My Sax Life
DOWNLOAD
Download My Sax Life PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get My Sax Life book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
My Sax Life
DOWNLOAD
Author : Paquito D'Rivera
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-04
My Sax Life written by Paquito D'Rivera and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of 2005 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Winner of 2005 National Medal of Arts Since defecting from Cuba in 1980—and indeed long before that in his native land— Paquito D'Rivera has received glowing praise time and again. A best-selling artist with more than thirty solo albums to his credit, D'Rivera has performed at the White House and the Blue Note, and with orchestras, jazz ensembles, and chamber groups around the world. My Sax Life is the English-language edition of D'Rivera's memoirs, published to acclaim in 1998. Propelled by jazz-fueled high spirits, D'Rivera's story soars and spins from memory to memory in a collage of his remarkable life. D'Rivera recalls his early nightclub appearances as a child, performing with clowns and exotic dancers, as well as his search for artistic freedom in communist Cuba and his hungry explorations of world music after his defection. Opinionated but always good-humored, My Sax Life is a fascinating statement on art and the artist's life.
Boys Life
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925-03
Boys Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925-03 with categories.
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
A Stroll With My Sax
DOWNLOAD
Author : Manu Dibango
language : en
Publisher: Oracle International Publishing
Release Date : 2015-12-01
A Stroll With My Sax written by Manu Dibango and has been published by Oracle International Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with categories.
Saxophone Colossus
DOWNLOAD
Author : Aidan Levy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-12-06
Saxophone Colossus written by Aidan Levy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** **Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts. A bridge from bebop to the avant-garde, he is a lasting link to the golden age of jazz, pictured in the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” portrait. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called “the only jazz recluse” has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins’ extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. A child of the Harlem Renaissance, Rollins’ precocious talent landed him on the bandstand and in the recording studio with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, or playing opposite Billie Holiday. An icon in his own right, he recorded Tenor Madness, featuring John Coltrane; Way Out West; Freedom Suite, the first civil rights-themed album of the hard bop era; A Night at the Village Vanguard; and the 1956 classic Saxophone Colossus. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing, practicing up to 16 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins—innovative, unpredictable, larger than life—is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny’s own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians’ own words, part chronicle of one man’s quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.
Sax Appeal
DOWNLOAD
Author : Janet Tennant
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-11-30
Sax Appeal written by Janet Tennant and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-30 with Music categories.
Ivy Benson was born to be a musician. A good pianist by the age of ten, she was influenced by the music of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and other jazz legends to become a professional instrumentalist—and at age fifteen, having taught herself to play the clarinet and saxophone, Benson joined an all-girl band in Yorkshire, England. Sax Appeal chronicles Benson’s life—beginning with her childhood of relative poverty, exploring her time as a teenage musician playing in the seedy clubs of London, and highlighting her founding of a professional all-female jazz and swing band that would remain active for over forty years. Benson started her band during the dark days of World War II in 1939 as an antidote to the lack of men, who were all serving in the military. Determined to produce music as good as the male bands, she was a tough coach as well as a mother figure to her young instrumentalists. She faced opposition from most male bandleaders and critics who claimed that women could not play jazz. There were also the dangers and privations of wartime touring—and the constant loss of girls who were lured away by GIs. Nevertheless the band was successful and in great demand. Benson employed well over 250 performers over the years and influenced the careers of many aspiring female jazz musicians. Considered by some to be the instigator of “girl power” and by others an astute businesswoman with a knack for timing, Sax Appeal thoroughly examines the themes and brings the musical pioneer to vivid life.
The Saxophone Symposium
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Saxophone Symposium written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Music categories.
25 Great Sax Solos
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eric J. Morones
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2008-04-01
25 Great Sax Solos written by Eric J. Morones and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with Music categories.
(Sax Instruction). From Chuck Rio and King Curtis to David Sanborn and Kenny G, take an inside look at the genesis of pop saxophone. This book/audio pack provides solo transcriptions in standard notation, lessons on how to play them, bios, equipment, photos, history, and much more. The audio features full-band demos of every sax solo in the book. Songs include: After the Love Has Gone * Deacon Blues * Just the Two of Us * Just the Way You Are * Mercy, Mercy Me * Money * Respect * Spooky * Take Five * Tequila * Yakety Sax * and more.
Unbecoming Blackness
DOWNLOAD
Author : Antonio Lopez
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-11-26
Unbecoming Blackness written by Antonio Lopez and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-26 with Social Science categories.
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.
Chamber Music
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lucy Miller Murray
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-04-09
Chamber Music written by Lucy Miller Murray and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-09 with Music categories.
In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners, Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber music works from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods—and an artful selection from the Baroque period of Johann Sebastian Bach’s works—Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners is both the perfect reference resource and chamber music primer for listeners.
Saxophone Journal
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Saxophone Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Music categories.