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A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.

Fhv. UHA/Fiktionschef i DR TV, Henrik Wolsgaard-Iversen: Allan Bo har haft et liv, en karriere, der ville være rigeligt til en halv snes andre flittige personer … Jeg er dykket ned random i bogen, som det hedder, og føler mig godt underholdt. Anekdoter, bands, tumulter, succeser, fiaskoer og et fabelagtigt billedmateriale … Mr. Bo’s hukommelse og datastædighed vækker beundring. Spring ned hvor som helst og få en stærk lyst til at begynde helt forfra … Hvis jazzkoncerter og underholdning er kultur, vokser denne dokumentation til at blive et værk, man ikke kan kimse ad på de bonede gulve.KLIP FRA BOGENSvar fra billetmrk. 3659 i 1963: … efter at have hørt kvintetten spille i ”Las Vegas”, beklager vi ikke at kunne tilbyde kontrakt for vinteren.Dr. John New York: … and your rythm section sure knows how to swing. Let’s get together and jam some day! I spjældet fra St. Lawrence: Ballademagerne og jeg blev gelejdet ind i salatfadet og kørt på stationen. Vi kom uden spørgsmål i brummen, hvor vi sad til næste morgen.Ove Rex til Radio Jazz efter Let The Good Times Roll i Sukhumi i Georgien: … der mødte to herrer i lange mørke frakker op … hvis vi skulle fortsætte turnéen, så var det slut med Allans stripnummer og ikke mindst 4-2 til Danmark.Kort fra Erik Moseholm efter CD: Der er bund i de basspil, det hviler i rytmen og inspirerer medspillerne … du har sans for ”simplicity”, også i din sang levende med bevægende bluesfeeling. Du ved, hvad du synger, og uden krukkeri! Det er fandeme også et godt musikerhold, du har samlet …Koncert i Non Commissioned Officers Club på US Air Base i Kangerlussuaq: … det var uhyggeligt at se, hvordan lokalet på et øjeblik blev et inferno delt mellem sorte og hvide kæmpende menneskekroppe.Knud Esmann i Jyllands-Posten: Som bandleder, sanger, bassist og showmaster må Allan Bo lørdag eftermiddag have fået så mange nye venner … Ni mand var der på scenen, men de lød som et bigband. Ud over rampen kom mindet om Basie, Ellington og Ray Charles med plads både til ballade og powerplay a la Sonny Rollins … der er intet brugbart alternativ til en sådan professionalisme.

In seinem sechsten Printbuch "ein gewonnener tag" erzählt der Autor Ben Kretlow von den Lebenswegen verschiedener Figuren, die dadurch miteinander verbunden sind, dass sich ihre Träume, Ängste, Enttäuschungen, ihr Gefühl der Isolation und Einsamkeit sowie ihre Hoffnungen auf ein besseres Irgendwann allesamt unter einem Dach in einem Hochhaus im Plattenbau einer Großstadt abspielen. Es kommen darin Stimmen zu Wort, die sonst kein Gehör in der Gesellschaft finden und sich von ihr abgehängt und vergessen fühlen.

O universo do jazz é um terreno rico e cativante, e agora podemos mergulhar ainda mais na história desse género musical. Nesta obra emocionante, Sammy Stein traça as jornadas das mulheres no jazz, celebra a presença delas, ouve as suas vozes, admira a suas habilidades e deleita-se com essas mulheres impactantes. O livro apresenta-nos agentes, compositoras, músicas, profissionais de relações públicas, apresentadoras de rádio, gerentes de gravadoras, cantoras, escritoras e muito mais. São as suas histórias, as suas visões do jazz e as suas perspectivas para o futuro."Mulheres no Jazz" oferece uma perspectiva única sobre a influência e contribuição das mulheres no mundo do jazz. Desde as artistas estabelecidas, que compartilham as suas décadas de experiência, até às mais novas no cenário do jazz, que reflectem sobre as suas observações e sobre as mudanças que têm testemunhado, o livro oferece uma compreensão abrangente das vozes femininas nesse universo musical tão especial.Com entrevistas e relatos em primeira mão, o livro testemunha a generosidade, a profundidade e a positividade com que as mulheres têm respondido e a energia que têm dedicado às suas vidas para superarem desafios. É um testemunho do compromisso dessas mulheres com a música, as suas trajectórias inspiradoras e o impacto que tiveram na indústria do jazz."Mulheres no Jazz" é uma leitura obrigatória para todos os amantes do jazz, assim como para aqueles que se interessam pela história da música e pelo empoderamento feminino. Prepare-se para imergir num mundo repleto de talento, expressão e resiliência, onde as mulheres deixaram e continuam a deixar uma marca indelével.Embarque numa jornada inspiradora, repleta de histórias fascinantes e de perspectivas valiosas. Prepare-se para ser cativado pelo mundo do jazz e pela força incrível das mulheres que o moldam e o enriquecem com o seu talento.

