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Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak
by Jakob Baekgaard
Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak Soft cover; 174 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-030557-3 Buddy's Knife 2010 Improvisation, at its best, is about instinct. At its worst, it's an intellectual exercise, cold and theoretical, without an emotional perspective. Fortunately, the beautifully produced Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak avoids the pitfalls of ...
Studi didattici per chitarra jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Studi didattici per chitarra jazz di Filippo Daccò Edizioni Curci (Jazz) Questo testo didattico di Filippo Daccò è stato un prezioso compagno di strada per molti chitarristi jazz italiani e va quindi apprezzata l'iniziativa di Manuel Consigli, ispirata da Daccò stesso, di ripubblicarlo in edizione riveduta ed ampliata, aggiungendo un preziosissimo Dvd Rom che contiene l'esecuzione ...
Bill Bruford. Autobiografia alla batteria.
by AAJ Italy Staff
Autobiografia alla batteria. Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks e non solo di Bill Bruford Edizioni Aereostella Il batterista Bill Bruford, noto per la sua attività pluridecennale con i gruppi Yes e King Crimson e come leader di formazioni che hanno lasciato il segno in ambito jazz e rock, ha deciso di ritirarsi dall'attività musicale e ha scelto ...
The Jazz Book
by David Rickert
The Jazz Book Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Gunther Huesmann Softcover; 816 pages ISBN: 155652823X Lawrence Hill Books 2009 The first edition of The Jazz Book came out in 1952, the earnest work of European jazz scholar Joachim-Ernst Berendt. At the time, of course, saxophonist Charlie Parker and ...
The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed With The New Digital Technologies
by Karen Hogg
The Future Of The Music Business: How To Succeed With The New Digital Technologies Steve Gordon 362 pages (second edition) ISBN: 00331939 paper Hal Leonard 2008 Much has been written about the steady decline of CD sales and the rise of illegal downloading. The ...
Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM
by Nenad Georgievski
Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM Edited by Lars Müller Softcover; 448 pages ISBN: 978-3-03778-157-9 Lars Müller Publishers 2010 There have been many independent record labels through the years that have made profound changes to the music industry, and have had remarkable pools of artists ...
On The Flip Side of Sound
by Russ Musto
On The Flipside of Sound Valery Ponomarev Softcover; 316 pages ISBN: 1438970463 ArtistHouse 2010 Valery Ponomarev's autobiographical tome tells the fascinating tale of the life of a working jazz musician from a uniquely personal perspective. The Moscow-born trumpeter, who became the first native of his country ...
Phish: The Biography
by Doug Collette
Phish: The Biography Parke Puterbaugh Hardcover; 352 pages ISBN: 9780306814846 DaCapo 2009 When Phish completed its triumphant return to the stage in March 2009 in Hampton, Virginia, it was the first in a sequence of events in which the seminal jamband revisited virtually all the significant ...
In Search of the Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
In Search of the Blues Marybeth Hamilton Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 0465028586 Basic Books 2010 Blues scholarship and archive documentation has undergone an important and much needed evolution since the 1990s. Hints of this renewed but different emphasis appeared in Stephen Calt's I'd ...
The Best Music Writing 2009
by C. Michael Bailey
The Best Music Writing 2009 Greil Marcus, Guest Editor; Daphne Carr, Series Editor Trade Paperback; 384 pages ISBN: 0306817829 Da Capo Press 2009 What are the goals of good music writing? At the very least, it should educate the reader about the music and integrate that ...
