Six Blues Roots Pianists


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A thorough guide to early blues piano styles with instruction, historical notes, discography, and complete music transcriptions of boogie woogie, barrelhouse, and ragtime solos. Based on recordings by six old blues masters: Jimmy Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes, Otis Spann.




Six Blues-roots Pianists


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Six pioneer pianists--Jimmy Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes, and Otis Spann--are discussed in great detail. Their greatest solos are meticulously transcribed, and a discography augments this collection.




Six Blues-roots Pianists


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Contemporary Keyboard


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Blues


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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




The Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections


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'Anyone doing work in any aspect of American music must begin with this bibliography... an important acquisition for all libraries.'--CHOICE




Rock Keyboard


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The Folk Music Sourcebook


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This revised and updated book is a guide for the listener, collector, singer, player and devotee of folk music. It covers music from string band to bluegrass, Canadian, Creole, Zydeco, jug bands, ragtime and the many kinds of blues. The book evaluates, reviews and recommends on such subjects as where to buy records and instruments and places where folk music flourishes.