The Jazz Piano Songbook features twenty of the best jazz songs arranged for piano, voice and guitar, accurately transcribed to reflect the performances of leading jazz singers, from the traditional, such as Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald to contemporary, such as Diana Krall and Jamie Cullum. Songs include Everytime We Say Goodbye, Fly Me To The Moon, I Get A Kick Out Of You and My Funny Valentine.
The story behind the most famous jazz photograph of all time--"a treasure everyone should read" (Quincy Jones) and "a joyous celebration of the spirit of jazz" (Nat Hentoff). And what a day it was, when nearly sixty jazz greats gathered on a Harlem street one morning in August 1958 for what was, incredibly, the photographer Art Kane's first professional shoot. Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basi...
Ten jazz classics specially arranged for easy piano with chord symbols, fingering guides and lyrics.
Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is widely considered one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. A significant record of Coltrane's transition from the bebop and hard bop of his earlier recordings to the free jazz style perfected throughout the rest of his career, the album is also an embodiment of the deep spirituality that characterized the final years of his life. The album itself comprises a four-part suite; the titles of the four parts -...
Harlem in Montmartre (Music of the African Diaspora, #4)
by William A. Shack
During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the United States and settled in Paris, creating a vibrant expatriate musical scene and introducing jazz to the French. While the Harlem Renaissance was taking off across the Atlantic, entertainers in Montmartre, the epicenter of the Parisian scene, contributed enthusiastically to a culture that thrived for two decades, until the occupation of the city by German troops on June 18, 1940....
Eleanora "Lady Day" Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, played a primary role in the development of American jazz culture and in African American history. Devoted to the enduring jazz icon, covering many aspects of her career, image and legacy, these essays range from musical and vocal analyses, to critical assessments of film depictions of the singer, to analysis of the social movements and protests addressed by her signature songs, including her impact on contemporary movements such as #Bla...