Jazz category: 919 books
by BeBe Winans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
A virtual album of BeBe Winans' treasured memories of his friend and "sister," Whitney Houston.
In the years between the first time BeBe Winans and Whitney Houston met in 1985, to the day he delivered the tribute that touched a watching nation at Houston's funeral, a deep and unique...
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes
In Search of Blind Willie McTell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Evoking the turbulent past of the subject’s time and place, this odyssey to rural Georgia peels back the many layers of Blind Willie McTell’s compelling, occasionally shocking, but ultimately uplifting story. Portraying him as one of the most gifted artists of his generation, this account uncovers...
by Roger Stolle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi. They didn't simply...
by Nelson George
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of black culture within white American society....
The Rhythm and Blues Quiz Book
100 Questions on R&B History
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Are you a fan of rhythm and blues? Can you name the great R&B artists from yesteryear and the songs that made them famous? Do you consider yourself to be an expert on R&B music? If so, why not put your knowledge to the test with The Rhythm and Blues Quiz Book? Which Fats Domino single stayed at number...
Party Music
The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Examining the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, this book explores the relationship of soul music to the Black Power movement from the vantage point of the musicians and black revolutionaries themselves. The 1960s were a turbulent time for race relations in the United...
by Jack Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Motown as we remember it: The music, the stars, the storys and the pure fun. See all the artists and the people behind the scenes who made Motown a legend in the world of music. The Supremes, The Temptations, Martha and The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye and all the others. ...
The Jacksons
Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The only official, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Jacksons' lives and careers, celebrating 50 years of one of the greatest acts of all time.
The Jacksons: Legacy is the first official book on the the Royal Family of Pop. Unrivaled access to the family archives as well as the private collections...
by Emily J. Lordi
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories from a window of Manhattan's Essex House Hotel in an alleged suicide. He was 33 years old and everyone he worked with called him a genius. Best known for "A Song for You,†? "This Christmas,†? and classic duets...
Soul Survivor
A Biography of Al Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young's Biography presents the first in-depth biography of the legendary soul singer Al Green.
Al Green has blessed listeners with some of the biggest hits of the past fifty years. "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You,"...
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing
The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs...
Barrelhouse Blues
Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated...
Blues Traveling
The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide...
Blues Mandolin Man
The Life and Music of Yank Rachell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Yank Rachell and his mandolin playing style moved every musician lucky enough to hear him perform in the early sixties. When he died in April 1997, he left behind a stack of unanswered requests to tour Europe and to play blues festivals in the United States. In Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and...