Ben Monder Compositions, Volume II

Ben Monder Compositions, Volume II
Author: Ben Monder
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2016-01-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619115638
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This book serves as a follow-up to Ben Monder Compositions, with an emphasis on the compositions found on the 2013 recording, Hydra, as well as some older pieces that didn't make it into the first book. They are scored for solo guitar, guitar trio, guitar and voice duo, and quartet with one or multiple voices. The majority of the works are through-composed and reflect the exploration of various harmonic, technical, and textural elements of the guitar. These pieces will present an array of challenges to the performer, including unusual techniques and alternate tunings

Ben Monder Compositions

Ben Monder Compositions
Author: Ben Monder
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 160974683X
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This book of twenty compositions spans an approximately 20-year period of writing. They can all be found on one or another of Ben's four solo releases: Flux, Dust, Excavation, and Oceana. It reflects a broad sample of work involving the exploration of various harmonic, technical, and textural elements of the guitar. There are 6 solo pieces, as well as pieces for trio and quartet, with voice being the 4th instrument. the pieces were chosen for the particular technical challenges they present to the performer. Some unusual fingering techniques are employed, as well as alternate tunings. Standard notation only.

Guitar Talk

Guitar Talk
Author: Joel Harrison
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1949597148
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Secrets of master guitarists, revealed in conversation. Guitar Talk offers interviews with many of the most creative guitarists of our time. This new book presents these conversations, between Joel Harrison and Nels Cline, Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gregory Jackson, Ben Monder, Anthony Pirog, Henry Kaiser, Mike and Leni Stern, Vernon Reid, Mary Halvorson, Nguyên Le, Rez Abbasi, Ava Mendoza, Liberty Ellman, Brandon Ross, Wayne Krantz, Dave Fiuczynski, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Miles Okazaki, Sheryl Bailey, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ralph Towner—twenty-seven great guitarists in all. An enormous range of approaches and sounds exist in the modern guitar. The instrument can howl, scrape, scratch, scream, sing, pluck, and soothe. What stands out in this book is not so much the instrument itself, rather the wonderful and idiosyncratic personalities of these bold souls, their sometimes wild, often zigzagging, and ultimately profound journeys toward beauty, meaning, and excellence in their work. We find out that jazz icon Bill Frisell won a high school band contest playing R&B tunes, beating out future members of Earth Wind and Fire. We learn which of Nels Cline's compositions he wishes to have played at his funeral. Michael Gregory Jackson recounts painful episodes of racism as he stretched between the chasm of avant jazz, rock, and blues in the 1980s. Many more revelations, amusements, and philosophies abound.

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Star of Jupiter

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Star of Jupiter
Author: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619119625
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This book includes Denin Koch’s transcriptions of solo improvisations from Kurt Rosenwinkel’s 2012 album, Star of Jupiter. Koch provides insight into Rosenwinkel’s techniques and concepts, giving the player perspective on the artist’s signature improvisational approach. Each solo is presented in standard notation and guitar tablature with chord symbols matching Rosenwinkel’s original lead sheets and a one-page discussion of the solo’s notable features and techniques. The tablature represents the most logical fingering for each phrase based on articulation, tone, and what comes before and after it.

Global Popular Music

Global Popular Music
Author: Clarence Bernard Henry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 985
Release: 2024-11-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1040151922
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Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set. Featuring a broad range of subjects, people, cultures, and geographic areas, and spanning musical genres such as traditional, folk, jazz, rock, reggae, samba, rai, punk, hip-hop, and many more, this guide highlights different approaches and discussions within global popular music research. This research guide is comprehensive in scope, providing a vital resource for scholars and students approaching the vast amount of publications on popular music studies and popular music traditions around the world. Thorough cross-referencing and robust indexes of genres, places, names, and subjects make the guide easy to use. Volume 2, Transnational Discourses of Global Popular Music Studies, covers the geographical areas of North America: United States and Canada; Central America, Caribbean, and South America/Latin America; Europe; Africa and Middle East; Asia; and areas of Oceania: Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, and Pacific Islands. It provides over twenty-four hundred annotated bibliographic entries covering discourses of extensive research that extend beyond the borders of the United States and includes annotated entries to books, book series, book chapters, edited volumes, special documentaries and programming, scholarly journal essays, and other resources that focus on the creative and artistic flows of global popular music.

