88: the Giants of Jazz Piano

Author: Robert L. Doerschuk
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781617744853
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
(Book). This handsome, insightful hardcover volume delves deep into the music of 88 visionaries who have made an indelible mark on the world of jazz through their mastery of the piano's 88 keys. This engaging collection describes the intriguing personality and performance characteristics of each pianist. Seven major figures are covered in depth: Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor. Other featured artists include: James P. Johnson, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Nat "King" Cole, Oscar Peterson, Les McCann, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, Billy Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea and 70 others, in styles ranging from stride to swing, bebop to post-bop, funk to avant garde, and more. Includes 100 photos, and a foreword by Keith Jarrett.

The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time

Author: Gene Rizzo
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780634074165
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Handy resource for jazz listeners and hardcore fans. Spanning players from eighty years of history, this bold book steps forward and claims who are the greatest. Compiled from an extensive survey conducted with the best jazz minds in the education, publishing and entertainment worlds, noted jazz journalist Gene Rizzo summarized the chosen and presents a concise bio on the essence of these jazz giants. Choices were made on the basis of chops, originality, creativity, and degree of influence. This book will either confirm some readers' opinions or open debate with others, but ultimately the book provides an impressive summary of the greatest jazz piano players of all time. A photo accompanies each listing * Landmark recordings are listed * Extra lists include the next twenty to be selected, the top women players and an alphabetical list of all the other players considered

88

Author: Robert L. Doerschuk
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306564
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
Presents profiles of eighty-eight jazz pianists, from Jelly Roll Morton, born in New Orleans in 1890, to Wisconsin's Geoff Keezer, born in 1970, with interviews and critiques, photographs, and a sampler CD.

The Jazz Style of John Coltrane

Author: John Coltrane
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457494140
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants. The Jazz Style of John Coltrane provides many transcriptions, plus discography, biographical data, style traits, genealogy, and bibliography.

The Jazz Piano Book

Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1457101440
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping ...and much more! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc.

The Jazz Theory Book

Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1457101459
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 725

Book Description
The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

The Jazz Style of Miles Davis

Author: Miles Davis
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457494123
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants. The Davis book provides many transcriptions, plus discography, biographical data, list of innovations, genealogy, bibliography and comments.

The Library of Jazz Piano

Author: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Music Sales
ISBN: 9781785582400
Category : Piano music (Jazz)
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"This unique collection of some of the finest jazz piano pieces of all time includes songs written by Hoagy Carmichael, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jerome Kern among others. Here is a treasure trove of jazz piano that lets everyone play their favorites. Ain't misbehaving -- All the things you are -- Cantaloupe Island -- Fly me to the moon -- Georgia on my mind -- The girl from Ipanema -- Honeysuckle rose -- How sensitive -- Lullaby of birdland -- Maiden voyage -- Misty -- A night in Tunisia -- Satin doll -- So what -- Take the 'A' train -- The very thought of you -- The way you look tonight -- and many more..."--Cover.

Good Things Happen Slowly

Author: Fred Hersch
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 1101904356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sideman—a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson—blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that defied the boundaries of bop, sweeping in elements of pop, classical, and folk to create a wholly new music. Good Things Happen Slowly is his memoir. It’s the story of the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player; a deep look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a status both transgressive and groundbreaking; and a profound exploration of how Hersch’s two-month-long coma in 2007 led to his creating some of the finest, most direct, and most emotionally compelling music of his career. Remarkable, and at times lyrical, Good Things Happen Slowly is an evocation of the twilight of Post-Stonewall New York, and a powerfully brave narrative of illness, recovery, music, creativity, and the glorious reward of finally becoming oneself.

Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

Author: George Grella
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628929456
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
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.