Blues category: 910 books
Pressed for All Time
Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside--generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we'd have little on record of some of the most important music ever created. Discover the stories behind some of jazz's best-selling and...
by Mark Mercury
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
The building blocks of jazz improvisation are original, musical ideas. Getting these ideas requires a steady stream of inspiration and creativity. To some jazz musicians, this comes easy. Others must work at it to better learn the craft. This book is geared to those in the latter category—in particular,...
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the Temptations
The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin Stone. From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized...
by Graham Betts
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Motown means different things to different people. The mere mention of perhaps the most iconic record label in history is often enough to invoke memories and mental images of Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Supremes and numerous others. With each group recalled,...
Motown Artist by Artist
A Compilation of the 100 Greatest Motown Artists
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
In 1959 Berry Gordy Jr., a high school dropout, former boxer and record store owner, founded the Motown record label in Detroit. The company name, which played on the city's proud tradition of car manufacture, was to become synonymous with great music as Gordy took the sound of black America to the...
by SHER Music, Ed Fuqua
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
This book gives you all the basic principles underlying solid walking bass lines. Comprehensive, easy to understand, with page after page of great transcriptions of the author's walking lines on the accompanying CD. The CD of NY professional jazz players can also be used as a swinging play-along CD....
Lush Life
A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) was one of the most accomplished composers in American music, the creator of such standards as "Take the 'A' Train", yet all his life he was overshadowed by his friend and collaborator, Duke Ellington. Through scrutiny of Strayhorn's private papers and more than...
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool
His Life and Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The life (1912–1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the 20th century. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is the comprehensive biography of a self-taught musician whom colleagues often regarded as a mentor. His innovative work as a composer,...
From Birdland to Broadway
Scenes from a Jazz Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1993
In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incomparable Charlie "Bird" Parker...
As Serious As Your Life
Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.
Placing the achievements of African-American...
by Arnie Fox
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
... over 2000 jazz pianists listing the title of album or CD
... introducing you to the great and the unknown jazz pianists
... discography of the amazing Bernard Peiffer and Jessica Williams
... information on cdbaby
... great for collectors and musicians searching out...
Someone to Watch Over Me
The Life and Music of Ben Webster
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
For a half century, Ben Webster, one of the "big three" of swing tenors-along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young-was one of the best-known and most popular saxophonists.
Early in his career, Webster worked with many of the greatest orchestras of the time, including those led by...
I Walked With Giants
The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Composer of more than 100 jazz pieces, three-time Grammy nominee, and performer on more than 125 albums, Jimmy Heath has earned a place of honor in the history of jazz. Over his long career, Heath knew many jazz giants such as Charlie Parker and played with other innovators including John Coltrane,...
Detroit
Ragtime and the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Detroit has always been at the forefront of American popular music development, and the ragtime years and jazz age are no exception. The city�s long history of diversity has served the region well, providing a fertile environment for creating and nurturing some of America�s most distinctly indigenous...