The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie“A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York TimesIn the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother, Evan, in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. Now Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he developed his artistic soul over the course of the decade and came into orbit with all the prominent artists of that time and place, including Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Boris Policeband, and, especially, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the enigmatic prodigy who spent a year sleeping on the floor of Lurie’s East Third Street apartment.  It may feel like Disney World now, but in The History of Bones, the East Village, through Lurie’s clear-eyed reminiscence, comes to teeming, gritty life. The book is full of grime and frank humor—Lurie holds nothing back in this journey to one of the most significant moments in our cultural history, one whose reverberations are still strongly felt today.  History may repeat itself, but the way downtown New York happened in the 1980s will never happen again. Luckily, through this beautiful memoir, we all have a front-row seat.

June 2023: Celebrate Jan Daley's induction into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame. Explore artistry, wellness, and resilience with roller skating, microneedling, and feel-good music. Ignite your passion with Pump it up Magazine!

This book offers an entry point for understanding the comprehensive way this uniquely American artistic form has influenced literature, art, film, and other art forms, while also providing a cultural space for political commentary or social critique.

jazzinRIBEJazzmusikken i Ribe 1934-1995Klubberne-Musikerne-KoncerterneDer har altid været jazz i Ribe.Denne bog illustrerer gennem avisudklip, annoncer og eksempler fra scrapbøger de forskellige jazzklubbers liv og levned, sorger og glæder i tiden fra november 1934 til juni 1995.Det har været hensigten, at de originale tekster, ud over at dokumentere, også giver et indblik i fortidens 'toneklang' - på godt og ondt.

Clap your hands for Viola Smith the pioneering female drummer at the heart of this bright and rhythmic biography, who rat-tat-tat-bang-crash-clink-boomed for nearly a century.

Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter traces the meaning and spirituality of jazz, weaving together stories from the history of American music with his own experiences and those of generations of jazz musicians. As we encounter the transcendence of jazz, we meet a God who not only embraces syncopation but blesses the swing.

This book is a four step method to develop the skills and concepts needed to play contemporary jazz guitar. To listen to any of the top jazz guitarist today, it is easy to hear a blending of guitar styles and techniques that include blues, jazz, rock and jazz-rock styles. This book breaks down into 4 sections dealing with each of these styles and giving the reader exercises for developing the foundational concepts and skills needed to understand of each of these styles. With a strong foundation, the guitarist is now ready to continue his study into the complex music of modern jazz guitar and begin developing his or her own unique combination of these elements.

Dave Grohl once said of Oasis, 'We've played shows with them before, where we play with them we think "That's the greatest rock band I've ever seen in my life"'. The quality of the songs they were releasing, especially between 1994-1996, would seem to confirm that sentiment, with the quality of even their B-sides becoming the stuff of legend. Their second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? would go on to become the best-selling album of the 1990s in the UK and all the while, it became impossible to open a newspaper or music magazine in the mid-1990s and not read about Oasis. From the time their debut album was released in 1994, Oasis' climb to the top was one of the fastest in music history. Even their leader, Noel Gallagher, would say they should have split after their Knebworth 1996 concert. Yet when they walked off that stage in 1996, they still had over a decade left together, and, to the shock of some, many good songs left to write. Heavy on music and short on gossip, this is the story of all those songs; the life-changing anthems and the forgotten gems, the throwaways and the covers.

From the band's first single, 'In The City' in April 1977, to their last, 'Beat Surrender' in November 1982, The Jam went from new wave wannabees to arguably the biggest band in the UK. The Jam on track covers every song released by the group during their five-and-a-half-year career on the Polydor label and includes the pick of demos and little-known recordings from various compilation albums after the band's demise. Each song is looked at from a musical and lyrical viewpoint, and includes contemporary comments from Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, music critics and those working closely with the band. Album and single sleeves, videos (or promo films as they were more widely known at the time) and TV appearances are part of the mix as author Stan Jeffries looks at what made The Jam one of Britain's most respected acts and how their legacy continues to this day. For both the dedicated and the curious, this book guides you through the career of one of the country's musical giants

Most lauded for the gorgeously baroque Odessey and Oracle, and the ageless singles, 'She's Not There' and 'Time of the Season', The Zombies' were at the forefront of The British Invasion, recording music described by Tom Petty as 'so original it hurt'. The Zombies On Track voyages through every release, beginning with their first incarnation in the 1960s and uncovering how a US number one and a film appearance with Laurence Olivier were no guarantees of continued chart success. Poor publicity, unwise management and bad timing almost killed off the band; yet sublime songwriting and a lucky break with Al Kooper reanimated them...The book recounts their many afterlives, including the posthumous RIP; the story behind the 'counterfeit' Zombies; their first reunion album New World; and considers how their later version has sustained success more than the original line-up. Drawing on both archive interviews and new conversations with Argent and Blunstone to mark the release of The Zombies' latest album - the critically acclaimed Different Game - this book proves why The Zombies not only have an immortal back catalogue but are also still making vital music today.

