Jazz Ears

Author : Thom David Mason
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780793579402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Ears written by Thom David Mason and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Jazz Book). From Thom Mason comes a fun and interesting guide to help you develop aural skills. This book focuses on improving your technique in hearing pitches, rhythms, melodies, and chord progressions, as directly applied to actual music in the jazz repertoire. The text will help you to hear music in your head from the written page, transcribe, and sight sing, all the while making it musical through appropriate jazz phrasing and articulations. The valuable lessons learned can be applied to any instrument or voice, with skills that transcend jazz, useful in all styles of music.

Author : Nichole T. Rustin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389223
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Ears written by Nichole T. Rustin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In jazz circles, players and listeners with “big ears” hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz. Essays range from a reflection on the female boogie-woogie pianists who played at Café Society in New York during the 1930s and 1940s to interpretations of how the jazzman is represented in Dorothy Baker’s novel Young Man with a Horn (1938) and Michael Curtiz’s film adaptation (1950). Taken together, the essays enrich the field of jazz studies by showing how gender dynamics have shaped the production, reception, and criticism of jazz culture. Scholars of music, ethnomusicology, American studies, literature, anthropology, and cultural studies approach the question of gender in jazz from multiple perspectives. One contributor scrutinizes the tendency of jazz historiography to treat singing as subordinate to the predominantly male domain of instrumental music, while another reflects on her doubly inappropriate position as a female trumpet player and a white jazz musician and scholar. Other essays explore the composer George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept as a critique of mid-twentieth-century discourses of embodiment, madness, and black masculinity; performances of “female hysteria” by Les Diaboliques, a feminist improvising trio; and the BBC radio broadcasts of Ivy Benson and Her Ladies’ Dance Orchestra during the Second World War. By incorporating gender analysis into jazz studies, Big Ears transforms ideas of who counts as a subject of study and even of what counts as jazz. Contributors: Christina Baade, Jayna Brown, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Monica Hairston, Kristin McGee, Tracy McMullen, Ingrid Monson, Lara Pellegrinelli, Eric Porter, Nichole T. Rustin, Ursel Schlicht, Julie Dawn Smith, Jeffrey Taylor, Sherrie Tucker, João H. Costa Vargas

Author : Ben Ratliff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429956208
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Ear written by Ben Ratliff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz critic Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of Blue." Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft for fear of destroying its improvisational essence, rendering jazz among the most ephemeral and least transparent of the performing arts. In The Jazz Ear, the acclaimed music critic Ben Ratliff sits down with jazz greats to discuss recordings by the musicians who most influenced them. In the process, he skillfully coaxes out a profound understanding of the men and women themselves, the context of their work, and how jazz—from horn blare to drum riff—is created conceptually. Expanding on his popular interviews for The New York Times, Ratliff speaks with Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Joshua Redman, and others about the subtle variations in generation, training, and attitude that define their music. Playful and keenly insightful, The Jazz Ear is a revelatory exploration of a unique way of making and hearing music.

Author : Jamey Aebersold
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781562240677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training: Book & 2 CDs written by Jamey Aebersold and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training is a no-nonsense approach consisting of two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instructions before each. It starts very simply, with intervals and gradually increases in difficulty until you are hearing chord changes and progressions. All answers are listed in the book, and contains transposed parts for C, B-flat, and E-flat instruments to allow playing along. Beginning to advanced levels.

Author : Jerry Coker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearin' the Changes written by Jerry Coker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of chord progressions found in the jazz musician's repertoire. Through the tunes, the chord progressions are compared to one another, linked together by commonalities, and harmonic traits are codified, aiding in memorization and identification by ear.

Author : Brian Dickinson
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9783892210870
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The ears have walls written by Brian Dickinson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2007 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ears Have Walls is a comprehensive approach to ear training that will greatly improve every player's grasp of harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic concepts. Although geared to the jazz improviser, this book will prove beneficial to all types of play

Author : Karen Ehrhardt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547545746
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Jazz Man written by Karen Ehrhardt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine." Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance! Includes a brief biography of each musician.

Author : ANDREW OSTWALD
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610657683
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Jazz, Blues, & Rock Piano by Ear Book Three written by ANDREW OSTWALD and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive introduction to jazz, blues, and rock piano will offer easy-to- understand explanations of music theory, and guide you step by step as you develop your skills. Above all, Piano by Ear will help you to explore and develop your ability to improvise. Rather than focus on written notation, you'll learn to express yourself at the piano by relying on your ear and on your own creative instincts. Book Three will acquaint you with a number of common chord sequences, whichin turn, will help you to play literally thousands of songs. Click on 'Contents' for more details. Only basic piano technique and basic music-reading skills areneeded. Online audio available

Author : ANDREW OSTWALD
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619115808
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Jazz, Blues, & Rock Piano by Ear Book Two written by ANDREW OSTWALD and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive introduction to jazz, blues, and rock piano will offer easy-to- understand explanations of music theory, and guide you step by step as you develop your skills. Above all, Piano by Ear will help you to explore and develop your ability to improvise. Rather than focus on written notation, you'll learn to express yourself at the piano by relying on your ear and on your own creative instincts. Building on the fundamentals introduced in Book One, Book Two introduces a whole new world of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic possibilities. Only basic piano technique and basic music-reading skills are needed. Includes access to online audio

Author : ANDREW OSTWALD
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619114801
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Jazz, Blues, & Rock Piano by Ear Book One written by ANDREW OSTWALD and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2003-12-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive introduction to jazz, blues, and rock piano will offer easy-to- understand explanations of music theory, and guide you step by step as you develop your skills. Above all, Piano by Ear will help you to explore and develop your ability to improvise. Rather than focus on written notation, you'll learn to express yourself at the piano by relying on your ear and on your own creative instincts. Book One is designed for students who are brand-new to playing music by earand improvising. Only basic piano technique and basic music-reading skills are needed.