At the height of the Swing Era, a ten-year old boy reluctantly attends a live stage show with his parents. The impact of the famous Benny Goodman Band astounds him. From the very first note he is irrevocably smitten. Gene Hull paints a poignant picture of passing through this era and on to the turbulent 60's, 70's and 80's.

Hooked on a Horn: Memoirs of a Recovered Musician recounts the musical journey of a young man of high ambition and determination and the quest that nearly consumes him. It is a personal retrospective filled with humor, pathos and adventure - a memoir in which the author invites the voice of conscience to monitor the writing.

Behind the scenes, as a traveling musician, you'll meet Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Elvis Presley, Dave Brubeck, Katherine Hepburn, Woddy Herman, Vic Damone and many others.

Hooked on a Horn: Memoirs of a Recovered Musician is a natural pleaser for nostalgia buffs, music lovers and those who enjoy a human-interest memoir with an historical perspective and an ironic twist.

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Bob Dylan fans from coast-to-coast across Canada, as well as in other countries, will find this valuable reference book an essential addition to any collection. It is an incredibly detailed concert-by-concert, song-by-song exploration of Bob Dylan's 119 live concerts in Canada between 1962 and 2005. Extraordinarily well researched and rich in content, the book takes the reader on an amazing journey through performances spanning forty-three years by one of the most important figures in popular music. During this time Mr. Dylan has:

• Played in twenty-six Canadian cities.
• Performed 1,923 songs in Canada that have been documented.
• Played 241 different songs.
• Performed seventy-seven songs only once in Canada.
• Played eleven songs that made their worldwide live debut in Canada.
• Performed 181 individual songs from thirty-five different albums.
• Played 8 unreleased songs.
• Performed 52 cover and/or traditional songs.
• Opened his Canadian concerts with thirty different songs and closed them with twenty-one different songs.
• Toured and performed with 65 different band members.
• Toured in Canada with 26 different acts, be it opening acts or bands on a shared bill.
• Performed at sixty-two different venues in Canada.

Laid out in an easy-to-read format and jam packed with information, the book includes:

• An introduction to each year Dylan has toured in Canada.
• Set list data.
• 229 concert reviews from 53 publications.
• 18 indexes of statistical analysis covering Songs Performed, Songs Performed by Album, Concerts by City, Concerts by Venue and even Concerts by Day of the Month.
• Colour reproductions of 82 ticket stubs.
• And much more.

Simply a must have book for any Bob Dylan fan.

This is another in a series of jazz scrapbooks that gives recognition to musicians who should not be forgotten and were personally known to the author, who obtained some 225 photos and illustrations. Many have not been in other jazz books.

This book is about American jazz history and a very special place in San Francisco that was called Earthquake McGoon's, which was one of the longest running jazz clubs in America.

Included in Meet Me At McGoon's are some 860 photos and illustrations, a complete index and an updated list of Turk Murphy recordings at the time of writing this book.

Features:

• Keyboard skills are integrated into every lesson, enabling you to hear, feel, and "see" the music as you learn.
• Frequent reviews provide ample opportunities to steadily strengthen your knowledge of every element.
• Numerous diagrams allow you to easily visualize each new concept, taking the mystery out of learning music theory!
• In the hands-on approach, you will have many changes to practice what you learn in each lesson as it is being taught with the drills and exercises that follow.

Music Theory Step by Step: Level One and Music Theory Step by Step: Level Three are also available from Trafford Publishing.

The drummers of today are reaching new levels of speed, control, endurance and musicality. Now more than ever drummers need to develop their hands and feet to a high level of skill in order to compete in the music business. Techniques in Interdependence is about learning how your limbs work together and how they relate to time. Practicing and applying the exercises in this book will help you develop interdependence.

Reviews

" 'I love this book!' In this day and age when there are so many drum instructional books to choose from, Techniques in Interdependence Volume I is a book that you will actually use. Comprehensive and well conceived, its vast number of patterns and combinations will benefit all levels of students, instructors, and pros, as well as to help identify each player's strengths and weaknesses. And that's crucial, because every drummers style is a combination of both what a drummer can, and cannot play."

