Blues category: 910 books
Celebrating Bird
The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Within days of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force...
Kansas City Lightning
The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.
Throughout his...
Miles & Me
Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the journalist and poet Quincy Troupe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An intimate story of Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the young journalist and poet Quincy Troupe--soon to be a major motion picture.
Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great...
by Geoff Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
This is the definitive biography of this extraordinary and controversial superstar, written by Geoff Brown, a former editor of Black Music magazine. For three decades James Brown dominated the changing face of post-war popular black music. Others were as inspirational in the short term, and several...
Deep in a Dream
The Long Night of Chet Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of cool” jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously...
A Cure For Gravity
A Musical Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
"Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist."--New York Times Book Review
Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through...
Africa Speaks, America Answers
Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents.
Merit, Not Sympathy, Wins
The Life and Times of Blind Boone
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In post-Reconstruction America, John William "Blind" Boone, an illiterate, itinerant musician, overcame obstacles created by disability, exploitative managers, and racial prejudice to become one of the countrys most beloved concert performers. Melissa Fuell-Cuther's out-of-print biography, Blind Boone:...
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...
Angel Standing By
The Story of Jewel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
"There really aren't mistakes. Be very adventurous and brave in your life. Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous--there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kind to yourself. . . There are no bounds." --Jewel
Angel Standing By offers an...
by Kris Needs
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era which spawned him. Clinton stands alongside James...
by Katherine Baber
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and...
by Chet Baker
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Le memorie di Chet Baker: l’unica testimonianza scritta che ci abbia lasciato il grande trombettista jazz. Questi preziosi testi, scoperti a dieci anni dalla sua morte misteriosa, ci permettono di «ascoltare» la vita di Chet in presa diretta, narrata dalla sua vera voce. I ricordi d’infanzia,...
THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE #1
Volume "Y" (May, 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE
At last, here it ist! They said it couldn't be done.You can now get access to the FIRST even released eBook including all comprehensive, verified and certified Biographies & Discographies of BLACK Artists/Groups til the '50s to nowadays.
This...