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Volume 12: Duke Ellington (with Free Audio CD), 12 (Sheet music): Duke Ellington Volume 12: Duke Ellington (with Free Audio CD), 12 (Sheet music)
Duke Ellington
R454 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sinatra and Me - The Very Good Years (Paperback): Franz Douskey, Tony Consiglio Sinatra and Me - The Very Good Years (Paperback)
Franz Douskey, Tony Consiglio
R406 R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Save R72 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends. Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over sixty years. One reason Sinatra valued Tony's friendship is that he could be trusted: Sinatra nicknamed him "the Clam" because Tony never spoke to reporters or biographers about the singer. From the early days when Sinatra was trying to establish himself as a singer to the mid-1960s, Tony worked with Sinatra and was there to share in the highs and lows of Sinatra's life and career. Tony was with Sinatra during his "bobby-soxer" megastar days in the 1940s, and he remained loyal to Sinatra during the lean years of the early 1950s, when "the Voice" was struggling with a crumbling singing and acting career-as well as his tumultuous marriage to Ava Gardner. Tony also had a front row seat to Sinatra's comeback in the 1950s, starting with his Academy Award-winning role in From Here to Eternity and a string of now-classic hit recordings. Tony's friendship with Sinatra allowed him to rub elbows with the Hollywood elite, including Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Kim Novak, Ava Gardner, and many others. It also brought him close to the political world of the early 1960s, when Sinatra campaigned for John F. Kennedy and then helped plan the Kennedy inauguration. Tony was even at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts, when the election results came in. Sinatra and Me will shed new light on the real Frank Sinatra-from the man who knew him better than anyone.

Chord Construction and Harmonic Mastery for Acing The Real Book (Paperback): Eddie Landsberg Chord Construction and Harmonic Mastery for Acing The Real Book (Paperback)
Eddie Landsberg
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Can't Be Faded - Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game (Paperback): Stooges Brass Band, Kyle DeCoste Can't Be Faded - Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game (Paperback)
Stooges Brass Band, Kyle DeCoste
R665 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Stooges Brass Band always had big dreams. From playing in the streets of New Orleans in the mid-1990s to playing stages the world over, they have held fast to their goal of raising brass band music and musicians to new heights - professionally and musically. In the intervening years, the band's members have become family, courted controversy, and trained a new generation of musicians, becoming one of the city's top brass bands along the way. Two decades after their founding, they have decided to tell their story. Can't Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game is a collaboration between musician and ethnomusicologist Kyle DeCoste and more than a dozen members of the Stooges Brass Band, past and present. It is the culmination of five years of interviews, research, and writing. Told with humor and candor, it's as much a personal account of the Stooges' careers as it is a story of the city's musicians and, even more generally, a coming-of-age tale about black men in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. DeCoste and the band members take readers into the barrooms, practice rooms, studios, tour vans, and streets where the music is made and brotherhoods are shaped and strengthened. Comprised of lively firsthand accounts and honest dialogue, Can't Be Faded is a dynamic approach to collaborative research that offers a sensitive portrait of the humans behind the horns.

Jazz and Justice - Racism and the Political Economy of the Music (Hardcover): Gerald Horne Jazz and Justice - Racism and the Political Economy of the Music (Hardcover)
Gerald Horne
R2,067 R1,728 Discovery Miles 17 280 Save R339 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call "jazz" arose in late nineteenth century North America--most likely in New Orleans--based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the "blues," which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim Crow, this new music entered the world via the instruments that had been abandoned by departing military bands after the Civil War. Jazz and Justice examines the economic, social, and political forces that shaped this music into a phenomenal US--and Black American--contribution to global arts and culture. Horne assembles a galvanic story depicting what may have been the era's most virulent economic--and racist--exploitation, as jazz musicians battled organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, and other variously malignant forces dominating the nightclub scene where jazz became known. Horne pays particular attention to women artists, such as pianist Mary Lou Williams and trombonist Melba Liston, and limns the contributions of musicians with Native American roots. This is the story of a beautiful lotus, growing from the filth of the crassest form of human immiseration.

Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Paperback): George Grella Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Paperback)
George Grella
R401 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R153 (38%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet-called 'The Lost Band'-with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette; he went into the studio with musicians like frighteningly talented guitarist John McLaughlin, and soulful Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul. Working with his essential producer, Teo Macero, Miles set a cauldron of ideas loose while the tapes rolled. At the end, there was the newly minted Prince of Darkness, a completely new way forward for jazz and rock, and the endless brilliance and depth of Bitches Brew. Bitches Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two, it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves, the album rejects both jazz and rock for an entirely different idea of how music can be made.

