Book Reviews (374)
Are you a jazz fan that loves to read about your favorite music genre? Well if so, check out our reviews of the many great jazz books of all types including, autobiographies, biographies, fiction, non-fiction as well as musical instruction.
Howard Roberts is well-known among jazz guitarists. He is most noted for his tone, phrasing, and the direct, unpretentious approach to music he sho...
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Comprehensive Biography Celebrates the Centennial of Tommy Dorseys Birth There was a time when Big Bands ruled the land: brass bands string bands s...
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This is another fine entry in the Frank Vignola Jazz Series published by Mel Bay. Although only fifteen pages long, each page is worthy of the atte...
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John Stowell began his career during the early 1970s and was an immediate success. He met the well-known bassist David Friesen and together they fo...
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Dave Stryker combines a soulful blues feeling with jazz motifs to create unusual sounds. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he moved to New York City in 1980...
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Recognized for his unique stylings and innovative approaches, Gustavio Assis-Brasil shares with guitarists his many intricate insights for a comple...
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In this intriguing approach to bead guitar, Robert Luther Dietz shares the "Bead Method of Fretboard Mastery" with guitarists. Illustrated, clearly...
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A scholarly book which entertains as well as educates, it serves to reveal what has made jazz such an enduring and creative force in American music...
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Fred Hamilton, guitarist, has created a nice, educational book for developing intuitive improvisation. The Earl Harvin Trio performs the music on t...
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An original collection from David Cullen, this collection features jazz compositions for alto saxophone and piano. David Cullen is the composer. Th...
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David Cullen has crafted an entertaining jazz approach in this collection for clarinet and piano. He has composed the music. The paperback comes wi...
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The CD fascinates! Why? Because it has 89 selections that explain musically for the ear what improvising is all about! David Becker excels on the C...
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Andrew Green gives the reader an informative book of musical instruction, and an entertaining CD to accompany it! The jazz guitar comping CD featur...
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Filled with remarks and analysis for performance, the jazz guitarist will find this collection a worthwhile adventure. There is a CD which accompan...
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15 Jan
Swing to Bop: the Music of Charlie Christian, Pioneer of the Electric Guitar (2 by Stan Ayeroff
Stan Ayeroff has given the jazz guitarist a fine collection with this remarkable spiral-bound book, which contains 2 CDs. This work contains the cl...
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Rich Cohen has given us a fine, honest look at the contributions of the Chess brothers to rock and roll. The Record Men is a straight-forward, real...
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Sheila E. Anderson is the host and producer of The Art of Jazz which appears on MNN television. A lady with a wide background of experience, she is...
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TOMMY DORSEY is a memorable reading experience, a fine biography that reveals the grit, shine, and polish of one of the greatest of the Big Band er...
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11 Jan
Melodic Improvising for Guitar: Developing Motivic Ideas Through Chord Changes by Bruce Saunders
Melodic Improvising for Guitar by Bruce Saunders is a pleasant learning experience. The book comes with a play-along CD. Bruce Saunders records, te...
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The more the tin whistle makes its way into jazz settings, the more it becomes a permanent fixture, just as has the recorder in the past five years...
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Misha V. Stefanuk has a sure winner in his new Jazz Album for Piano! This is a wonderful way to learn some intricate piano stylings. There are twel...
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This compact dictionary of terms will serve as a nice reference for those interested in the music industry. An expert in music copyright, Joel Leac...
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Jazz guitarists will enjoy this collection with its play-along CD. It is a series written and arranged for both classical and jazz guitarists. Each...
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06 Jan
Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers by W. Royal Stokes
Royal Stokes explains succinctly in the introduction to his new book Growing Up with Jazz that his switch in interest from the study of the Classic...
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This is the definitive, detailed, highly enjoyable account of the great American jazz figure, Leon Bix Beiderbecke (1903 - 1931). Considered a musi...
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