Jazz category: 919 books
Heart Full of Soul
An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
With a Bible belt twang and a shock of gray hair, American Idol winner Hicks resembles nothing less than the other tweeny pop stars churned out by the television megahit. In this inspirational autobiography, Hicks reveals that, before capturing televised glory (and more votes than George Bush in 2004),...
by Rufus Curry, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Fiction / Romance / Adult Caught in the crossfire between justification and knowing, Chapman Sweet, Jr. works to untangle the present mess he finds his life in. Surrounded by a smorgasbord of feminine opportunities and advisors, the leader of the Chapman Sweet Band stands in the middle of the crossroads...
Soul Music
Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
"Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated."
---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
"In this audacious and long-awaited book, Joel Rudinow takes seriously a range of interrelated issues that most music theorizing is embarrassed to tackle....
Paul McCartney - Die Biografie
Mit einem Update von Alan Tepper
Language: German
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Was für ein Leben! Mit den Beatles hat er sich für alle Zeiten in der Musikgeschichte unsterblich gemacht und begeistert bis heute Millionen Fans. Bereits 50 Jahre ist es her, dass er erstmals 1960 in Hamburg auf der Bühne stand. Sir James Paul McCartney kann auf ein bewegtes Leben voller Erfolge,...
Soul Serenade
Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music
Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors...
by Melody Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Explore the music and songs of artists like Van Halen, Boy George, Andy Williams and Michael Bolton. Seventies Soul Artists: Delfonics, O'Jays, Jerry Butler, Teddy Pendergrass, Stylistics, Spinners and their Philadelphia label are discussed. Leon Russell, Bonnie and Delaney and influences on guitar greats like Clapton, Mason, Harrison and Allman are covered.
Women of Motown: An Oral History
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The second edition of Women of Motown by author Susan Whitall contains new chapters and information, updating this critically-acclaimed oral history of the ladies who made Motown a sound heard round the world. Originally published to glowing reviews in 1998, the first edition has long been out of...
A House on Fire
The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
"If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost," "The Soul Train Theme," "Then Came You," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"--the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire, John A. Jackson...
THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE #2
Volume "0-9" (Sept. 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE #2
We're back again with our second volume ! At last, here it ist! They said it couldn't be done. We already did it twice You can now get access to the FIRST even released eBook including all comprehensive, verified and certified Biographies &...
Working for the Man, Playing in the Band
My Years with James Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A young, long-haired rock guitarist finds the funk on stage with the Godfather of Soul
In this unvarnished account of toiling under one of popular music’s most notorious bosses, Damon Wood details his six years spent playing guitar for James Brown’s Soul Generals.
In a memoir certain...
by John Little
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
When many people think of musicians, they think glitz and glamour and people accepting Grammy awards on television. However, for most people this isn’t the case. The average professional musician books gigs without the fanfare and the worldwide prestige. People who want to make a living making music...
Country Soul
Making Music and Making Race in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and...
Highway 61
Crossroads on the Blues Highway
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
A musical pilgrimage unraveling the true history of the bluesA history of the legendary blues Highway and the route taken by modern-day blues pilgrims on their journey south into the Mississippi Delta, this book draws on the work of the early musicologists looking for an authentic Delta folk music...
Loving Amy
A Mother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
“Amy was one of those rare people who made an impact . . . She was a bundle of emotions, at times adorable and at times unbearable. . . . Amy’s passing did not follow a clear line. It was jumbled, and her life was unfinished—not life’s natural order at all. She left no answers, only questions,...