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Focused on Seattle's black American Federation of Musicians' Local 493, it is an upbeat story of race, jazz, gender, and union culture, set in the Pacific Northwest and the wider jazz world in the twentieth century.

Emerging from the not-so-mean streets of suburban New England at the tail end of the 1980s, The Unband embraced everything reckless, unhealthy, and downright harebrained about rock and roll. After a decade on the booze-and-gas-soaked road to success, with the help of their dominatrix manager, a willful record executive or two, and dumb luck in spades, the hard-rocking, gleefully out-of-control Unband arrived at the threshold of the new century and got their shot at the big time?in a chaotic music industry where boy-band pop ruled supreme and rock music had been declared dead. In this epic, intoxicated un-memoir, Unband bassist Michael Ruffino delves deeper into the story he originally told in 2004's Gentlemanly Repose, taking readers along on a raucous tear through the netherworld of heavy rock, populated with crack-smoking Girl Scouts, collegiate bedlamites, shotgun-toting barmaids, a rodent-chomping music CEO, a beer-drinking chimp, and headbangers by the horde, while on tour with giants of heavy metal including Dio, Motörhead, Anthrax, Def Leppard, and a Who Was Who of reunited '80s hair bands. Into that volatile mix, The Unband brought do-it-yourself pyrotechnics, a giant inflatable hand (for making giant inflatable gestures), a high tolerance for substance abuse of all kinds, and an infectious love of rock and roll and everything it stands for.Equal parts This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Adios, Motherfucker is a riotous and unbridled testament to rock and roll being at its best on the brink of disaster.

New York City Jazz explores many of the haunts and hideaways that have played host to iconic jazz musicians and singers like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lester Young. Considered the jazz capital of the world, New York City is known for its flashy venues. The stages of the Latin Quarter, Apollo Theater, Minton's Playhouse, Onyx, Stork Club, Downbeat Club, Birdland, Roseland, and Copacabana came to life with the sounds of pianos, drums, horns, and gypsy guitars. This collection of images presents why Fifty-second Street was nicknamed "Swing Street" and how musicians made timeless names for themselves in the Empire City.

The dazzling, beautiful, and entertaining arrangements in the Dan Coates Popular Piano Library advanced collections are a welcome addition to any pianist's pop repertoire. Popular Christmas Hits is a collection classic and contemporary holiday favorites. Titles: Bethlehem Morning * Frosty the Snowman * The Gift * Grown-Up Christmas List * Immanuel * Let There Be Peace on Earth * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Sending You a Little Christmas * There Is No Christmas Like a Home Christmas * Toyland * When Christmas Comes to Town.

The childhood of Louis Armstrong was as fascinating as the great musician himself-and this chapter book biography tells it like never before. Play, Louis, Play! is written from the point of view of Louis' closest companion throughout his youth-his horn! In a jazz-inflected, exuberant voice, this unusual narrator tells it all, starting with the small New Orleans hock shop where little Louis bought his first trumpet for five hard-earned dollars.As Louis goes from a street quartet to the marching band of the Colored Waif 's Home to the big sounds of New Orleans jazz clubs, author Muriel Harris Weinstein creates a moving portrait of the jazz legend. Includes a detailed author's note, glossary of jazz terms, and bibliography.

Popular songs by a Tin Pan Alley composer include "Ho Hum!," "You Oughta Be in Pictures," "The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful." Her piano works include Jazz Nocturne and others.

