Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
Bars, Blues, and Booze
Stories from the Drink House
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Bars, Blues, and Booze collects lively bar tales from the intersection of black and white musical cultures in the South. Many of these stories do not seem dignified, decent, or filled with uplifting euphoria, but they are real narratives of people who worked hard with their hands during the week to...
Leading Musicians & Singers 2
Biographies of Famous and Influential Americans for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Timeless collection of American musicians & singers biographies. American Biographies Series provides descriptions and stories of people important in the history of the United States. Including the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death, the series also presents...
Leading Musicians & Singers 1
Biographies of Famous and Influential Americans for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Timeless collection of American musicians & singers biographies. American Biographies Series provides descriptions and stories of people important in the history of the United States. Including the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death, the series also presents...
by Julian Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy--he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills--he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire European tradition. Julian...
What It Is
The Life of a Jazz Artist
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In addition to his recent recognition as a National Endowment for the...
Jade Visions
The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century’s most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when...
Clifford Brown
The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2001
Although he died in a tragic car accident at twenty-five, Clifford Brown is widely considered one of the most important figures in the history of jazz, a trumpet player who ranks with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, and a leading influence on contemporary jazz musicians. Now, in...
Steve Lacy
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
Steve Lacy: Conversations is a collection of thirty-four interviews with the innovative saxophonist and jazz composer. Lacy (1934–2004), a pioneer in making the soprano saxophone a contemporary jazz instrument, was a prolific performer and composer, with hundreds of recordings to his name.
This...
Mozart
An Introduction to the Music, the Man and the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths explores in detail 20 of the composer's major works in the context of his tragically brief life and the turbulent times in which he lived. Addressed to non-musicians seeking to deepen their technical appreciation for his music while learning...
by David Blum
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
"This is an immensely valuable book and one which is clearly designed to appeal to all musicians—not just string players...Mr. Blum has captured in great detail the little things that so often make a great teacher. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Art of...
Earl Scruggs
Banjo Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine gun precision at his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and enduring legacy that would eclipse anything the humble farm boy from North Carolina could have imagined. Scruggs’s revolutionary three-finger roll patterns...
Buddy Holly
Learning the Game
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Buddy Holly died in 1959. He was just 22 years old.
Don McLean called that fatal day ‘The Day the Music Died’. But Buddy’s music hasn’t died and he left behind a wonderful legacy. With his animated voice, trademark black glasses, Fender Stratocaster and inimitable songs, Buddy and his...
Talking New Orleans Music
Crescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music, and Their City
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In New Orleans, music screams. It honks. It blats. It wails. It purrs. It messes with time. It messes with pitch. It messes with your feet. It messes with your head. One musician leads to another; traditions overlap, intertwine, nourish each other; and everyone seems to know everyone else. From traditional...
Johannes Brahms
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted...