Blues category: 910 books
Benson
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Over the course of his fifty-year career, George Benson has performed for hundreds of millions of fans around the world, received ten Grammy Awards, and recorded with some of the most revered musicians of his era. In 2011, he earned a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Award. And he has finally...
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...
Norman Granz
The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential,...
The Hippest Trip in America
Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, “the most accomplished black music critic of his generation” (Washington Post Book World).
When it debuted in October...
by Edward J. Branley
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
From the days when Buddy Bolden would blow his cornet to attract an audience from one New Orleans park to another, to the brass bands in clubs and on the streets today, jazz in New Orleans has been about simple things: getting people to snap their fingers, tap their toes, get up and clap their hands,...
Once Upon a Time in New York
Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt,and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
A flavorful account of New York City politics during the 1920s Jazz Age centering on the intersecting careers of the city's popular "Night Mayor," Jimmy Walker, and the state's patrician governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mitgang's extensive use of newspaper quotes and legal transcripts helps paint...
Gigs
Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Gigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City.
This...
A Love Supreme
The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that...
by Raymond A. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Read This eBook If Youíre Looking For A Great eBook On The Many Stlyes Of Jazz Music, The History Of Vocal Jazz, Creating Jazz Music, Lena Horne- Jazz Legend, Billie Holiday, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Jazz Music Today.. Plus Much More!
by Will Friedwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented...
The Penguin Jazz Guide
The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
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...
by Bruce Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The life and times of Gene Krupa Traces the life and career of the late drummer and assesses his influence on modern jazz. In depth account of Gene's life and the times surrounding that period. Includes selected discography and plenty of photographs.
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet
Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences...