Home for the Holidays: Delicious Recipes from Master Chefs That You Can Make Right at Home with CD (Audio) (Great Taste)

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A complete musical analysis of one of the greatest jazz masters of all time. This comprehensive text studies and analyzes the works, provides transcriptions of the solos, and much more. For all music enthusiasts. Songs covered include: All Blues - Four - Freddie Freeloader - My Funny Valentine - Nardis - So What - Solar - Stella by Starlight - Tune Up - and more!

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More Jazz from Judy Murrah: New Shapes & Great Ideas for Wonderful Wearable Art
Judy Murrah
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ShaneTheriot: New Orleans Fusion Funk-Meister

New Orleans Funk Guitar: The Guitar Styles of New Orleans Funk, Cajun, and Zydeco Greats (Guitar Masters)
Shane Theroit
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0769291090

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Not funky enough.......2004-06-03

learning from Ross Bolton's book and video on Funk Guitar, this book does not meet my expectations of funk guitar. Yes, I understand that it is advertising for New Orleans Funk but I was hoping to learn some hardcore funk.
However, there are a few gems that I liked, but not enough for me to rate it higher than 1 star. I highly recommend Ross Bolton.

good stuff.......2002-02-15

if your goal is to be funky this is it. lots of short licks your buddys will want u to teach them. the tab is easy to read and follows the cd . lots of fun.

ShaneTheriot: New Orleans Fusion Funk-Meister.......2001-06-13

I first heard of Shane when I read a short article in Guitar Player magazine. The article's description of his New Orleans funk style piqued my interest, so I took a chance and ordered the CD from amazon.com. I was not disappointed. This CD drips with funk. Shane is a very talented guitar player AND song writer (he wrote eight of the eleven tunes on this primarily instrumental album). His guitar playing, while being very funky, borrows heavily from the fusion masters, but he still sounds fresh and original. He can shred, too, but only when the song calls for it. Very tasty stuff. The musicians on the CD are excellent, too.

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From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart--even today these giants remain household names, their musicals regularly revived, their methods and styles analyzed and imitated, and their songs the bedrock of jazz and cabaret. In The Poets of Tin Pan Alley Philip Furia offers a unique new perspective on these great songwriters, showing how their poetic lyrics were as important as their brilliant music in shaping a golden age of American popular song. Furia writes with great perception and understanding as he explores the deft rhymes, inventive imagery, and witty solutions these songwriters used to breathe new life into rigidly established genres. He devotes full chapters to all the greats, including Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstain II, Howard Dietz, E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, and Johnny Mercer. Furia also offers a comprehensive survey of other lyricists who wrote for the sheet-music industry, Broadway, Hollywood, and Harlem nightclub revues. This was the era that produced The New Yorker, Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, and E.B. White--and Furia places the lyrics firmly in this fascinating historical context. In these pages, the lyrics emerge as an important element of American modernism, as the lyricists, like the great modernist poets, took the American vernacular and made it sing.

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SING ALONG WITH THIS ONE, FOR SURE!!.......2007-09-23

I loved this book!! I picked it up somewhere, and sang inside my head on almost every single page! It is a terrific overview of the Tin Pan Alley days of GREAT music, and in this book Philip Furia has provided enough lyrics to remind us of all the songs, and it is great fun to read. I marked up my copy, and then had to buy another, clean copy to re-read. I have also bought a couple more copies of the book for friends who also love the old music.

Philip Furia is a lover of this great music, and his bio of Johnny Mercer is very well written and, again, lots of fun to read. Oh for the good ole music of yesterday! I do miss it. But because of these books -- and others like them -- it is not gone forever. Thank you to Philip Furia for sharing your love of this music with all of us! The men and women who wrote this popular music were poets indeed, and one can tell they had a lot of fun while writing the songs.

Excellent overview.......2004-01-02

This is an excellent book. Furia provides a fine overview with lyric analyses of all the major lyricists of the first half of the 20th Century. He also touches upon the history of Tin Pan Alley itself and other developments that were happening at the same time in music, like the rise of the film studios, the creation of ASCAP and BMI, and the "race" and "hillbilly" recordings which helped bring about the end of Tin Pan Alley dominance. Furia later wrote full biographies of Ira Gershwin and Johnny Mercer that are more complete. (He would do the world a great service if he would write a decent book on Dorothy Fields.) THE POETS OF TIN PAN ALLEY is highly recommended for all lyricists and anyone who has in interest in American popular song.

O.K. for dipping........2002-06-05

I have to wonder if the impressive endorsements on the back cover (by Sammy Cahn, Steve Allen, Michael Feinstein) are from musical celebrities who actually read the book. The author deserves praise for bringing concentrated focus to and careful analysis of the lyrics of America's best wordsmiths, but this is not a book that seduces the reader into staying with it for extended stretches. There's historical context, learned analysis of prosody with lots of concise examples, and pithy scholarly prose. But when all is said and done, the chapters devoted to individual lyricists, as well as the book as a whole, are quite bloodless. I don't sense any clear thesis, any driving passion, even any strong personal preferences from the author.

