The Holy Grail of Jazz

This one's for all the jazz cats and jive bunnies.

The world’s best jazz awaits you! This book provides a smörgåsbord with a cornucopia of soundtrack references to jazz fusion (including smooth jazz), bebop, dixieland, pure and orchestral jazz, synthjazz, world jazz, disco, city pop, and R&B, with small sections on blues songs and hip-hop or rap songs. That delicious selection is topped off with a bonus scoop of a list of secular comedic songs.

Thanks to help from jazz-lovers in America, Europe, and Japan, almost all readers will find thousands of soundtrack references to jazzy tunes that they have never heard before. All references are from real human people who listened to the music——not guesses from AI.

The soundtrack references include both albums and individual tunes. The variety of coverage for individual soundtracks includes those old two-sided two-tune phonograph records from record companies like OKEH, Capitol Records, Mercury Records, and Victor. It includes jazz references from anime, cartoons, films, theatrical performances, and videogames, including some jazzy covers of originally electronic videogame music. It includes references to the major classic jazz singers with some of their best-known songs.

The book includes references to popular books for learning instruments played in jazz, for jazz history, and more! It’s great for classy connoisseurs of quality music, jazz DJs, classic jazz and R&B radio stations, and those musicians seeking inspiration for creating their own luxurious music.

Want to know the standards along with a quality rendition of each? The Holy Grail of Jazz mentions nearly every single American and Japanese jazz standard ever up to its publication date, including ones that you may have missed if you were looking at Wikipedia or SecondHandSongs. The book also goes well with its companion in composition, The Standard Book of Music Standards.

Start or rejuvenate your jazziest journey here. This is the map to some of the finest music on the planet: a treasure you pass down for future generations. This is no joke. This is the book for you. This is The Holy Grail of Jazz.

Expected Frequently Asked Questions

Isn't it presumptuous or arrogant of you to call this "the Holy Grail" of jazz?

This ebook is over a thousand pages in length, with normal 12-point font being the most common font size, and with pages being 8 & 1/2 by 11 inches in size.

The author believes in truth in advertising, not exaggeration.

The truth is what it is. The author believes that the document lives up to the moniker, "The Holy Grail of Jazz," insofar as music references go.

Is this a book about music theory, chord progressions, and some of the history of jazz?

No, but there are references in The Holy Grail of Jazz to other books that do cover those topics.

Does this book have sheet music in it?

No, as that would have required too many copyright licensing approvals and taken up too much space, but The Holy Grail of Jazz does include references to other books that do have jazz sheet music.

How many albums are referenced?

Most albums are mentioned alongside particular soundtracks rather than in their own lists. A conservative low-ball estimate would suggest over 5,000 albums appear mentioned in The Holy Grail of Jazz, over 1,200 of which mentioned specifically in albums lists.

Buying this book saves you the time of having to make thousands of searches in Google and YouTube or hundreds of inquiries at LLM AIs.

Are there any hyperlinks to actual music?

The Holy Grail of Jazz features some links to music on YouTube. There are no guarantees that all of those links will work. YouTube does remove some music sometimes, and that is beyond the author’s control.

What’s the ideal zoom for this document?

Anything 100% to 150% should be okay, on laptop and desktop computers.

Why isn't this book free?

I spent a large amount of time on this literary project, and I want my readers to be determined to use this ebook. If you pay some money for it, then you will likely want to get your money's worth out of it and dig into the myriad of references.

Why is this ebook a PDF?

The PDF format has allowed the highest quality of production, and tech shopping platforms like Amazon cannot censor this book or take away your access to it after you have purchased and downloaded it.

Is this book part of a series?

Yes, this book is the first book of the series, Signature Sounds.

Signature Sounds E-book Series Introduction:

Welcome to the criminally classic core collection of soundtrack references for musical composition inspiration, music therapy, celebration events, and personal listening enjoyment playlists. With over 1,600 pages in total and well over 10,000 references, Signature Sounds presents a stunning variety of music artists and composers to the reader’s attention in a wide variety of genres.

From the jazz of Neil Ardley and John Coltrane to the rock of Aerosmith and Queen to the jazz fusion of Dimension and T-Square, from the gravitas of Ennio Morricone’s “the Esctasy of Gold” to the frivolity of Phil Lober’s “Alive,” from the well-known John Newton hymn “Amazing Grace” to lesser known gems like Cai Thomas’s rendition of “Suo Gân” and Danny Rayel and Alessandra Paonessa’s “Two Hearts,” from the refreshing adventure of James Paget’s “Shine Bright” to the intense foreboding melody and lyricless vocals of Perturbator’s “Cult of 2112,” this treasure delivers in spades.

But wait—there’s more! This document of the deluxe edition of this series also includes sections of references for secular comedy, drum and bass, and non-jazzy smooth vocal performances that some listeners consider to be like R&B.

The jazz music section includes a distinct list each for:

1. Jazz fusion (including smooth jazz)

2. Synthjazz

3. Bebop (and jazz rock)

4. Jazz community album recommendations

Distinct instrument-centric sections appear for tunes with piano jazz, saxophone, and trumpet. There’s also a section of mallet jazz and a section of sax and piano duos.

Explore the world of music with music from around the world. Congratulations! You have arrived. Let this be your map and guide.