-Paul Wertico
(Paul Wertico Trio, Larry Coryell Trio, Pat Metheny Group, Roosevelt University, Northwestern University, Clinician)

"Bryan has created an interdependence version of the George Stone classic 'Stick Control'. Every permutation and combination are outlined in detail which leads the student in the right direction for a step by step understanding and execution of coordination between all limbs."

-Grant Collins
(Australian Drum Master, The Collins/Wardingham Project)

Descubrí que la felicidad de este abrazo exquisito se puede llevar más alla de la pista."

También disponible en inglés en http://www.trafford.com/00-0074.

Visite el sitio web del autor en www.taooftango.com.

With today's technological advancement, the making of digital music is possible with just a click of the mouse. In other words, this book fuses the two worlds of computer and music; thereby adding musical creativity to the average computer user, while for the conventional musician, this remains the best cost effective and innovative approach to music making in this new millennium.

This is a fully illustrative and simplified approach to rhythm programming, processing and mastering!

Some of the main topics covered in this book:

• Fundamental principles of rhythm programming;
• Creating realistic and inhuman music;
• Creating samples and SoundFont bank modules;
• FruityLoops and drum notation;
• Music styles and their basic rhythms ;
• Creating groovy bass lines;
• Programming sampled orchestra;
• Real-time or automated rhythm control;
• Rhythm arrangement in space and in time;
• Creating special effects;
• Effective use of effects in rhythm tracks;
• PC troubleshooting for optimal audio performance.

Furthermore, because the major areas of challenge in Computer Music include PC Mastery, Music Theory/Practical, Creativity, Sound, Audio Production and digital audio programming, this book will shed some light on them; giving the reader a clearer understanding of how to face them with high expectations of fruitful results.

There are lots of books written on music and computer - separately though. This book, however, is a cutting edge in these areas; since it provides the musician with the opportunity to digitalize his creative ideas.

This book was written to tell the story of two men who were the backbone of a Western Swing band called "Dude Martin and His Round Up Gang".

The band was very popular in Northern California during the 30s to the early 50s. Popular enough to have two radio programs a day during the Depression and, later, a daily TV show that won numerous awards. Their dances were usually to a full house.

This is also the story of an amazing partnership that had considerable success and lasted almost twenty years.

Included in this 150 page book are over 300 illustrations and some drawings by a band member who was with Walt Disney productions. It also includes a complete index and a list of the band's recordings.

Indian classical music is so enduring that it is exempt from oblivion. It is destined to live in all ages of this world.

This book on North Indian classical music (also known as Hindustani music) tells you, simply and informally, about the most popular 101 raga-s, and 161 topics commonly mentioned in conversation, articles and books on Hindustani music. It is the best tool to learn about and enjoy this genre of music, which is a significant component of World Music. More details at www.SoundOfIndia.com

An audio CD containing aroha, avaroha and pakad of each of the 101 raga-s, is available. Please visit http://www.SoundOfIndia.com and click on Products. This book is being translated into French, Hindi and Gujarati.

Future and current independent private music educators will find this book an invaluable resources for establishing and maintaining a private music studio. Private music instructors will learn what they should expect professionaly, personally, and financially from their independent music instruction business. Until now, no single resource has existed that fully explains how to run this type of business successfully.

This book presents all aspects of private music instruction through an easy-to-read, concise, and engaging instructional format. Following the sound advice presented will help to greatly alleviate the problems that all beginning independent instructors face by specifically mapping out chronological steps for establishing and maintaining a private instruction music business.

The field of private music education has been inundated by less-than-professional individuals who have made it difficult for legitimate, qualified instructors. The Private Music Instruction Manual shares years of information and experiences in the hope of legitimizing the field of private music instruction.

