The
Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
by Leonard Feather (Editor), Ira Gitler (Editor)
Bill
Russell's American Music
by Mike Hazeldine (Editor), Bill Russell (Editor)
Bill Russell (1905 - 1992), co-author of Jazzmen (1939),
was one of the first serious researchers of New Orleans jazz history. Db.
Blues
People: Negro Music in White America
by Imamu Amiri Baraka, et al
(Paperback -- September 1983)
Collected
Works : A Journal of Jazz 1954-1999
by Whitney Balliett
Hardcover - 928 pages (November 2000)
St Martins Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0312202881
Early
Jazz : Its Roots and Musical Development
by Gunther Schuller
Paperback - 401 pages Reprint edition (May 1986)
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195040430
The
Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz
by Tom Piazza
Paperback - 391 pages (March 1995)
Univ of Iowa Pr; ISBN: 0877454892
Jazz
Violin
by Matt Glaser, Stephane Grappelli (Contributor)
(Paperback - March 1981)
The Hal Leonard Real Jazz Fake Book - C Edition
Listed under Jazz Fake Books
Jazz
: A History of America's Music
by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
First off, let's get the kudos down: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
deserve far more than simple gratitude for bringing jazz to the limelight
with this lavishly illustrated volume. The book features among its 500-plus
pictures many of the previously unseen shots of musicians and venues glimpsed
in Burns's 10-part documentary, Jazz. (See our Ken Burns Jazz Store for
the lowdown on the series.) Jazz: An Illustrated History follows the film
episode by episode, and it's filled with rich historical detail in the
early chapters. Like the series, however, the book trails off after a certain
point in chronicling jazz's history. It gives background aplenty on early
New Orleans music, the migration of jazz up the Mississippi to major urban
centers, and the developments of swing and bebop. After bebop, the history
gets a bit perfunctory. Dozens of major figures get mere sidebar coverage.
Little is said of substance on Latin or Brazilian jazz, European contributions
to the music, fusion, or umpteen smaller deviations from the mainstream.
There are wonderful essays that highlight elements of jazz culture, particularly
Gerald Early's consideration of race and white musicians in jazz and Gary
Giddins's five-page essay on avant jazz. And there are fine sidebars as
well. But developments during and after the 1960s are dealt with primarily
in impressionistic guest essays rather than detail-oriented historical
narrative. It is, of course, difficult to capture all jazz history in any
single volume. So perhaps this ought to have been called Jazz: A Historical
Appreciation, since the hundreds of images certainly create an intense
sense of the music's milieu. --Andrew Bartlett - Amazon.com
Hardcover - 512 pages 1 Ed edition (November 7, 2000)
Knopf; ISBN: 067944551X |
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Living
the Jazz Life : Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers
in Jazz
by W. Royal Stokes
Jazz
Scrapbook : Bill Russell and Some Highly Musical Friends
by Richard Jackson, John Magill
Publisher: Historic New Orleans Collection; (April 1998)
Just Jazz Bass Real Book
by Warner Bros
Listed under Jazz Fake Books
The
Oxford Companion to Jazz
by Bill Kirchner (Editor)
Hardcover - 848 pages (October 2000)
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 019512510X
Music Is My Mistress
by Duke Ellington
Listed under Duke Ellington
Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
by Gary Giddins
Listed under Louis Armstrong
From
Jazz to Swing : African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935
(Jazz History, Culture, and Criticism Series)
Thomas J. Hennessey
Paperback / Published 1994
88: The Giants of Jazz Piano
by Robert L. Doerschuk, et al
Listed under Jazz Piano
Effortless
Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
by Kenny Werner
Book Description: Paperback book and CD set. Effortless Mastery:
Liberating the Master Musician Within is a book for any musician who finds
themselves having reached a plateau in their development. Werner, a masterful
jazz pianist in his own right, uses his own life story and experiences
to explore the barriers to creativity and mastery of music, and in the
process reveals that "Mastery is available to everyone," providing practical,
detailed ways to move towards greater confidence and proficiency in any
endeavor. While Werner is a musician, the concepts presented are for every
profession or life-style where there is a need for free-flowing, effortless
thinking. Book also includes an audio CD of meditations narrated by Kenny
to help the musician reach a place of relaxed focus.
(Paperback -- January 1996) |
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Essential Jazz Lines : Guitar the Style of Joe Pass
by Corey Christiansen
Listed under Jazz Guitar
Improvising Jazz
by Jerry Coker
Listed under Jazz Improvisation
Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
by Gary Giddins
Listed under Louis Armstrong
Sam Bush Teaches Mandolin Repertoire & Technique: Solos, Licks
and Variations to Eight Great Tunes
by Listen, et al
Listed under Mandolin
The
Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (5th Ed)
by Richard Cook, Brian Morton
Paperback: 1638 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.77
x 9.05 x 6.85
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); 5th edition (February
2001)
ISBN: 014051452X
Jazz
101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz
by John F. Szwed
Book Description: A beginner's guide to listening to and appreciating
one of the most diverse and storied musical genres
Anyone interested in learning about a distinctly American music--jazz--will
welcome this newest addition to the popular 101 reference series. Jazz
may not be America's only original art form, but it is the quintessential
American music. Noted anthropologist, critic, and musical scholar John
F. Szwed takes readers on a tour of the music's tangled history and explores
how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular
music and then part of the avant garde in less than fifty years. Jazz 101
presents the key figures, history, theory, and controversies that shaped
its development, along with a discussion of some of its most important
recordings. It offers insightful commentary on how jazz helped shape twentieth-century
American painting, film, poetry, dance, fiction, pop and classical music,
and the consciousness of what it means to be American.
Paperback: 354 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x
8.01 x 5.33
Publisher: Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap); (August 2000)
ISBN: 0786884967
The
Oxford Companion to Jazz
by Bill Kirchner (Editor)
(Hardcover -- October 2000)
Miles: The Autobiography
by Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (Contributor)
Listed under Miles Davis
Modern Jazz Piano: A Study in Harmony
by Brian Waite
Listed under Jazz Piano
Visions
of Jazz: The First Century
by Gary Giddins
(Paperback -- May 1, 2000)
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 2 : Features Thelonious Monk, Mc Coy
Tyner, Count Basie, John Coltrane
(Paperback - June 1983)
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