Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Maurice El Médioni - A Memoir
From Oran to Marseilles (1936-1990)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Undoubtedly great music outlives the musicians who create it. But octogenarian greats such as John Lee Hooker or Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club outlive the initial popularity of their musical genre and then decades later it is their late careers that make the music live on and catch fire to new generations,...
by Carlo Pasceri
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti.
In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica.
Non sono...
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
Monk, Bud o viceversa
Appunti per una discografia jazz su vinile
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Oltre 200 musicisti con la segnalazione di un migliaio di incisioni su vinile rendono questo volume una vera e propria enciclopedia del jazz, dedicata non solo ai collezionisti di vecchia data, ma anche ai giovani che intendono avvicinarsi al mondo della musica afro-americana.
Pepper Adams' Joy Road
An Annotated Discography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history. It's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times, thanks to colorful interview vignettes, drawn from the author's unpublished conversations with Adams and other musicians....
Rhythm And The Blues
A Life in American Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Atlantic Records partner and producer, Wexler presided over the evolution of the modern music business and made prodigious contributions through to our cultural history. Wexler has worked with the entire range of American genius: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and others. 75 photographs.
Kansas City Lightning
The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.
Throughout his...
Miles & Me
Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the journalist and poet Quincy Troupe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An intimate story of Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the young journalist and poet Quincy Troupe--soon to be a major motion picture.
Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great...
Deep in a Dream
The Long Night of Chet Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of cool” jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously...
by Chet Baker
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Le memorie di Chet Baker: l’unica testimonianza scritta che ci abbia lasciato il grande trombettista jazz. Questi preziosi testi, scoperti a dieci anni dalla sua morte misteriosa, ci permettono di «ascoltare» la vita di Chet in presa diretta, narrata dalla sua vera voce. I ricordi d’infanzia,...
Fever: Little Willie John
A Fast Life, Mysterious Death, and the Birth of Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Little Willie John lived for a fleeting 30 years, but his dynamic and daring sound left an indelible mark on the history of music. His deep blues, rollicking rock ‘n’ roll and swinging ballads inspired a generation of musicians, forming the basis for what we now know as soul music.
Born in...
Monk!
Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
"Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then—quickly, before the spell breaks!—play one of Monk's records." —Saul Williams
She is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius fighting...
Once Upon a Time in New York
Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt,and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
A flavorful account of New York City politics during the 1920s Jazz Age centering on the intersecting careers of the city's popular "Night Mayor," Jimmy Walker, and the state's patrician governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mitgang's extensive use of newspaper quotes and legal transcripts helps paint...
by David Toop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.
In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice...