Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
Acid for the Children
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
The iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd want from an LA street rat turned world famous rock star.
In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing...
by Ralph Hulett, Jerry Prochnicky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In September 1968, four English lads gathered together for the first time in a small, stuffy London rehearsal room in a basement filled with wall-to-wall amplifiers. It was their first big tryout as musicians, and each of them was nervous. Would they come together as a band? Or would they crash and...
by Paul Trynka
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
“Fellow rock stars, casual members of the public, lords and media magnates, countless thousands of people will talk of their encounters with this driven, talented, indomitable creature, a man who has plumbed the depths of depravity, yet emerged with an indisputable nobility. Each of them will share...
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...
by Marshall Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Marshall Chapman knows Nashville. A musician, songwriter, and author with nearly a dozen albums and a bestselling memoir under her belt, Chapman has lived and breathed Music City for over forty years. Her friendships with those who helped make Nashville one of the major forces in American music culture...
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
A Life In Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
A no-holds-barred look into the remarkable life and career of the prolific musician, songwriter, and producer behind Eurythmics and dozens of pop hits.
Dave Stewart’s life has been a wild ride—one filled with music, constant reinvention, and the never-ending drive to create. Growing up...
by Harvey Kubernik
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Respected journalist Harvey Kubernik charts every aspect of Neil Young's extraordinary career with the aid of exclusive interviews conducted with fellow musicians, record producers, music journalists, film directors and loyal fans. The period spanning Neil Young's debut with local bands in his native...
by George T. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In this book you will find an astounding 400 biographies that highlight the history and personnel of the great bands. It is organized into four sections: “The Big Bands--Then” (the scene, the leaders, the public, the musicians, vocalists, arrangers and businessmen, recordings, radio, movies and...
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool
His Life and Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The life (1912–1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the 20th century. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is the comprehensive biography of a self-taught musician whom colleagues often regarded as a mentor. His innovative work as a composer,...
Early Blues
The First Stars of Blues Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt.
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I Love You a Thousand Ways
The Lefty Frizzell Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
I Love You a Thousand Ways is the story of one of the most loved, respected, and imitated singer/songwriters in the history of country music, a man whose songs touched the lives of millions of people. Lefty Frizzell’s relaxed style of singing proved to be a huge influence on a wide variety of country...
Widor
A Life beyond the Toccata
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor. He is considered one of the greatest organists of his time, a prolific composer in nearly every genre, professor...
Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Musicians
Opening Windows / True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera / Lois Marshall / John Arpin / Elmer Iseler / Jan Rubes / Music Makers / There's Music in These Walls / In Their Own Words / Emma Albani / Opera Viva / MacMillan on Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This special twelve-book bundle is a classical and choral music lover’s delight! Canada’s rich history and culture in the classical music arts is celebrated here, both in the form of in-depth biographies and autobiographies (Lois Marshall, Lotfi Mansouri, Elmer Iseler, Emma Albani and more), but...
by Rupert Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Chapters cover, Orland di Lassus, Percell, Stradella, Palestrina, Bach, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Mendelssohn, and Chopin.