In the realm of singer songwriters, few have been as influential as Neil Young, whose music has always been creative and relevant throughout six decades. Neil is a chameleon for whom boundaries of genres do not exist. He has delved into folk, country, r&b, rock 'n' roll, grunge, hard rock, electronic and pop and made them his own. But the sixties were his launch pad. This book follows his music through that seminal period when he played with The Squires, Mynah Birds, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Crazy Horse and The Stray Gators. During this seminal period, Young wrote or co-wrote some of his greatest songs, including 'I Am A Child', 'Southern Man', 'Helpless' and - most importantly - 'Ohio'.It is the story of how one of the most seminal artists of the last fifty years learned his trade - every band, every twist and turn and every track.

"From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists-Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans-who came together to create the most famous and bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue The myth of the 60s depends on the 1950s being the before times of conformity, segregation, straightness-The Lonely Crowd and The Organization Man. This all carries some truth, but it does nothing to explain how, in 1959, the great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity, led there by a number of Black geniuses so iconic they go by one name-Monk, Mingus, Rollins, Coltrane, and above all, Miles. 1959 saw Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record what is widely considered the greatest jazz album of all time, and certainly the best-selling: Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is James Kaplan's magnificent account of the paths of the three giants Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and their path on from there. It's a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the towns that gave jazz its home, from New York and LA to Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City. It's an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering. It's a book about the great forebears of this golden age, particularly Charlie Parker, and the people, like Ornette Coleman, who would take the music down strange new paths. And it's about why this period has never been replicated, why the world of jazz most people visit is a museum to it. But above all this is a book about three very different men-their struggles, their choices, their tragedies, their greatness. Bill Evans had a gruesome downward spiral, John Coltrane took the mystic's path into a space far away from mainstream concerns. Miles had three or four sea changes in him before the end. The tapestry of their lives is, in Kaplan's hands, an American Odyssey, with no direction home. It is also a masterpiece, a book about jazz that is as big as America"--

Composed by Andrew Hanna, composer of In Walked Dolphy, Profit-C, The Yard Cat Song, and many other compositions. Reaches into the archives to publish Solitary Dancer. Composed for alto saxophone, guitar, bass, and drum set. Inspired by a solo dance routine, combines tempo changes, bass ostinatos, and two modal solo sections.

ATTENTION GUITARISTS!!Improvisation is the art of composing in the moment with freedom of expression. Do you want to get on the fast track to improvising with modern jazz style?The second book in the Master Arpeggio System series continues where the first one left off, where we work smarter, not harder with this efficient method-a fretboard navigation system-for learning to improvise in a jazz context that bypasses boring, tedious exercises and endless music theory so we can play now and think later. Make fundamental changes in your playing today!Improvise NOW: Use minor and harmonic minor sounds to improvise over minor ii-V-i changes like a PRO.Use arpeggios (triads, shell voicings, quartal and inversions), scales, pentatonic scales and chromaticism to create sophisticated modern lines.Use voice-leading and target tones intuitively without tons of rote memorization exercises.Use tension and resolution skillfully to create melodic inside and outside sounds in your playing.Use diminished sounds for more interesting lines.Play over common jazz turnarounds and learn to develop soloing strategies to expertly tackle the chord progressions found in traditional jazz standards where you're constantly moving through different key centers.Apply everything from the first two books in a solo over 24 bars of a 12 bar jazz blues.Techniques and approaches that are universal to bebop, hard bop, post bop, jazz blues, smooth jazz, jazz funk, contemporary jazz, rock fusion, Latin, Afro-Cuban, avant-garde, cool jazz, Ethno and World jazz, European (Euro), jazz pop, jazz rock, modal, swing, noir, nu jazz, soul jazz, West Coast, punk jazz, etc. Learn and Apply: Arpeggios, triads and inversionsTarget tonesVoice leadingQuartal arpeggiosSuperimpositionPentatonic scalesMinor scaleHarmonic minor and Phrygian dominantAltered Scale (super Locrian)Diminished scale and arpeggiosChromatic approach notes, passing tones and enclosuresTension and resolution (inside and outside playing)Motivic ideas (motifs)Call and response linesMinor ii-V-i and V-iStatic harmonyCommon jazz turnarounds12 bar jazz bluesThe ideas presented in The Master Arpeggio System for Jazz Improvisation are an excellent introduction to jazz improvisation for guitarists who want to explore the possibilities of this expansive genre and also those who want to add new sounds to their existing style, whether blues, rock, metal, progressive, pop or jam band. The MASTER ARPEGGIO SYSTEM approaches learning complex concepts from a new perspective that distills the information into an easy to learn and apply method that helps musicians to think in intervals, triads and arpeggios first and scales second in a way that results in an endless variety of melodic ideas that's as easy as connecting the dots. The MASTER ARPEGGIO SYSTEM is an excellent method for guitar teachers! Once learned, this method is easy to communicate, making teaching it a breeze and the ideas are easy to learn and understand and produce musical results very quickly. In TABLATURE & MUSIC NOTATION.AUDIO AVAILABLE ONLINE (see inside book or visit mas4ji.com)

"An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics -- everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism -- from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and 'jazz's greatest living improviser' (The New York Times). Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary and who reshaped modern jazz time and time again over the course of a career lasting more than sixty years. Throughout the greater part of it, Rollins also maintained a notebook in which he sketched in words and images as he pondered art and life and his own search for meaning. The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins provides an unequaled glimpse into the mind and workshop of a musical titan, along with a wealth of insight and inspiration to readers. In the fall of 1959, Rollins famously took a break from performing and recording. He turned to practicing for long hours, often late at night, on the Williamsburg Bridge, and it was then for the first time that he began to turn regularly to his notebooks, which at the time and in the years to come proved for him an indispensable instrument of change in their own right. Here Rollins can tend towards the aphoristic, as in "Face the startling and intriguing reality that there is within me a force working hard for my own destruction, even as I try to improve." Elsewhere, music is front and center, as he mingles observations on embouchure, fingering, and technique with reflections on harmony and dissonance. Lists of daily chores, rehearsal routines, reflections on particular tours and recordings (including detailed notes on how Rollins wanted live albums to be edited), and a steady stream of notes on diet and health also find their way into the notebooks, as do ruminations on systemic racism and the way nightclub culture degrades jazz musicians. Rollins emphatically resists claims that jazz should be considered solely as an African American art form, protesting the diminishment that is caused to jazz musicians by labeling their work 'racial music.' 'The point to be absorbed here, ' he writes, 'is that any definition which seeks to separate Johann Sebastian Bach from Miles Davis is defeating its own purpose of clarification. The musings of Miles is then the bouncing of Bach both played against each other.' Carefully selected and including an informative introduction by critic and scholar Sam Reese, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins makes a vital and fascinating document of American culture publicly available for the first time"--

How can you learn your guitar's fretboard without thinking so that you can play melodies, chords, and solos to always fit the style musically?Robert "Landy" Landinger, author of this book, was looking for a corresponding method since he first started playing the guitar. He focused on guitar greats like Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and discovered the CAGED system which relies exclusively on the basic chords.With this volume, there is finally a book for everyone to learn this ingenious system quickly and effortlessly and master the classic chords on the guitar. Whether you're a singer-songwriter or a folk, metal, jazz or blues guitarist, this book will give you the tools you need to become a CAGED specialist.

An exciting collection of short stories edited by Jason Disley that take the reader down the varied avenues of jazz. From musicians , to lifestyle - to the nights that can change everything with a moment of intricate spontaneity. Expect the unexpected, an element of cool that jazz enthusiasts will recognise. From Soho to Paris, from postwar modernity in Manchester to traditional dixieland in America - these writers deliver the beat and soul that will haunt you like a piece of music. With contributions from Rob Massey, Nathan James Le-Bas, Jason Brummell, Pete Mckenna, Jason Disley himself, and Paul Anderson -you enter the realms of entertainment and experience. DJ, and jazz enthusiast Tom Hoy provides the foreword.

Nach einem Abend mit einer »Telefonkapelle« kommt »Der BassSpieler« nach Hause. Erschöpft vom Konzert, lässt er die letzten Stunden noch einmal Revue passieren. Erinnerungen werden wach. Er erzählt über sein Leben mit dem Kontrabass, Frauen, seinen Einstieg in den Oldtime Jazz, Riverboat Shuffle, Musiker und Konzerte. Episodenhaft durchlebt er die Zeit zwischen ¿MV3 und Gallien-Krueger¿, ¿Osten und Westen¿, ¿Bandausstieg und -neugründung¿, ¿Festivals, Film & Theater¿. Pointiert und kurzweilig blickt er auf all das zurück, was er mit seinem Instrument erlebt hat und hilft, so ganz nebenbei, den Kontrabass kennenzulernen. Wenn Sie schon immer mal wissen wollten, was so alles mit einem Kontrabass und seinem Spieler passieren kann, »Der BassSpieler« gibt Ihnen amüsante Antworten