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| Author | : David Schroeder |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2017-11-22 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1315282550 |
From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 35 jazz artists, conducted by the author between 2009 and 2012 in New York City, with a historical essay on each artist to provide context. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences, ranging from Gerald Wilson, born in 1918, to Chris Potter, born in 1971. Topics range from biographical life histories to artists’ descriptions of mentor relationships, revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona, the author elicits conversations that speak volumes on the creative process, mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. The interviews present the artists’ candid and direct opinions on music and how they have succeeded in pursuing their unique and creative lives.
| Author | : David Schroeder |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2023-10-13 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1000966046 |
From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II is a follow-up to Volume I’s celebration of contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. Volume II was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 29 jazz artists, conducted by the author since 2011, along with a historical essay on each artist. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences, with their beginnings ranging from the 50s to the early 80s. Topics range from biographical life histories to descriptions of mentor relationships, revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona, the author elicits conversations that speak of the creative process, mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. By comparing and contrasting each artist’s perspective to discover similarities in their career paths. these volumes are an important research tool for students and academics, offering direct information from leading figures in the jazz world.
| Author | : Whitney Balliett |
| Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
A collection of essays originally appearing principally in the New Yorker.
| Author | : Arthur Taylor |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2009-08-05 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0786751118 |
Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society. Free to speak their minds, these musicians offer startling insights into their music, their lives, and the creative process itself. This expanded edition is supplemented with previously unpublished interviews with Dexter Gordon and Thelonious Monk, a new introduction by the author, and new photographs.Notes and Tones consists of twenty-nine no-holds-barred conversations which drummer Arthur Taylor held with the most influential jazz musicians of the ’60s and ’70s—including:
| Author | : Anthony Storr |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2015-05-19 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1501122096 |
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.
| Author | : Larry Kart |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0300128193 |
In this engaging and astute anthology of jazz criticism, Larry Kart casts a wide net. Discussing nearly seventy major jazz figures and many of the music’s key stylistic developments, Kart sees jazz as a unique perpetual narrative—one in which musicians, their audiences, and the evolving music itself are intimately intertwined. Because jazz arose from the collision of specific peoples under particular conditions, says Kart, its development has been unusually immediate, visible, and intense. Kart has reacted to and judged the music in a similarly active, attentive, and personal manner. His involvement and attention to detail are visible in these pieces: essays that analyze the supposed return to tradition that the music of Wynton Marsalis has come to exemplify; searching accounts of the careers of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, and Lennie Tristano; and writing that explores jazz’s relationship to American popular song and examines the jazz musician’s role as actual and would-be social rebel.
| Author | : Stephon Alexander |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2016-04-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0465098509 |
A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics-a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim — The Jazz of Physics reveals that the ancient poetic idea of the "Music of the Spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics. The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.
| Author | : Pannonica de Koenigswarter |
| Publisher | : Abrams Image |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2008-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter befriended many of jazz greats of the thriving New York jazz scene in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In the 1960s, she began a project: She asked 300 jazz musicians what their three wishes in life were. Their responses are collected in this volume, available in English for the first time, and are accompanied by hundreds of candid photographs.--From cover, p. [4].
| Author | : Carole Boston Weatherford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-04-05 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 125082270X |
Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book.
| Author | : Mark Levine |
| Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
| Total Pages | : 725 |
| Release | : 2011-01-12 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1457101459 |
The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.
