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The Recordings Of Andy Kirk And His Clouds Of Joy

by George (Senior Lecturer In Music, Senior Lecturer In Music, University Of Portsmouth) Burrows

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 The Recordings of Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy examines the music of an important and popular Kansas City band in terms of negotiations over musical styles between black musicians and the racist music industry during a crucial period of popularity and change for American jazz.
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Recordings Of Andy Kirk And His Clouds Of Joy

by George Burrows

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 The Recordings of Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy examines the music of an important and popular Kansas City band in terms of negotiations over musical styles between black musicians and the racist music industry during a crucial period of popularity and change for American jazz.
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Recordings Of Andy Kirk And His Clouds Of Joy

by George Burrows

14,56€ + 10% CARD

 The Recordings of Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy examines the music of an important and popular Kansas City band in terms of negotiations over musical styles between black musicians and the racist music industry during a crucial period of popularity and change for American jazz.
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Dave Brubeck'S Time Out

by Stephen A. Crist

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Author Stephen A. Crist draws on years of archival research and interviews with family, friends, and the man himself to offer the most thorough examination to date of Dave Brubeck's seminal jazz album.
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Dave Brubeck'S Time Out

by Stephen A. Crist

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Author Stephen A. Crist draws on years of archival research and interviews with family, friends, and the man himself to offer the most thorough examination to date of Dave Brubeck's seminal jazz album.
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Pat Metheny - The Ecm Years, 1975-1984

by Mervyn Cooke

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 The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny''s early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of recordings encompasses both straight-ahead jazz playing with virtuosic small ensembles and the increasingly complex textures and structures of the Pat Metheny Group, a hugely successful band also notable for its creative exploration of advanced music technologies which were state-of-the-art at the time.Metheny''s music in all its shapes and forms broke major new ground in its refusal to subscribe to either of the stylistic poles of bebop and jazz-rock fusion which prevailed in the late 1970s. Through a series of detailed analyses based on a substantial body of new transcriptions from the recordings, this study reveals the close interrelationship of improvisation and pre-composition which lies at the very heart of the music. Furthermore, these analyses vividly demonstrate how Metheny''s music is often conditioned by a strongly linear narrative model: both its story-telling characteristics and atmospheric suggestiveness have sometimes been compared to those of film music, a genre in which the guitarist also became active during this early period. The melodic memorability for which Metheny''s compositions and improvisations have long been world-renowned is shown to be just one important element in an unusually rich and flexible musical language that embraces influences as diverse as bebop, free jazz, rock, pop, country & western, Brazilian music, classical music, minimalism, and the avant-garde. These elements are melded into a uniquely distinctive soundworld which, above all, directly reflects Metheny''s passionate belief in the need to refashion jazz in ways which can allow it to speak powerfully to each new generation of youthful listeners.
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Pat Metheny - The Ecm Years, 1975-1984

by Mervyn Cooke

22,51€ + 10% CARD

 The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny''s early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of recordings encompasses both straight-ahead jazz playing with virtuosic small ensembles and the increasingly complex textures and structures of the Pat Metheny Group, a hugely successful band also notable for its creative exploration of advanced music technologies which were state-of-the-art at the time.Metheny''s music in all its shapes and forms broke major new ground in its refusal to subscribe to either of the stylistic poles of bebop and jazz-rock fusion which prevailed in the late 1970s. Through a series of detailed analyses based on a substantial body of new transcriptions from the recordings, this study reveals the close interrelationship of improvisation and pre-composition which lies at the very heart of the music. Furthermore, these analyses vividly demonstrate how Metheny''s music is often conditioned by a strongly linear narrative model: both its story-telling characteristics and atmospheric suggestiveness have sometimes been compared to those of film music, a genre in which the guitarist also became active during this early period. The melodic memorability for which Metheny''s compositions and improvisations have long been world-renowned is shown to be just one important element in an unusually rich and flexible musical language that embraces influences as diverse as bebop, free jazz, rock, pop, country & western, Brazilian music, classical music, minimalism, and the avant-garde. These elements are melded into a uniquely distinctive soundworld which, above all, directly reflects Metheny''s passionate belief in the need to refashion jazz in ways which can allow it to speak powerfully to each new generation of youthful listeners.
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Pat Metheny - The Ecm Years, 1975-1984

by Mervyn (Professor Of Music, Professor Of Music, University Of Nottingham) Cooke

32,43€ + 10% CARD

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 Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1977-1984 offers a vivid account of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's first creative period, during which he recorded eleven albums for the European label ECM. This unique music reflects his passionate belief in the need to refashion jazz in ways which allow it to speak powerfully to a new generation, and the book provides a portrait of a fascinating but often overlooked period in jazz history.
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Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall

by Gabriel Solis

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 Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall is an historical, cultural, and analytical study of the album by the same name. Recorded in 1957, but lost until 2005, it is a particularly interesting lens through which to view jazz both as a historical tradition and as a contemporary cultural form.
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Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall

by Gabriel Solis

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 Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall is an historical, cultural, and analytical study of the album by the same name. Recorded in 1957, but lost until 2005, it is a particularly interesting lens through which to view jazz both as a historical tradition and as a contemporary cultural form.
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Keith Jarrett'S The Koln Concert

by Peter (Lecturer In Music, Lecturer In Music, University Of Hull) Elsdon

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 In Keith Jarrett's The KÃ¶ln Concert, Peter Elsdon presents, for the first time, a detailed musical account of Keith Jarrett's best-selling The KÃ¶ln Concert. It explores the way in which Jarrett developed the format of the solo improvised concert, and looks at the subsequent reception of the record.
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Keith Jarrett'S The Koln Concert

by Peter Elsdon

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 In Keith Jarrett's The KÃ¶ln Concert, Peter Elsdon presents, for the first time, a detailed musical account of Keith Jarrett's best-selling The KÃ¶ln Concert. It explores the way in which Jarrett developed the format of the solo improvised concert, and looks at the subsequent reception of the record.
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Benny Goodman'S Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

by Catherine Tackley

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 In Benny Goodman's famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Through discussions of the cultural context, the performance itself, and its reception and response, Tackley shows why Goodman's 1938 concert remains one of the most significant events in American music history.
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Benny Goodman'S Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

by Catherine Tackley

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 In Benny Goodman's famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Through discussions of the cultural context, the performance itself, and its reception and response, Tackley shows why Goodman's 1938 concert remains one of the most significant events in American music history.
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Studio Recordings Of The Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

by Keith Waters

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 The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made profound contributions to improvisational strategies, jazz composition, and mediation between mainstream and avant-garde jazz, yet most critical attention has focused instead on live performances or the socio-cultural context of the work. Keith Waters'' The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 concentrates instead on the music itself, as written, performed, and recorded.Treating six different studio recordings in depth--ESP, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, and Filles de Kilimanjaro--Waters has tracked down a host of references to and explications of Davis'' work. His analysis takes into account contemporary reviews of the recordings, interviews with the five musicians, and relevant larger-scale cultural studies of the era, as well as two previously unexplored sources: the studio outtakes and Wayne Shorter''s Library of Congress composition deposits. Only recently made available, the outtakes throw the master takes into relief, revealing how the musicians and producer organized and edited the material to craft a unified artistic statement for each of these albums. The author''s research into the Shorter archives proves to be of even broader significance and interest, as Waters is able now to demonstrate the composer''s original conception of a given piece. Waters also points out errors in the notated versions of the canonical songs as they often appear in the main sources available to musicians and scholars. An indispensible resource, The Miles Davis Quintet Studio Recordings: 1965-1968 is suited for the jazz scholar as well as for jazz musicians and aficionados of all levels.
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Keith Jarrett'S The Koln Concert

by Peter Elsdon

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 In Keith Jarrett's The KÃ¶ln Concert, Peter Elsdon presents, for the first time, a detailed musical account of Keith Jarrett's best-selling The KÃ¶ln Concert. It explores the way in which Jarrett developed the format of the solo improvised concert, and looks at the subsequent reception of the record.
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Louis Armstrong'S Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings

by Brian Harker

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 In Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Brian Harker strikes a unique balance between 1920s views of jazz and those of today. For the first time Armstrong's technical achievements are placed in a meaningful cultural context, yielding unexpected insights into these seminal documents of early jazz.
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Studio Recordings Of The Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

by Keith Waters

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made profound contributions to improvisational strategies, jazz composition, and mediation between mainstream and avant-garde jazz, yet most critical attention has focused instead on live performances or the socio-cultural context of the work. Keith Waters'' The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 concentrates instead on the music itself, as written, performed, and recorded.Treating six different studio recordings in depth--ESP, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, and Filles de Kilimanjaro--Waters has tracked down a host of references to and explications of Davis'' work. His analysis takes into account contemporary reviews of the recordings, interviews with the five musicians, and relevant larger-scale cultural studies of the era, as well as two previously unexplored sources: the studio outtakes and Wayne Shorter''s Library of Congress composition deposits. Only recently made available, the outtakes throw the master takes into relief, revealing how the musicians and producer organized and edited the material to craft a unified artistic statement for each of these albums. The author''s research into the Shorter archives proves to be of even broader significance and interest, as Waters is able now to demonstrate the composer''s original conception of a given piece. Waters also points out errors in the notated versions of the canonical songs as they often appear in the main sources available to musicians and scholars. An indispensible resource, The Miles Davis Quintet Studio Recordings: 1965-1968 is suited for the jazz scholar as well as for jazz musicians and aficionados of all levels.
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Dave Brubeck'S Time Out

by Stephen A. (Professor Of Music History, Professor Of Music History, Emory University) Crist

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 Author Stephen A. Crist draws on years of archival research and interviews with family, friends, and the man himself to offer the most thorough examination to date of Dave Brubeck's seminal jazz album.
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Dave Brubeck'S Time Out

by Stephen A. (Professor Of Music History, Professor Of Music History, Emory University) Crist

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 Author Stephen A. Crist draws on years of archival research and interviews with family, friends, and the man himself to offer the most thorough examination to date of Dave Brubeck's seminal jazz album.
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The Recordings Of Andy Kirk And His Clouds Of Joy

by George (Senior Lecturer In Music, Senior Lecturer In Music, University Of Portsmouth) Burrows

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 The Recordings of Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy examines the music of an important and popular Kansas City band in terms of negotiations over musical styles between black musicians and the racist music industry during a crucial period of popularity and change for American jazz.
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Pat Metheny - The Ecm Years, 1975-1984

by Mervyn (Professor Of Music, Professor Of Music, University Of Nottingham) Cooke

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Project X Origins: Orange Book Band, Oxford Level 6: Invasion: Alien Invasion!

by Mike Brownlow; Illustration: Nathan Green

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 In Alien Invasion Billy is unaware that aliens are heading towards Earth ready to attack. When the aliens land on Earth, Billy defeats the aliens without even realising! This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.
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Project X Origins: Orange Book Band, Oxford Level 6: Invasion: Buzz Off!

by Damian Harvey

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 When lots of bugs invade the classroom in Buzz off!, Max, Cat and Ant decide to shrink and follow the line of bugs to uncover the cause. This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.
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