Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers.
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers.
Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy.
In Getting Started in Ballet, A Parent's Guide to Dance Education, authors Anna Paskevska and Maureen Janson comprehensively present the realities that parents can anticipate during their child's training and/or career in ballet.
Of all the major jazz artists, Thelonious Monk was one of the most original musical thinkers--nonconformist, idiosyncratic, imaginative, eccentric--in a word, unique.
Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which so many others have drawn inspiration.
Georgia on My Mind, Rockin' Chair, Skylark, Lazybones, and of course the incomparable Star Dust--who else could have composed these classic American songs but Hoagy Carmichael?
Georgia on My Mind, Rockin' Chair, Skylark, Lazybones, and of course the incomparable Star Dust--who else could have composed these classic American songs but Hoagy Carmichael?
Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, A Love Supreme is widely considered John Coltrane's magnum opus and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.
A groundbreaking work of Romantic biography; David Crane's book is an astonishingly original examination of Byron, and a radical approach to biography.
One hundred colourful portraits of the cricketing characters whom Ian Botham has come across in his eventful career and who have influenced the game for good in his time: from top players, umpires and coaches to pop stars, writers and philanthropists.
Fernando Alfaro es uno de los músicos de referencia del rock independiente nacional y el líder y vocalista de uno de los grupos de culto de los noventa: Surfin' Bichos, recientemente reunidos tras un hiato de tres décadas para grabar un disco que ha visto la luz en 2023.
This 'School of Velocity - Working on fingering and tonguing technique' contains a collection of exercises and studies that provide clarinettists with the opportunity to focus on improving fluency in fingering and staccato playing: Basic exercises, finger technique for the left and the right hand, exercises in various keys, exercises for working on tonguing technique, staccato studies and exercises in double-tonguing.
With their technique clothed in imaginative music, Gariboldi's etudes are an excellent addition to the classical scale and triad studies for the intermediate flautist at the threshold of the advanced level.
La doble formación, filosófica y musical, de Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno tiñe de un color especial los muchos escritos que publicó sobre teoría y práctica de la música, entre ellos las magníficas monografías sobre Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler y Alban Berg.
Este segundo volumen del reconocido Método práctico de violín de Nicolás Laoureux ofrece 30 estudios progresivos especialmente diseñados para consolidar el dominio de la primera posición, una etapa clave en la formación técnica del violinista.
"Una de las características más notables del arte musical en los últimos decenios es sin duda alguna, el prodigioso aumento de su campo de acción, antes limitado a una reducida minoría y extendido ahora a grandes sectores de la población mediante el disco o la radiotelefonía que permiten al aficionado conocer sin esfuerzo y en poco tiempo mayor cantidad de música que el profesional de antaño en varios años de experiencia.
Tremper le crin dans l'horizons'accaparer le bleu du cielTon encrier c'est l'universÀ toi de relater l'odyssée Aly Ndiaye, alias Webster, est un vétéran de la scène hip-hop québécoise.
The fact that classical music and jazz are not mutually exclusive is proven by the new volume in the popular series by Uwe Korn: For the tune book, 10 classical themes have been carefully arranged for flute and piano and made into jazz pieces for two.
