Jazz, Blues

2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year—Honorable Mention Recipient On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score …

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz. These exercises were made as an extension of my book ‘240 Chromatic Exercises + …

Jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era and reshaped democracy’s image worldwide. Lisa E. Davenport tells the story of America’s program of jazz …

Taking inspiration from a class room assignment and John Coltrane’s interpretation of Mongo Santamaría’s Afro Blue, Earth, Wind, Water, & Fire is a jazz composition for sextet composed by Andrew Hann …

Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz.  Ayler synthesized children’s song …

This practical and enlightening book gives insight into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship—scale/chord theory, composing techniques, analyzing tunes, practice strategies, etc. For any level o …

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 p …

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music–Certificate of Merit (2013) The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big …

A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time. Pepper Adams is more …

George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, …