Jazz Blues category: 910 books
Every Little Step
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.
Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years,...
Soulless
The Case Against R. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
The essential account of R. Kelly’s actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making
In November 2000, Chicago journalist and music critic Jim DeRogatis received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with “young girls.” Weeks later, DeRogatis broke the...
by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."-The Guardian
"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."-Daily News
"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but...
2Fish
(a poetry book)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
It includes 60 poems as well as 50 scanned pages from her original notebooks presenting her unedited journal entries in her own writing.
Jhené Aiko is a three-time Grammy nominated singer and songwriter
Jhené released her third solo album, "Trip" in October 2017, which debuted...
Sounding Like a No-No
Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Sounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements,...
Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his...
Soul Train
The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of Soul Train—the cultural phenomenon that launched the careers of artists such as Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Whitney Houston, Lenny Kravitz, LL...
by Stuart Cosgrove
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The Epic Story of Motown and Detroit's Independent Soul Music Scene It's January 1967-and one of the worst snowstorms in decades is blanketing Detroit, Michigan. Berry Gordy, owner of Motown Records, is trapped in his home, unable to do anything about the internal war ravaging his most successful group,...
The One
The Life and Music of James Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our time
Playing 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling...
Still So Excited!
My Life as a Pointer Sister
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ruth Pointer's story for the first time—and in her own words Still So Excited!: My Life in the Pointer Sisters offers an engaging, funny, heartbreaking, and poignant look at Ruth Pointer's roller-coaster life in and out of the Pointer Sisters. When overnight success came to the Pointer Sisters...
Diana Ross:
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
There is only one Diana Ross. This is her story.
Drawn from hundreds of interviews conducted over four decades, Diana Ross paints an unforgettable picture of an extraordinary and often controversial legend—a pop music goddess, acclaimed actress, loving mother, Civil Rights trailblazer, and...
Whitney Houston!
The Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall of the Woman Whose Voice Inspired a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Whitney Houston (19632012) was a superstar. Few in the world of show business reach the career heights that she attained with what seemed such ease. Her megastardom peaked in 1992 with the release of the hit movie The Bodyguard and the international Number One hit I Will Always Love You.” The...
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece presents the remarkable story of how The Queen of Soul created what Rolling Stone called “the greatest soul album ever made.”
The album she recorded that earned soul legend Aretha...
by Maria Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Maria Lawson rose to fame on the hit TV show The X Factor in 2005 but had already enjoyed some success as a singer/songwriter prior to this, having secured a recording and publishing contract through her own efforts and determination to break into the music industry. Life Starts Now follows Maria’s...