Twelve-Tone Improvisation

Twelve-Tone Improvisation
Author: John O'Gallagher
Publisher: advance music
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-04-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3954811006
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A novel approach to jazz improvisation with 12 tones by the saxophonist John O ́Gallagher. The author is an active member of the New York avant-garde scene and a popular workshop lecturer. His new method combines jazz harmonies and twelve-note melodies into an exciting new tonal language. The edition is completed by numerous exercises for all instruments.

The New Face of Jazz

The New Face of Jazz
Author: Cicily Janus
Publisher: Billboard Books
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-07-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 082302721X
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Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of today's jazz scene. This book celebrates the living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as they continue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this great musical legacy. In their own words, artists such as McCoy Tyner, Arturo Sandoval, Diane Schuur, Terence Blanchard, Charlie Hunter, Nicholas Payton, George Benson, Maria Schneider, Christian McBride, Randy Brecker, Jean-Luc Ponty, Joe Lovano, Lee Ritenour, and more than 100 others share intimately about their beginnings, musical training, inspiration, and hard-earned lessons, creating a fascinating mosaic of the current jazz community. Photographer Ned Radinsky contributes 40 amazing black-and-white portraits of these musicians doing what they do best—playing. An appendix offers resources for jazz education; an exclusive reading list; and the lowdown on those organizations and societies doing their part to promote jazz as a living, breathing art form. With an introductory word from Wynton Marsalis, a foreword by Marcus Miller, and an afterword by Sonny Rollins, The New Face of Jazz is an unprecedented window onto today's world of jazz, for everyone from the devotee to the new listener.

Lionel Loueke Original Compositions

Lionel Loueke Original Compositions
Author: Lionel Loueke
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619113546
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Lionel Loueke's signature is one of limitless rhythmic invention. He has established a unique identity born of the synthesis between West African and Brazilian musicwithin the modern jazz idiom. In his compositions, these influences fuse together, creating evocative African textures spliced with a guitar sound that channels the phrasing of a kora. When combined with his voice, Loueke's unique sound transports the listener even further. This book contains 21 original compositions and 5 solo transcriptions which give the reader insight into the compositional language of guitarist-vocalist Lionel Loueke

Kurt Rosenwinkel Compositions

Kurt Rosenwinkel Compositions
Author: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609746066
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Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has been pushing the jazz envelope for more than a decade and is recognized as one of today's premier soloists and composers. This book showcases solo transcriptions of Kurt's critically acclaimed album Deep Song as well as lead sheets for many of Kurt's personal favorite tunes presented in standard notation and tablature. the book is personalized with photos of Kurt's tours and recording sessions and is a valuable collection of modern jazz guitar.

Jazz in China

Jazz in China
Author: Eugene Marlow
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-07-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1496818008
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Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism "Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces China's introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its rejuvenation in the early 1980s with the start of China's opening to the world under Premier Deng Xiaoping. Covering a span of almost one hundred years, Marlow focuses on a variety of subjects--the musicians who initiated jazz performances in China, the means by which jazz was incorporated into Chinese culture, and the musicians and venues that now present jazz performances. Featuring unique, face-to-face interviews with leading indigenous jazz musicians in Beijing and Shanghai, plus interviews with club owners, promoters, expatriates, and even diplomats, Marlow marks the evolution of jazz in China as it parallels China's social, economic, and political evolution through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Also featured is an interview with one of the extant members of the Jimmy King Big Band of the 1940s, one of the first major all-Chinese jazz big bands in Shanghai. Ultimately, Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression is a cultural history that reveals the inexorable evolution of a democratic form of music in a Communist state.