2,382円 An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topicsーeverything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racismーfrom the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and “jazz’s greatest living improviser” (The New York Times...

3,575円 In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. Blending lyrical nonfiction with transdisciplinary critique and moving beyond standard Black/white binary narratives of jazz history, Leal focuses ...

1,972円 The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a piano or guitar. Using original scores and detailed transcriptions of Mulligan's work, The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets offers ...

10,955円 Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic examines the work of select composers, improvisers, and interpreters from England, Scotland, and Wales during the upheaval of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic and places them in contemporary and historical contexts. Using ex...

845円 Composed by Andrew Hanna, composer of In Walked Dolphy, Profit-C, The Yard Cat Song, and many other compositions. Reaches into the archives to publish Solitary Dancer. Composed for alto saxophone, guitar, bass, and drum set. Inspired by a solo dance routine, combines tempo changes, bass ostinatos...

9,616円 Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in ...

4,137円 This book covers new concepts regarding post-bop and contemporary jazz improvisation in a practical way. It is aimed at intermediate to advanced students. It provides new tools for performance in contemporary jazz improvisation. It covers all of my previously published books and adds brand new ex...

777円 **The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year “A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” ーLos Angeles Times From the author of the definitive biography of ...

1,657円 If you want to learn the history of the saxophone, choose the right saxophone, and how to get started playing, then check out HowExpert Guide to Playing the Saxophone.If you want to learn how to practice, play, and perform the saxophone for beginners, intermediates, and advanced saxophonists, the...

2,988円 *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself in a definitive biography. “What you are about to read is not a standard account of the...

827円 "BIOGRAPHY ASTRUD GILBERTO: Astrud Gilberto's Inspiring Life and Enduring Legacy" is an enthralling biography that transports readers to the enchanting world of one of the genre's most legendary singers. This gripping story follows Astrud Gilberto from her birth and childhood in Salvador, Bahia, ...

2,519円 **'**Essential reading: the making of history as it was happening. Vivien was there' JARVIS COCKER Vivien Goldman was the first, most passionate and indubitably the most elegant chronicler of reggae, funk, free jazz and Afrobeat music: a pioneering female writer who shaped the Golden Age of music...