Conceptualizing The Jazz Piano Trio

Author : Ben Dockery
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781491249383
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing the Jazz Piano Trio written by Ben Dockery and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interviews with nine of the world's greatest living musicians shines light on the jazz piano trio, one of the genre's most enduring formats. Interviewed musicians include Jeff Hamilton, Richard Davis, Joanne Brackeen, Jeff Ballard, Fred Hersch, Chuck Israels, Peter Erskine, Eric Reed, and Rufus Reid. There is also a lengthy analysis section comparing the diverse responses given by these intriguing individuals.

Author : David Schiff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520245873
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ellington Century written by David Schiff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Ellington Century is a wonderful journey through the world of music and art. If you are already an aficionado of Ellington's music, you will enjoy the author's informative and detailed analysis of the composer's work and musical influences. If you are less familiar, this book puts Ellington's music in perspective with the great ‘classical’ composers of the twentieth century. David Schiff's remarkable insight into the historical and musical parallels between these composers is a delight to read and his references are vast, from Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Stravinsky’s Agon to television’s Sesame Street. Schiff writes with a sense of humor and an enthusiasm for Ellington's music that comes out on every page.”—George Manahan, Music Director, American Composers Orchestra “David Schiff points us forward, observing that ‘Ellington’s music asks us to see with our ears and hear with our eyes.’ Writing as a composer and scholar, he has a gift for making complex ideas strikingly clear. His insights move across a huge terrain of twentieth-century culture, as he builds bridges in his musical and cultural analysis where many have not seen a connection. Yet each musical work, each artist, is given his or her equal due. In this sense, he has met the spiritual and cultural challenge of Ellington’s life work.”—Marty Ehrlich, Composer/Instrumentalist, Associate Professor of Improvisation and Contemporary Music, Hampshire College

Author : Robert D. Vandall
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 1457448157
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz for Three written by Robert D. Vandall and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1995-02-06 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Vandall combines elements of jazz and blues in these highly popular works for one piano, six hands. Titles are "Blue Threesome" and "In the Groove."

Author : Travis A. Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270452
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blowin’ the Blues Away written by Travis A. Jackson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blowin' the Blues Away makes a major contribution to our understanding of the contexts and meanings of jazz performance. Jackson makes his own mark by not only documenting 'the jazz scene' in New York but also by providing a critical vocabulary and methodology for future researchers. As such, Jackson’s book provides the most in-depth understanding of the rituals and meanings of jazz performance to date." —Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

Author : Steve Savage
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901184
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bytes and Backbeats written by Steve Savage and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation and reception of music. Savage adopts the notion of "repurposing" as central to understanding how every aspect of musical activity, from creation to reception, has been transformed, arguing that the tension within production between a naturalizing "art" and a self-conscious "artifice" reflects and feeds into our evolving notions of creativity, authenticity, and community. At the core of the book are three original audio projects, drawing from rock & roll, jazz, and traditional African music, through which Savage is able to target areas of contemporary practice that are particularly significant in the cultural evolution of the musical experience. Each audio project includes a studio study providing context for the social and cultural analysis that follows. This work stems from Savage's experience as a professional recording engineer and record producer.

Author : Marina Santi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892041
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education as Jazz written by Marina Santi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day held on April 30 2013 at the University of Padova, Italy, this book represents the development of a project begun some years before to investigate the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faced concept and practice. The initial focus of this project was to discuss the different meanings attributed to the concept of improvisation, starting from questioning the common misunderstanding which interprets improvisation as a naïve behaviour rather than high-level performance. According with these premises, Education as Jazz represents a metaphor and a challenge, exploring the potential of jazz conceived not only as kind of music or art, but rather as a mix of values, attitudes, and skills fundamental in everyday life and in human development. As such, the book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and a multidimensional approach. According to the rationale of the UNESCO International Jazz Day, which highlights the role of jazz in promoting peaceful societies, intercultural dialogue, gender equality, and innovative spirit, this book offers a concrete educational resource and theoretical framework oriented towards a new pedagogy for freedom.

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826166
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jazz written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

Author : Rey Mudgett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piano Jazz Trio written by Rey Mudgett and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bud Powell in the early 1950s to Michael Wollny in 2013, via Ahmad Jamal, Duke Ellington, Brad Mehldau, and The Bad Plus, these are all outstanding jazz piano trio recordings, a perfect selection for someone discovering jazz for the first time or the collector looking for something fresh. Nine professional musicians discuss one of the most popular formats, the jazz piano trio. Interviewed musicians include: -Fred Hersch -Peter Erskine -Rufus Reid -Chuck Israels -Jeff Ballard -Eric Reed -Joanne Brackeen -Richard Davis -Jeff Hamilton * Legendary trio musicians answer these probing questions: -What's the difference between piano trios and rhythm sections? -Which piano trios influenced you most? -Why do you like playing in trios? -What makes a piano trio unique? -How do you hire another trio member? -What goes into playing a set of trio music? -What changes because of repertoire? -How much trio music is pre-arranged -Do you rehearse and, if so, how?

Author : Sherrie Tucker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822328179
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing Shift written by Sherrie Tucker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story, based on extensive individual interviews, of the women’s swing bands that toured extensively during World War II and after -- a kind of “League of their Own” for jazz.

Author : Billy Taylor
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taylor Made Piano written by Billy Taylor and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1983 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informal though authoritative history of jazz, Taylor heard through the piano, combining his firsthand knowledge both as a musician and as an "aural historian." He begins by tracing jazz' roots to the African tradition, disputing Andre Hodier's popular theory that early jazz rhythms were derived from military marches and polkas, which black musicians might have heard in the 1800s. He follows the chronology through the rags of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake, the New Orleans jazz of Jelly Roll Morton, the stride piano of Fats Waller and James P. Johnson, on up through Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner and Keith Jarrett.