The author's justification for such a book--that composers of melody are given credit at the expense of the lyricist--strikes me as a bit of a straw man. How many listeners can immediately associate a familiar popular standard with either its composer or lyricist? Also, the analysis of prosody and technique often overshadows consideration of the thematic integrity, or meaning, of a song. Moreover, the analyses pay too little heed to melody and harmony to make a persuasive case for the poetic power of the lyrics themselves. Finally, with song lyrics how can you separate the dancer from the dance? Were it not for Billie Holiday, Mabel Mercer and, above all, Frank Sinatra, most of these songs would be long forgotten. Certainly some consideration of the actual performance of the lyrics would seem requisite to any demonstration of their continuing vitality and importance.

Most of the above challenges are met by a book to which the author frequently alludes--Gerald Mast's "Can't Help Singin'." Any reader interested in the art and lives of the composers and the songs, not to mention the lyricists and lyrics, cannot afford to pass by Mast's singular achievement. In the neglected, taken-for-granted field of the American popular song, it remains the one "must read."

Issue a new printing.......1999-07-01

I erroneously entered this as an author's review. I thought I was communicating with the author. Please delete what I erroneously submitted, and accept it as a customer's review.

I would like to have several compies of this book available. I am thinking of putting on an adult education course with this book as the principal text.

Peak pleasure for this reader........1999-03-27

Delightful detailed insight into the creativity of the lyric writers of the 20th century [prior to 1960]. Furia's writing style is a pleasure to read, wonderfully free of cliches. If you appreciate genius {I do, but I'm not one} and you have a rudimentary knowledge of music [I do}, you'll love this book.

The Jazz of Preaching: How to Preach With Great Freedom and Joy

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The Jazz of Preaching: How to Preach With Great Freedom and Joy
Kirk Byron Jones
Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
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What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic renderings as Sarah Vaughn was in her musical vocals? As honest about heartache as Billie Holiday was everytime she sang about the blues of life? As alluringly clear as the angelic voice of Ella Fitzgerald? As tenaciously uninhibited in the action of creating as Duke Ellington? Dr. Kirk Byron Jones explains how to dramatically improve one's preaching and public speaking through understanding and applyng key elements of the musical art form known as jazz. These elements include innovation; improvisation; rhythm; call and response; honesty about heartache; and delight. Drawing on a deep love of jazz and enlivening his discussion with insights drawn from 30 years of preaching and public speaking, Jones introduces the reader to rich and rewarding possibilities for confident and compelling communication. The Jazz of Preaching is an enchanting and energizing work that will empower your speaking and living in dynamic new ways.

Great Piano Solos: Showtunes, Jazz and Blues, Film Themes, Pop Songs and Classical

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Great Piano Solos: Showtunes, Jazz and Blues, Film Themes, Pop Songs and Classical

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A diverse collection of music designed to give pianists hours of enjoyment. 45 pieces, including: Adagio for Strings * Ain't Misbehavin' * Bluesette * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Come Fly with Me * Do-Re-Mi * Don't Know Why * The Entertainer * Fields of Gold * Fur Elise * Have I Told You Lately * Memory * Misty * My Heart Will Go On * My Way * Unchained Melody * When I Fall in Love * Your Song * and more.

Jazz Greats: Guitar Play-Along Volume 44

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A Lot Of Jazz For The Money

Jazz Greats: Guitar Play-Along Volume 44

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The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the recordings to any tempo without changing pitch! Songs: I Remember You (Tal Farlow) * I'll Remember April (Grant Green) * Impressions (Pat Martino) * In a Mellow Tone (Joe Pass) * Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith) * On a Slow Boat to China (Barney Kessel) * Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Jim Hall) * Yesterdays (Wes Montgomery).

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A Lot Of Jazz For The Money.......2007-05-15

This is what the other books ought to be. Eight great songs. Eight great transcriptions.

Spend the time with this book and you'll learn some tasty tunes!

Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way--A Biography

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An Eye For Talent, by Drew Savage, Author and Swing Era Enthusiast
Only one mistake
A Good Biography
TOOTIN' DORSEY'S HORN, GOOD AND BAD
An American idol, he was a musical Martha Stewart-like perfectionist who out-Trumped Donald when it came to firing people

Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way--A Biography
Peter J. Levinson
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To commemorate the centennial of the artist's birth, the definitive biography of the legendary jazz giant Tommy Dorsey

Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to-and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) led a rich and complex life. Beginning with his childhood in the coal mining towns of Pennsylvania, we follow the young trombonist's journey to fame and fortune during the jazz age. Tommy, with his brother Jimmy, created one of the most popular bands of the era and played with such giants as Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. They also launched the career of a skinny young singer named Frank Sinatra. But Tommy's volcanic personality eventually split the band and Tommy went off on his own.

Drawing on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews with the musicians who knew him best, Levinson delves into Dorsey's famously eccentric lifestyle and his oversize appetite for drink, women, and perfection. The first biography on Dorsey in more than thirty years, Tommy Dorsey is a dazzling portrait of the Big Band era's brightest star-his tumultuous life, his turbulent times, and the unforgettable music that made him a legend.

