Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Funny Valentine
La vita di Chet Baker
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 20, 2014
"Funny Valentine. La vita di Chet Baker" è la biografia definitiva del formidabile trombettista americano, una delle voci più struggenti, inconfondibili, e anche sottovalutate, della storia del jazz. L'opera di Matthew Ruddick colma infatti un vuoto inspiegabile negli studi sulla vita...
by Wolfram Knauer
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Es gibt wohl keinen Jazz-Fan, der nicht ein entscheidendes Initiationserlebnis der ersten gehörten Aufnahme von Charlie Parker verdankt. Am Anfang steht meist ein tiefes Befremden über ein fast außerirdisches Tempo und die gleißende Kälte der Melodieführung, dann eine Faszination, schließlich...
La Cosa
Nota di lettura di Paolo Fabbri
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Questo testo risale al 1967, anno in cui Perec entra a far parte dell'OuLiPo, l'opificio di letteratura potenziale, con Raymond Queneau, Jacques Roubaud e Italo Calvino. La forza di rottura che il free jazz – o new thing – porta nello stallo e nella stagnazione che seguono la morte di Charlie...
by Patrizia Barrera
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2017
La tragica storia di Robert Johnson, grande musicista Blues degli anni `30 Americani, la risoluzione al giallo della sua tragica fine, i retroscena e la discografia completa.
Un giallo emozionante e una ricerca storica sulla breve vita di Robert Johnson, considerato dai più come il nonno del...
Duke
A Life of Duke Ellington
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to...
Rant & Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Wilmott
As Imagined by
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Rant & Dawdle is a fictional memoir comprising thirty-eight interwoven stories from the perspective of a grumpy old man living on a small island off the west coast of Canada and an expectant young boy born into the poverty of WW2 English working class. The old man dreaming in retrospect,...
Songs of the Unsung
The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2001
Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1943, learning music,...
by Ben Watson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and recordsession guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began...
Louis Armstrong
An Extravagant Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told.
Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the prostitutes, pimps, and rag-and-bone merchants...
Delbert McClinton
One of the Fortunate Few
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Influenced at a young age by classic country, Tejano, western swing, and the popular music of wartime America, blues musician Delbert McClinton grew up with a backstage pass to some of the most significant moments in American cultural and music history. From his birth on the high plains of West Texas...
Forces in Motion
Anthony Braxton and the Meta-reality of Creative Music: Interviews and Tour Notes, England 1985
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
"Absolutely essential reading." — The Wire
One of modern music's towering figures, composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton has redefined critical concepts of jazz and the wider world of creative music. The Chicago native's works range from an early piece for 100 tubas to proposed...
African Rhythms
The Autobiography of Randy Weston
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decades long musical career, his time living in Morocco, and his lifelong quest to learn about the musical and cultural traditions of Africa.
Boogie Man
The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Acclaimed writer Charles Shaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of an extraordinary musician. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and he lets the man from Clarksdale, Mississippi, tell his own story. "Everything you read on album covers is not true,...
Grappelli Licks
The Vocabulary of Gypsy Jazz Violin
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Do you want to sound more like the French maestro Stephane Grappelli? Here is the answer. I've selected around 250 classic Grappelli licks for you to learn. Using Simple chord theory and tips for timing and style. You can start these songs instantly. The online audio recording contains samples, solos and backing tracks to practice your new-found skills on. Includes access to online audio.