A complete guide to the great jazz artist John Coltrane's recordings and career. Faber Music, 1994. Order No. 564956. This book contains study material covering a wide spectrum of basic technique and providing a foundation for progress. The studies have been arranged in order of increasing difficulty.
Book one begins at elementary level.
The author describes this work as a celebration of that form of music making which came into existence as a result of the enslavement of millions of Africans in the Americas. The author outlines the history of the encounter between the two great musical traditions of Africa and of Europe, showing how musicians of African descent have, over nearly five centuries, made themselves at home in the European tradition, and have taken from it what they needed to serve their search for an identity and a community that they could call their own. The following are the 1999 Theory Examination Papers of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Order No. 560746. Order No. 560747.