Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States serves as a historical examination of the roles of bowed strings (violin, viola, and cello) in jazz. Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States ...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221566)
Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to the broader Black experience. Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland a...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221573)
Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland and Detroit. Disenchanted with the strictures of bebop, musicians forged a new style—free jazz—that took inspiration from a vast range of sources, including f...Loe edasi...
This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. For the fi...Loe edasi...
This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance during the 1930s, 40s and 50s in America. This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Je...Loe edasi...
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820375021)
In Jazz Age Montmartre, African American musicians arrived in response to a demand for American dance rhythms. Hallowed entertainment venues acquired jazz orchestras, and a plethora of clubs sprang up in the narrow streets around the rue Pigalle a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Texas Christian University Press, ISBN-13: 9780875659305)
More Than the Music features twenty-seven unique jazz stories -- stories that came about through my own experience. Most of them began so long ago, even as far back as the 1950s during my teenage years. In those days, jazz was still the new kid on t...Loe edasi...
Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy provides a step-by-step, research based, field-tested set of pedagogical tools specific to vocal jazz. Covering topics from choosing the best jazz repertoire for...Loe edasi...
Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy provides a step-by-step, research based, field-tested set of pedagogical tools specific to vocal jazz. Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vo...Loe edasi...
Women and Jazz: European Perspectives from Female Researchers and Artists is an edited volume bringing together the work of female researchers exploring the complex relationship between jazz and gender. Women and J...Loe edasi...
Women and Jazz: European Perspectives from Female Researchers and Artists is an edited volume bringing together the work of female researchers exploring the complex relationship between jazz and gender. Women and J...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of North Texas Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781574419825)
Have Horn, Will Travel is the first full-length biography of tenor saxophone virtuoso and in-demand sideman Herman “Junior” Cook, chronicling his life and impact from his Pensacola, Florida, origins to his New York City–based career. Best know...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Beach Lane Books, ISBN-13: 9781665957038)
Singer Ella Fitzgerald and trumpet player Louis Armstrong had heard of each other but never had a chance to meet, until one magical night when the two jazz musicians took the stage together and a lifelong musical friendship was born. Simultaneous eBo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Soul Jazz Records, ISBN-13: 9781916359840)
Album sleeve art from a transformative era in Americas radical jazz culture, plus covers for recordings by Black poets, civil rights activists and experimental musiciansJust over 15 years ago, Soul Jazz Records Gilles Peterson and...Loe edasi...
By 1960, musicians, critics, record buyers, and club patrons in New York City agreed that a new thing in jazz had arrived. That new thing was what we in the twenty-first century call free jazz, and it represented a significant cha...Loe edasi...
What will become of the music in Floras heart?Flora the ferret longs to attend a concert someday, but she is only a lowly scullery maid. She must save every penny.When she discovers that the Jazzers, her favorite band, are performing at th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Brandeis University Press, ISBN-13: 9781684582853)
How a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place. This is a book about what happen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: British Library Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780712355032)
Reflecting on the re-vitalisation and vibrancy of the current jazz scene, The Philosophy of Jazz is an ideal gift book for lovers of this genre of music. Authored by an expert on the jazz scene, Kevin Le Gendre....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of North Texas Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781574419696)
In On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer, author Michael Stephans has created a rich, multifaceted paean to jazz icon Bob Brookmeyer, the much-beloved musical genius who passed away in 2011, four days short of his 82nd birthday. On the W...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197780084)
Change: The New Thing and Modern Jazz tells the story of the twentieth-century abstract music now referred to as free jazz, or jazzs new thing as it was known in the early 1960s. By making connections between how and why artists cr...Loe edasi...
In Chasin the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models, authors Brian Levy and Keith Waters use solos by famous jazz musicians to outline a melodic and rhythmic vocabulary of jazz improvisation. In contrast to mainstream...Loe edasi...
Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era....Loe edasi...
Exploring jazz music using a close reading of songs, albums, and techniques, Listen to Jazz! provides an introduction to the diversity of the music for new listeners and experts alike-- Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197643532)
In Chasin the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models, authors Brian Levy and Keith Waters use solos by famous jazz musicians to outline a melodic and rhythmic vocabulary of jazz improvisation. In contrast to mainstream...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197614488)
The revelatory origin story of one of Americas most beloved musicians, Louis ArmstrongHow did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong?In Stomp Off, Lets Go, author and Armstrong expert Ricky Riccardi tells t...Loe edasi...
A CLASH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself. Not solely a book about jazz, or even a...Loe edasi...
Activating Voices in Jazz History: Students Broadening the Narrative highlights the research of students who have been challenged to assess and interpret evidence found in historical records and engage in field interviews with a diverse rep...Loe edasi...
Gavin, a Grammy nominee and a two-time winner of ASCAPs Deems Taylor-Virgil Thomson Award for excellence in musical journalism, draws upon a wealth of unpublished material, including interviews with many of the people who knew her best making this...Loe edasi...
Widens the context of our understanding of the “modern” American jazz of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s by looking at writing about it by both musicians and commentators. This book widens the context of our understanding of the “modern” Amer...Loe edasi...
A moving and unforgettable tale of love and family secrets set in Georgia in the 1940s from visionary Tyler Perry and acclaimed author Echo Brown, based on Perry’s original screenplay and Netflix film of the same name. 1947,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806212)
Offers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics, arts, technology, and the law. Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unear...Loe edasi...
Narrates the complex relationship between Panama and the United States by tracing the paths of their music, tracking the development of jazz in Panama from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day through three movements: pre-jazz, jazz, and glo...Loe edasi...
Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States serves as a historical examination of the roles of bowed strings (violin, viola, and cello) in jazz. Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: White Rabbit, ISBN-13: 9781399626217)
The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader who laid the groundwork for new age, ambient and electronic music...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221566)
Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to the broader Black experience. Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland a...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221573)
Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland and Detroit. Disenchanted with the strictures of bebop, musicians forged a new style—free jazz—that took inspiration from a vast range of sources, including f...Loe edasi...
From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate - a new novel inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott and the equal parts exhilarating and tumultuous relationship that changed the course of her life-- Provided by publisher....Loe edasi...
This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. For the fi...Loe edasi...
This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance during the 1930s, 40s and 50s in America. This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Je...Loe edasi...
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capi...Loe edasi...
American Melodies is a study of Americas varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with folk, rock, and jazz musicians, music listeners, songwriters, and organizers of music programs in communities. American Melod...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820375014)
In Jazz Age Montmartre, African American musicians arrived in response to a demand for American dance rhythms. Hallowed entertainment venues acquired jazz orchestras, and a plethora of clubs sprang up in the narrow streets around the rue Pigalle a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820375021)
In Jazz Age Montmartre, African American musicians arrived in response to a demand for American dance rhythms. Hallowed entertainment venues acquired jazz orchestras, and a plethora of clubs sprang up in the narrow streets around the rue Pigalle a...Loe edasi...
