Improvised music

Books on improvised music, real-time music, jazz, experimental scenes, and musical practice.

Book Cover: Music of the USA

Musik der USA

60 years after the last German-language introduction to the music of the USA, here is another attempt to present the many different strands of development in American music history.

30,00 

Book Cover: Graphic Works 1959–2016

Graphic Works 1959-2016

Brötzmann's graphic work is—like his music—raw, unmistakable, and deeply personal: a bold visual language influenced by Fluxus, advertising, and an uncompromising inner logic.

49,00 

Book Cover: Gender and Identity in Jazz

Gender and Identity in Jazz

This volume contributes to an important discourse.

28,00 

Book cover: Hear and Now

Hear and Now

A standard work on improvised music, focused and unique.

28,00 

Book cover: We thought we could change the world

We thought we could change the world

Rare insights into Brötzmann’s world—through interviews, photos, and his artwork.

22,00 

Book cover: Jazz. School. Media.

Jazz. Schule. Medien.

How can jazz be communicated? Articles about jazz in the classroom, in the media and about music strategies for a curious audience in the digital age.

24,00 

Book Cover: Jazz Stories from Europe

Jazzgeschichten aus Europa

Jazz in Europe as a narrative experience: not a comprehensive overview, but rather compelling episodes spanning resistance and emancipation.

28,00 

Book Cover: Aspects of Free Improvisation in Music

Aspekte der Freien Improvisation in der Musik

Thirty-three outstanding representatives of the improvisation scene, as well as composers and musicologists, reflect in writing on freely improvised music.

29,00 

Book cover: Spirits Rejoice!

Spirits Rejoice!

An intensive search for clues into Albert Ayler's musical vision and mysterious death.

19,00 

Book cover: The 4th Quarter of the Triad. Tony Oxley

The 4th Quarter of the Triad. Tony Oxley

A drummer who moves between free jazz, ECM, graphic scores—and a life full of musical detours.

24,00 

Book cover: Albert Mangelsdorff

Albert Mangelsdorff

This anthology illuminates facets of the trombonist's work, looks at parallel musical and aesthetic developments, but also at recent developments in German jazz.

27,00 

Book Cover: Can Improvisers Dance?

Können Improvisatoren tanzen?

Improvisation meets composition: this volume documents a groundbreaking symposium with texts and a CD.

19,00 

Book cover: Free Jazz

Free Jazz

Reissued unchanged, this book remains a timeless document of free jazz.

28,00 

Book Cover: From Singing and Playing to Analysis and Reflection

Vom Singen und Spielen zur Analyse und Reflexion

This volume documents the development of the Darmstadt Institute for New Music and Music Education using extensive archive material.

6,80 

Book Cover: Breathe In – Breathe Out

Einatmen – Ausatmen

A radical insight into the multifaceted musical life of Vinko Globokar.

24,00 

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