Jazz, Blues

Playing Solo Jazz Piano is an essential new book for creative jazz pianists. The second edition adds two new chapters and audiovisual content to the original. Readers will learn essential solo jazz p …

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian Mc Partland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography From Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33-year run o …

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music–Certificate of Merit (2013) The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market …

The most comprehensive book ever written on how to create the 4-note, block-chord approach to jazz piano playing used by masters like Mc Coy Tyner, Bill Evans, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton, etc. In thi …

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a …

Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses o …

Written by a jazz teacher for jazz teachers, ‘The Real Jazz Pedagogy Book’ is based on the premise that successful jazz teachers must be constantly working four main areas: 1) the wind …

This book covers new concepts regarding post-bop and contemporary jazz improvisation in a practical way. It is aimed at intermediate to advanced students. It provides new tools for performance in …

Greetings Readers,   It’s warming up everywhere and the scent of summer is in the air! The world is changing right before our very eyes. A new normal is upon us . We just hear of …

Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of small group swing jazz. Coming into being in the early 1940s, small group swing answered the need in the …