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3 Shades of Blue

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

af James Kaplan ...

**The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—and how they ... Læs mere

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**The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—and how they
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Easily Slip into Another World

A Life in Music

af 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 ... Læs mere

94,49 kr.

**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
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Kind of Blue

Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece

af Ashley Kahn ...

In the early spring of 1959, six musicians went into the 30th Street Studio in New York. Nine hours later, they had recorded one of the finest albums of the twentieth century.Kind of Blue traces Miles Davis's development into an artist capable of making such a masterpiece, and explores the careers and struggles of the musicians who shaped him and played alongside him. Using interviews and pictures ... Læs mere

104,25 kr.

In the early spring of 1959, six musicians went into the 30th Street Studio in New York. Nine hours later, they had recorded one of the finest albums of the twentieth century.Kind of Blue traces Miles Davis's development into an artist capable of making such a masterpiece, and explores the careers and struggles of the musicians who shaped him and played alongside him. Using interviews and pictures
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Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert

af Peter Elsdon ...

Serier serie Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His The Köln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the remarkable reception it has received from musicians and lay-listeners alike. Since the album's 1975 release, it has sold over three million copies ... Læs mere

237,79 kr.

Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His The Köln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the remarkable reception it has received from musicians and lay-listeners alike. Since the album's 1975 release, it has sold over three million copies
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The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

af Alyn Shipton ...

Serier serie OXFORD STUDIES IN RECORDED JAZZ SERIES
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a piano or guitar. Using original scores and detailed transcriptions of Mulligan's work, The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets offers an intimate look at Mulligan's musical development from the initial quartet with Chet Baker to its ... Læs mere

122,95 kr.

The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a piano or guitar. Using original scores and detailed transcriptions of Mulligan's work, The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets offers an intimate look at Mulligan's musical development from the initial quartet with Chet Baker to its
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Negotiated Moments

Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity

Redigeret af Gillian Siddall, Ellen Waterman ...

Serier serie Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered, sexed, raced, classed, disabled, and technologized body at the center of critical improvisation studies ... Læs mere

278,61 kr.

The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered, sexed, raced, classed, disabled, and technologized body at the center of critical improvisation studies
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Really the Blues

af Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe ...

Hailed as an “American counter-culture classic,” this “funny” and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal)Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing ... Læs mere

132,99 kr.

Hailed as an “American counter-culture classic,” this “funny” and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal)Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing
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Pat Metheny

The ECM Years, 1975-1984

af Mervyn Cooke ...

Serier serie Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of ... Læs mere

188,57 kr.

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of
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Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time

af Philip Clark ...

NOMINATED FOR THE JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents Brubeck's contribution to music with the critical insight that it deserves - ***** BBC Music MagazineThis is the writing about jazz that we've been waiting for - Mike Westbrook</st... ... Læs mere

155,76 kr.

NOMINATED FOR THE JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents Brubeck's contribution to music with the critical insight that it deserves - ***** BBC Music MagazineThis is the writing about jazz that we've been waiting for - Mike Westbrook</st...
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Deep in a Dream

The Long Night of Chet Baker

af James Gavin ...

From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of "cool" jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, this first major biography of one of the most romanticized icons in jazz gives a ... Læs mere

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From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of "cool" jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, this first major biography of one of the most romanticized icons in jazz gives a
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Volcanic Tongue

A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music

af David Keenan ...

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings'A thing of beauty' DAVID HOLMES'A celebration of obsessives, misfits and single-minded outsider' HERALD'A colossal triumph' WENDY ERSKINEKeenan has been writing about music since publishing his first fanzine, inspired by The Pastels and by Glasgow (and Airdrie's) DIY... ... Læs mere

131,16 kr.

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings'A thing of beauty' DAVID HOLMES'A celebration of obsessives, misfits and single-minded outsider' HERALD'A colossal triumph' WENDY ERSKINEKeenan has been writing about music since publishing his first fanzine, inspired by The Pastels and by Glasgow (and Airdrie's) DIY...
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Straight Life

The Story Of Art Pepper

af Art Pepper, Laurie Pepper ...

Art Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book--it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Pepper's last years, and a complete and up-to-date ... Læs mere

102,53 kr.

Art Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book--it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Pepper's last years, and a complete and up-to-date
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Reaching Beyond

Improvisations on Jazz, Buddhism, and a Joyful Life

af Herbie Hancock, Daisaku Ikeda, Wayne Shorter ...

In Reaching Beyond, Buddhist thinker and activist Daisaku Ikeda explores the origins, development, and international influence of jazz with legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Reflecting on their lives and careers, Mr. Hancock and Mr. Shorter share the lessons they have learned from their musical mentors, including Miles Davis and Art Blakey, and how the Buddhist philosophy they've ... Læs mere

51,67 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

In Reaching Beyond, Buddhist thinker and activist Daisaku Ikeda explores the origins, development, and international influence of jazz with legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Reflecting on their lives and careers, Mr. Hancock and Mr. Shorter share the lessons they have learned from their musical mentors, including Miles Davis and Art Blakey, and how the Buddhist philosophy they've
... Læs mere
Visions of Jazz

The First Century

af Gary Giddins ...

Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary ... Læs mere

196,78 kr.

Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary
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Living with Jazz

A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer

af Dan Morgenstern ...

A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music. ... Læs mere

122,11 kr.

A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music.
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As Serious As Your Life

Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977

af Val Wilmer ...

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.Placing the achievements of African-American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and ... Læs mere

130,32 kr.

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.Placing the achievements of African-American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and
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Walking Bass Guitar Lines

15 Original Walking Jazz Bass Lines with Audio & Video

af Gareth Evans ...

Serier Bog 2 - Bass Guitar Lines
To hear some sample Bass lines from this book, please click on the link in the look inside (just after the Contents)15 Original Walking Bass Guitar lines in tablature and notation for the intermediate to advanced bassist.176 bars of music over 15 Bass lines (average Bass line length 11.7 bars)Audio demonstrations and backing tracks for each Bass line at slow (70bpm), medium (135bpm) and fast ... Læs mere

25,77 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

To hear some sample Bass lines from this book, please click on the link in the look inside (just after the Contents)15 Original Walking Bass Guitar lines in tablature and notation for the intermediate to advanced bassist.176 bars of music over 15 Bass lines (average Bass line length 11.7 bars)Audio demonstrations and backing tracks for each Bass line at slow (70bpm), medium (135bpm) and fast
... Læs mere
Coltrane

The Story of a Sound

af Ben Ratliff ...

No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of Coltrane's life Ratliff does something incredibly valuable - he writes about the saxophonist's unique sound. ... Læs mere

68,75 kr.

No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of Coltrane's life Ratliff does something incredibly valuable - he writes about the saxophonist's unique sound.
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Footprints

The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

af Michelle Mercer ...

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz.Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, ... Læs mere

85,86 kr.

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz.Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections,
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Music

A Subversive History

af Ted Gioia ...

**A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.” ―Los Angeles Times**Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, ... Læs mere

95,72 kr.

**A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.” ―Los Angeles Times**Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations,
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Reel History

The Lost Archive of Juma Sultan and the Aboriginal Music Society

af Stephen Farina ...

Serier serie Music/Interview
In this engaging hybrid work—a blend of oral history and graphic novel—Stephen Farina finds "Juma Sultan" in a local phonebook. After an initial meeting at a roadside diner, Juma takes Steve and a fellow researcher to a decrepit barn, which, amazingly, contains a treasure trove of reel-to-reel audio tapes and 16mm films of jam sessions and jazz performances from the 1960s and 1970s. As the men go ... Læs mere

125,49 kr.

In this engaging hybrid work—a blend of oral history and graphic novel—Stephen Farina finds "Juma Sultan" in a local phonebook. After an initial meeting at a roadside diner, Juma takes Steve and a fellow researcher to a decrepit barn, which, amazingly, contains a treasure trove of reel-to-reel audio tapes and 16mm films of jam sessions and jazz performances from the 1960s and 1970s. As the men go
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Jazz Books in the 1990s

An Annotated Bibliography

af Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg ...

Serier serie Studies in Jazz
Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. International in scope, the books included range from such places as Finland, Slovakia, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Entries are organized by category, including ... Læs mere

508,50 kr.

Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. International in scope, the books included range from such places as Finland, Slovakia, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Entries are organized by category, including
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Dischi da leggere Vol.2)

Analisi musicale e guida all'ascolto

af Carlo Pasceri ...

Serier Bog 2 - Dischi da leggere
Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti.In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica. Non sono presenti, quindi, riferimenti agli aneddoti e alla storia della registrazione, né commenti sulla copertina e ... Læs mere

49,13 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti.In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica. Non sono presenti, quindi, riferimenti agli aneddoti e alla storia della registrazione, né commenti sulla copertina e
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Born to Play

The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances

af Thomas P. Hustad ...

Serier serie Studies in Jazz
Jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden once referred to Ruby Braff as the “Ivy League'sLouis Armstrong.” That legacy of great trumpet performance and recording is brought to readers in Thomas Hustad’s Born to Play: The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances. Braff’s uncompromising standards, musical taste, and creative imagination informed his consummate artistry in creating music ... Læs mere

992,00 kr.

Jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden once referred to Ruby Braff as the “Ivy League'sLouis Armstrong.” That legacy of great trumpet performance and recording is brought to readers in Thomas Hustad’s Born to Play: The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances. Braff’s uncompromising standards, musical taste, and creative imagination informed his consummate artistry in creating music
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3 Shades of Blue

Easily Slip into Another World

Kind of Blue

Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

Negotiated Moments

Really the Blues

Pat Metheny

Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time

Deep in a Dream

Volcanic Tongue

Straight Life

Reaching Beyond

Visions of Jazz

Living with Jazz

As Serious As Your Life

Walking Bass Guitar Lines

Coltrane

Footprints

Music

Reel History

Jazz Books in the 1990s

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Dischi da leggere Vol.2)

Born to Play