Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Genres & Styles - Jazz

"A radiantly accomplished writer . . . Gioia conveys his passion for the music with vivid description and shrewd judgements."-Wall Street Journal

In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to the art of listening to jazz. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds to the exotic compositions of Duke Ellington, Gioia covers everything from the music's history to the...

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 (200bpm) speeds with video demonstrations for medium speed (Downloadable).
• Each Bass line includes an interval analysis of all of its notes and theory explanations of various approaches to chord changes.

This book contains his original handwritten memoirs, translated by Jonathan Walton. He tells firsthand the story of his early life in the derb (Oran's Jewish quarter); his first piano; Rommel's Nazi forces and his experiences...

• 163 exemplos de audio, gravados ao vivo e tocados em duas velocidades
• 20 aulas passo-a-passo
• Va do "nada ao tudo," ou se aprofunde apenas no que gostar mais
• Teoria, licks, macetes e tecnicas
• Um grande foco em execucao, aplicacao e diversao

Jazz is more than music. It encompasses the stories and struggles of those who compose, play, and perform on stages across America and the world. To fully understand the music, you must know the players.

Jazz journalist Charles L. Latimer spent almost two decades exploring and covering Detroit's thriving jazz scene. Over the years, he met and interviewed many of the world's most famous musicians, as well as up-and-coming artists.

Latimer's artist profiles, originally published in the Metro Times, are collected in Behind the Swing.The result is a fascinating and...