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DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews

Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 147685503X
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Culled from the DownBeat archives includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat 's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat . This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat 's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words. Features classic photos and magazine covers fron Downbeat 's vast archive.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conducting Music

Author : Michael Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101588756
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conducting Music written by Michael Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex art of conducting may look effortless to the casual onlooker, however, it requires a great deal of knowledge and skill. The success of a performance hinges on the director's ability to keep the group playing together and interpreting the music as the composer intended. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Conducting Music shows student and novice conductors how to lead bands, orchestras, choirs, and other ensembles effectively through sight-reading, rehearsals, and performances.

Upbeat Downbeat

Author : Sandra Willetts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780687431915
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Upbeat Downbeat written by Sandra Willetts and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting is a multifaceted craft that includes ear training, vocal, training, conducting techniques, rehearsal techniques, performance practice, music theory, and music history--not to mention basic leadership and group dynamics. It can also be an art that will consume a lifetime of study and practice. Many people have skills in some of these areas, but it is the rare person who has mastered every facet of this complex craft. The scope of this book is to address only the physical skills, the one area that most people can master relatively quickly, regardless of their skill level in other areas. * Written for new directors or the director wanting more training * Contains illustrations and diagrams to covey key concepts * Written by one of America's most respected choral conducting instructors * Will help music leaders become more comfortable with this difficult area of music leadership * Will give directors a higher level of confidence with their church choir Maket *Church choir directors * Music directors

When Genres Collide

Author : Matt Brennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501326147
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book When Genres Collide written by Matt Brennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock 'n' roll “is the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt.” So why did jazz and rock subsequently become treated as separate genres? The rift between jazz and rock (and jazz and rock scholarship) is based on a set of received assumptions about their fundamental differences, but there are other ways popular music history could have been written. By offering a fresh examination of key historical moments when the trajectories and meanings of jazz and rock intersected, overlapped, or collided, it reveals how music critics constructed an ideological divide between jazz and rock that would be replicated in American musical discourse for decades to follow.

The Miles Davis Reader

Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423430766
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Miles Davis Reader written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews and features from Downbeat Magazine

DownBeat--the Great Jazz Interviews

Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423463849
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book DownBeat--the Great Jazz Interviews written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects interviews from DownBeat's seventy-five year history, including conversations with Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Joe Zawinul.

Cal Tjader

Author : S. Duncan Reid
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476640246
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Cal Tjader written by S. Duncan Reid and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within one of the most complex musical categories yet to surface, Cal Tjader quietly pioneered the genre as a jazz vibraphonist, composer, arranger and bandleader from the 1950s through the 1980s. Reid tells the life story of a humble musician, written in a familiar, conversational tone that reveals Tjader's complex charisma. Tjader left behind a legacy and a labyrinth of influence, attested by his large audience and innovation that would change the course of jazz. Expanded and revised, this intimate biography now includes additional interviews and anecdotes from Tjader's family, bandmates, and community, print research, and rare photographs, presenting a full history of an undervalued musician, as well as a detailed account of the progression of Latin Jazz.

Ode to a Tenor Titan

Author : Bill Milkowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493053787
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Ode to a Tenor Titan written by Bill Milkowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker. For those coming of age in the 1970s, during that transitional decade when the boundaries between rock and jazz had begun to blur, Brecker stood as a transcendent figure. He was their Trane. Ode to a Tenor Titan follows Michael's story from growing up in Philadelphia, finding his tenor sax voice during his brief stint at Indiana University, making his move to New York City in 1969 and taking the Big Apple by storm through the sheer power of his monstrous chops on the instrument. A commanding voice in jazz for four decades, Brecker possessed peerless technique (a byproduct of his remarkable work ethic and relentless woodshedding) and an uncanny ability to fit into every musical situation he encountered, whether it was as a ubiquitous studio musician (more than nine hundred sessions) for such pop stars as Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Todd Rundgren, Chaka Khan, and Steely Dan; playing with seminal fusion bands like Dreams, Billy Cobham, and the Brecker Brothers; or collaborating with the likes of Frank Zappa, Charles Mingus, Pat Metheny, and Herbie Hancock. But his biggest triumphs came as a bandleader during the last twenty years of his career, when he produced some of the most challenging, inspired, and visionary modern jazz recordings of his time. A preternaturally gifted player whose facility seemed almost superhuman, he was also modest to a fault and universally beloved by fellow musicians. After coming through a dark decade of heroin addiction, he turned his life around and became a beacon for countless others to lead clean and sober lives. At the peak of his powers, he was struck down by a rare preleukemic blood disease that sidelined him for two and a half years. He got off a sick bed to make a heroic comeback with his swan song, Pilgrimage, which Pat Metheny called "one of the great codas in modern music history" and which earned him a posthumous Grammy Award in 2007. Michael Brecker was a player of tremendous heart and conviction as well a person of rare humility and kindness, and his story is one for the ages.

Louis Armstrong, an American Genius

Author : James Lincoln Collier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195037278
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Louis Armstrong, an American Genius written by James Lincoln Collier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Books for Senior High Readers A thoroughly researched biography of this jazz great who was also a popular entertainer.

Climbing the Ladder on Trochaic Feet Steps 1&2

Author : Kenneth A O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : O'Shaughnessy Publications
ISBN 13 : 0615954693
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Climbing the Ladder on Trochaic Feet Steps 1&2 written by Kenneth A O'Shaughnessy and published by O'Shaughnessy Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic reflections on The Ladder of Divine Ascent

Living with Jazz

Author : Dan Morgenstern
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307487601
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Living with Jazz written by Dan Morgenstern and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music.

