Jazz

The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any ...

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Jan Bruérs och Lars Westins numera klassiska bok (den första upplagan kom redan 1974) om jazzens historia och utveckling förmedlar på minimalt utrymme maximalt om en hundraårig musikform som ständigt utmanat. Jazzen har dödförklarats åtskilliga gå...

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(Fake Book). The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed,...

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Boken behandlar hur man lägger, färgar, stämför och kombinerar ackord i jazzmusik-från traditionell till dagens jazz- samt pop/rockmusik. Detta är viktiga kunskaper för den som vill arrangera, "kompa" eller improvisera.Materialet är uppdelat i t...

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In this newly updated third edition of his classic History of Jazz, author Ted Gioia brings the story of jazz to the present day with expanded treatment of women's contributions to the genre, jazz in the digital age, the increasing dialogue betwee...

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This ground-breaking biography is as much about Sun Ra's music as it is about his passionate, often wildly unorthodox views on the galaxy, black people and spiritual matters. With the various incarnations of his inimitable Arkestra, his reper...

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Learn Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Strategies for 8 Classic StandardsStruggling to play authentic Gypsy Jazz Guitar Solos? Ready to progress from licks to longer, meaningful solos that tell a story?In his new book, Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes - ...

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The First Lady of Jazz . Med sin röst som behärskade allt från jazz och scat till blues och gospel, räknas Ella Fitzgerald till en av jazzens största, och jämförs bland annat med Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington och Louis Armstrong. Bàrbara Alcas und...

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An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 78, the jazz saxophonist, flautist, and celebrate...

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Unlock the Secrets of Gypsy Jazz Guitar Robin Nolan’s Beginner Gypsy Jazz Guitar Are you struggling to learn authentic Gypsy Jazz guitar? Do you want to play effortless Django-inspired guitar licks? Are you ready to create your own Gyp...

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Svensk jazzmusik blev på 1950-talet internationellt uppmärksammad man talade om en gyllene epok. Längst fram bland de främsta fanns barytonsaxofonisten och kompositören Lars Gullin (19281976), med en särställning bland europeiska jazzmusiker. Hans...

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Monica Zetterlund (1937-2005) har lämnat ett outplånligt minne efter sig i våra hjärtan. Hennes karriär som jazzsångerska, revyartist och skådespelerska var i världsklass. Kompositörer och textförfattare som Beppe Wolgers, Hasse å Tage, Povel Rame...

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The definitive book on bop drumming -- a style that is both the turning point and the cornerstone of contemporary music's development. This comprehensive book and audio presentation covers time playing, comping, soloing, brushes, more jazz essenti...

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When we hear music, we often experience how the physical flirts with the spiritual in profound and moving ways. But what we don't realize is that this confluence is possible not just in music, but in life, and it's easier than you think, says the ...

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Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. In a telling replete with colorful characters, iconic artists, and unheralded masters,...

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Master 100 Modern Jazz Piano Licks & Learn the Language of 10 Jazz Piano Masters Bud Powell | Oscar Peterson | Thelonious Monk | George Shearing | Bill Evans | McCoy Tyner | Herbie Hancock | Chick Corea | Keith Jarrett | Brad Mehldau | Do you ...

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It's never too late to play piano is perfect for those who wished they'd learnt to play the piano when they were younger, or those who wish they hadnt given up. At last, a truly grown-up approach to learning the piano! Pam Wedgwood, auth...

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Alex Harvey was active in the music industry from the very birth of British rock and roll. A Zelig-like figure, he won a contest to become Scotlands Tommy Steele in the 1950s, followed the Beatles to Hamburg in the early 1960s, dabbled in psychede...

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Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with al...

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1972 was the year Progressive Rock came of age, when bands and artists still revered today produced some of their most ground-breaking, inventive, and enduring musical creations. In this fascinating and absorbing book, Kevan Furbank looks at some ...

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Bobby Keys has lived the kind of like that qualifies as a rock 'n' roll folktale. In his early teens, Keys bribed his way into neighbour Buddy Holly's garage band rehearsals, then took up the saxophone because it was the only instrument left uncla...

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Helping you to take your playing to the next level, this comprehensive jazz-blues instructional book/CD pack contains 15 lessons. It teaches how to both improvise and comp with full band play-along CD tracks and step by step instruction. The text ...

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*** 'Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many.' Paul Weller 'A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb book' Mani, The Stone Roses 'What a wonderful book. Mod isn't about what decade you...

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The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any ...

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Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America presents the first full-length biography of the Swing Era icon, restoring this pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader's primacy alongside other 20th century jazz giants.

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Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arriv...

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I Karlstad har jazzen fört en växlande tillvaro under många år. Här berättas konkret och jordnära om utvecklingen från brukens musikkårer, via dansorkestrar som mer och mer plockade upp jazzens språk, till en livaktig och självständig musik som ta...

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Remi Harris' 100 Gypsy Jazz Guitar Licks  If you're looking for the most direct pathway to learn incredible gypsy jazz guitar soloing - here it is! "Remi Harris is one of the very finest and most exciting exponents of gypsy jazz gui...

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