Sevillanas

Si alguien puede hablar de música con la documentación de un investigador, la pasión de un novelista y el amor por la anécdota de un fan, ése es Ted Gioia. Tras su monumental Historia del Jazz (1977), ahora invita al lector a un viaje desde las plantaciones del Mississippi, donde nació el blues, para irse “a husmear un tiempo por Memphis y establecerse al fin en Chicago” (Peter Guralnick). Veremos cómo el blues “tuvo un hijo al que le llamaron rock and roll” (Muddy Waters), y cómo dejó sentir su influencia sobre varias generaciones de músicos, empezando por Elvis Presley. El ...

This introductory piano method is a long overdue musical text for those interested in encouraging bilingualism in children and adults. Many of the selected tunes are gems that most Latin American children grow up hearing as part of their idiomatic folklore. Also presented are some award winning originals by the author herself. Songs include Senora Santana, Ojos Azules, Mama yo quiero, Mi gallo and many others. Songs are chosen from many hispanic countries and they can be played as piano solos as well as played and sung simultaneously. Includes guitar/piano for those wishing to add in harmony...

There is a woman who appears and disappears in the life of this almost 60-year-old musician, like an angel or demon, and removes everything. So much so that this confessional story begins that has the intensity with which a stranger is spoken to a stranger in a bar. Deeply traversed by music, history covers the character's relationship with alcohol, with women, with children, with the passage of time, but also with his artistic decisions and the role of his generation in culture and society. The songs are entangled in the discourse as in life, that echo in the wood that becomes lyrics and...

Gioia nos presenta una introducción al arte de escuchar jazz: la estructura de la música, los cimientos de la improvisación, y las estrategias de escucha que ayudarán al lector a amar el jazz durante el resto de su vida. Un recorrido por los autores, los artistas, los temas, las versiones y los sonidos que le abrirán las puertas del jazz.