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Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally.

"Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, and composer Cedar Walton (1934-2013) is a major figure in jazz, associated with a variety of styles from bebop to funk and famous for composing several standards. Born and raised in Dallas, Walton studied music in Denver, where he jammed with musicians such as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. In 1955, Walton moved to New York, immediately gaining recognition from notable musicians and nightclub proprietors. When Walton returned to the U.S. after serving abroad in the Army, he joined Benny Golson and Art Farmer's Jazztet. Later, he became both pianist and arranger for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Next, he worked as part of Prestige Records's house rhythm section, recording with numerous greats and releasing his own albums. One hallmark of Walton's impact is his numerous long-term collaborations with giants such as trombonist Curtis Fuller and drummer Billy Higgins. By the end of his career, Walton's discography, as both band member and bandleader, included many dozens of vaunted recordings with some of the most notable jazz musicians of the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Ben Markley conducted more than seventy-five interviews with friends and family members, musicians who played with or were otherwise influenced by Walton, and industry figures such as club owners. Musicians interviewed include such stars as Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson, and Ron Carter. Walton's wife Martha shared her extensive archives of photos, ephemera such as fliers and tour itineraries, and letters"--

Learn the fundamentals of jazz! The flexible, modular Total JAZZ THEORY approach allows you to study in a way that best fits your time and goals. Ear Training exercises in the free INTERACTIVE Practice Studio offer even more opportunities for enrichment.Complete all 36 lessons for a total jazz theory experience, or choose the pages and exercises labeled as Basic for an introduction to the nuts and bolts of jazz. Whatever path you choose, you'll be well on your way to becoming a total jazz musician!Dean Sorenson is Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota. A former trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, he is frequently featured at festivals and conventions around the United States and abroad as a Yamaha performing artist, and is highly sought-after as a commissioned composer and arranger for jazz ensemble, symphony orchestra, concert band, and chamber ensembles. Mr. Sorenson is the author of the Excellence in Jazz Pedagogy series, First Place for Jazz, Jazz Combo Session, and First Jazz Performance. He is also co-author, with Bruce Pearson, of the Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method and Advanced Jazz Ensemble Method.

This stunning compilation collects guitarist Tom Ollendorff's revered études for the first time in print, in both standard notation and tab formats. Suitable for electric and acoustic guitarists, jazz, fingerstyle and classical players alike, from intermediate to advanced level. With preparatory exercises that explore the key aspects of Tom's unique technical approach, plus commentary about each étude from the acclaimed artist himself.

"In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of the New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s, including thrilling stories about the politically important Bed-Stuy venue The East and the author's tutelage under composer and long-time Archie Shepp collaborator Cal Massey."--

Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music.

Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound is a synesthesia-inducing graphic novel that follows the many lives of music legend Miles Davis.

This new edition of my teaching method contains a very extensive set of exercises covering as many topics as possible. The various theoretical and harmonic notions are only hinted at, for more in-depth information you can purchase my other dedicated teaching methods.Topics:- Left hand exercisesLeft hand stretchingThe legatoEnlargements- Right hand exercisesGhost notesString skippingVarious rhythmic subdivisionsDynamicsStaccatoAccents- Exercises on triads and arpeggiosInversions and voicingsninth, eleventh and thirteenth arpeggios- Major scale and modal scales- Pentatonic and blues scale- Harmonic minor scale and modal scales- Melodic minor scale and modal scales- Whole tone scale- Deminished h/w and w/h scales- The Walking BassII - V - I MajorII - V - I minor'Scalar' approachChromatismsWalking on 2 chords per barsPlaying a standard (part 1)Typical rhythmic variationsPlaying a Blues/JazzWalking on static chordsPlaying a Standard (Part 2)- Various insightsPatternstritone arpeggiosIntervalsCoordinationHammer on and Pull off (Legato)Fretboard knowledge and shiftingChords on bass"Open" chords"Double stops"Speedand much moreTogether with the book you will receive all the audio examples and backing tracks

[B&W edition. 37 photographs. Full-color edition available at www.amazon.com/dp/0985442948] In celebration of Dizzy Gillespie's 100th birthday, author David G. Brown (Deacon's Crossbow) shares his intimate experiences and memoirs of this humanitarian, innovator, and magical musician. After a chance meeting in Georgetown, 1985, Brown had the opportunity to spend countless hours with Dizzy at performances, testimonials, all-night card-playing sessions, hotels, restaurants, and street corners.Mr. Brown said, "Without question, the most remarkable man I have ever met. We shared tears and gut-busting laughs that are etched in my mind forever. God bless John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie, who, by the way, wasn't dizzy at all."Along with a book-load of anecdotes, there are select and unique photos spread throughout.

