Y.A - Jazz 1

Em O Peso da Expressão, Hyago, bailarino e educador apaixonado pela dança moderna, conduz o leitor por uma jornada fascinante sobre as três técnicas mais influentes da dança moderna: as de José Limó……続きを見る

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is well known for his jazz poetry, and this book is the first to bring together the verve and vitality of his oeuvre. The centerpiece of this volume is t……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

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popu……続きを見る

Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane's experiments in jazz and spiritual ……続きを見る

You don't have to be a jazz expert to give your students a great introduction to improvisation. The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation provides what music educators have sought for decades: an e……続きを見る

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"Fascinating reading . . . [a] portrait of an innovative artist who discovered new ways of connecting musical and spiritual practices." ーGeorge Lewis, Case Professor of American Music, Columbia Uni……続きを見る

Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres – jazz, rock, and hip-hop – in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China an……続きを見る

A 60 anni esatti di distanza dal loro primo concerto a Londra nel luglio del 1962, i Rolling Stones sono, oggi più che mai, “la più grande band di rock‘n’roll del mondo”. La loro storia è una fantas……続きを見る

A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four instr……続きを見る

All fourths tuning refers to tuning one's guitar such that the intervals between the stings ascend in fourths. Why should you tune to fourths?• Chord, arpeggio and scale shapes are uniform• It's erg……続きを見る

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popu……続きを見る

Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army durin……続きを見る

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipan……続きを見る

Jazz legend Sonny Rollins spent his youth hustling on the streets of his native Harlem, but over time the tenor saxophonist shifted gears and developed the reputation of being “the world’s greatest ……続きを見る

56 Melodic Exercises for Mastering Polyrhythms in Jazz and other Groove-Based Music (for all instruments) * Internalizing 2 against 3 is every musician's wish. As much as there are books extensively……続きを見る

How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,……続きを見る

The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles,……続きを見る