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Joe Venuti - Never Before...Never Again

Violin Transcriptions

By: Joe Venuti

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Joe Venuti - Never Before...Never Again

Violin Transcriptions

By: Joe Venuti

Joe Venuti was the first and greatest jazz violinist. In 1954 an imprompturecording session in duet with guitarist Tony Romano produced, in the words of respected jazz critic Leonard Feather, music of the highest and purest order. British Jazz violinist and teacher Aidan Massey has meticulously transcribed Venuti's breathtaking solos from this session, the audio available online. Paul Anastasio who studied with Venuti says this represents Joe'sbest recorded work and that Massey has done a terrific job of writing spot-on, highly accurate transcriptions. The book contains an introduction by Richard Niles Romano with a brief biography of his father Tony Romano and Venuti and the circumstances surrounding this rare historic recording

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Mel Bay Publications

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1610652495

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9781610652490

Telling It Like It Is

By: Joe Darensbourg,Peter Vacher

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Telling It Like It Is

By: Joe Darensbourg,Peter Vacher

The autobiography of one of the foremost jazz clarinetists who is well known for his recordings with Edward 'Kid' Ory and the Louis Armstrong All Stars. Darensbourg was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in 1906 and heard many early New Orleans jazz bands as a young boy. For most of his life he lived on the West Coast and the book is a first-rate reference source for students of jazz and popular music in the urban centres of Seattle and Los Angeles.

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271

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Springer

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1349087300

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9781349087303

Times Remembered

The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio

By: Joe La Barbera,Charles Levin

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Times Remembered

The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio

By: Joe La Barbera,Charles Levin

In the late 1970s legendary pianist Bill Evans was at the peak of his career. He revolutionized the jazz trio (bass, piano, drums) by giving each part equal emphasis in what jazz historian Ted Gioia called a “telepathic level” of interplay. It was an ideal opportunity for a sideman, and after auditioning in 1978, Joe La Barbera was ecstatic when he was offered the drum chair, completing the trio with Evans and bassist Marc Johnson. In Times Remembered, La Barbera and co-author Charles Levin provide an intimate fly-on-the-wall peek into Evans’s life, critical recording sessions, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes of life on the road. Joe regales the trio’s magical connection, a group that quickly gelled to play music on the deepest and purest level imaginable. He also watches his dream gig disappear, a casualty of Evans’s historical drug abuse when the pianist dies in a New York hospital emergency room in 1980. But La Barbera tells this story with love and respect, free of judgment, showing Evans’s humanity and uncanny ability to transcend physical weakness and deliver first-rate performances at nearly every show.

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241

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University of North Texas Press

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ISBN 10

1574418548

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9781574418545

Western Swing Fiddle

By: Joe Carr

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Western Swing Fiddle

By: Joe Carr

Learn the three basic styles of western swing fiddling. the melody section includes classic techniques to help you achieve an authentic sound. Harmony Fiddling covers the basics of two- and three-part fiddling. the Improvising section unlocks the secrets of the hot, jazzy fiddling heard on recordings by Bob Wills, Asleep at the Wheel, and many others. the accompanying CD includes a play-along section where you can try out new techniques.

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Mel Bay Publications

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1610651499

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9781610651493

The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! (readers copy)

By: Joe Marshall

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The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! (readers copy)

By: Joe Marshall

Get a readers copy of the script for the Off-Broadway smash hit THE GAYEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER! It's time for the annual holiday production for a struggling gay theatre company in West Hollywood. Jim, the pot-smoking straight tech guy, offends M&M, the eclectic playwright, causing him to walk out and take his script with him. Now the crazy and drama-addicted team has just a few weeks to product the ""gayest Christmas pageant ever."" This holiday camp-fest is as fast-paced comedy packed with hilarious dialog and over-the-top characters. From award-winning playwright Joe Marshall ('Dirty Secrets, ' 'A Night in Vegas, ' 'A Waning Gibbous Moon').

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Lulu.com

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1794736646

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9781794736641

The Guitar and the New World

A Fugitive History

By: Joe Gioia

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The Guitar and the New World

A Fugitive History

By: Joe Gioia

The American guitar, that lightweight wooden box with a long neck, hourglass figure, and six metal strings, has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object—the most popular musical instrument in the world. In The Guitar and the New World, Joe Gioia offers a many-limbed social history that is as entertaining as it is informative. After uncovering the immigrant experience of his guitar-making Sicilian great uncle, Gioia's investigation stretches from the ancient world to the fateful events of the 1901 Buffalo Pan American Exposition, across Sioux Ghost Dancers and circus Indians, to the lives and works of such celebrated American musicians as Jimmy Rodgers, Charlie Patton, Eddie Lang, and the Carter Family. At the heart of the book's portrait of wanderings and legacies is the proposition that America's idiomatic harmonic forms—mountain music and the blues—share a single root, and that the source of the sad and lonesome sounds central to both is neither Celtic nor African, but truly indigenous—Native American. The case is presented through a wide examination of cultural histories, academic works, and government documents, as well as a close appreciation of recordings made by key rural musicians, black and white, in the 1920s and '30s. The guitar in its many forms has cheered humanity through centuries of upheaval, and The Guitar and the New World offers a new account of this old friend, as well as a transformative look at a hidden chapter of American history.

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265

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State University of New York Press

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1438455038

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9781438455037

It's Easy To Bluff... Jazz Guitar

By: Joe Bennett

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It's Easy To Bluff... Jazz Guitar

By: Joe Bennett

We'd all like to say we understand jazz, but how many of us really know the difference between a Wes Montgomery and a Joe Pass solo? Who's got the time to study all those complicated chords? Where can you actually buy one of those little round Pork Pie hats? Never mind... It's Easy To Bluff gives you all the skills you need! Learn to play some impressive riffs and solos, and discover everything you need to hold your own at any jazz gig.

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Wise Publications

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0857123556

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9780857123558

Book's by Joe Venuti

Joe Venuti - Never Before...Never Again

Joe Venuti - Never Before...Never Again

Telling It Like It Is

Telling It Like It Is

Times Remembered

Times Remembered

Western Swing Fiddle

Western Swing Fiddle

The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! (readers copy)

The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! (readers copy)

The Guitar and the New World

The Guitar and the New World

It's Easy To Bluff... Jazz Guitar

It's Easy To Bluff... Jazz Guitar

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