Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio - East Coast Love Affair

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio - East Coast Love Affair
Author: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609744624

Impressive recordings and mesmerizing live performances have sealed jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's reputation as one of the most innovative players and composers on the current scene. the new Mel Bay publication is a transcription of the highly renowned live recording East Coast Love Affair. This book offers transcriptions of Kurt's solos from all eight tunes from the album. Each solo is analyzed and the information presented to help the player understand what Kurt is doing in each piece. the book is presented in standard notation and tablature. for the advanced guitar player.

Kurt Rosenwinkel Compositions

Kurt Rosenwinkel Compositions
Author: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609746066

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.

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

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.

Jazz Guitar Ensembles Level 2

Jazz Guitar Ensembles Level 2
Author: Multiple Authors
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609744969

These beginning to advanced jazz guitar ensembles are written for four and five guitars by some of the best guitar ensemble arrangers in the business. Arrangers include, Barry Greene, Dave Frackenpohl, Steve Schenkel, Andrian Ingram, and Chris Buzzelli. Not only are these fine performance pieces for ensembles, they are good material for sight-reading. These graded volumes follow Mel Bay's guitar grading system. Each chart in all three levels offers students the opportunity to improvise with rhythm guitar and, in some cases, background figures.Level II increases in difficulty in each category and explores upper regions of the fretboard; perfect material for high school level or beginning college ensembles. Each volume contains five pieces for the price of what one ensemble piece usually costs.

The Jazz Book

The Jazz Book
Author: Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 1151
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1613746040

For fifty years The Jazz Book has been the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume. In this new seventh edition, each chapter has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book’s last publication in 1992, as well as the fruits of current research about earlier periods in the history of jazz. In addition, new chapters have been added on John Zorn, jazz in the 1990s and beyond, samplers, the tuba, the harmonica, non-Western instruments, postmodernist and repertory big bands, how the avant-garde has explored tradition, and many other subjects. With a widespread resurgence of interest in jazz, The Jazz Book will continue well into the 21st century to fill the need for information about an art form widely regarded as America’s greatest contribution to the world’s musical culture.

Good Things Happen Slowly

Good Things Happen Slowly
Author: Fred Hersch
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101904356

Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sideman—a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson—blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that defied the boundaries of bop, sweeping in elements of pop, classical, and folk to create a wholly new music. Good Things Happen Slowly is his memoir. It’s the story of the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player; a deep look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a status both transgressive and groundbreaking; and a profound exploration of how Hersch’s two-month-long coma in 2007 led to his creating some of the finest, most direct, and most emotionally compelling music of his career. Remarkable, and at times lyrical, Good Things Happen Slowly is an evocation of the twilight of Post-Stonewall New York, and a powerfully brave narrative of illness, recovery, music, creativity, and the glorious reward of finally becoming oneself.

The Jazz Guitar Chord Bible Complete

The Jazz Guitar Chord Bible Complete
Author: Warren Nunes
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 192
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457401930

The Jazz Guitar Chord Bible Complete solves one of the greatest problems in jazz...the knowledge and use of chords. It is a complete guide to three- and four-string guitar chords. Every application is covered including passing chords and altered chords, but only the most logical, practical and applicable chord voicings are presented.

Playing Changes

Playing Changes
Author: Nate Chinen
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1101873493

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.

The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington

The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
Author: Edward Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316194132

Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer
Author: Philip Watson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0571361706

The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell. FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill 'A beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living cultural treasures.' JOHN ZORN 'The perfect companion-piece to the music of its subject.' MOJO 'Outlines the subject's life in a series of scrupulous strokes and intimate interviews that are rare in such undertakings . . . a cool, casual victory.' IRISH TIMES Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential musicians at work today. A quietly revolutionary guitar hero for our genre-blurring times, he connects to a diverse range of artists and admirers, including Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Gus Van Sant and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, all of whom feature in this book. A vital addition to any music lover's book collection, Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer tells the legendary guitarist's story for the first time. 'Stuffed with musical encounters, so many that every couple of pages there's an unheard Frisell recording for the reader to chase down.' NEW YORKER ' Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer is the definitive biography.' BILL MILKOWSKI, DOWNBEAT 'Superb . . . the book races along like Sonny Rollins in full sail. Like subject, like writer: this is super-articulate, adventurous prose.' PERSPECTIVE '[Watson's] writing balances unbridled passion and dispassionate research nearly as deftly as Mr. Frisell's playing does sound and silence . . . compelling.' WALL STREET JOURNAL