1,807円 La cronistoria, attraverso i protagonisti e loro dischi più famosi e celebrati, di una realtà musicale straordinaria, che da sempre viaggia in parallelo al sound afroamericano. Il jazz europeo insomma propone, di volta in volta, ormai lungo un secolo di storia, una inedita cultura delle sette not...

1,657円 Oltre 200 musicisti con la segnalazione di un migliaio di incisioni su vinile rendono questo volume una vera e propria enciclopedia del jazz, dedicata non solo ai collezionisti di vecchia data, ma anche ai giovani che intendono avvicinarsi al mondo della musica afro-americana.

4,932円 When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the "Great American Songbook" or from recordings...

10,280円 This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years. Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of thei...

5,469円 Surveying the impact of Cuba's economic crisis after the demise of the eastern socialist block, this book documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians that migrated to many different countries from the 1990s forward. The book’s main argument is t...

9,948円 This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom. The chapters address the phenomenon of improvisation in two...

11,772円 A step-by-step resource on forging one’s own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader’s genre of choice. Many musicians struggle with improvisation. Coincidentally, educators also find it challenging to in...

4,934円 Frank Mathias was a teenager in a small town when the draft swept him into the army and then halfway around the world to the jungles of the South Pacific. He served in the huge invasion force in the Battle of Manila, the deadliest single battle of the Pacific War. As an army musician attached to ...

1,592円 The life and times of American singer Billie Holiday.

1,592円 The biography, life and times of American jazz trumpeter Bunk Johnson.

1,592円 The biography, life and times of American jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

1,592円 The life and times of Gene Krupa Traces the life and career of the late drummer and assesses his influence on modern jazz. In depth account of Gene's life and the times surrounding that period. Includes selected discography and plenty of photographs.