Jazz Course Leader Shares Enthusiasm for Jazz Books

The other day, we were chatting about the Whittaker Library's collection of books on jazz.  We have hundreds of them!  (Searching the word "jazz" as a keyword yields well over 400 books, and then there are the scores and recordings ...)

Tommy Smith, the leader of our Jazz BMus, asked us to produce a list of these books, and we're happy to share this with our blog-followers and performing jazz artists.

• Jazz Books in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
• Jazz Printed Music
• Jazz CDs 

NEW! NEW! NEW!

Music Online: African American Music Reference 

When you look at the homepage of this Alexander Street Press resource, you'll immediately recognise lots of jazz names.  Give it a go!

Screenshot of African American Music Homepage

Just click here: Music Online: African American Music Reference 

We are the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, here to support teaching and learning amongst our performers and technicians. 

Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician

Earlier this year, 'Whittaker'  blogged about something Wynton Marsalis said.  Our Head of Jazz, Tommy Smith, had shared Marsalis's observations about working as a team, and we wanted to share this with you.

On the strength of that, we ordered a book by Wynton Marsalis, entitled, To A Young Jazz Musician.  If you're inclined to a career as a jazz muso, you could do worse than take a look!

Interested?  Find it in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland here - or if you're not part of the Conservatoire community, you could buy your own from Amazon here.

Scottish Album of the Year Award

Scottish Album of the Year Award - visit the website here.

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland interest in this award should be high, for our own Tommy Smith is in the running for it!

Tommy's album, Karma, is the album for today (Wednesday 9th May 2012), and you can stream if for free for 24 hours by clicking here.

Staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire can, of course, borrow the album from the Whittaker Library.

Keep watching - Richard Craig and Chris Stout's albums are also on the shortlist!

• Richard Craig - Inward
• Chris Stout - Brazilian Theory, Live in Concert