Swingin' at the Savoy (Paperback, New Ed): Norma Miller Swingin' at the Savoy (Paperback, New Ed)
Norma Miller
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/Film actress and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the phenomenal music and dance craze that \u0022spread the power of swing across the world like Wildfire.\u0022 A dance contest winner by 14, Norma Miller became a member of Herbert White's Lindy Hoppers and a celebrated Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hop champion. Swingin' at the Savoy chronicles a significant period in American cultural history and race relations, as it glorifies the home of the Lindy Hop and he birthplace of memorable dance hall fads. Miller shares fascinating anecdotes about her youthful encounters with many of the greatest jazz legends in music history, including Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, and even boxer Joe Louis. Readers will experience the legend of the celebrated Harlem ballroom and the phenomenal Swing generation that changed music and dance history forever.

Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (Hardcover): Tad Hershorn Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (Hardcover)
Tad Hershorn; Foreword by Oscar Peterson
R898 R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Save R108 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that,' Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant - and one of jazz's true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African-American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biography, Hershorn recounts Granz's story: creator of the legendary jam session concerts known as Jazz at the Philharmonic; founder of the Verve record label; pioneer of live recordings and worldwide jazz concert tours; manager and recording producer for numerous stars, including Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson.

Rhythm in the Rain - Jazz in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback): Lynn Darroch Rhythm in the Rain - Jazz in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
Lynn Darroch; Foreword by George Colligan
R651 R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Save R91 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Real Book - Volume I - Bass Clef Instruments, Mini Edition (Paperback): Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation The Real Book - Volume I - Bass Clef Instruments, Mini Edition (Paperback)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
R1,042 R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Save R197 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vocal Complete -- Female Voice Jazz Standards - Piano/Vocal Sheet Music with Orchestrated Backing Tracks, Book & Online... Vocal Complete -- Female Voice Jazz Standards - Piano/Vocal Sheet Music with Orchestrated Backing Tracks, Book & Online Audio/Software (Paperback)
Alfred Music
R573 R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Save R112 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sing 16 of the world's most beloved jazz standards in the style of legendary vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Etta James, Eileen Rodgers, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, and more This deluxe package (songbook plus two enhanced CDs) provides everything you need to arrive at auditions and performances completely prepared, whether your accompaniment will be live or pre-recorded. If a pianist is present, hand them the complete piano/vocal sheet music. (Chord fingering grids are also provided for optional guitar accompaniment.) If recorded accompaniment is required, the fully-orchestrated audio tracks will lend a professional touch to your performance. Vocal demonstration tracks are also included for each song. Titles: Anything Goes * At Last * Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered * Cry Me a River * Don't Rain on My Parade * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Embraceable You * I Get a Kick out of You * Misty * My Funny Valentine * Over the Rainbow * Someone to Watch Over Me * Summertime * They Can't Take That Away From Me * Whatever Lola Wants * When I Fall in Love.
With Vocal Complete, the sheet music matches the original key and form of the backing tracks, so if you practice singing with one, you won't encounter unexpected variations with the other. Upload the tracks to your portable music player for practice, performances, auditions, parties, or even singing for fun in the car There are two versions of every song on the CDs: a full-performance track with sound-alike vocals for listening and learning, and a professional-quality backing track for singing along. When the CDs are played on a Mac or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone 'N' Tempo) Changer lets you customize the key and tempo of each track to suit your voice and style. (The key changer modifies audio playback via computer only. The sheet music remains in its original key.)
"If you love performing classic jazz standards, you need to have this book in your music bag. I know I'll be using i

Out of Nowhere (Paperback, 1st): Luca Ferrari Out of Nowhere (Paperback, 1st)
Luca Ferrari
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freedom of Expression - Interviews With Women in Jazz (Paperback): Chris Becker Freedom of Expression - Interviews With Women in Jazz (Paperback)
Chris Becker
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians (Paperback): Steve Prosser Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians (Paperback)
Steve Prosser
R939 R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Save R108 (12%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Jazz: the Basics (Paperback, New edition): Christopher Meeder Jazz: the Basics (Paperback, New edition)
Christopher Meeder
R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jazz: The Basics gives a brief introduction to a century of jazz, ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style. The heart of the book traces jazz's growth from its folk origins through early recordings and New Orleans stars; the big-band and swing era; bebop; cool jazz and third stream; avant-garde; jazz-rock; and the neo-conservative movement of the 1980s and 1990s.

Key figures from each era including: Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis are highlighted along with classic works. The book concludes with a list of the 100 essential recordings to own, along with a timeline and glossary. Jazz: The Basics serves as an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make jazz 'America's classical music.'

