Jazz, Blues

The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight is a celebration of jazz and the men and women who created and transformed it. In the twenty-one conversations contained in this engaging and highly …

Who am I? I am time. Time never ceases to stop. It continues to move forward spearheading us into what comes next. The 'time’ is now. It is time to enlarge your thinking into a new world of time. …

Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over …

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, …

Charles Mingus is one of the most important—and most mythologized—composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a …

This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance contemporary jazz style techniques. The book covers scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz line phrases …

The only book that shows how the Blues Scales (Major and Minor) are used to create jazz solos. Designed to help beginners quickly learn how to create meaningful solos without having to first master …

Jazz players tend to be good sharers and good listeners–the qualities are virtually obligatory in often spontaneously conceived ensemble music. And the respect that the best players command can …

Pepper Adams is more than a definitive biography of Park 'Pepper’ Adams (1930–1986). The culmination of thirty-seven years of research, it’s a fascinating account of Adams’s life and times, thanks to …

Playing Solo Jazz Piano is an essential new book for creative jazz pianists. The second edition adds two new chapters and audiovisual content to the original. Readers will learn essential solo jazz p …