There has always been more to music in Boston than the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jazz, for example, dates to the early 1900s, but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that it truly sparkled. The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937-1962 is the first book to document that city's active jazz scene at mid-century.Boston jazz came into its own during the World War II years, when the big bands supplied America with its popular music, and Boston's Charlie and Cy Shribman were among the kingmakers of the big-band era. The city produced such talents as pianist and bandleader Sabby Lewis, the multi-instrumentalist Ray Perry, and bassist Lloyd Trotman. The scene benefited from the extended wartime presence of established stars, including trumpeter Frankie Newton and trombonist Vic Dickenson, and from the start of a Sunday afternoon jam session tradition that brought the nation's best jazzmen into regular contact with local players. There were opportunities for musicians, particularly young musicians, to gain valuable experience by filling in for the older men serving in the military.The end of the war introduced new jazz sounds to Boston, and reintroduced a few older ones as well. Alongside those musicians like Lewis still playing swing, there were others looking to the past for inspiration, sparking a Dixieland revival, and still others looking forward, spreading the new sound of bebop. There were big-band survivors in downsized groups playing jump blues, and others organizing new big bands along modern lines.The end of the war also brought a surge of talented musicians, many of them veterans and beneficiaries of the GI Bill. They were attracted by the city's music conservatories and the new Schillinger House, soon to be renamed the Berklee School of Music. Boston became a destination for musicians seeking new musical direction. Here they joined with Boston's own contingent of formidable musicians to form a new, more modern scene, led by such luminaries as Jaki Byard, Joe Gordon, Nat Pierce, Charlie Mariano, Herb Pomeroy, Sam Rivers, Alan Dawson, and Dick Twardzik. They would carry Boston jazz to a creative peak in the mid-to-late 1950s that still remains unequaled.The music was splendid, but there was more. Boston was home to influential jazz journalists George Frazier and Nat Hentoff; Berklee College of Music founder Lawrence Berk; Father Norman O'Connor, the Jazz Priest; record company executive and producer Tom Wilson; and Storyville nightclub proprietor George Wein, organizer of the Newport Jazz Festival. And through it all was the music, at the Ken Club, the Savoy Cafe, the Hi-Hat, the Stable, and other rooms both rowdy and refined.The Boston Jazz Chronicles relates this story in reportage and personal anecdotes, and through dozens of photographs, advertisements, and period maps. This complete study also includes extensive notes, a bibliography, discography, and comprehensive index.Author Richard Vacca is a writer and editor with a lifelong interest in cultural history, and he writes and speaks regularly about Boston's jazz and nightlife. He spent seven years researching and writing The Boston Jazz Chronicles, his first book. He is now writing the second volume of the Chronicles, taking the story into the late 1980s. Vacca blogs about Boston, jazz, and history at his website, troystreet.com.

Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times's reader pollJohn Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and risky. Nevertheless, he persisted, and his recordings now stand among the greatest of all jazz achievements. And his life, thoughts, and words have been just as inspiring as his music. This book collects those words for the first time.Coltrane was a gracious and conscientious interviewee. His responses were thoughtful and measured; he rarely said anything negative about others (though he could be highly self-critical). He freely gave credit to those who influenced and inspired him. Interviewer after interviewer noted how different Coltrane seemed from his music--this quiet man whose music was so volcanic.Coltrane on Coltrane includes every known Coltrane interview, many in new transcriptions, and several previously unpublished; articles, reminiscences, and liner notes that rely on interviews; and some of Coltrane's personal writings and correspondence. John Coltrane never wrote an autobiography. This book is as close to one as possible.

