Discography Buyer category: 99 books
A Pete Seeger Discography
Seventy Years of Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings is a comprehensive listing of the 45s,...
Andre Kostelanetz on Records and on the Air
A Discography and Radio Log
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Andre Kostelanetz On Records and On the Air is a comprehensive discography of the commercial recordings of the Russian/American conductor and radio personality, Andre Kostelanetz. James H. North has collected all his recordings, spanning the range from popular to classical. Organized chronologically...
Country Music Records
A Discography, 1921-1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country...
All of Me
The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong was not only jazz's greatest musician and innovator, but also arguably its most famous entertainer and the frontal figure in the development of contemporary popular music. Overcoming social and political obstacles, he created a long and impressive career and an enormous musical...
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,...
by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The Stevie Ray Vaughan Buying Guide is an illustrated, album by album overview of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist’s too-brief career including a condensed artist biography, a discography with complete song listings, and even a select discography of bootleg albums, all compiled by the Rev....
Giacomo Puccini
A Discography
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming to an end is the moment to take stock of the history of recordings of arguably the most popular composer of operas, Giacomo Puccini. In Giacomo...
Serge Chaloff
A Musical Biography and Discography
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
Serge Chaloff (1923-1957) is most widely remembered as the flamboyant baritone saxophone star with Woody Herman's 2nd Herd whose problems with drugs extended to erratic personal behavior. Nevertheless, there were many brilliant sessions featuring his work before and after his stint with Herman. This...
New York Philharmonic
The Authorized Recordings, 1917-2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
The intent of any discography is comprehensiveness, aiming to include every recording within its chosen area, and to list all the important details of each. The discography, New York Philharmonic: The Authorized Recordings, 1917-2005 is no exception. Author James H. North has compiled more than 1500...
The Metropolitan Opera on Record
A Discography of the Commercial Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
The Metropolitan Opera on Record: A Discography of the Commercial Recordings is a comprehensive listing of all the commercial sound recordings involving the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the world's leading musical organizations. Over 900 recording sessions are listed chronologically,...
by Chris Welch
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Genesis, one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1980s. An album by album, track by track rundown of the music of Genesis, including special sections detailing the work of members Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Steve...
by Michael de Koningh, Laurence Cane-Honeysett
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
When it was formed, Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a decade before 1976. With a blizzard of individual labels and a marketing strategy that involved selling product out of the backs of vans, the company spearheaded the injection of reggae and ska into the vein of British youth consciousness.
In...
The Man in Song
A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash’s incredible life through the lens of the songs he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of studying Cash’s music and life, from his difficult...
by Roger Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
David Bowie: The Golden Years chronicles Bowie’s creative life during the 1970s, the decade that defined his career. Looking at the superstar's life and work in a year by year, month by month, day by day format, and placing his works in their historical, personal and creative contexts.
The...