Australian jazz real book

Australian jazz real book
Author: Tim Nikolsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2013
Genre: Jazz
ISBN: 9780648431503

The Australian Jazz Real Book is dedicated to the preservation and distribution of Australian Jazz in both digital and print.Edited by Tim Nikolsky.Music / Genres & Styles / JazzJazzJazz / Fake BooksJazz / Australia / Fake BooksPopular music / Australia / Fake BooksInstrumental MusicMusic / Genres & Styles / Jazz781.650994ISMN 979-0-9009613-0-3

Austral Jazz

Austral Jazz
Author: Andrew Robson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0429850212

Austral Jazz: The Localization of a Global Music Form in Sydney proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding local jazz communities as they develop outside the United States, demonstrating such processes in action by applying the framework to a significant period of the history of jazz in Sydney, Australia after 1973. This volume introduces the notion of ‘Austral Jazz,’ coined in order to reset the focus on supranational conceptions of jazz expressions in the southwestern Pacific. It makes the case for Austral Jazz chronologically across six chapters that discuss, interpret and critique major events and seminal recordings, tracing the development of the Austral shift from a pre-Austral period prior to 1973. Austral Jazz presents a fresh approach to understanding the development of jazz communities, and while its focus is on the Sydney scene after 1973, the ‘Austral’ theory can be applied to creative communities globally. A creative shift took place in Sydney in the early 1970s, which led to the flourishing of a new kind of jazz-based expression, one that reflected Australia’s increasingly globalized and multicultural outlook. This study is timely, and it builds on the work of local jazz researchers. Historiographical understandings of global developments in jazz can be understood within a framework of four overarching narratives: The ‘birth and belonging’ narrative; the ‘spread and adaptation’ narrative; the ‘pluralization by localization’ narrative; and the ‘self-fashioning of the already local’ narrative.

The Song Remains the Same

The Song Remains the Same
Author: Andrew Ford
Publisher: La Trobe University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1743821069

An illuminating history of the song for every kind of music lover Often today, the word ‘song’ is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony: apparently, they’re all songs. But they’re not. From Sia to Springsteen, Archie Roach to Amy Winehouse, a song is a specific musical form. It’s not so much that they all have verses and choruses – though most of them do – but that they are all relatively short and self-contained; they have beginnings, middles and ends; they often have a single point of view, message or story; and, crucially, they unite words and music. Thus, a Schubert song has more in common with a track by Joni Mitchell or Rihanna than with one of Schubert’s own symphonies. The Song Remains the Same traces these connections through seventy-five songs from different cultures and times: love songs, anthems, protest songs, lullabies, folk songs, jazz standards, lieder and pop hits; ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ to ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Jerusalem’ to ‘Jolene’. Unpicking their inner workings makes familiar songs strange again, explaining and restoring the wonder, joy (or possibly loathing) the reader experienced on first hearing. ‘As much about singing, musicianship and recording as it is about songwriting, this eclectic ride through a unique choice of songs (everyone will argue for alternatives) is cleverly curated and littered with intriguing details about the creators and their times, filled with loving cross-references to other songs and deft musical analysis. I defy anyone not to leap online to listen to the unfamiliar, or re-listen to old favourites in light of new detail. One of the best games in this book is figuring out why one song follows the other: there’s always an intelligent, often very funny, link.’ —Robyn Archer

The AB Real Book

The AB Real Book
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2003
Genre: Jazz
ISBN: 9781860963162

An impressive range of jazz styles, from New Orleans to contemporary. All tunes suitable for less experienced players, with pitch range, chords and technical level carefully considered. Tunes in their most commonly played keys, with reliable melodies and chord changes. Comes in B flat, E flat, C Treble-clef and C Bass-clef editions.

The New Real Book

The New Real Book
Author: Chuck Sher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781883217259

The new standard in jazz fake books since 1988. Endorsed by McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Dave Liebman, and many more. Evenly divided between standards, jazz classics and pop-fusion hits, this is the all-purpose book for jazz gigs, weddings, jam sessions, etc. Like all Sher Music fake books, it features composer-approved transcriptions, easy-to-read calligraphy, and many extras (sample bass lines, chord voicings, drum appendix, etc.) not found in conventional fake books.

