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  • Soul Jazz

    Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975

    by Bob Porter ...
    Soul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War. Previous histories reflect the perspective of an integrated America, yet the United States was a segregated country in 1945. The black audience had a very different take on the music and that is the perception explored in Soul Jazz. ... Read more

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  • To a Young Jazz Musician

    Letters from the Road

    In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed to a young musician coming up–and to any of us at any stage of life. He writes ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Duke

    The Musical Life of Duke Ellington

    by Bill Gutman ...
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of jazz's greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy‑five. Interviewing Duke's friends, fans, and fellow musicians, Gutman documents the progress of a man who dedicated his life to crafting the ever‑changing sound of jazz. Gutman plunges ... Read more

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  • Visions of Jazz : The First Century

    The First Century

    by Gary Giddins ...
    Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman jazz critic Gary Giddins ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Living with Jazz

    A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer

    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

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  • 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

    $38.19 USD

  • R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

    by R. Crumb ...
    Anyone who knows R. Crumb’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early to- mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Noël Akchoté : Playing (The Guitar Styles & Techniques Of )

    Solos Transcriptions

    Series Book 1 - NA Books
    Noël Akchoté : Playing (The Guitar Styles & Techniques Of ), (NA Books 001)   107 Pages, Music Transcriptions from Noël Akchoté's Guitar Solos as Played on The Albums “Green Lands”, “Picture(s)”, “Plays The Music Of Ornette Coleman”, “Lust Corner”, “I Never Meta Guitar”, “So Lucky”, “Meeting R.T.”, “Alike Joseph”, “Now Playing (Contemporary Jazz Guitar” - Plus Original Compositions, Texts, ... Read more

    $16.62 USD

  • Miles, Ornette, Cecil

    Jazz Beyond Jazz

    by Howard Mandel ...
    Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Keystone Korner

    Portrait of a Jazz Club

    by Kathy Sloane ...
    The award-winning photographer's pictorial history of the famous San Francisco Jazz club featuring oral histories and more than 100 images—"A treasure" ( SF Weekly).In the words of Wynton Marsalis, "Keystone Korner was the quintessential jazz club . . . a happy home to people of all persuasions." During the 1970s, when jazz clubs across America were folding under the onslaught of rock and roll and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Groovin' High

    The Life of Dizzy Gillespie

    by Alyn Shipton ...
    Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created the modern jazz trumpet-playing style and dazzled aficionados and popular audiences alike for over 50 years. In this first full biography, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD