[PDF] Giants Of Jazz eBook

Author : Robert L. Doerschuk
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781617744853

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(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.

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : New Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The true giants of jazz are remembered in these brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians. Now reissued in the original illustrated edition, the stars portrayed include John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday & Fats Waller.

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians who have made major contributions to the development of this form of music.

Author : Herman Leonard
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :

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With a camera as his backstage pass, Herman Leonard has photographed the giants of jazz in their golden age, movie stars on set and on their travels to exotic places, the fashion world of Paris in the 1960s, and the inner sanctums of his beloved New Orle

Author : John Coltrane
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457494140

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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.

Author : Miles Davis
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457494123

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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.