In a world where there is decreasing priority and structure in public music education, private music instructors become increasingly important to prepare the next generation of musicians. No matter the size of your private music instruction business, the advice presented in The Private Music Instruction Manual will help to improve any private music business.

From the Midwest Book Review:

With The Private Music Instruction Manual; A Guide For The Independent Music Educator, author Rebecca Osborn draws upon her many years of experience and expertise as an adjunct college music professor and owner of three private music studies to write an informed and informative guidebook specifically for musicians and music instructors who want to teach students in a profitable private practice but are not familiar with or knowledgeable about setting up a music instruction business enterprise. Rebecca Osborne provides a wealth of invaluable, professional, effectively organized and presented instructions on establishing and maintaining a music teaching business and shows what to expect professional, personally, and financially from independent music instruction. If you want to make money teaching other how to play any kind of music instrument, then you need to give a careful (and profitable!) reading to Rebecca Osborn's The Private Music Instruction Manual!

Children love music and Alina is especially fascinated by it. In Alina and the Musical Pipes, the young child discovers how music is made, while the reader discovers that senior citizens can find rewarding activity pursuing their interests. A woodwind ensemble of recorders of all sizes marks Alina's introduction to instrumental music and the discovery of Grandpa's secret hobby.

How does a young woman, who hears but cannot speak, end up as the director, choreographer, and premiere danseuse for a world famous school and dance company for (believe it or not) deaf and mute dancers?

Our heroine, Lynette Barker, is blessed with parents who are wealthy, successful actors, a fine home and servants. Unfortunately, when she is found to be mute, her mother denies her existence and her father sees her as "broken" and, blind to her needs, leaves her in the care of the servants.

It was left to Lynette to find her own way and, with the loving support of the housekeeper, and butler, and two deaf friends whom she had found signing in the park, she was able to enter a school for the deaf and begin to joyfully live and learn as she had always wished.

Lynette's father, Belton Barker, a renowned actor, busied himself with his career and his wife and not only never saw what was going on in his daughter's life, but managed to continually block her from doing what she needed to do.

The ongoing struggle is devastating for Lynette and the last battle with her father - and her mother who tries to kill her - leaves her in the hospital in full pscyhologist retreat. Her father, finally realizing his culpability and fearful for her life, finally listens to the servants, teachers, and friends, who have kept a round-the-clock vigil at the hospital and begins to see who his daughter really is - a whole, quite wonderful person - and plans to help her develop the life she wants. Lynette is so angry with him that she will not accept anything from him directly but he remembers that at the sound of any music Lynette has danced since she could walk so he arranges for a young woman, who has found a way to teach the deaf to dance, to teach in Lynette's school and thus begins her career.

Lynette finally discovers that it was her father who made all this possible for her and they become reconciled.

Having found a way to do what she loves most, Lynette trains hard and learns to be a dancer and choreographer and finally, along with her two friends, Dan as Business Manager (and later husband), and Elsie as costumer, opens a school of dance and a dance company for deaf and mute dancers.

With the addition of other dancers and teachers, the school/dance company becomes an unprecedented success and because of their unusual focus and teaching methods they become internationally known. Where they go from here is an open question.

Asbury Park is one of the few true music scenes in the world. Many people know the city as the place where Bruce Springsteen got his start, but it's also where artists like Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny, Billy Chinnock, John Eddie, Glen Burtnick, Dramarama, The Bongos and The Smithereens started out as well.

Beyond The Palace takes you on a ride through the city's long and illustrious music history; from the Upstage Club where musicians like Bruce Springsteen, Billy Chinnock, David Sancious and Southside Johnny used to jam all night to early clubs like The Student Prince and Sunshine In; from the legendary Stone Pony to clubs like T-Birds Cafe and The Saint. The book contains interviews with over 45 artists and features over 50 photographs from the world-famous photographer Debra L. Rothenberg.

To read reviews of Beyond the Palace please visit this web site at http://www.asburymusic.com/press

To hear an interview with Gary on the Joey Reynolds Show please visit this web site at http://www.wor710.com/joey_reynolds.shtml