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  • - Lennie Tristano and His Legacy
    af Peter Ind
    232,95 kr.

    A biography of Lennie Tristano, the blind pianist who was one of jazz's most extraordinary innovators.

  • af Duncan Heining
    349,95 - 614,95 kr.

  • af Ray Smith
    957,95 kr.

    Born in 1905, Bill Russell demonstrated diverse musical interests from an early age. His significance as a percussion composer is well known among aficionados and his work as a musicologist of New Orleans jazz music is equally acclaimed. He was a major figure in the revival of interest in the music of that city.

  • af Dave Gelly
    232,95 kr.

  • af ALTMAN JOHN
    406,95 - 647,95 kr.

  • - A German Jazz Story
    af Eberhard Weber
    397,95 kr.

    Eberhard Weber is a virtuoso who revolutionized jazz bass playing. His remarkable autobiography is at the same time a humorous and exciting testimony to a vital period in German jazz history. This is the first English translation of the original published in German by Sagas in 2015.

  • - The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox
    af Bruce Lindsay
    362,95 kr.

    Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival explores the lives and song traditions of two of the most influential English traditional singers: Sam Larner and Harry Cox.

  • af Equinox Publishing & Paul Skillen
    332,95 - 340,95 kr.

    Scouse Pop is a journey into the personalities and music of the successful pioneering Liverpool pop bands of the late seventies and eighties. It examines their motivations, their uniqueness and the routes to success which made them into enduring musical innovators.

  • - The Life of Mark Murphy
    af Peter Jones
    362,95 kr.

    This Is Hip is more than a biography: it also evaluates Murphy's work as a singer and as a teacher of singers. Based on numerous interviews with those who knew him best, the book delves into a performing and recording career that spanned 60 years and earned him five Grammy nominations.

  • - The Life, Work and Legacy of Tubby Hayes
    af Simon Spillett
    417,95 kr.

    In this new, expanded paperback edition, award-winning saxophonist and writer Simon Spillett, widely regarded as the world's leading authority on Hayes and his work, painstakingly outlines a career that alternated professional success and personal downfall.

  • af Katherine Williams
    297,95 - 432,95 kr.

    Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright (b. 1973) is famous around the world for his multi-faceted musical style, shown through both his recorded output and his engaging live performances. In this book, Katherine Williams combines aspects of his life story with scholarly readings drawn from several methodologies.

  • - British Jazz, 1960-1975
    af Duncan Heining
    525,95 kr.

    The book follows a number of themes- movers and shakers, drugs and addictions, relationships with Rock and Blues, new technologies, media coverage, arts funding, from clubs to concert halls, record companies and, not least, the economics of Jazz. In dong so, the book challenges many conventional understandings of British Jazz and its scene.

  • - A Private Life in Jazz
    af Magdalena Grzebalkowska
    340,95 kr.

    Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz is the biography of Krzysztof (Trzcinski) Komeda (1931-1969), composer of no fewer than 40 soundtracks, including film scores to all of Roman Polanski's early films such as Knife in the Water and Rosemary's Baby; and a revered figure in the world of jazz.

  • - Hello
    af Sharon Davis
    295,95 kr.

    A biography of five-time Grammy winner, Lionel Richie, who has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. For 9 consecutive years he had no 1 singles in America. It is also the story of two broken marriages, personal insecurities, near-death experiences and an insight into the man behind a success story that broke the rules.

  • - The Life and Music of Paul Chambers
    af Rob Palmer
    569,95 kr.

    During his 13 year career between 1955 and 1968, Paul Chambers was one of the leading double bass players in jazz. Using interviews with family members, friends and colleagues with the jazz fraternity, this book represents the first time that much of his story has been told.

  • - Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music
    af Kevin Le Gendre
    357,95 kr.

    In Soul Unsung Le Gendre celebrates the contribution of players of instruments to soul. He analyses the inspiring creativity and imagination that several generations of musicians have brought to black pop, and highlights how they have broadened its sound canvas by adopting unusual stylistic approaches and embracing the latest technology.

  • af Alyn Shipton
    297,95 kr.

    In this full length biography, Alyn Shipton examines the fascinating mix of ingredients that comprised the man and his music, and in the process draws a vivid picture of Carr's home region, the North-East of England, of National Service, of such literary influences as W. Somerset Maughan, of post-war continental Europe and its Bohemian arts scene, and of the London jazz world from the 1960s onwards

  • - The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker
    af Brian Priestley
    227,95 kr.

    Charlie Parker was one of the influential musicians in jazz, and was the main architect of the jazz revolution of the 1940s. Addicted to drugs and alcohol, and with a tangled private life, he died young. This biography of Charlie Parker provides a discussion of performances and recordings, with discography, notes and bibliography.

  • - The Songs of Jimi Hendrix
    af Kevin Le Gendre
    362,95 kr.

    This book focuses on Hendrix the songwriter, a superlative storyteller who was able to combine melody, lyric and arrangement in order to create pieces that take pride of place in the pantheon of post-war popular music.

  • - A Biography
    af Wolfgang Sandner
    357,95 kr.

    This English edition is a significantly extended and updated version of the German original as concerns important aspects of Keith Jarrett's life and work.

  • - My Fifty Years at Rounder Records
    af Bill Nowlin
    362,95 kr.

    Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records is less a standard history and more an idiosyncratic memoir written by one of the three Rounder founders.

  • - Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz
    af Peter Jones
    362,95 kr.

    If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks.His contributions to jazz as a whole were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and raconteur, a wordsmith par excellence, and a fearless improviser who took the arts of scatting and vocalese to new heights.

  • - The Autobiography of Chris Barber
    af Chris Barber
    362,95 kr.

    Autobiography of jazz trombonist Chris Barber whose Barber band achieved chart success on both sides of the Atlantic, and from the middle to late 1950s it was the most popular music act in the UK.

  • - The Complete Story of Reggae Told Through its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten
    af Michael Garnice
    572,95 kr.

    The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae celebrates (and helps you find) the greatest songs of reggae. It focuses on every style of reggae, from mento to Jamaican R&B, ska, rock steady, dub, DJ roots, dancehall and more.

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