Product Description: Listening to Jazz offers an engaging introduction to the rich history and culture of jazz. Featuring coverage of all standard periods and genres, this text helps students understand how jazz evolved and how its various styles intersect and blend...read more

Product Description: Jazz Basics: A Brief Overview with Historical Documents and Listening Guides provides an enjoyable and informative introduction to the world of jazz music.Jazz Basics:Includes the textbook and access to an accompanying website with extensive time-coded listening guides for each selection...read more

Product Description: Experiencing Jazz, Second Edition, is an integrated textbook with online resources for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through readings, illustrations, timelines, listening guides, and a streaming audio library, it immerses the reader in a journey through the history of jazz, while placing the music within a larger cultural and historical context...read more

Product Description: In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener’s Companion, writer, teacher, and prominent jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience with an extensive range in structure and form, from the syncopated swing of big bands to the musical experimentalism of small combos...read more

Product Description: Modern Sounds: The Artistry of Contemporary Jazz is a storybook approach on the journey, the musicians, and the music that has been created in the pursuit of artistic achievement over the half century. Modern Sounds picks up where most jazz textbooks leave off...read more

Product Description: The solos of Django Reinhardt are an endless source of inspiration and amazement for any musician. In this exciting book, the author has compiled precise solo transcriptions (in notation only), as well as a thorough analysis of each...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Details the convergence of TV technology, computer, and telecom technologies in DTV facilities. Relates technological change to the development of business upgrade plans--developing credible P&L's for the digital changeover. Time-phased scenarios for morphing current analog/digital hybrids into fully digital facilities...read more