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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, …

Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—’I’m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer’—has lived through much of jazz’s history and has known many of …

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 …

Rhythm in the Rain is a nonfiction narrative about the jazz community in the Pacific Northwest that examines the people, places, and events that have made cities like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, …

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 …

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian Mc Partland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography From Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33-year run o …