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Starting where he left off with his ‘Serious Jazz Practice Book, ‘ guitar legend Barry Finnerty has created another woodshed classic for all jazz soloists. Recording artist with Miles Davis, the Brec …

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 …

Randy Vincent’s second Sher Music Co. book covers every aspect of the crucial three-note voicings every guitarist needs to know. It has received glowing endorsements from Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Mike …

In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside–generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we’d have little on record of some o …

Charles Mingus is among jazz’s greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player. He was blunt and outspoken about the place of jazz in music history and American culture, about which perf …

This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance Intervalic Improvisation. The book covers scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz line phrases from transc …

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story …

Greetings Readers,   It’s warming up everywhere and the scent of summer is in the air! The world is changing right before our very eyes. A new normal is upon us . We just hear of the challe …

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature. Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of sm …

Fourteen interviews with distinguished jazz writers that explore the exciting challenges of writing about jazz. Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Bal …