Total Jazz

Total Jazz
Author: Blutch
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2018-02-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1683960866

Blutch riffs on two quintessentially American art forms in this collection of jazz-themed comics. In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz sub-culture. The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan “types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus ― everything from loose linework to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils ― Blutch captures the excitement of live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but not down.

The Total Jazz Guitarist

The Total Jazz Guitarist
Author: Jody Fisher
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739038482

The Total Jazz Guitarist is an exciting journey through the diverse world of jazz guitar playing. You start with basic lessons on the major scale and end up playing intricately beautiful chord melodies and soloing over tricky jazz chord progressions. This wide-ranging study is for all players from beginning to advanced. The beginning-to-intermediate student will find all the tools needed to become a great guitarist, while the more advanced player will find lots of useful tips and a fresh perspective on jazz guitar. Whether this is your first jazz guitar book or you've been studying for years, this is the one place to get everything you need to make you a great jazz guitarist. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included.

The Total Jazz Bassist

The Total Jazz Bassist
Author: David Overthrow
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739043110

The Total Jazz Bassist is a complete jazz method, giving equal treatment to both electric and double bass. Covering styles like bebop, Latin, funk and fusion, this book provides examples and lessons that will help you become a well-rounded bassist. The Total Jazz Bassist also covers theory, technique, tunes, solos, jazz styles, and includes great advice for practicing and doing business. You'll learn to develop walking bass lines, how to solo, bass lines and solo patterns for blues changes and major and minor "two-five-one" progressions, dominant 7th chord scales, approaches for playing "Rhythm Changes," and much, much more! This is the one place to get everything you need to make you not only a great jazz bassist but an asset to any band. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included.

The total jazz drummer

The total jazz drummer
Author: Sunny Jain
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007
Genre: Drum set
ISBN: 9780739038529

Companion CD contains demonstration tracks keyed to exercises in the book.

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.

Cuba

Cuba
Author: Jeff Peretz
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2007
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739043011

The signature sound of Cuban music is popular throughout the world. At its heart is the clave---the underlying groove that defines the music of Cuba. In Guitar Atlas: Cuba, author Jeff Peretz breaks down this fundamental rhythm and shows that the clave can be played by any guitarist. For those who do not play Cuban music, the concepts in this book improve sense of rhythm and syncopation in any style. In addition to teaching the music itself, this book also explores the background of Cuban music, including African and European cultural influences as well as the impact of the political events of the 20th century. You'll learn about the different styles of music from all over the island and the musicians who popularized them, and explore the unique instruments of Cuba. A CD with demonstrations of all examples and compositions is included.

The Jazz Theory Book

The Jazz Theory 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.

Jazz Matters

Jazz Matters
Author: David Ake
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520947398

What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his engaging, thoughtful, and stimulating perspective to post-1940s jazz. Ake investigates such issues as improvisational analysis, pedagogy, American exceptionalism, and sense of place in jazz. He uses provocative case studies to illustrate how some of the values ascribed to the postwar jazz culture are reflected in and fundamentally shaped by aspects of sound, location, and time.