Creating Jazz Counterpoint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Jazz Counterpoint write by Vic Hobson. This book was released on 2014-03-19. Creating Jazz Counterpoint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson's credibility. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnson's recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New Orleans jazz. New Orleans jazz was different from ragtime in a number of ways. It was a music that was collectively improvised, and it carried a new tonality--the tonality of the blues. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of New Orleans.
Creating Jazz Counterpoint
Creating Jazz Counterpoint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Jazz Counterpoint write by Vic Hobson. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Creating Jazz Counterpoint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz
Creating the Jazz Solo
Creating the Jazz Solo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating the Jazz Solo write by Vic Hobson. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Creating the Jazz Solo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship. Until now, there has been no in-depth inquiry into what he meant when he said, “I figure singing and playing is the same,” or, “Singing was more into my blood than the trumpet.” Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony shows that Armstrong understood exactly the relationship between what he sang and what he played, and that he meant these comments to be taken literally: he was singing through his horn. To describe the relationship between what Armstrong sang and played, author Vic Hobson discusses elements of music theory with a style accessible even to readers with little or no musical background. Jazz is a music that is often performed by people with limited formal musical education. Armstrong did not analyze what he played in theoretical terms. Instead, he thought about it in terms of the voices in a barbershop quartet. Understanding how Armstrong, and other pioneer jazz musicians of his generation, learned to play jazz and how he used his background of singing in a quartet to develop the jazz solo has fundamental implications for the teaching of jazz history and performance today. This assertive book provides an approachable foundation for current musicians to unlock the magic and understand jazz the Louis Armstrong way.
Contemporary Counterpoint
Contemporary Counterpoint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Counterpoint write by Beth Denisch. This book was released on 2017-09-01. Contemporary Counterpoint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Berklee Guide). Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint the relationship between musical voices is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study of composition for many centuries. Whether you are a composer, arranger, film composer, orchestrator, music director, bandleader, or improvising musician, this book will help hone your craft, gain control, and lead you to new creative possibilities. You will learn "tricks of the trade" from the masters and apply these skills to contemporary styles. Online audio examples illustrate the principles being discussed, and many recommended listening lists point you to additional examples of how these principles have been used in music over the past thousand years.
Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony
Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony write by . This book was released on 1996-05-01. Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists.