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An Eye For Talent, by Drew Savage, Author and Swing Era Enthusiast.......2007-05-31

This is a good book, well written and with excellent content. As an enthusiast of the Swing Era I appreciated the factual content, which gave me far more information than any other source I've read,providing a hitherto unavailable cross-reference to what has been published before.

As a presenter and author, I enjoyed the insights into the man, his music and the period in general, knowing they would enliven and enrich audience participation. I am too young to have been there 'first time around,' or even to have had the good fortune to see most of the performers, even those who enjoyed career longevity. Having facts avaulable from more than one source is therefore crucial to me, and this book does a great job in providing a primary source and information resource.

Finally, I must take issue with one of the comments made in an earlier review, that the R&B and Rock and Roll era passed Tommy Dorsey by. Au contraire, we have 'TD' to thank for first introducing Elvis Presley to the nation on TV, in the Jackie Gleason sponsored 'Stage Show', and weeks before Ed Sullivan apparently 'discovered' Mr. Presley.

When you add to that Dorsey's promotion and nurturing of Frank Sinatra, he was responsible for bringing to the nation's attention two out of four of the most influential singers of the last century. (The other two being Al Jolson and Bing Crosby.)

When you add to this the roster of other great singers (Connie Haines, Jo Stafford, Dick Haymes for example), arrangers (Nelson Riddle, Sy Oliver) and musicians(just too many to list here!!) who passed through the ranks of his Orchestra, the title of 'Talent Spotter Extraordinaire' seems highly appropriate.

Only one mistake.......2007-04-04

I read all nine reviews, & I totally agree that this was the most fascinating book I've ever read about the wonderful days of the "big bands". It seems interesting to learn that most of the successful big band leaders were not the easiest people to get along with. Perhaps being a strict disciplinarian with a short fuse just came with the territory. I read all nine reviews, & no one noticed the bit about Art Linkletter. On page 151, Levinson relates an incident involving Art, something that happened in 1942, saying that Art was a "very active" 93 year old at the time. When I saw & talked to Art at a dinner banquet in 1976, that would make him 127. I believe Art is still alive, though I'm not sure about this, & if so he's still lecturing about how to stay happy & fit as a senior citizen. Nonetheless, I loved this book. Jim O'Neil

A Good Biography.......2006-12-04

Although an icon of the big band era, there hasn't been an updated biography of Tommy Dorsey written in many years. It is based largely on some 180 interviews conducted mostly in the coal country where Dorsey grew up. This is excellent timing, as the people who knew and worked with Dorsey are all now becoming aged. Writers in the future will have to work from sources more distant.

Mr. Levinson has been in the entertainment business as an agent, freelance, writer, personal manager, publicist and more. This is his third book, with the first two being biographies of Harry James and Nelson Riddle. He is an accomplished biographer.

Tommy Dorsey, like many big name entertainers was a tower of strength, developing new forms of music that changed the way people lived. He worked with the big name entertainers of the time including Sinatra, Elvis, and of course his brother Jimmy. At the same time he had serious problems with drinking, drugs, and women which led him to death at the very early age of 51.

Mr. Levinson has done an excellent job of presenting both aspects of Dorsey's life.

TOOTIN' DORSEY'S HORN, GOOD AND BAD.......2006-11-06

Few musicians evoke the Big Band era more than Tommy Dorsey. With his soaring trombone playing and hit tunes, he left an indelible mark on American culture, yet few know that off stage, Dorsey's personal life was as fascinating as the music he created on stage. A man driven by his passion for women and drink as much as for music, Dorsey was a perfectionist who lived on overload. Peter Levinson's bio, drawn on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews with those who knew Dorsey best, takes us center stage and behind the scenes, toppling the swing era's icon sweet and mellow image and replacing it with a more truthful, multi-faceted portrait of a man of extreme excess. All the high and low notes Dorsey achieved are here. Play on!

An American idol, he was a musical Martha Stewart-like perfectionist who out-Trumped Donald when it came to firing people.......2006-04-12

One can have grown up loving Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra without having any idea of what was going on behind the scenes, what the fabled bandleader was really like. In Peter J. Levinson's illuminating and well-sourced book, "Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way," the subject emerges as a man both with and ahead of his time: an American idol, he was a musical Martha Stewart-like perfectionist who out-Trumped Donald when it came to firing people. Some of the greatest names in jazz and popular music were hired, fired and later re-hired by Dorsey. Levinson does full justice to him, covering his music (danceable was the goal), his movies (MGM quality). his marriages (several, sometimes stormy), and his moods (subject to change without notice) There would be frequent eruptions, most often with his brother, rival and sometimes co-bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, and most significantly with his singing discovery Frank Sinatra. It was Dorsey's amazing breath control as a trombonist that Sinatra modeled his vocal technique after; it was Dorsey's character that he, knowingly or not, emulated. "Livin' in a Great Big Way" tells an engaging, well-rounded story of a complex figure who played beautifully, nurtured careers and largely influenced pop culture for two decades.

Jacket Jazz: Five Great Looks...over 30 Patchwork Techniques/Book, Patterns and Templates

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