Review imprint: 1779 books
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool
His Life and Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The life (1912–1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the 20th century. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is the comprehensive biography of a self-taught musician whom colleagues often regarded as a mentor. His innovative work as a composer,...
The Jazz Book
From Ragtime to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Considered the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume for more than 50 years, this reference has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book’s last publication in 1992, as well as the fruits of current research...
by Roger Zelazny, Joe Haldeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In a world half of light, half of darkness, where science and magic strive for dominance, there dwells a magical being who is friendly with neither side. Jack, of the realm of shadows, is a thief who is unjustly punished. So he embarks on a vendetta. He wanders through strange realms, encountering...
Bowie on Bowie
Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews David Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each featured interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time in all of his various incarnations, from a young novelty hit-maker and Ziggy Stardust to plastic...
Revolution in the Air
The Songs of Bob Dylan, 19571973
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
By far the most comprehensive book on Dylan’s words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has ever heard, this first volume will fundamentally change how these lyrics are interpreted and understood. Arranged in a surprising chronology of when they were actually written rather than...
Lick Me
How I Became Cherry Vanilla
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In this sexually open and disarming account of her life and the era, Cherry Vanilla tells all about her personal successes and failures and in the process explores every aspect of the music industry during its most electrifying era—complete with detours through the sexual revolution, the women’s...
Dolly on Dolly
Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
"Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly," declares Dolly Parton. Dolly's is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly's metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar. The undisputed "Queen of...
Judy and I
My Life with Judy Garland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly...
James Dean: The Mutant King
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock ’n’ roll’s politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully...
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...
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...
Brotherhood of Corruption
A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city’s police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer because he wants to make a difference in gang-infested neighborhoods; but, as this book reveals, he ends...
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...
Keep On Pushing
Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Author Denise Sullivan explores the bond between music and social change and traces the evolution of protest music over the past five decades. The marriage of music and social change didn't originate with the civil rights and black power movements of the 1950s and 1960s, but never before had the relationship...