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“harvey phillips”

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  • Mr. Tuba

    by Harvey Phillips ...
    The autobiography of "possibly the greatest tuba player of all time" ( New York Times), the man who "put class in the low brass." (Clark Terry, jazz trumpeter)With warmth and humor, tuba virtuoso Harvey Phillips tells the story of his amazing life and career—from his Missouri childhood through his days as a performer with the King Brothers and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circuses, his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Jazz Theory Book

    by SHER Music, Mark Levine ...
    The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mozart in the Jungle

    Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music

    by Blair Tindall ...
    The memoir that inspired the two-time Golden Globe Award–winning comedy series: "Funny . . . heartbreaking . . . [and] utterly absorbing" (Lee Smith, New York Times–bestselling author of Guests on Earth).Oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician—from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Jazz Guide

    The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

    by Brian Morton, Richard Cook ...
    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

    $27.99 USD

  • Oscar Peterson - Jazz Exercises, Minuets, Etudes & Pieces for Piano (Music Instruction)

    by Oscar Peterson ...
    (Keyboard Instruction). Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has long been devoted to the education of piano students. In this book he offers dozens of pieces designed to empower the student, whether novice or classically trained, with the technique needed to become an accomplished jazz pianist. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Stopping Time

    Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz

    by Paul Bley, David Lee ...
    Paul Bley was barely into his twenties when he left Montreal for New York City, yet he had already played with Charlie Parker and subbed for Oscar Peterson at the Alberta Lounge. The piano prodigy had been leading his own bands in Montreal clubs since he was thirteen. Stopping Time is the story of a unique Canadian artist and his odyssey through the most turbulent years in modern jazz. Paul Bley ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Funniest People in Music, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes

    The Funniest People in Music, #3

    by David Bruce ...
    Series Book 3 - The Funniest People in Music
    Some samples: 1) Rock goddesses have kids, too. Pat Benatar was a major 1980s rock star and continues to play today. Her songs such as "Heartbreaker" are on Guitar Hero, and lots of children—and adults—rock out to them, including her two daughters, Haley and Hana. Of course, kids can ask embarrassing questions, and Haley and Hana sometimes ask their mom this question about the Spandex pants she ... Read more

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  • They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music

    by Rudi Blesh, Harriet Janis ...
    Blesh published They All Played Ragtime as first major scholarly work on ragtime music in 1950, which sparked a ragtime revival. He founded Circle Records in 1946, which recorded new material from aging early jazz musicians as well as the Library of Congress recordings of Jelly Roll Morton. He sparked renewed interest in the music of Joseph Lamb, James P. Johnson, and Eubie Blake, among others. ... Read more

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  • Easily Slip into Another World

    A Life in Music

    by Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards ...
    **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

    $12.99 USD

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  • You'll Know When You Get There

    Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

    by Bob Gluck ...
    As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, ... Read more

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  • Last Stop Carnegie Hall: New York Philharmonic Trumpeter William Vacchiano

    by Brian A. Shook ...
    William Vacchiano (19122005) was principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic from 1942 to 1973 and taught at Juilliard the Manhattan School of Music the Mannes College of Music Queens College and Columbia Teachers College. While at the Philharmonic Vacchiano performed under the batons of Arturo Toscanini Bruno Walter Dimitri Mitropoulos and Leonard Bernstein and played in the world premieres ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • 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

    $28.49 USD