Playing for Keeps - Improvisation in the Aftermath (Hardcover): Daniel Fischlin, Eric Porter Playing for Keeps - Improvisation in the Aftermath (Hardcover)
Daniel Fischlin, Eric Porter
R2,505 Discovery Miles 25 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism. Outlining the relation of improvisatory practices to local and global power structures, they show how in sites as varied as South Africa, Canada, Egypt, the United States, and the Canary Islands, improvisation provides the means for its participants to address the past and imagine the future. In addition to essays, the volume features a poem by saxophonist Matana Roberts, an interview with pianist Vijay Iyer about his work with U.S. veterans of color, and drawings by artist Randy DuBurke that chart Nina Simone's politicization. Throughout, the contributors illustrate how improvisation functions as a model for political, cultural, and ethical dialogue and action that can foster the creation of alternate modes of being and knowing in the world. Contributors. Randy DuBurke, Rana El Kadi, Kevin Fellezs, Daniel Fischlin, Kate Galloway, Reem Abdul Hadi, Vijay Iyer, Mark Lomanno, Moshe Morad, Eric Porter, Sara Ramshaw, Matana Roberts, Darci Sprengel, Paul Stapleton, Odeh Turjman, Stephanie Vos

Aebersold Vol. 6 Charlie Parker - All Bird - Jazz Play-Along Vol.6 (Sheet music): Charlie Parker Aebersold Vol. 6 Charlie Parker - All Bird - Jazz Play-Along Vol.6 (Sheet music)
Charlie Parker; Arranged by Jamey Aebersold
R501 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Flute Scales Grades 1-8 from 2015 (Paperback): Flute Scales Grades 1-8 from 2015 (Paperback)
R432 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R42 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Saxophone Scales Grades 1-8 from 2015 (Paperback): Saxophone Scales Grades 1-8 from 2015 (Paperback)
R431 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R42 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Kansas City Lightning - The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (Paperback): Stanley Crouch Kansas City Lightning - The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (Paperback)
Stanley Crouch
R340 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R85 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.

Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four.

Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Kansas City Lightning recreates Parker's Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story.

With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before.

Medleys for Christmas (Sheet music): Dan Coates Medleys for Christmas (Sheet music)
Dan Coates
R341 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R58 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The beautiful and entertaining arrangements in the Dan Coates Popular Piano Library collections are a welcome addition to any pianist's pop repertoire. Medleys for Christmas is a collection of favorite irreplaceable songs from throughout the years. Why perform only one showstopper at a time when you can play a dazzling variety in an exciting medley? Titles: Christmas Day Medley * Christmas Eve Medley * Jolly Christmas Medley * Ringing Christmas Medley * Rockin' Christmas Medley * Snowy Christmas Medley.

Jazz: Easy Piano Solos (Staple bound): Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Jazz: Easy Piano Solos (Staple bound)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
R291 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R49 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Easy Piano Solo). A great collection of 21 jazz standards arranged at an easier level, including: All Blues * All the Things You Are * Beyond the Sea * Caravan * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * The Girl from Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) * Here's That Rainy Day * In Walked Bud * One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) * Satin Doll * So What * Take the "A" Train * Waltz for Debby * and more.

The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - More Than a Century of a New Orleans Icon (Hardcover): Sally Newhart The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - More Than a Century of a New Orleans Icon (Hardcover)
Sally Newhart; Foreword by Bruce Boyd Raeburn
R857 R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Save R153 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Easy Jazz Standards Fake Book - C Instruments (Paperback): Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation The Easy Jazz Standards Fake Book - C Instruments (Paperback)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
R823 R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Save R102 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Easy Fake Book). 100 must-have jazz standards presented in larger notation with simplified harmonies and melodies, with all songs in the key of C, and introductions for each song, to add a more finished sound to the arrangements. Includes: Alice in Wonderland * All or Nothing at All * Over the Rainbow * April in Paris * Begin the Beguine * Blue Moon * Body and Soul * Cry Me a River * Darn That Dream * Easy to Love * Embraceable You * Fascinating Rhythm * Good Morning Heartache * Harlem Nocturne * How Long Has This Been Going On? * I Get a Kick out of You * It Ain't Necessarily So * Just One of Those Things * A Kiss to Build a Dream On * Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) * Lollipops and Roses * Love Walked In * Lullaby of Birdland * Mack the Knife * Nice Work If You Can Get It * Night and Day * On Green Dolphin Street * The Shadow of Your Smile * Someone to Watch Over Me * These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) * A Time for Love * When Sunny Gets Blue * Willow Weep for Me * You Do Something to Me * You Stepped Out of a Dream * and more.

Going for Jazz (Paperback, New edition): Nicholas Gebhardt Going for Jazz (Paperback, New edition)
Nicholas Gebhardt
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jazz is one of the most influential American art forms of our times. It shapes our ideas about musical virtuosity, human action and new forms of social expression. In "Going for Jazz, " Nicholas Gebhardt shows how the study of jazz can offer profound insights into American historical consciousness. Focusing on the lives of three major saxophonists--Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, and Ornette Coleman--Gebhardt demonstrates how changing forms of state power and ideology framed and directed their work.
Weaving together a range of seemingly disparate topics, from Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis to the invention of bebop, from Jean Baudrillard's "Seduction" to the Cold War atomic regime, Gebhardt addresses the meaning and value of jazz in the political economy of American society. In "Going for Jazz, " jazz musicians assume dynamic and dramatic social positions that demand a more conspicuous place for music in our understanding of the social world.

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