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Nightfly - Biography of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen Available Now on Chicago Review Press
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All About Jazz
September this year marks the 50th anniversary of the first record by Steely Dan, the band formed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in 1972 that went on to release nine albums over the 30 years that followed. Now Chicago Review Press is publishing Nightfly: the Life of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen by music journalist and author Peter Jones. The book is a warts-and-all account that not only relates the often-untold stories behind one of rock’s most iconic bands, but ...
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New From Sher Music Co. - 'Jazz Arrangements Of Public Domain Songs' by Chuck Israels
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Sher Music Co.
A unique collection of jazz arrangements by the great Chuck Israels, who has spent many years honing his jazz arranging skills, besides being a legendary bassist with Bill Evans, Stan Getz, George Russell, and many more. “A valuable collection of tunes. Mr. Israels' quartet makes a great case for adding some of these tunes to your jazz repertoire. Thanks, Chuck, for a great job." —Jamey Aebersold Great jazz-oriented arrangements of Tin Pan Alley songs, ("Deed I Do," etc.) Americana classics ...
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New Songbook Series Released By Sher Music Co.
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Sher Music Co.
Sher Music Co. has just released their second Jazz Songbook Series! This collection includes separate books by such jazz greats as Andy Narell, Benny Golson, Randy Brecker, Enrico Pieranunzi, Denny Zeitlin and Steve Khan, among others. These digital-only books contain 20 songs each, selected by each composer and direct from their own lead sheets. In many cases, the manuscript is in their hand, giving a beautiful, historic vibe to the charts. Many of the composers are well-known, but some of ...
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Tim Armacost's 'The Jazz Saxophone Book' Available Now!
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Sher Music Co.
Sher Music Co. has recently released a landmark book by New York jazz heavyweight, Tim Armacost entitled The Jazz Saxophone Book. This book was written for all students of jazz, from relative beginners to professionals. For novices, Tim gives a firm foundation in jazz harmony and creative ways to work on sound, time and building a jazz vocabulary. For more advanced players, the book covers ideas for becoming a musical storyteller, the skills needed to show up at a jam ...
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Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker by Bill Milkowski
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All About Jazz
After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker. For those coming of age in the 1970s, during that transitional decade when the boundaries between rock and jazz had begun to blur, Brecker stood as a transcendent figure. He was their Trane. Ode to a Tenor Titan follows Michael's story from growing up in Philadelphia, finding his tenor sax voice during his brief stint at Indiana University, making his move to ...
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As Within So Without & Other Writings By Daniel Barbiero
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All About Jazz
“The only thing valuable in art is what cannot be explained.” the painter Georges Braque once wrote in his notebook. Double bassist, improviser and composer Daniel Barbiero, in this wide ranging collection of twenty essays on music, visual art, poetry, dance—and then some—never surrenders the prospect of meaning in these encounters with the inexplicable. He follows that possibility out to what appear to be breaking points of intelligibility in artistic expression, to those junctures that refuse to deliver an explicit, ...
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The Technique And Theory Of Improvisation By Bill McBirnie
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Bill McBirnie - Extreme Flute
Renowned jazz and Latin flutist, Bill McBirnie, provides a roadmap to success in improvisation The Technique and Theory of Improvisation is a concise but comprehensive guide to (1) the technique (articulation, vibrato, and breathing), and (2) the theory (rhythm, melody and harmony) that are essential in learning to improvise. This book also addresses how to integrate the technique with the theory using a simple melodic approach. In addition, the book examines practical issues such as analyzing tunes, using an idiomatic ...
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'And All That Motive'—A New Jazz Mystery Audiobook by Joan Merrill
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Joan Merrill
Joan Merrill, author of the Casey McKie jazz mystery series, announces the release of her latest audiobook, And All that Motive, narrated by longtime Bay Area jazz radio host Alisa Clancy. Set at a festival near San Francisco, And All that Motive has Casey racing against time to solve the killing of jazz singer Sid Satin and remove suspicion from her best friend, club owner and singer Dee Jefferson. Sorting through a raft of suspects, Casey unravels the mystery with ...
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