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  • The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.   New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles…
    Tiger Rag

    Tiger Rag - A Novel

    By Nicholas Christopher rating of short cover   ( 94 customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, January 2013 ISBN: 9780679645344 Fiction, Historical Language:  English
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  • Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis…
    Princess Noire

    Princess Noire - The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

    By Nadine Cohodas rating of short cover   ( 102 customer ratings) The University of North Carolina Press, February 2012 ISBN: 9780807882740 Cultural Studies, African-American Studies Language:  English
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  • This practical and enlightening book gives insight into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship---scale/chord theory, composing techniques, analyzing tunes, practice strategies, etc. For any level of…
    Metaphors For Musicians

    Metaphors For Musicians

    By Randy Halberstadt, SHER Music rating of short cover   ( 4 customer ratings) Sher Music, January 2011 ISBN: 9781457101434 Instruments & Instruction, Techniques Language:  English
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  • Randy Vincent's second Sher Music Co. book covers every aspect of the crucial three-note voicings every guitarist needs to know. It has received glowing endorsements from Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Mike…
    Three-Note Voicings and Beyond

    Three-Note Voicings and Beyond

    By Randy Vincent rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Sher Music, February 2012 ISBN: 9781457124976 Instruments & Instruction, Guitar Language:  English
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  • For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock ' n' roll is today. In a personal search for the story of that time, Mike Zwerin spent…
    Swing Under the Nazis

    Swing Under the Nazis - Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom

    By Mike Zwerin rating of short cover   ( 3 customer ratings) Cooper Square Press, September 2000 ISBN: 9781461731979 Theory & Criticism, History & Criticism Language:  English
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  • The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the TemptationsThe Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a…
    Ain't Too Proud to Beg

    Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations

    By Mark Ribowsky rating of short cover   ( 15 customer ratings) Wiley, September 2010 ISBN: 9780470632826 Jazz & Blues, Soul Language:  English
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  • The expression of innovative women in acoustic and electric Blues music is both vital and far-reaching. From the beginning, remarkable female artists have helped shape popular music with important…
    Seven Celebrated Women of the Blues

    Seven Celebrated Women of the Blues

    By Paul Wolfle Paul Wolfle, October 2011 ISBN: 9780983493464 Jazz & Blues, Blues Language:  English
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  • “The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins…
    Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

    Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized…

    By Ted Gioia rating of short cover   ( 137 customer ratings) W. W. Norton & Company, November 2009 ISBN: 9780393069990 Jazz & Blues, Blues Language:  English
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  • The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum…
    Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

    Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

    By David Wondrich rating of short cover   ( 23 customer ratings) Chicago Review Press, August 2003 ISBN: 9781569764978 Theory & Criticism, Ethnomusicology Language:  English
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  • 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 Serious Jazz Practice Book

    The Serious Jazz Practice Book

    By Barry Finnerty, SHER Music rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Sher Music, January 2011 ISBN: 9781457101342 Instruments & Instruction, Techniques Language:  English
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