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  • Ray Brown

    His Life and Music

    de Jay Sweet ...
    Series series Popular Music History
    Ray Brown: His Life and Music is the first full-length biography of Ray Brown, one of the most outstanding practitioners of bass playing in jazz music. Brown's career spans the most popular and creative eras of jazz, from 1940 to the dawn of the 21st century. During his early professional career, Ray Brown first toured with territory bands, and by 1946, he was hired by Dizzy Gillespie to play in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • 3 Shades of Blue

    Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

    de James Kaplan ...
    **The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—and how they ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Penguin Jazz Guide

    The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

    de Brian Morton, Richard Cook ...
    The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Music

    de Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things music.From boogie-woogie to Beethoven, from Prince to Pavarotti, from the bards of Broadway to the rebels of rock 'n' roll—it's all here. Uncle John has created this harmonious collection of tuneful tales for music lovers everywhere.Uncle John has proven once again that he is in tune with our legion of loyal readers. This 516 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Jazz Standards

    A Guide to the Repertoire

    de Ted Gioia ...
    The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form. This essential book for music lovers tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs, and includes a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. Many books recommend jazz CDs or discuss musicians and styles, but this is ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Essential Jazz Recordings

    101 CDs

    de Ross Porter ...
    A guide to the all-time must-have jazz recordings by a maven of the genre.Possibly the twentieth century’s greatest musical innovation, jazz is now more popular than it has been for the past fifty years. But with the plethora of new recordings and the phenomenon in jazz of the same standards being recorded seemingly by almost every artist and band or trio, it’s very hard to know where to start or ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Giant Steps

    Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65

    de Kenny Mathieson ...
    A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane.In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Using this as ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

    An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    de Elijah Wald ...
    "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Jazz Ear

    Conversations Over Music

    de Ben Ratliff ...
    An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz criticJazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of Blue." Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft for fear of destroying ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Sound of the City

    The Rise of Rock and Roll

    de Charlie Gillett ...
    Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to engulf and devour it.When first published The Sound of the City was hailed as having 'never been ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Lush Life

    A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

    de David Hajdu ...
    "Arguably the finest biography yet written about a jazz musician . . . [It] will fascinate readers who have never heard a note of Strayhorn's music." —Joel E. Seigel, Washington City PaperA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardBilly Strayhorn (1915–67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Jazz

    A Beginner's Guide

    de Stuart Nicholson ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader.Jazz: A Beginner’s Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early stirrings in America’s south through to the present day, when almost every country in the ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD