Blues, jazz

(Fake Book). The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The …

Jazzmusiikin harmonia käsittelee jazz- ja populaarimusiikin keskeisiä harmoniailmiöitä. Kirja sopii sekä keski- ja ylemmän asteen oppilaitosten että itseopiskelijan …

Omaleimainen sukupolvien kestosuosikki M.A. Numminen kertoo kokemuksistaan nuorena jazzharrastajana ja –valokuvaajana – ja omasta suhteestaan jazziin ja jatsiin. Somerolla Unto …

(Real Book Play-Along). The Real Book you know and love has now been updated to include backing tracks for 240 songs on one convenient USB flash drive stick The play-along CDs …

The warmly welcomed memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on …

A great selection of 150 of the best jazz standards ever. All songs are specially arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar.Songs include Ain't Misbehavin', Don't Get Around Much …

In Learning to Listen, Gary Burton shares his fifty years of experiences at the top of the jazz scene. A seven-time Grammy award winner, Burton made his first recordings at age 17, …

Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the coolest and best- known label in jazz, this book celebrates over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has …

A year-by-year history of people and events, The Chronicle of Jazz tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities. Each chronologically arranged section contains special …

Steve Lacy: Conversations is a collection of thirty-four interviews with the innovative saxophonist and jazz composer. Lacy (1934-2004), a pioneer in making the soprano saxophone a …

Hampton Hawes [1928--1977] was one of jazz's greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his …

Written by one of today's great jazz educators, this is a system for building great-sounding jazz lines. The relationship of the individual lines to chords and progressions is …

Noted jazz scholar, biographer, and critic Stuart Nicholson has written an entertaining and enlightening consideration of the music's global past, present, and future. Jazz's …

(The Real Book Play-Along). These three CDs contain rhythm section backing tracks for all 60 songs in the popular Charlie Parker Omnibook lead sheet books.

Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short …

John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Recording for the Bluebird Records and RCA …

Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the Mississippi Delta, and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide.