(Meredith Music Resource). A "must have" exciting collection of favorite tips from 57 of today's most outstanding educators, performers, and industry pros in the jazz education world. This is an ideal source that contains proven successful suggestions that will not only aid the teacher/director from junior high school to university levels, but the conductor and performer novice to professional! Performance tips on instrument technique, rehearsals, programming, technology, improvisation and much more! Enjoy this quick-to-read enjoyable book that will inform and inspire creativity and improvement at all levels. Sample recipes include: Jamey Abersold, legendary jazz educator and publisher, NEW Jazz Master and LeJENd of Jazz Education Honoree, Advanced Jazz Improve, How to Cook! ; John Clayton, Grammy award winning Bassist and composer, JEN Vice-President Left Hand Bass-ics ; Dennis DiBlasio, jazz saxophonist with Maynard Ferguson and others, arranger, composer, educator, Get Started Improvising by Using a Single Scale-Heat, Simmer, Boil!; Diane Downs, founder and artistic director of the renowned Louisville Leopard Percussionists, All About the Blues! ; Dr. Lou Fischer, co-founder/past president of the Jazz Education Network, performer, composer, author, Big Band Shake 'n Bake Successful Performance Tips ; Dan Haerle, faculty/Regents professor in Jazz studies at the UNT 25 years, LeJENds of Jazz Education recipient, Expand Your Palette a taste of Voicings ; Dave Liebman, NEA Jazz Master, LeJENd of Jazz Education, award winning performer, lecturer, author, Beyond the Music Jazz Education in the Century of Change ; Darmon Meader, distinguished vocalist, arranger, and saxophonist, founder/performer New York Voices, Stir, Don't Shake Recipe for Vocal Improv ; Bob Mintzer, 23-year member of Yellowjackets, Grammy award-winning big band leader and composer of big band music performed globally, Spice Up your Life with Music words from one who knows! ; Dr. Gary Motley, recognized by National Endowment for the Arts, Great American Jazz Piano Competition, and American Composers Forum, Jazz and the iPad Add this to your Menu! ; Dr. Larry Ridley, educator, performer, authors and is founder/executive director for the African-American Jazz Caucus, Inc., (AAJC), Jazz Gumbo, sage advice ; Paris Rutherford, Regents Professor Emeritus of Jazz, Univ. of North Texas 30 years, author, arranger, LeJENds of Jazz Education recipient, Recipe for Arranging Amazing Vocal Jazz Goodies .

(Meredith Music Resource). A "must have" exciting collection of favorite tips from 57 of today's most outstanding educators, performers, and industry pros in the jazz education world. This is an ideal source that contains proven successful suggestions that will not only aid the teacher/director from junior high school to university levels, but the conductor and performer novice to professional! Performance tips on instrument technique, rehearsals, programming, technology, improvisation and much more! Enjoy this quick-to-read enjoyable book that will inform and inspire creativity and improvement at all levels. Sample recipes include: Jamey Abersold, legendary jazz educator and publisher, NEW Jazz Master and LeJENd of Jazz Education Honoree Advanced Jazz Improve, How to Cook! John Clayton, Grammy award winning Bassist and composer, JEN Vice-President Left Hand Bass-ics Dennis DiBlasio, jazz saxophonist with Maynard Ferguson and others, arranger, composer, educator Get Started Improvising by Using a Single Scale-Heat, Simmer, Boil! Diane Downs, founder and artistic director of the renowned Louisville Leopard Percussionists All About the Blues! Dr. Lou Fischer, co-founder/past president of the Jazz Education Network, performer, composer, author Big Band Shake 'n Bake Successful Performance Tips Dan Haerle, faculty/Regents professor in Jazz studies at the UNT 25 years, LeJENds of Jazz Education recipient Expand Your Palette a taste of Voicings Dave Liebman, NEA Jazz Master, LeJENd of Jazz Education, award winning performer, lecturer, author Beyond the Music Jazz Education in the Century of Change Darmon Meader, distinguished vocalist, arranger, and saxophonist, founder/performer New York Voices Stir, Don't Shake Recipe for Vocal Improv Bob Mintzer, 23-year member of Yellowjackets, Grammy award-winning big band leader and composer of big band music performed globally Spice Up your Life with Music words from one who knows! Dr. Gary Motley, recognized by National Endowment for the Arts, Great American Jazz Piano Competition, and American Composers Forum Jazz and the iPad Add this to your Menu! Dr. Larry Ridley, educator, performer, authors and is founder/executive director for the African-American Jazz Caucus, Inc., (AAJC) Jazz Gumbo, sage advice Paris Rutherford, Regents Professor Emeritus of Jazz, Univ. of North Texas 30 years, author, arranger, LeJENds of Jazz Education recipient Recipe for Arranging Amazing Vocal Jazz Goodies

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

In celebration of the Almanac's 225th anniversary (in 2017), Almanac readers, fans, and enthusiasts share their favorite recipes for home-cooked meals, potlucks, holidays, special occasions, and simply snacking, with the story of each recipe's origin and why it is special.

Compilation of articles by the leading jazz reviewer offers a lively commentary of the record world and its personalities in the 1960's

Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.