Beat Of My Own Drum

Sheila E., born Sheila Escovedo in 1957, picked up the drumsticks and started making music at the precocious age of three, inspired by her legendary father, percussionist Pete Escovedo. By nineteen, s...

The Essential Duke Ellington

Piano, Vocal and Guitar

Trailblazers

Parsons, Drake and Buckley were three young musicians who died before they had made their mark on the musical world, yet left behind them a legacy that was as rich as it was beautiful. Ex-preacher Par...

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain, from the emergence of cinema through to the introduction of synchronized sound. Edited by Julie Brown a...

Volume 15: Payin' Dues: Eight Tunes Based on Standards: 15

Play standards with jazz legends Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, and Grady Tate! Make your jazz experience as real and authentic as it gets. This is the sound and the groove of jazz. Don't overlook this one...

Brian May's Red Special

Brian May and his father Harold started to hand-build an electric guitar in 1963. Brian dreamed of a guitar that would outperform any of the existing commercially-made electric guitars; his father had...

42nd Street

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star...This songbook contains the songs from the 1980 Broadway production, produced by Da...

Jazz Learning Paths For Improvisation