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance, in ethnography, and in institutional and disciplinary settings.

Wie lässt sich das Griffbrett der Gitarre so erlernen, dass man ohne Nachzudenken Melodien, Akkorde und Soli spielen kann, die musikalisch immer zum Stil passen?Robert Landy Landinger, Autor des Buches, war seit seinen Anfängen mit der Gitarre auf der Suche nach einer entsprechenden Methode. Er beschäftigte sich mit den größten Gitarristen wie Jimi Hendrix oder Django Reinhardt und entdeckte dabei das CAGED-System, das ausschließlich auf den Basis-Akkorden beruhte. Mit diesem Band gibt es jetzt erstmals ein Buch und eine Methode, mit dem jede/r, der die klassischen Akkorde auf der Gitarre beherrscht, schnell und mühelos dieses geniale System erlernen kann.Inhalt Band 1: - Alle 5 Dur Shapes - Dur Pentatonik - Dur Tonleiter- viele Licks aus Pop, Rock, Country, Folk- Quintenzirkel auf der Gitarre- Dur KadenzCAGEDrules! Bd1 ist die ideale Ergänzung zu CAGEDrules! Bd2, in dem Moll, Vermindert und Übermäßg behandelt wird.

Born in 1905, Bill Russell demonstrated diverse musical interests from an early age. His significance as a percussion composer is well known among aficionados and his work as a musicologist of New Orleans jazz music is equally acclaimed. He was a major figure in the revival of interest in the music of that city.

In Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness, author Kelsey Klotz considers how Dave Brubeck, a pivotal jazz musician and public figure, represents manifestations of whiteness in mid-century America.

Few musicians shaped Iberian jazz more than pianist Vicenç "Tete" Montoliu i Massana (1933-97). Fascinated by the modernist aesthetics of mid-century jazz, Montoliu was known for a carefully crafted mix of lyricism and dissonance, a penchant for discordant crashes, and a development of highly original compositions. Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz explores the artist's life, musical production, and international reception within a cultural studies framework.

During the 1920s and 30s, many of the biggest stars of the time--including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Porter Grainger, Josephine Baker, Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon, Lucille Bogan, Tony Jackson and Clara Smith--were openly celebrating LGBTQ lives through the songs they wrote, performed and recorded. Award-winning author Darryl W. Bullock brings their stories to the fore through contemporary reports, interviews, news articles and rare archive material, painting a vibrant picture of a revolutionary period in both popular music and Queer history that has long been overlooked.

Tatum's Town tells a history of jazz in Toledo, Ohio. Dietsche vividly describes Toledo's infamous after hour joints and speakeasies, as well as the town's classy night clubs, cocktail lounges, ballrooms, and supper clubs. The book also provides a history of Toledo's most famous jazz personalities including the renowned Toledoan, Art Tatum.

Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America presents the first full-length biography of the Swing Era icon, restoring this pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader's primacy alongside other 20th century jazz giants.

A product of the rough New Orleans neighborhood known as Storyville, young Louis Armstrong may never have become a musician had it not been for a stint in reform school. But it was his passion and genius that made Armstrong into a an American jazz legend. Illustrations.

Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the "Arkestra.? Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with far-out harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created "space music? as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth.A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra's wide-ranging creative output?music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry?and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music. By thoroughly examining the astro-black mythology that Sun Ra espoused, Youngquist masterfully demonstrates that he offered both a holistic response to a planet desperately in need of new visions and vibrations and a new kind of political activism that used popular culture to advance social change. In a nation obsessed with space and confused about race, Sun Ra aimed not just at assimilation for the socially disfranchised but even more at a wholesale transformation of American society and a more creative, egalitarian world.