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It has become standard practice today for the professional musician to play at least one Latin tune in each set for added interest and variety. This popular set contains ten beautiful and popular bossa novas that jazz players have enjoyed for years,...

As part of Motown's legendary songwriting and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Lamont Dozier is responsible for such classics as "Baby I Need Your Loving," "You Can't Hurry Love," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)," "Stop! In the...

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways in which women thrive as professionals despite such conditions. The author shines a light on the...

This value collection features ten outstanding big band jazz ensemble arrangements at the medium difficulty level. The charts are written by experienced educational jazz arrangers and composers in a variety of styles and tempos: swing, ballad, and...

A concise description of David's approach to playing over the stated tonality using chromaticism, polychords, derived chords, and non-diatonic scales. Includes audio of David playing examples over selected piano chords. A sure way to hip up and modernize...

The gospel according to hip hop. Yeah, that's a thing.Christian ideas often show up in hip hop music. Biblical themes and even Jesus Himself appear in the lyrics. But beneath all the God-talk, can a true gospel message be found?Pastor D. A. Horton (aka...

The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one! With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work...

(Jazz Transcriptions). 35 Marsalis songs transcribed exactly from his recorded solos, with solo analysis sections and a complete discography. Includes: Au Privave * Black Bottom Stomp * Caravan * Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * Donna Lee * Embraceable You...

Now available for a new generation of swing enthusiasts, reissued to coincide with the release of The World of Swing CD from Columbia/Legacy, this monumental history of big band jazz, documented through interviews with forty leading musicians, has been...

The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape.-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest musical legends, longtime friend and jazz historian Stanley Dance recounts the life of the incomparable Duke Ellington in his own...

The late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. The master of swing, whose beat was the subtlest and supplest of all the bandleaders, Basie featured some of the great soloists in jazz history while he sat unobtrusively at the piano, keeping time with...