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Work Songs
All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the spinner's wheel. Today this trad, ISBN...
The New York Times Essential Lib...
A connoisseur's tour through the great American art form A Love Supreme. Miles Ahead. Brubeck Time. Yardbird Suite. The Sidewinder. For newcomers just beginning their library of recordings, , ISBN...
Building a Jazz Vocabulary
(Jazz Book). A valuable resource for learning the basics of jazz from Mike Steinel of the University of North Texas. It covers the basics of jazz, how to build effective solos, a comprehensive prac...
Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz
Stan Getz's prodigiously prolific musical career encompassed the tumultuous eras of big band, swing, be-bop, and free jazz. Though he is most famous for "The Girl from Ipanema," Getz's extrao, ISBN...
Jazz: A History of America's Music
A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed...
American Big Bands
Over 100 illustrations and photos throughout, ISBN13: 9780634080548 ISBN10: 0634080547 Material Type: paperback
Searching for Robert Johnson
Explores the life and legend of blues singer Robert Johnson, whose music influenced Muddy Waters and an entire generation of rock 'n' roll artists, ISBN13: 9780525248019 ISBN10: 0525248013 Material...
Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-Them-Yo...
206 pages, ISBN13: 9780394812427 ISBN10: 0394812425 Material Type: hardcover
Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: ...
For his centennial, an indispensable biography of Artie Shaw, the legendary big-band leader, virtuoso clarinetist, and renegade in music and romance. During America’s Swing Era, no musician was mor...
Nat King Cole
The first major biography of the great jazz pianist and singer, written with the full cooperation of his family. When he died in 1965, at age forty-five, Nat King Cole was already a musical legend...
52nd Street: The Street of Jazz ...
Back in the thirties and forties, when New York City was the capital of the jazz world-you could hail a cab, ask the driver to take you to "The Street," and find yourself on 52nd Street betwe, ISBN...
Louis Prima (Music in American L...
Louis Prima infused the grit and grace of Dixieland jazz with swing and big band sounds, the first whiffs of rock 'n' roll, and a vaudevillian stage presence. Garry Boulard pens the biography of th...
Django: The Life and Music of a ...
Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is, ISBN...
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Already a jazz classic, Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no less than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstron...
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blu...
Rock & roll, jazz, R&B, hip-hop: Without question, today's most popular sounds owe an incalculable debt to that uniquely American musical creation -- The Blues. But the powerful influence o...
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