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 244. Chapters: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Fiona Apple, Hadda Brooks, Anita O'Day, Eva Cassidy, Diana Ross, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Sarah Vaughan, Amy Winehouse, Morgana King, Jo Stafford, Nina Simone, Adele, Norah Jones, Lena Horne, Joanna MacGregor, Angélique Kidjo, Jill Scott, Lalah Hathaway, Kiri Te Kanawa, Esperanza Spalding, Natalie Cole, Amanda Randolph, Nancy Wilson, Chaka Khan, Cindy Blackman, Erykah Badu, Cleo Laine, Gabriella Cilmi, Anita Baker, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Amel Larrieux, Flora Purim, Chris Connor, Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley, Rita Reys, Cassandra Wilson, Lindsay Cooper, Susie Ibarra, Diana Krall, Julie London, Ximena Sariñana, Madeleine Peyroux, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Nellie McKay, Nnenna Freelon, Melody Gardot, Kate Higgins, Ilse Huizinga, Melba Liston, Sitti Navarro, Ernestine Anderson, June Christy, Carmen McRae, Marian McPartland, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Eliane Elias, Candy Dulfer, Blossom Dearie, Shirley Horn, Esra Dalfidan, Betty Carter, Renee Rosnes, Alice Coltrane, Julia Feldman, Dorothy Ashby, Diane Schuur, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Emily Elbert, Abbey Lincoln, Hazel Scott, Anna Mae Winburn, Sade Adu, Clare Teal, Annie Ross, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Marilyn Marshall, Monica Zetterlund, Geri Allen, Kate Michaels, Jeanne Lee, Sheila Jordan, Mabel Mercer, Tania Maria, Patricia Barber, Iyeoka Okoawo, Jessica Williams, Thelma Terry, Sweet Baby J'ai, Emily Remler, Jay Clayton, Helen Merrill, Molly Johnson, Clair Marlo, YolanDa Brown, Catherine Whitney, Kelly Sweet, Jane Bunnett, Adelaide Hall, Sophie Milman, Rachel Z, Hiromi Uehara, Carmen Lundy, Maggie Nicols, Christine Tobin, Jane Monheit, Holly Cole, Gwyneth Herbert, Jordyn Jackson, Regina Carter, Matana Roberts, Sweet Emma Barrett, Stacey Kent, Marilyn Crispell, Michelle Walker, Myra Taylor, Ayako Shirasaki, Karrin Allyson, Annette Peacock, Lovie Austin, Zoe Rahman, Barbara Dennerlein, Nellie Lutcher, Valaida Snow, Urszula Dudziak, Vi Redd, Terri Lyne Carrington, Amina Claudine Myers, Leny Andrade, Cheryl Bentyne, Tierney Sutton, Aki Takase, Luciana Souza, Elizabeth Shepherd, Joëlle Léandre, Florence Mills, Ingrid Jensen, Maria Raducanu, Joyce Collins, Patty Waters, Joanne Brackeen, Anna Mjöll, Janita, Dorothy Donegan, Joanie Bartels, Jutta Hipp, Jacqui Dankworth, Annie Whitehead, Prudence Johnson, Lakrea Clark, Clora Bryant, Maria Schneider, Jane Ira Bloom, Peggy Gilbert, Susie Arioli, Andrea Menard, Leni Stern, Barbara Carroll, Karin Krog, Rosa King, Josette Daydé, Sylvie Courvoisier, Claire Martin, Janet Lawson, Carolyn Breuer, Cynthia Sayer, Anacaona, Nora Brockstedt, Toni Harper, Adele Girard, Lauren Newton, Beryl Booker, Junko Onishi, Marilyn Mazur, Maria João, Cynthia Layne, Letta Mbulu, Irène Schweizer, Ann Richards, Lucy Ann Polk, Ruth Price, Carol Sloane, Alyssa Graham, Sharon Freeman, Lynne Arriale, Denise Jannah, Maria Pia De Vito, Anna Depenbusch, Yvette Tollar, Ranee Lee, Janis Siegel, Linda Hayes, Yolande Bavan, Marilyn Moore, Chiara Civello, Judi Silvano, Dorothy Sloop, Irene Daye, Blanche Calloway, Mary Osborne, Connie Crothers, Jennifer Leitham, Kevyn Lettau, Dorothée Berryman, Ingrid Laubrock, Dorothy Masuka, Norma Teagarden, Katrine Madsen, Kenya Hathaway, Maxine Daniels, Nikki Yeoh, Greetje Kauffeld, Barbara Lahr, June Tyson, Suzanne Davis, Tina May, Connie Evingson, Thandi Klaasen. Excerpt: Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclect...

Thirty-five pages of exercises utilizing minor modes over chord progressions with finger and position notation.

Searching his Harlem neighborhood for his uncle's missing hat, an energetic African American boy unintentionally creates an exuberant gathering of the neighborhood's jazz musicians for a magazine photograph; a fictional story inspired by Art Kane's historic photograph of jazz greats, Harlem 1958.

This 2-CD set is filled with 20 fantastic standards from the Golden Age of American songwriting. Rhythm Section: Steve Allee (p); Tyrone Wheeler (b); Jonathan Higgins (d). Titles: Pennies from Heaven * Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone * Somebody Loves Me * Time on My Hands * Walkin' My Baby Back Home * Sometimes I'm Happy * My Buddy * My Blue Heaven * Jeepers Creepers * Is It True What They Say About Dixie? * Day In Day Out * Ain't She Sweet * Blueberry Hill * How Little We Know * April Showers * Honeysuckle Rose * Ain't Misbehavin' * Begin the Beguine * String of Pearls * Blueberry Hill (Jazz Version).

(Jazz Piano Solos). 23 standards as played by Brubeck in accessible arrangements to make anyone sound like a jazz expert. Includes: Blue Rondo a La Turk * Bossa Nova U.S.A. * The Duke * I Feel Pretty * In Your Own Sweet Way * It's a Raggy Waltz * The Most Beautiful Girl in the World * Pennies from Heaven * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Somewhere * Take Five * Thank You (Dziekuje) * What Is This Thing Called Love? * When You Wish upon a Star * and more.

Bogens forfatter kalder sine toogtyve tekster erindringsessays – andre danske forfattere ville måske have kaldt dem skrøner (Jørn Riel), myter (Johannes V. Jensen), stykker (Hans-Jørgen Nielsen), sengelæsning (Frank Jæger), dameskrå (Klaus Rifbjerg), skilderier og rids (Albert Dam).Der er to længere rejsebreve fra Gdansk i Polen og Agadir i Marokko og et essay om, hvordan forfatteren nægtede at være soldat og militærnægter. Og et interview med Bob Dylan, da han fyldte 50. Et anti-interview? Der er stykker / skrøner / myter / sengelæsning / dameskrå / skilderier / rids om forfatterens syv år som jazzklarinettist og senere syv år som rocksaxofonist.Her er spring, der kilder – og kilder, der springer.

In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that "the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in its nonchalance." In Stomping the Blues Murray explores its history, influences, development, and meaning as only he can. More than two hundred vintage photographs capture the ambiance Murray evokes in lyrical prose. Only the sounds are missing from this lyrical, sensual tribute to the blues.

At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique new period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the civil rights movement, afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology of black economic empowerment. John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others developed a new cosmology of sound that was as revolutionary as the social and political changes that took place in America throughout the decade. From the musical explorations of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, to the collective and community concerns of Chicagos Advancement for Creative Musicians and the black science fiction of Sun Ra, the new jazz musicians created a musical and cultural landscape from which jazz music never looked back. This large-format deluxe hardback book features hundreds of stunning photographs of the new jazz musicians in the USA throughout the 1960s presented with introductory essay and biographies on the many artists included in the book.

A thorough exploration of II/V/I patterns applicable to a variety of musical situations. This book has been referred to as a "theory follows practice" book. Musicians who have played "by ear" will recognize many of the licks and phrases as familiar sounds they have heard and used for years. Licks/patterns are presented in all 12 keys and work perfectly with the Vol. 3 "THE II/V7/I PROGRESSION" play-a-long from the Aebersold series. Time to get familiar and comfortable with II/Vs!

Greetings Readers, It's warming up everywhere and the scent of summer is in the air!The world is changing right before our very eyes. A new normal is upon us .We just hear of the challenges we are facing on a daily basis.We pray for the families of those lost in the senseless mass shootings around the US and the world.Let us be vigilant and careful and watch our for each other in this day and time.Summer is coming and we love to have that beach body but we must not get forget to take care of our mind!National PTSD Awareness Day is celebrated annually on June 27, It aims to raise awareness of post traumatic stress disorder.Narcissistic Abuse can lead to the development of Complex PTSD when living with unprocessed trauma.We help you raise awareness by identifying Signs of Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome & How to Heal From C-PTSD.We hope that Pump It Up Magazine can contribute to that. On the cover we have saxophonist Kenny Nigthingale who has played saxophone since he was 8 years old!He is currently riding high on the smooth jazz charts around the nation and continues to inspire the jazz purist with his sultry and gospel tinged songs. Bassist Mitchell Coleman Jr. and his producer Michael B Sutton has formed a new sound called Funk Therapy.The introductory single is a hip hop urban remix of the group Pleasure gem " Giide". A positive upbeat track on how to glide through each day in the midst of adversity. May God bless you!Remember , the answer to a linear life is to become creative!Anissa Sutton Find out about the hottest new rising stars in entertainment and lifestyle before anyone else.With Pump it up Magazine - Radio Station and Television

Similar to the popular Volume 54 Maiden Voyage, this volume again meets the needs of the up-and-coming jazz player who is ready to make the transition from scales and chords to improvising on real standard chord changes. The selections feature slower tempos and easier changes and each has a great feel that makes improvising easier.

The ultimate guide to playing saxophone, by NY jazz artist Tim Armacost - for anyone from beginners to professionals.Rooted in practical skills and going far beyond theory, The Jazz Saxophone Book will improve your ability to construct beautiful, flowing solo lines.The book includes access to over 30 videos of the author demonstrating ideas in the book and hundreds of examples of solo phrases by the masters of jazz saxophone.For the beginning improviser, we cover:¿ Creative ways to work on sound, time and building a jazz vocabulary¿ Connecting your soloing with your internal singing voice¿ Foundational jazz harmony - what you need to know!For intermediate players, the book offers:¿ In-depth treatment of jazz harmony, with copious examples from the masters of the tradition¿ Ideas for becoming a musical storyteller¿ Skills needed to show up at a jam session and confi dently perform a tuneFor more advanced players, the book discusses:¿ Using advanced harmony to build and release tension¿ Taking jazz vocabulary, harmony and form into the realm of freedom¿ How to practice efficiently to become a well-rounded, continually improving soloist

A revealing look at jazz music's impact from a social, political, historical viewpoint. How it has influenced art, fashion and other musical genres. Lots of questions answered by this well connected author.

"The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"--