Blues category: 910 books
Portraits in Jazz
80 Profiles of Jazz Legends, Renegades and Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Howard Reich has reported on jazz for the Chicago Tribune for almost four decades, and in this time he has met musicians both celebrated and obscure. From his exclusive interviews with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald, to profiles of the early masters like Louis Armstrong,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Jazz can be difficult for the novice, but 30-Second Jazz proves the ideal companion for the newcomer to the subject, taking readers from the African-American roots of jazz all the way to today’s global mix of musicians and styles. Along the way, it looks at the shape, style and instruments of jazz,...
The Swing Era
The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1991
Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable...
Better Git It in Your Soul
An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Charles Mingus is one of the most important—and most mythologized—composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. His vivid autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has...
Sessions with Sinatra
Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Featuring 100 photographs of Frank Sinatra working with orchestras and arrangers, listening to playbacks, and, of course, singing, this book tells the whole story of how he created the Sinatra sound and translated the most intense personal emotions into richly worked-out songs of unrivalled expressiveness....
by Gabriel Solis
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Long considered one of the most important musical meetings in modern jazz, Monk's and Coltrane's...
Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, A Love Supreme is widely considered John Coltrane's magnum opus and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. In Beyond A Love Supreme, Tony Whyton explores both the musical complexities of A Love Supreme and the album's seminal importance in...
Love Songs
The Hidden History
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how have our changing perceptions...
Jazz:West Records
Art Pepper on Jazz:West and Intro Records
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A history of the Jazz:West label established by Herb Kimmel in 1954. Jazz artists recorded by Kimmel include: Jack Sheldon, Walter Norris, Zoot Sims, Jane Fielding, Kenny Drew, Joe Maini, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, James Clay, Julius Wechter, and Art Pepper. Additional chapters examine Art Pepper's...
When Genres Collide
Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock...
Gypsy Jazz
In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge,...
Stardust Melody
The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Georgia on My Mind, Rockin' Chair, Skylark, Lazybones, and of course the incomparable Star Dust--who else could have composed these classic American songs but Hoagy Carmichael? He remains, for millions, the voice of heartland America, eternal counterpoint to the urban sensibility of Cole Porter and...
Circular Breathing
The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
In Circular Breathing, George McKay, a leading chronicler of British countercultures, uncovers the often surprising ways that jazz has accompanied social change during a period of rapid transformation in Great Britain. Examining jazz from the founding of George Webb’s Dixielanders in 1943 through...