Learning the Guitar--For Children and Their Parents

Author : Dr.PeterZisa
Publisher : Total Health Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning the Guitar--For Children and Their Parents written by Dr.PeterZisa and published by Total Health Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to learn to play, or you have children you would like to teach to play, this book is the answer to your search. Written by a concert guitarist who has taught university and private classes for many years. Recognized as a master teacher of music--and of the teaching of the joys and techniques of making the music through the guitar. Scientific research indicates playing the guitar benefits a child’s emotional and cognitive development. It confirms that playing an instrument helps verbal memory, second-language pronunciation, the ability to read and write, as well as their cognitive thinking skills. Children with music training enjoy better academic performance. Some of the research suggests playing an instrument impacts intelligence including better scores on IQ tests. Of course, it depends on the intensity and duration of the practice time. Other benefits of music training, supported by scientific research, are the development of memory skills, greater ability to concentrate, improved motor skills, as well as improved calculating and pattern-recognition skills. Additionally, playing the guitar helps children develop goal-oriented self-help behavioral skills; such as breaking down large intimidating tasks into small achievable goals. Developing a step by step approach to problem solving leads to success; which, in turn, helps children acquire an appetite for self-discipline, which in turn results in achievement.

Down Beat

Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down Beat written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the world's premier jazz magazine Down Beat, this book serves as a decade-by-decade history of jazz, blues, and other popular music from the 1930s to today. Jazz scholar John McDonough with Down Beat editors past and present offers anecdotes and introductions to each era. With more than 200 photos and plenty of archival treasures, this is a must-have book for jazz fans.

Charlie Parker

Author : Carl Woideck
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472037897
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Parker written by Carl Woideck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saxophonist Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of any era. As one of the architects of modern jazz (often called "bebop"), Charlie Parker has had a profound effect on American music. His music reached such a high level of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic sophistication that saxophonists and other instrumentalists continue to study it as both a technical challenge and an aesthetic inspiration. This revised edition of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life has been revised throughout to account for new Charlie Parker scholarship and previously unknown Parker recordings that have emerged since the book’s initial publication. The volume opens by considering current research on Parker’s biography, laying out some of the contradictory accounts of his life, and setting the chronology straight where possible. It then focuses on Parker’s music, tracing his artistic evolution and major achievements as a jazz improviser. The musical discussions and transcribed musical examples include timecodes for easy location in recordings—a unique feature to this book.

Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders

Author : Alec M. Ansons
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118712382
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders written by Alec M. Ansons and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, clinically-grounded textbook, now in its fourth edition, supports orthoptists and ophthalmologists in decision-making through the patient care process, from presentation to discharge. Written by authors with extensive experience in teaching and research, Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders offers a clear and practical overview of assessment and management principles and further explores the clinical features of specific disorders, from amblyopia and infantile strabismus to supranuclear and infranuclear disorders, as well as other miscellaneous disorders of ocular movement. A brand new chapter on congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders reflects recent advances in gene mapping and increased understanding of this condition, and a new appendix provides surgical dose tables for easy reference. Now in full colour throughout, with additional diagrams and photographs of surgical techniques, this remains the key reference text for orthoptic and ophthalmic professionals managing patients with eye movement disorders.

Dave Brubeck's Time Out

Author : Stephen A. Crist
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019021774X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Dave Brubeck's Time Out written by Stephen A. Crist and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Brubeck's Time Out ranks among the most popular, successful, and influential jazz albums of all time. Released by Columbia in 1959, alongside such other landmark albums as Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Time Out became one of the first jazz albums to be certified platinum, while its featured track, "Take Five," became the best-selling jazz single of the twentieth century, surpassing one million copies. In addition to its commercial successes, the album is widely recognized as a pioneering endeavor into the use of odd meters in jazz. With its opening track "Blue Rondo à la Turk" written in 9/8, its hit single "Take Five" in 5/4, and equally innovative uses of the more common 3/4 and 4/4 meters on other tracks, Time Out has played an important role in the development of modern jazz. In this book, author Stephen A. Crist draws on nearly fifteen years of archival research to offer the most thorough examination to date of this seminal jazz album. Supplementing his research with interviews with key individuals, including Brubeck's widow Iola and daughter Catherine, as well as interviews conducted with Brubeck himself prior to his passing in 2012, Crist paints a complete picture of the album's origins, creation, and legacy. Couching careful analysis of each of the album's seven tracks within historical and cultural contexts, he offers fascinating insights into the composition and development of some of the album's best-known tunes. From Brubeck's 1958 State Department-sponsored tour, during which he first encountered the Turkish aksak rhythms that would form the basis of "Blue Rondo à la Turk," to the backstage jam session that planted the seeds for "Take Five," Crist sheds an exciting new light on one of the most significant albums in jazz history.

Miles Davis

Author : Ian Carr
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786747013
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Miles Davis written by Ian Carr and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustively researched, revised edition of Ian Carr's classic biography throws new light on Davis' life and career: from the early days in New York with Charlie Parker; to the Birth of Cool; through his drug addiction in the early 1950s and the years of extraordinary achievements (1954-1960), during which he signed with Columbia and collaborated with such unequaled talents as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and Cannonball Adderly. Carr also explores Davis' dark, reclusive period (1975-1980), offering firsthand accounts of his descent into addiction, as well as his dramatic return to life and music. Carr has talked with the people who knew Miles and his music best including Bill Evans, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, and Jack DeJohnette, and has conducted interviews with Ron Carter, Max Roach, John Scofield and others.