Jazz category: 919 books
Soul City
Porretta Terme, il festival e la musica
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Dal 1988, sull’Appennino tosco-emiliano, si svolge una rassegna dedicata interamente al soul. Sì, proprio la musica scaturita dall’incontro di jazz, blues, gospel, rock e country che diede voce e visibilità alle battaglie dell’America nera per i diritti civili e una cittadinanza degna di questo...
Blues
La música del Delta del Mississippi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Si alguien puede hablar de música con la documentación de un investigador, la pasión de un novelista y el amor por la anécdota de un fan, ése es Ted Gioia. Tras su monumental Historia del Jazz (1977), ahora invita al lector a un viaje desde las plantaciones del Mississippi, donde nació el blues,...
The Lost Supreme
The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped...
by David Ritz
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
David Ritz presents his uniquely candid and and intimate account of the tumultuous life of the Prince of Soul music Marvin Gaye. Author Ritz has assembled years of conversations and interviews from his life as a close friend and lyricist to the gifted Soul sensation and tells the Marvin Gaye story...
Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched.
Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In...
Wild Years
The Music and Myth of Tom Waits
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2006
Newly updated to include his critically acclaimed post-millennial work, this look at Tom Waits - both the reality and the myriad myths - reveals the man behind the curtain. A tale of how a self-taught, drunken hipster in roach-killers and a dirty beret has influenced a generation of musicians with...
by Marcus Baram
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization. He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence, and his biting, observant lyrics in such singles as "The Bottle" and "Johannesburg"...
Mary Wells
The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed interviews with Wells, this account delves deeply...
by Adolfo de la Parra
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Canned Heat's Story of Music Drugs Death Sex and Survival
by Daryl Easlea
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The first in-depth biography of The Black Eyed Peas explored their rise from back-street gangsta rap to globally famous group.
Tells the full story from the backstreets of Los Angeles in the mid 1980s to the formation of the Black Eyed Peas and a record deal in the mid 1990s.
I'd Rather Be the Devil
Skip James and the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Providing a clear look into the life of one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, this is the first biography of the late Skip James, perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. His 1931 performances of "Devil Got My Woman," "I'm So Glad," and "22-20...
Lauryn Hill
She's Got That Thing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Lauryn Hill: She's Got That Thing is an engaging look at the life of the musician who was originally raised in South Orange, N.J. Author Chris Nickson shares with fans how Hill created the Fugees with Prakazrel Michel and Wyclef Jean and developed a unique blend of styles, and then how Hill continued find new ground as a solo artist.
Delbert McClinton
One of the Fortunate Few
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Influenced at a young age by classic country, Tejano, western swing, and the popular music of wartime America, blues musician Delbert McClinton grew up with a backstage pass to some of the most significant moments in American cultural and music history. From his birth on the high plains of West Texas...
by Holger Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Talking Music is a collection of nineteen of Holger Petersens in-depth radio interviews with artiststhe pioneering men and women who created the blues and roots sounds that have influenced the course of popular culture and music in North America. Many of his interview subjects are no longer with ustheir...