Jazz category: 919 books
Die Stille im Kopf
Interviews und Notizen über Musik
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Mit einem Gespür für besondere Momente in der Musik schreibt Karl Lippegaus in seinem Debütwerk von seinen Begegnungen mit großen Komponisten und Interpreten aller Sparten und collagiert - wie in seinen Radiosendungen - die Interviews mit persönlichen Erlebnissen und handverlesenen Zitaten über...
by Beverly Fink Cline
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Lombardo Story, Guy Lombardo and The Royal Canadians, the band's life and times, by Beverly Fink Cline, is an eBook re-issue of a 1979 book published by Musson Book Co., a division of General Publishing, Toronto, Canada. Featuring an introduction by Lebert Lombardo, the book is written with co-operation...
by A. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written by a fellow musician and African-American, the book traces Ellington's life and career in terms of the...
by Joel McIver
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Erykah Badu stands at the forefront of a whole new genre of music. Before Macy Gray, Alicia Keys and Angie Stone, Erykah was bringing the unique sounds of neo-soul - the classic vibes of Motown and Stax smoothed by Jazz and toughened by Hip-Hop - to the people. quite simply, there is no other artist...
A Cure For Gravity
A Musical Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
"Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist."--New York Times Book Review
Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through...
Merit, Not Sympathy, Wins
The Life and Times of Blind Boone
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In post-Reconstruction America, John William "Blind" Boone, an illiterate, itinerant musician, overcame obstacles created by disability, exploitative managers, and racial prejudice to become one of the countrys most beloved concert performers. Melissa Fuell-Cuther's out-of-print biography, Blind Boone:...
by Chris Albertson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
The definitive biography of musical legend Bessie Smith: “A landmark in the writing of jazz history . . . First-rate” (The Washington Post).
Known as the “Empress of the Blues,” Bessie Smith was a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African American performer...
Roll With It
Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to...
Big Deal
Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering,...
Deep Ellum
The Other Side of Dallas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative to the city’s staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theatres and evolved, during the...
The Hippest Trip in America
Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, “the most accomplished black music critic of his generation” (Washington Post Book World).
When it debuted in October...
Florida Soul
From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
"The story of a state long denied its place in soul capitals. Capouya tells quite a tale, taking us from the legends RC to KC; from Jackie Moore to Sam Moore; to many more. "--Jeffrey M. Lemlich, author of Savage Lost: Florida Garage Bands, the '60s and Beyond "Engaging and comprehensive....
Show Boat
Performing Race in an American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein...
You'll Know When You Get There
Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili...