……続きを見る

“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……続きを見る

When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals……続きを見る

Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933–2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis In……続きを見る

Grant Green was one of the most innovative jazz guitarists of the 1960s. His horn-like lines, original tone, and superb sense of time elevated him to being one of Blue-Note Records first call sessio……続きを見る

Wes Montgomery took jazz guitar to a new level when he came to the public's attention in the late 1950's. Known for his fluid lines and his big jazz guitar sound, Wes influenced thousands of guitari……続きを見る

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50……続きを見る