Inside Jazz (inside Bebop)


Book Description

Critic Leonard Feather was one of the earliest and most persistent champions of bop. It was he who persuaded RCA Victor that the new music was worth recording. His Inside Jazz is a full-length account of bop: its origins and development and the personalities of the musicians who created it. Numerous photographs and anecdotes bring this innovative era in jazz history back to life once more.




How to Play Bebop, Volume 1


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A three volume series that includes the scales, chords and modes necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music. The first volume includes scales, chords and modes most commonly used in bebop and other musical styles. The second volume covers the bebop language, patterns, formulas and other linking exercises necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music.




Bebop Guitar


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Guitarskole for jazzguitar baseret på Charlie Parkers soli




The Art of Bop Drumming


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Presents the essential elements of bop drumming demonstrated through concise exercises and containing ideas to help understand what to play and how to play it and why, as well as an explanation of how the drummer functions in a group.




Be-bop, Re-bop


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"Compelling...Ms. Cartier joins the ranks of Afro-American writers-among them Ralph Ellison and Ntozake Shange-whose works demonstrate the deep connections between music and narrative." NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Be-Bop, Re-Bop is the pulse of American Blacklife, the real-deal depiction of folks and their values as partners in time. Not a book but a beat, it's the tune of our roots on their trail today.




Baby Be-Bop


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Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.




Jazz Baby


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Baby and his family make some jazzy music.




Doing the Animal Bop


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A lively, noisy, funny text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals - including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino and jiving and jiggling and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop! Hugely entertaining with plenty of scope for interaction and play. Doing the Animal Bop is narrated over a catchy calypso melody and punctuated with boisterous animal noises - it's pure, infectious fun!




Charlie Parker Played be Bop


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Introduces the famous saxophonist and his style of jazz known as bebop.




Four Lives in the Bebop Business


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