Harlem Nights

Harlem Nights
Author: Dierdre O'Connell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780369395429

The 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful rebellion collided with the promise of racial perfectibility, stirring deep anxieties in white nationalists and moral reformers. African-American jazz represented the type of modernism that cosmopolitan Australians craved-and the champions of White Australia feared. Enter Sonny Clay's Colored Idea. Snuck in under the wire by an astute promoter, the Harlem-style revue broke from the usual blackface minstrel fare, delivering sophisticated, liberating rhythms. The story of their Australian tour is a tale of conspiracy-a secret plan to kick out and keep out 'undesirable' expressions of modernism, music and race. From the wild jazz clubs of Prohibition-era LA to Indigenous women discovering a new world of black resistance, this anatomy of a scandal-fuelled frame-up brings into focus a vibrant cast of characters from Australia's Jazz Age.

Seeing the Rafters

Seeing the Rafters
Author: John Sangster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1988
Genre: Jazz musicians
ISBN: 9780140109283

Funky Boogaloo Hard Bop Real Book

Funky Boogaloo Hard Bop Real Book
Author: Tim Nikolsky
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648431510

The Funky Boogaloo Hard Bop Real Book (FBHBRB) is a collection of 10 classic tunes presented in leadsheet format to enable horn players and rhythm sections play in small format combo bands.There's Concert, Bb, Eb and Bass clef charts; so nobody misses out.There's also supplementary material available with some sample piano voicings, guitar chord shapes, further explanations about grooves and rhythmic patterns, as well as some groovy basslines.

Ella Fitzgerald in Australia

Ella Fitzgerald in Australia
Author: Ian D. Clark
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781500100407

Jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia four times in her long career that spanned six decades. This work presents a history of Ella Fitzgerald's Australian tours, and analyses how her concert appearances were received and reviewed in Australian and international media. She first toured in July 1954 as part of Lee Gordon's inaugural 'The Big Show'.Her second tour in December 1960 included Verve stable mate Mel Tormé, who was her supporting act. This tour was arranged by Melbourne night club owner Jim Noall and extended to the capital cities of the eastern seaboard and Adelaide. After completing her Australian commitments in early December 1960, Fitzgerald flew to New Zealand for her first tour there – this leg of the tour was promoted by Harry M. Miller. Her next visit came in November 1970, according to an article in The TV Times, but very little has been discovered about this tour. Her final visit to Australia came in November - December 1978 when she performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide, and in Perth for the first and only time in her career. In 1978 all the epithets used in the Australian print media to refer to Ella acclaimed her musicianship – gone was the earlier fixation on her colour and weight. Now she was 'Jazz Queen', 'Ella the great', 'First lady of song', 'world's greatest popular/jazz singer', 'grand lady of jazz', 'majestic', and 'singing legend'. Ella Fitzgerald's 1978 Australian tour was a no-holds-barred celebration of her music and of her life. Australian audiences adulated Ella Fitzgerald. In the major biographies of Ella Fitzgerald, Australia does not feature prominently – in fact it barely rates a mention. The 1954 tour was overshadowed by the racist event that occurred in Honolulu, Hawaii, en route to Australia from California that saw her 'bumped' from her first class airline seat. The 1960 Australian tour received scant attention in Fitzgerald biographies, and only one mentioned it in the context of her appearance at the inaugural gala for president-elect John F. Kennedy. The 1970 and 1978 visits do not receive any mention in leading biographies. The work contains rare photographs, many of which have never been published before.

Calm Hands

Calm Hands
Author: Stephen Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646828787

Steve Russell has worked for thirty years to provide pianists and keyboardists with a pathway to virtuosity free from pain and injury. His endeavours are now brought together in Calm Hands. Whether a beginner, an advanced player seeking technical improvement, or one suffering from repetitive strain injury, Calm Hands can help you develop a safe and efficient technique.In Part I, Steve explores the physiology of the arms and hands to explain how they function most efficiently and powerfully at the piano keyboard. A set of simple exercises is provided to convert this understanding into elegant and effortless playing habits. These habits are vital to accurate rhythm and agility of dynamics and articulation, but more importantly they can protect pianists from repetitive strain and carpal tunnel injuries.Part II is a comprehensive series of exercises designed to help improvising keyboardists habituate efficient fingering strategies. As you discover the ease with which your hands can negotiate apparently complex combinations of black and white keys, you will begin to absorb the underlying principles of efficient fingering that enable smooth and powerful legato execution without strain.