| Author | : Tom Piazza |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
In a single source, this book serves as a field guide to available recordings as well as a highly accessible vision of the development and sound of the music, one that will give the reader some sense of what musicians think about when they play, what kinds of demands are placed on them, and what kinds of solutions they have to come up with.
| Author | : Scott Yanow |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780879306595 |
A listener's guide to jazz retraces the history of the music, from earliest recordings to the Depression, profiling the people and events behind this truly American art form in a collection of essays, reviews, profiles, and more. Original.
| Author | : John Swenson |
| Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
Here are sixty-odd years of recorded jazz brillaintly reviewed in one essential source. Covering more than 4,000 currently available jazz albums, this long-needed work will remain the standard reference in the field for years to come.
| Author | : Brian Morton |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 1113 |
| Release | : 2010-11-04 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0141959002 |
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 of the music and with it the history of the twentieth century. He has completely revised his and Richard Cook's entries and reassessed each artist's entry for this book. The result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike. 'It's the kind of book that you'll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later' Fortune 'Part jazz history, part jazz Karma Sutra with Cook and Morton as the knowledgeable, urbane, wise and witty guides ... This is one of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides don't come close' Irish Times
| Author | : Tom Piazza |
| Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
Much more than just another history of this vital music and those who play it, Understanding Jazz is a multimedia master class and late-night jam session rolled into one-an indispensable guide to a deeper appreciation of jazz.
| Author | : Vladimir Bogdanov |
| Publisher | : San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub. |
| Total Pages | : 1472 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780879307172 |
Covers more than eighteen thousand recordings and more than 1,700 musicians from across the jazz spectrum and includes a history of the different types of jazz, the evolution of jazz instruments, and essays on styles.
| Author | : Jim Svejda |
| Publisher | : Prima Lifestyles |
| Total Pages | : 886 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
For hundreds of thousands of loyal listeners throughout the United States, Jim Svejda's weekly radio program The Record Shelf is not to be missed. Now, this amusing and irreverent guide captures the special flavor of Svejda's unique program. Without fear or favor, he recommends his choices of CDs and cassettes for hundreds of compositions from the standard, and not-so-standard, fare. You'll enjoy reading this wryly humorous and candid collection time and time again. "No one on the air treats both composers and performers with such personal devotion or has such a fine ear for differences in inflections and interpretations." --New York Times "The best, most searching and fascinating review of music around." --Dudley Moore "If you want to expand or enrich your musical horizons, this book is indispensable. No matter how sophisticated you may be about the world of classical music, Jim Svejda's book will introduce you to new performances and perspectives." --Michael Medved, PBS's Sneak Preview "Great fun to read." --Sir Andre Preven
| Author | : Eddie S. Meadows |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 782 |
| Release | : 2013-10-23 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1136776028 |
Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.
| Author | : Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2010-03-18 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0810869861 |
This annotated bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. Entries are organized by category, including biographies, history, individual instruments, essays and criticism, musicology, regional studies, discographies, and reference works. Three indexes—by title, author, and subject—are included.
