Jazz category: 919 books
Escaping the Delta
Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest...
Billie Holiday
Wishing On The Moon
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Holiday, "by...
by Buzzy Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
The women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live and sing the blues.
An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with...
When I Left Home
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues.
Guy's epic story stands at...
Best Seat in the House
My Life in the Jeff Healey Band
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused.
But...
by Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
A companion to the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them.
Included in this stunning collection are
Essays by David Halberstam, Hilton Als, Suzan-Lori...
Sweet Soul Music
Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm...
by Paul Wolfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
From the time the first “Diddley Bo” appeared on a wooden barnyard wall, countless great sounding blues songs, acoustic and electric, have been written and recorded by many talented artists.
These ten legendary songs, among them “Boogie Chillun,” “John the Revelator” and “St....
Feel Like Going Home
Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This vivid celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Waters, Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf; excursions into the blues-based Memphis rock 'n' roll of Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, and the Sun record label; and...
Lost Highway
Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This masterful explorationof American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews...
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece presents the remarkable story of how The Queen of Soul created what Rolling Stone called “the greatest soul album ever made.”
The album she recorded that earned soul legend Aretha...
by Dick Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes:
a definition of the blues and the major genres within it
key artists such as Ma...
by David Freeland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
American soul music of the 1960s is one of the most creative and influential musical forms of the twentieth century. With its merging of gospel, R&B, country, and blues, soul music succeeded in crossing over from African American culture into the general pop culture. Soul became the byword for the...
Memphis 68
The Tragedy of Southern Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease...