Music & Movies

Soloing is an important part of your playing, but practicing on your own doesn't always get the creative juices flowing because there is nothing quite like the experience of sitting in with a full band. Since jamming with other musicians is not always...

Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. II is more than just a fun play-along kit. This book and audio set features 10 big band charts written at the intermediate level. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble and improve...

Singing Jazz looks at the ups and downs of this tough profession through the eyes of legendary jazz singers, well-established performers, and some newcomers. Drawing on accounts from vocalists of yesterday and today in all major jazz styles, the book...

David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and...

The definitive work on Bechet. This is one of those rare books that once started you have difficulty putting down.--Jazz Journal Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, I have never forgotten the power and...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). ShowTime Piano Jazz & Blues is a spirited collection of jazz and blues pieces arranged for the Level 2A piano student. The student will enjoy creating the sounds of jazz and blues while improving reading and rhythmic skills...

Published between 1987 and 1990, 'Sheer Filth' offered a heady mix of shocking film and book reviews, wild music coverage, weird cartoons, incisive features and fascinating interviews with icons of cult cinema and adult entertainment. Mixing serious...

A Drama Graphic Novel on the factual ills of "white rapper" and Hip-Hop phenomenon, Eminem before the Eminem Kamikaze CD. "Shady Bizzness" tell about real life events of his public and private lifestyle. The book details the good times, hardships, drug...

People Magazine"Shady Bizzness was disturbing and intense! It was like a good scary movie!" MSNBC"It was brilliantly written!" Book DescriptionThis story is based on the factual ills of "white rapper" and Hip-Hop phenomenon, "Eminem". "Shady Bizzness"...

The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions--musical and religious--and tracing the origin of the blues through the dense, many-colored warp and weft of influences...

As the undisputed King of Ragtime Writers, Scott Joplin (1868--1917) composed many of the best-loved and most popular compositions of the ragtime era. His works include not only classic rags, but marches, waltzes, and cakewalks of incredible beauty that...

Fascinated by the collision of country and soul music in the Southern states, Hoskyns and photographer Muir MacKean set out on a journey through the American South to explore the phenomenon of primarily black singers and primarily white musicians joining...