Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
Johana Harris
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Johana Harris was a musical prodigy who began her education in her native Canada, then moved to New York at the age of 12. The youngest student ever admitted to the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, Harris was destined for greatness on the world stage. However, exploitation by her mother and then...
Trumpet Blues
The Life of Harry James
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players dominated that era more than Harry James, whose soaring trumpet solos and romantic hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Now, Peter J. Levinson, who knew Harry James personally, has written a...
A Better Me
The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
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**The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller**
Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but fifteen years ago, as he himself admits, he hit rock bottom - he was out of shape, out of work and depressed.
Faced...
Queen of Bebop
The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
Washington Post Best Book of 2017
Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year
Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of the Year
Booklist Top Ten Arts Book
Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan,...
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace.
Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows...
by Alan Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
In 1960, four young men went into a Chicago recording studio and revolutionized the sound of African American gospel music. When they made that groundbreaking recording, the Pilgrim Jubilees had been singing together for more than ten years. Today they are still singing, and they are still at the forefront...
Born to Play
The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden once referred to Ruby Braff as the “Ivy League'sLouis Armstrong.” That legacy of great trumpet performance and recording is brought to readers in Thomas Hustad’s Born to Play: The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances. Braff’s uncompromising standards,...
The Story of Paul Bigsby
The Father of the Modern Electric Solid Body Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
(Book). Most musicians are familiar with the famous Bigsby Vibrato, but not as many know about the wonderful guitars that Paul Bigsby built in the 1940s. Bigsby, who was responsible for developing and refining the pedal steel guitar, also built the first modern solid body electric guitar for Merle Travis...
Jazz Child
A Portrait of Sheila Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard “Now’s The Time” by Charlie Parker, she was instantly hooked—and so began a seventy-year jazz journey. In 1962, she emerged as the first jazz singer to record on the prestigious Blue Note label with...
by Ray Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologized musicians of the twentieth century.
What was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, and the middle-class suburban boy who pretended to be a working-class hero?...
by G R Mowbray
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Many session musicians simply get on with the job without craving recognition. Tommy Eyre was one of those. From relatively humble beginnings on a Sheffield housing estate to his appearance onstage with Wham! in China, Eyre enjoyed a varied and successful career in music.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Contributions by Tina Bucuvalas, Anna Caraveli, Aydin Chaloupka, Sotirios (Sam) Chianis, Frank Desby, Stavros K. Frangos, Stathis Gauntlett, Joseph G. Graziosi, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Michael G. Kaloyanides, Panayotis League, Roderick Conway Morris, National Endowment for the Arts/National Heritage Fellows,...
Angel with Drumsticks
The rock that shook the foundations of the Vatican
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This is the story as it was told to the author by Angelo Ferrari, drummer, singer and founder of the Italian Beat rock group Angel and the Brains.
After recounting how the band was formed and its music ambitions, it continues to tell the true story about the aftermath of La Messa Dei Giovani...
Listen Up!
Recording Music with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2, R.E.M., The Tragically Hip, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits...
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field
Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing...