Blues category: 910 books
Woodstock '69
50th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was held in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Scheduled for August 15–17 on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern New York State, northwest of New York City, it ran over to Monday, August 18. Billed as "An...
by Phil Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
A wonderful collection of favorite folk and classic themes are artistically arranged for chromatic harmonica solo in this book/online audio package. All songs on the online audio are split-track for play-along. Selected songs are recorded. Each songs is labeled with what harmonica was used. Some tunes...
HOG
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Van G. Garrett explores moments in the life of bluesman Elmore "Hog" Garrett, the imagined godson of the legendary bluesman Slim Harpo. With poems that breathe life into this Southern story, Van G. Garrett's exploration into the fictionalized Elmore Garrett is both arresting and engaging, a worthy salute to one of America's authentic art forms.
American Guitar
Il classico studio del 1982 sulla chitarra acustica americana contemporanea
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 11, 2015
American Guitar fu scritto nel 1981 e pubblicato l’anno successivo dalla Gammalibri di Milano. Tuttora resta attuale e rilevante per vari motivi: perché è unico nello stile e nei contenuti; perché non ne esiste un lavoro parallelo né in Italia né negli Stati Uniti; e perché in un certo senso...
Musica, parole e storie
Ovvero: come si diventa un vero finto musicista
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Come diceva Rachmaninov – che di queste cose se ne intendeva – «la musica è abbastanza per tutta una vita, ma tutta una vita non è abbastanza per la musica». Musica, parole e storie è l’avventura di una vita in musica raccontata con lo spirito di un ragazzino e il cuore di uno ormai più...
by John White
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The life and times of Billie Holiday.
The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming...
The Lost Supreme
The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped...
by David Ritz
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
David Ritz presents his uniquely candid and and intimate account of the tumultuous life of the Prince of Soul music Marvin Gaye. Author Ritz has assembled years of conversations and interviews from his life as a close friend and lyricist to the gifted Soul sensation and tells the Marvin Gaye story...
Thelonious Monk
The Life and Times of an American Original
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
The first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews. Now updated with an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.
Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga...
Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched.
Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In...
To a Young Jazz Musician
Letters from the Road
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom...
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...
Bing Crosby
A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.