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  • All Fourths Tuning for Jazz Guitar

    by Yasser Mattar ...
    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 ergonomic• One has control over jazzy voicings• One has control over intervals• It's easy to make quartal chordsThis book includes:• Over 100 fingering diagrams• 14 sheets of song transcriptions• Copious ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

    by Gabriel Solis ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Long considered one of the most important musical meetings in modern jazz, Monk's and Coltrane's work together during a scant few months in 1957 had, until this discovery, been thought to be ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

    The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

    by Philip Watson ...
    The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill'A beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living cultural ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Harlem Jazz Adventures

    A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969

    Translated by Fradley Hamilton Garner ...
    Series series Studies in Jazz
    Timme Rosenkrantz (1911–1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the “Jazz Baron” because of his noble lineage, he was the first European journalist to cover the jazz scene in Harlem. Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron’s Memoir, 1934 ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Deep in a Dream

    The Long Night of Chet Baker

    by James Gavin ...
    This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeard on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myself When I am Real

    The Life and Music of Charles Mingus

    by Gene Santoro ...
    Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro strips away ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Blue Trane

    La vita e la musica di John Coltrane

    by Lewis Porter ...
    John Coltrane, il più grande sax tenore di tutti i tempi, rimane oggi per molti versi una figura ancora misteriosa: ingabbiata nello stereotipo dell’artista geniale e maledetto ma non sufficientemente indagata e compresa. Questa biografia, la prima scritta da un musicista e studioso di jazz, colma un vuoto di cui da più parti si andava denunciando l’anacronismo. Frutto di quindici anni di ricerche ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Joe Pass Guitar Style

    by Joe Pass ...
    This is the internationally acclaimed Joe Pass guitar method in which Joe displays his mastery of the jazz guitar. Part One/Harmony, is divided into five sections on chord construction, embellishment, substitution, connection, and symmetric chords. Part Two/Melody, is divided into twelve sections, including chord scales, altered scales, ear training, whole tone scales, chord resolutions, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Real Book - Volume IV (B-flat Edition)

    (Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition to new generations of players in all styles of music! All the Real Books feature hundreds of time-tested songs in accurate arrangements in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Improvising Jazz

    by Jerry Coker ...
    With musical scores and helpful charts, noted jazz educator and featured jazz soloist, Jerry Coker, gives the beginning performer and the curious listener insights into the art of jazz improvisation.Improvising Jazz gives the beginning performer and the curious listener alike insights into the art of jazz improvisation. Jerry Coker, teacher and noted jazz saxophonist, explains the major concepts ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Easily Slip into Another World

    A Life in Music

    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR*, The New Yorker***Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dorian Guitar Licks

    10 Original Smooth Jazz Licks with Audio & Video

    by Gareth Evans ...
    Series Book 2 - Modal Guitar Licks
    10 original smooth jazz guitar licks from the Dorian mode in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate level and above.53 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.3 bars)Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable)Backing tracks at full and slower practise speeds (Downloadable)Scale diagrams with theory and technique tips for each lickGuitar ... Read more

    $2.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop

    by Jeremy Yudkin ...
    Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal and musical challenges only to emerge once again as the artistic leader of his generation.A major ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jerry Bergonzi

    Emblematic Jazz Styles

    by Olegario Diaz ...
    This new book celebrates the creative plasticity of musical improvisation. Aimed at those who want to delve into the new dynamics with line phrases that help develop and strengthen their personal style as a performer.These line phrases have been produced from transcriptions with the Post-Bop Style applied by the virtuoso Jerry Bergonzi, with whom I have had the honor of sharing this and many of my ... Read more

    $22.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind

    Madness and Black Radical Creativity

    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    “Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as “rage,” and any drastic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Penguin Jazz Guide

    The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

    The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Post Bop Contemporary Jazz Extensions

    Volume 2

    by Olegario Diaz ...
    This book covers new concepts regarding post-bop and contemporary jazz improvisation in a practical way.It is aimed at intermediate to advanced students. It provides new tools for performance in contemporary jazz improvisation. It covers all of my previously published books and adds brand new exercises and line phrases form transcriptions. Chromatic, linear, intervalic, arpeggios, extensions and ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • E mio padre mi disse che non ero normale

    by Marco Colonna ...
    Piccola cronaca di un pensiero artistico indipendente*.* Improvvisazione radicale, gestione del silenzio, concerto in solo come dialogo costante. In questo libro Marco Colonna si mette a nudo,mette da parte ogni tipo di pudore artistico o esistenziale, e racconta tutto di sé, un sé che incorpora buona parte del jazz di ricerca italiano degli ultimi 20 anni. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Footprints

    The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

    Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz.Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lush Life

    A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

    by David Hajdu ...
    Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) was one of the most accomplished composers in American music, the creator of such standards as "Take the 'A' Train", yet all his life he was overshadowed by his friend and collaborator, Duke Ellington. Through scrutiny of Strayhorn's private papers and more than five hundred interviews, Hajdu revives Strayhorn as one of the most complex and tragic figures in jazz ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Cure For Gravity

    A Musical Pilgrimage

    by Joe Jackson ...
    "Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist."--New York Times Book ReviewSince the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Claude Ranger

    Canadian Jazz Legend

    by Mark Miller ...
    Even before Claude Ranger disappeared in late 2000, his fate unknown, he had attained legendary status among Canada’s jazz musicians as an extraordinary drummer who repeatedly challenged the status quo on bandstands in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.   Willful, uncompromising and charismatic, cigarette invariably tucked into the left corner of his mouth, Ranger cut a compelling figure alongside ... Read more

    $5.60 USD

  • The Circle of Fifths

    Visual Tools for Musicians, #1

    Series Book 1 - Visual Tools for Musicians
    Struggling to connect majors with relative minors? Learn music's most powerful tool for making rapid progress linking theory to practice.Musical theories falling on deaf ears? Worrying how to calculate tritone intervals? Do you get confused when defining a chord? Technical music instructor and bestselling author Philip Jackson has spent the last two decades helping musicians master tricky concepts ... Read more

    $8.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lion Roars

    The Musical Life of Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre

    by Phil Sandford ...
    By day a mild-mannered accountant, by night a roaring jazz pianist and singer.A boogie and stride pianist, Willie ‘The Lion’ McIntyre was a leading figure in the traditional jazz boom in Melbourne after World War II. He sang in a Fats Waller style or shouted the blues, and was a key member of Tony Newstead’s Southside Gang and the Portsea Trio.Together with clarinettist George Tack, he developed a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus