Jazz, Blues

Delve into the Mind of a Jazz Legend Are you ready to transcend your musical boundaries? Experience the unparalleled genius of Joe Henderson through the eyes of renowned author and educator Olegario …

Music of Initiative: Julian Joseph on Jazz is for any musician interested in jazz, no matter what your instrument or level of experience. In Music of Initiative Julian Joseph shares his insight into …

Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Re …

Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Balliett, Bob Blumenthal, Stanley Crouch, Linda Dahl, Maxine Gordon, Farah Jasmine Griffin, John Edward Hasse, Will …

Jazz, America’s original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. …

This manual contains complementary information for that included in my previous texts regarding contemporary jazz improvisation techniques. As we all know John Coltrane revolutionized the harmonic co …

Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy addresses a debate that has consumed practitioners and advocates since the music’s early days. Studies on jazz learning typically focus on …

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz.The book is divided into scale exercises, arpeggio exercises, jazz line phrases a …

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 frequ …

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 of …