Author: Dave Liebman
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Another well-known famous book describes Liebman's artistic and aesthetic path which contributed to making him such a singular voice in jazz. David Liebman is a world-renowned soprano saxophonist, widely respected both as an artist and educator. He has recorded over 100 albums, many as a leader featuring nearly 150 original compositions. As a sideman, Liebman has toured and recorded with Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin among others.
Author: Edward Berger
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780810831223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ARTICLES: BERGER, Morroe - Benny Carter: a life in American music; LAUBICH, Arnold - Art Tatum: a guide to his recorded music; DORAN, James M - Erroll Garner: the most happy piano; BROWN, Scott E - James P Johnson - a case of mistaken identity; VACHE, Warren W - Pee Wee Erwin - This horn for hire; CONNOR, D Russell - Benny Goodman: listen to his legacy; TIMNER, W E - Ellingtonia: the recorded music of Duke Ellington and his Sideman; POLIC, Edward F - The Glen Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo alas / I sustain the wings; DEFFAA, Chip - Swing legacy; REIG, Teddy - Reminiscing in tempo: the life and times of a jazz hustler; DEFFAA, Chip - In the mainstream: 18 portraits in jazz; KUEHN, John - Buddy DeFranco: a biographical portrait and discography; HILBERT, Robert - Pee Wee speaks: a discography of Pee Wee Russell; HILL, Dick - Sylvester Ahola: the Gloucester Gabriel; COHEN, Maxwell T - The police card discord; DEFFAA, Chip - Traditionalists and revivalists in jazz; BERGER, Edward - Ba ...
Author: Kathy Sloane
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012-12-28
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0253010403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 disco, San Francisco’s Keystone Korner was an oasis for jazz listeners and musicians. Tucked away in the city’s North Beach area, the Keystone became one of the most important jazz spots in the United States. It was so beloved by musicians that superstars McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter, and Elvin Jones played a benefit concert to raise money for its liquor license. In this book, award-winning photographer Kathy Sloane shares more than 100 black and white photographs documenting the musicians and regulars, the spontaneous moments and ephemeral scene of this legendary club. Together with these images, she has compiled a fascinating collage of first-hand oral histories that chronicle the Keystone experience. “From the antics of the photo-laden backroom to the underground hype of Ora Harris’ Keystone Kitchen, Sloane and fellow editor Sascha Feinstein leave no stone unturned. They examine the backstories of some of Keystone’s most lovable characters . . . a delightful sensory overload” (Downbeat).
Author: Stuart Nicholson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1136730931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is Jazz Dead? examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop styles, while the work of the '60s avant-garde and even '70s and '80s jazz-rock is roundly ignored. Meanwhile, global jazz musicians are creating new and exciting music that is just starting to be heard in the United States, offering a viable alternative to the rampant conservatism here. Stuart Nicholson's thought-provoking book offers an analysis of the American scene, how it came to be so stagnant, and what it can do to create a new level of creativity. This book is bound to be controversial among jazz purists and musicians; it will undoubtedly generate discussion about how jazz should grow now that it has become a recognized part of American musical history. Is Jazz Dead? dares to ask the question on all jazz fan's minds: Can jazz survive as a living medium? And, if so, how?
Author: K. Heather Pinson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1604734957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Typically, a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black-and-white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. That's the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather Pinson discovers how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music. Album covers, magazines, books, documentaries, art photographs, posters, and various other visual extensions of popular culture formed the commonly held image of the jazz player. Through assimilation, there emerged a generalized composite of how mainstream jazz looked and sounded. Pinson evaluates representations of jazz musicians from 1945 to 1959, concentrating on the seminal role played by Herman Leonard (b. 1923). Leonard's photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a black musician of the 1950s, but also became the standard configuration of the music's neoclassical sound today. To discover how the image of the musician affected mainstream jazz, Pinson examines readings from critics, musicians, and educators, as well as interviews, musical scores, recordings, transcriptions, liner notes, and oral narratives.
Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Published: 2011-01-12
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 1457101459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.
Author: Andrew Robson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0429850212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Austral Jazz: The Localization of a Global Music Form in Sydney proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding local jazz communities as they develop outside the United States, demonstrating such processes in action by applying the framework to a significant period of the history of jazz in Sydney, Australia after 1973. This volume introduces the notion of ‘Austral Jazz,’ coined in order to reset the focus on supranational conceptions of jazz expressions in the southwestern Pacific. It makes the case for Austral Jazz chronologically across six chapters that discuss, interpret and critique major events and seminal recordings, tracing the development of the Austral shift from a pre-Austral period prior to 1973. Austral Jazz presents a fresh approach to understanding the development of jazz communities, and while its focus is on the Sydney scene after 1973, the ‘Austral’ theory can be applied to creative communities globally. A creative shift took place in Sydney in the early 1970s, which led to the flourishing of a new kind of jazz-based expression, one that reflected Australia’s increasingly globalized and multicultural outlook. This study is timely, and it builds on the work of local jazz researchers. Historiographical understandings of global developments in jazz can be understood within a framework of four overarching narratives: The ‘birth and belonging’ narrative; the ‘spread and adaptation’ narrative; the ‘pluralization by localization’ narrative; and the ‘self-fashioning of the already local’ narrative.
Author: Ed Sarath
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 1438447213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.
Author: Katy Siegel
Publisher: Gregory R. Miller
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781941366097
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