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Free Download Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist: An Imaginative Approach
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032399236 | 222 Pages | PDF (True) | 76 MB
Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques.

Free Download PastToFutureReverbs ES-175 Jazz Guitar for KONTAKT! KONTAKT WAV | 279.2 Mb
After we made the muted jazz guitar we got so many requests for making a normal version of our trusty old Gibson ES-175 Jazz Guitar!

Free Download Storie di jazz. Guida sentimentale alla vita e alla musica di cinquanta (e più) maestri di Enrico Bettinello
Italiano | 26 gennaio 2017 | ISBN: 8862319428, 8862318561 | True EPUB | 331 pagine | 1.3 MB
Un appassionante viaggio attraverso la vita e la musica di decine di jazzisti famosi e meno famosi, spaziando attraverso i decenni e gli stili. Da Louis Armstrong a Charlie Haden, passando per Lester Young e Bill Evans, una guida che unisce il calore della narrazione biografica all’accuratezza della analisi musicale, una sorta di educazione sentimentale alle tante straordinarie vite di artisti che hanno contribuito a costruire un secolo di grandi e piccole meraviglie sonore.

Free Download Il jazz e le cose. 33 storie tra musica, realtà, utopia di Guido Michelone
Italiano | 26 novembre 2020 | ISBN: 886231972X | True EPUB | 335 pagine | 0.9 MB
Le "cose", nel senso di storie ricorrenti, sono quelle dei luoghi, dei fatti, della gente che suona, ama, vive il jazz portandolo sulla sommità dell’intero universo suono, perché improvvisare o swingare risulta ormai una parte fondamentale della nostra vita tra musica, cronaca, realtà, perché insomma il jazz è anche il perno della cultura, dell’arte, dello spettacolo, del trascendente, dell’industria, della politica, del quotidiano, della società dei secoli XX e XXI. Le cose fondanti del jazz medesimo – come pure le arti o le idee sul jazz – appaiono in questo libro via via importanti, decisive, utopistiche, tenere, rabbiose, furenti, sensuali, fino a spostare il discorso su tutto ciò che effettivamente il jazz richiama quando tutti noi il jazz lo ascoltiamo, lo suoniamo, lo viviamo.

Free Download T Storm Heter East Stroudsburg Universi professor director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Studies, "The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening "
English | ISBN: 153816261X | 2022 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press, while ignoring critiques of the white consumption of black culture. Ironically, critiques of whiteness are found not only in black literature and media, but also within the blues, jazz, and spirituals that whites listened to, loved, collected, and archived.

Free Download Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book: Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
English | November 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 0593233824 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 44.53 MB
Discover the fascinating history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on American cocktail culture through 70 rediscovered, modernized, or celebrated recipes, by the James Beard Award-winning author of Jubilee.

Free Download Donald Miller, "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality"
English | 2006 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1400280389, 1400280389 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened." ?Donald Miller

Free Download Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP69K2R6 | 2023 | 19 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 579 MB
Author: Judith Tick
Narrator: Carmen Jewel Jones
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer’s difficult childhood, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls’ reformatory school-where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer. Rarely seen profiles from the Black press offer precious glimpses of Fitzgerald’s tense experiences of racial discrimination and her struggles with constricting models of Black and white femininity. Breaking ground as a female bandleader, Fitzgerald refuted expectations of musical Blackness, deftly balancing artistic ambition and market expectations. Her legendary exploration of the Great American Songbook in the 1950s fused a Black vocal aesthetic and jazz improvisation to revolutionize the popular repertoire. This hybridity often confounded critics, yet Ella reached audiences around the world, electrifying concert halls, and sold millions of records. This book describes a powerful woman who set a standard for American excellence nearly unmatched in the twentieth century.

Free Download Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor, "Jazz and Postwar French Identity: Improvising the Nation"
English | ISBN: 1498528767 | 2016 | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally linked to the multicultural through its origins in the hands of African-American musicians, happenings within the French jazz public reflected much about France’s postwar society. In the minds of many, jazz was connected to youth culture, but instead of challenging traditional gender expectations, the music tended to reinforce long-held stereotypes. French critics, musicians, and fans contended with the reality of American superpower strength and often strove to elevate their own country’s stature in relation to the United States by finding fault with American consumer society and foreign policy aims. Jazz audiences used this music to condemn American racism and to support the American civil rights movement, expressing strong reservations about the American way of life. French musicians lobbied to create professional opportunities for themselves, and some went so far as to create a union that endorsed preferential treatment for French nationals.

Free Download Jazz and American Culture
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009420194 | 432 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspects of American life, including books, films, language, and politics. Observing how jazz has become a cultural institution, widely celebrated as ‘America’s classical music,’ the book also never loses sight of its beginnings in Black expressive culture and its enduring ability to critique problems of democracy or speak back to violence and inequality, from Jim Crow to George Floyd. Taking the reader through time and across expressive forms, this volume traces jazz as an aesthetic influence, a political force, and a representational focus in American literature and culture. It shows how Jazz has long been a rich source of aesthetic stimulation, influencing writers as stylistically wide-ranging as Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, and James Baldwin, or artists as diverse as Aaron Douglas, Jackson Pollock, and Gordon Parks.