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“david ake”

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  • Jazz Matters

    Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop

    by David Ake ...
    What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Jazz/Not Jazz

    The Music and Its Boundaries

    Edited by David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Ira Goldmark ...
    What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Jazz: From New Orleans to the New Generation

    by Richard Nelsson ...
    The Guardian and Observer newspapers have covered jazz in all its shapes and forms for almost a century. Jazz: From New Orleans to the new generation is a collection of reviews and profiles that charts the development of the music from its first appearance in London in 1917 right through to latter day arguments over fusion. Contributors including Kingsley Amis, Benny Green, Michael Frayn and John ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Jazz Scene

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

    by Catherine Tackley ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Jazz Survivor: The Story of Louis Bannet Horn Player of Auschwitz

    by Ken Shuldman ...
    This is the true story of Louis Bannet a Jewish jazz musician known throughout Europe in the 1930's and 40's as The Dutch Louis Armstrong. The story travels from the nightclubs of Amsterdam to the nightmares of Auschwitz where Louis Bannet's trumpet rang out amidst happiness and horror alike. Jazz Survivor gives strong testimony to both the indisputable power of music and the indefatigable ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Power of Black Music

    Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. ...
    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Circle of Fifths

    Visual Tools for Musicians, #1

    by Philip Jackson ...
    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

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

    by Joel Dinerstein ...
    An "entertaining" study of the enduring concept of coolness, and the mix of cultures and historical events that shaped it ( The New York Times).Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hot Club Session

    Basic Acoustic Swing Jazz Guitar

    by Felix Schell ...
    Finally, a great method which will show you how to play the acoustic jazz guitar in the style of players like Django Reinhardt, Oscar Alleman and Eddie Lang - their style is characterized by a powerful rhythm guitar and a vital swinging single-note solo line. Due to the fact that it can be very hard to master the original transcriptions, this book simplifies this style without losing the essence ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New York City Jazz

    by Elizabeth Dodd Brinkofski ...
    Series series Images of America
    New York City Jazz explores many of the haunts and hideaways that have played host to iconic jazz musicians and singers like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lester Young. Considered the jazz capital of the world, New York City is known for its flashy venues. The stages of the Latin Quarter, Apollo Theater, Minton�s Playhouse, Onyx, Stork ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fierce Urgency of Now

    Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

    by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz ...
    Series series Improvisation, community, and social practice
    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are ... Read more

    $20.89 USD