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  • From Birdland to Broadway

    Scenes from a Jazz Life

    by Bill Crow ...
    In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incomparable Charlie "Bird" Parker boasted lifesize photo murals of modern jazzmen like Dizzy Gillespie, Lennie Tristano, and, of course, Bird ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Jazz Anecdotes:Second Time Around

    Second Time Around

    by Bill Crow ...
    When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Jazz Anecdotes

    Second Time Around

    by Bill Crow ...
    When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • From Birdland to Broadway

    Scenes from a Jazz Life

    by Bill Crow ...
    In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incomparable Charlie "Bird" Parker boasted lifesize photo murals of modern jazzmen like Dizzy Gillespie, Lennie Tristano, and, of course, Bird ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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  • The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

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    The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD. It is through their albums ... Read more

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  • The Thelonious Monk Reader

    Edited by Rob van der Bliek ...
    Series series Readers in American Music
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  • Learn Jazz Piano - book 1

    Learn Jazz Piano, #1

    by Paul Abrahams ...
    Series Book 1 - Learn Jazz Piano
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  • Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

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    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

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  • 220 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz Lines Phrases for the Modern Improviser

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  • Learn Jazz Piano Book 3

    Learn Jazz Piano, #3

    by Paul Abrahams ...
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    Book 3 focuses on practical advice and strategies for learning jazz pianists. Following on from books 1 and 2, Paul Abrahams guides you through more advanced topics such as bebop blues. He then demonstrates how to navigate chord charts and play jazz standards like a pro. This book also contains a recommended listening list and advice on building a jazz repertoire. ... Read more

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