Guido Michelone 
Jazz poesia civile 

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 …

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 …

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 …

In the late 1950s, free jazz broke all the rules, liberating musicians both to create completely spontaneous and unplanned performances and to develop unique personal musical systems. This genre …

George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, …

All musicians need to thoroughly learn their scales, chords, intervals and various melodic patterns in order to become complete musicians. The question has always been how to approach this universal …

The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Addin …

Jazz players tend to be good sharers and good listeners–the qualities are virtually obligatory in often spontaneously conceived ensemble music. And the respect that the best players command can …

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 …

In this book, Jason Davis shares his journey through the world of jazz music. From his early days as a child listening to Cannonball Adderley and Charlie Parker to his later years performing with som …