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  • Jazz

    by Bob Blumenthal ...
    Series series Collins Need to Know?
    The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music.Do you have a hard time differentiating between hard bop, bebop, and the blues? Need to Know?Jazz puts jazz in its musical and historical context, and gets you started with stories of famous artists and the best recordings to listen to.From the beginnings of jazz to the years of swing and satchmo, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Moving to Higher Ground

    How Jazz Can Change Your Life

    by Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward ...
    “In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Giant Steps

    Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65

    by Kenny Mathieson ...
    A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane.In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Using this as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living with Jazz

    A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer

    by Dan Morgenstern ...
    A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music. ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $14.99 USD

  • Louis Armstrong

    An Extravagant Life

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told.Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the prostitutes, pimps, and rag-and-bone merchants of New Orleans. He married four times and enjoyed countless romantic involvements in and around his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jazz Composition

    Theory and Practice

    by Ted Pease ...
    (Berklee Press). When you think of jazz composers, who comes to mind? Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer. This book is about what they (and many others) do. Jazz composition has evolved into a disciplined art that often evidences great emotional depth and breadth of sophistication. Berklee College of Music legend Ted Pease ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Gene Krupa: His Life & Times

    by Bruce Crowther ...
    The life and times of Gene Krupa Traces the life and career of the late drummer and assesses his influence on modern jazz. In depth account of Gene's life and the times surrounding that period. Includes selected discography and plenty of photographs. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Africa Speaks, America Answers

    Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    Series series The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
    This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Complete Joe Pass

    Solo transcriptions by Roland Leone

    by Joe Pass ...
    Music critics and performers alike have hailed Joe Pass as one of the finest jazz musicians to have ever lived. This book effectively combines five previously published books by Joe Pass in a single comprehensive volume including his insights on harmony, melody, and phrasing as well as transcriptions of recorded solos and Joe Pass/Herb Ellis duets. The transcribed solos are: Bay City Blues, Foxy ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Musical Novel

    Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

    by Emily Petermann ...
    What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Why Jazz?

    A Concise Guide

    by Kevin Whitehead ...
    What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering an entertaining guide for both novice listeners and long-time fans. Organized chronologically in a convenient question and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Jazz Ear Training

    Learning to Hear Your Way Through Music

    by Steve Masakowski ...
    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 specific melodic phrases. The book and recording include a variety of exercises derived from the major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, and harmonic major scales and suggestions on how to play by ear. It ... Read more

    $14.99 USD