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First time in paperback: A "strong, compelling, and compassionate book" (Boston Globe) about the acclaimed and ill-fated cellist who died at the age of forty-two.

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Built on interviews with the most recognizable names in the jam band scene, a narrative that moves through time, paralleling the development of the jam band community.

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Eight-time Oscar nominee, James Newton Howard is one of Hollywood's most sought-after composers. Though The Sixth Sense is the most famous collaboration of Howard and director M. Night Shyamalan, the film score for Signs is held in much higher esteem. This book provides backg...

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Brings together several Leos Janacek scholars to look closely at a range of issues surrounding his life and work. This book features essays accompanied by translated writings by the composer himself. It includes essays on Naturalism, opera direction, and Tristan and Isolde and four impressionistic chronicles of the 'speech melodies' of daily life.

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This book reinterprets the Fluxus movement focusing on the important and charming contribution of Japanese musicians and artists. It argues they were at the roots of Fluxus in their radical and refined way of making artwhether it was playing, performing, writing, or simply living.

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This book reinterprets the Fluxus movement focusing on the important and charming contribution of Japanese musicians and artists. It argues they were at the roots of Fluxus in their radical and refined way of making artwhether it was playing, performing, writing, or simply living.

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Provides an explanation of the basic elements of jazz, traverses the genre's history to see how it evolved, and profiles its key figures, theories, controversies, and role in American culture.

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A spirited collection of profiles, reporting, and commentary spanning the cultural scene by one of the finest essayists writing today

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Jazz Baroque: Vivaldi/Bach is a volume of tasteful and exciting jazz-tinged piano solo arrangements of Baroque music, written at mostly the intermediate, upper intermediate and early advanced levels

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Bushell vividly recounts his musical experiences, featuring candid assessments of the legends with whom he performed as well as eye-opening accounts of the early days of jazz and the racism that he encountered on the road.

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Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form The author, himself a jazz composer, performer and author of several books on jazz and Latin music, sets out to encourage jazz lovers to take a rhetoric-free look at the charged issue of race as it has affected the world of jazz.

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Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles caught the interest of their musical generation--masters such as Louis Arm

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An overview of contemporary jazz networks in Europe, with a focus on challenges faced by European jazz musicians and strategies to overcome them.

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"The jazz decade saw the emergence of many of the great figures who defined the music for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher He"

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"This is the only jazz history written by a musician that is not strictly autobiographical. Rex Stewart, who played trumpet and cornet with Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, knew personally all th"

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"The fifties, though a quiescent period in many ways, was one of the most fervent decades in jazz history. The landmarks of modern jazz were firmly planted and, it could be argued, nearly all direction"

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The film noir of the 1940s are as different from the film noir of the 1950s as the jazz of the 1940s is from the jazz of the 1950s, and Jazz Noir provides a unique and valuable study of a rich aesthetic synergy.

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Jazz is a vibrant and a living art, and this volume serves to remind us of that fact through interviews with Art Tatum, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck, along with almost 20 other jazz greats.

Meet the greatest musicians in the history of jazz.

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Features interviews with 14 jazz players, including Art Farmer, Cecil Taylor, Clark Terry, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Thelonius Monk, Big Joe Turner and Archie Shepp. It provides portraits of the often troubled lives of the musicians who changed the shape of jazz in the 50s and 60s.

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Jazz artists, as defined by Carner, are those who have made their mark as jazz performers and who have led the jazz life, playing the clubs and joints, not the legitimate concert stage, Broadway, Las Vegas, or the like.

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Tish Oney presents a cutting-edge guide for those teaching and singing jazz, combining jazz voice stylization techniques and various improvisational approaches with classic voice pedagogy. Legendary jazz singers approaches and techniques are described to illustrate the various approaches available to jazz singers.