Blues category: 910 books
Best Seat in the House
My Life in the Jeff Healey Band
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused.
But...
Lost Highway
Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This masterful explorationof American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews...
American Epic
The First Time America Heard Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music—blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American—without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.
Jack White,...
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...
by Nelson George
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of black culture within white American society....
by Mark Boling
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Pianists are the main sources of inspiration for new developments in jazz guitar comping. Yet guitarists have been slow to develop a comping vocabulary with harmonic sophistication, subtle voiceleading, and rhythmic flexibility on the level of the best contemporary pianists. This book seeks to remedy...
by Bob Blumenthal
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music. Do you have a hard time differentiating between hard bop, bebop, and the blues? Need to Know?Jazz puts jazz in its musical and historical context, and gets you started with stories of famous artists...
Jazz Christmas
Jazz, Love and Death in Soho
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A music tale Jazz Christmas by Al Gromer Khan portrays the attitude to life in the late sixties in and around Ronnie Scott´s Jazz Club in Jack Kerouac style. The story tells of love and jazz, sex and ecstasy and death in Soho. A young musician wins the trust and the friendship of a famous jazz saxophonist...
Josh White
Society Blues
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Shadows Across The Moon
Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans And The Making Of Ibiza Clubland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Once a fabled pirate garrison, the Balearic island of Ibiza has been colonised and continually fought over since the era of the Phoenicians. During the 20th century it gained its reputation as a countercultural hotbed after it became a melting pot for bohemians and dropouts who had come there in search...
Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65
Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories. Cookin' examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, hard bop and its related offshoot, soul jazz. Hard bop was the most exciting jazz style of its day,...
Led Zeppelin
All the Albums, All the Songs, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Just in time for their 50th anniversary, Led Zeppelin breaks down one of the world’s most prolific bands—track by track, album by album—in this expanded edition, revised to include rarities, outtakes, and B-sides from their storied catalog†‹.
Formed by the unlikely alliance of...
Midnight Muse - The Book
Las Vegas - Where Hip Meets Hot
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
The last fifty years of Jazz, Rhythm and Blues and Big Band music of Las Vegas, Nevada along with the art of twelve local artists and four poets and the history of the Vegas Jazz Society for the last forty years.
I've Been Out There
On the Road with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
In the 1950s, as the leader of the Upsetters, the original backing band for rock pioneer Little Richard, Grady Gaines first exposed the music world to his unique brand of “honkin’,” bombastic, attitude-drenched saxophone playing.
In the years that followed, the Upsetters became the backing...