Bøger om Blues

"Founded in 1917, Paramount Records was but one of the home-grown record labels of the New York Recording Laboratories (NYRL), a subsidiary of a chair company in Wisconsin with operations near Lake Michigan. No outsized hopes were pinned to Paramount or its sister companies; its founders knew nothing of the music business, the records themselves were only to drive sales of expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lacking both the resources and the interest to compete for top talent, Paramount's earliest recordings were gained little foothold with the listening public. By 1922, on the threshold of bankruptcy, Paramount embarked on a new business plan that had recently proven successful for other record companies: selling the music of Black artists to Black audiences. Advertising in newspapers dedicated to Black readership and utilizing other strategies such as local talent scouts and sales agents in the South, unconventional distribution channels, an 'open door' recording policy, direct mail order and the eventual hiring of the first Black record executive in a white-owned record company, Paramount expanded its footprint and eventually garnered many of the biggest selling titles in the 'race records' era. By the time it ceased operations in 1932, NYRL had pressed and shipped hundreds of thousands of records, including more than 2,300 recordings of blues, gospel and jazz in its Paramount 'race' series alone, with a slate of performers including the likes of Louis Armstrong, Charley Patton, Ethel Waters, Son House, Fletcher Henderson, Skip James, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, King Oliver, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Johnny Dodds, Papa Charlie Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. In short, Paramount accidentally accomplished what others could not. On the one hand, Scott Blackwood's The Rise and Fall of Paramount is the story of happenstance. But it is also a tale about the sheer force of the Great Migration and the legacy of the music put down into the shellacked grooves of a 78 record: Black America finding its voice. It is the story the legacy of the Great Migration and how blues, jazz, and folk music transcended boundaries, and how this almost never happened. Blackwood brings to life these many moments-through creative nonfiction-and makes present and full-blooded what hadn't been brought to life before"--

During the 1920s and 30s, many of the biggest stars of the time--including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Porter Grainger, Josephine Baker, Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon, Lucille Bogan, Tony Jackson and Clara Smith--were openly celebrating LGBTQ lives through the songs they wrote, performed and recorded. Award-winning author Darryl W. Bullock brings their stories to the fore through contemporary reports, interviews, news articles and rare archive material, painting a vibrant picture of a revolutionary period in both popular music and Queer history that has long been overlooked.

Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come.

The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues."--President Barack Obama. "He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced."--Eric Clapton. Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)--in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago's Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Viés has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King's inner circle--family, band members, retainers, managers, and more--and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby "Blue" Bland simply called "the man."

The first full and authoritative biography of an American-indeed a world-wide-musical and cultural legend

Fallen Fret follows two Brooklyn sisters who chose Harlem edge over Times Square flash. When Chaz Russell needed a guitarist to lead his blues band, he chose Liz O'Malley who had left prison on her twenty-fifth birthday with prodigious guitar technique learned from a cellmate. Her deft string work rejuvenated Chaz's stale blues band, but when she acquired a custom guitar, the wrong people noticed. Musicians fawned when her sister Sarah entered a nightclub clutching her reporter's notebook. She could enrich a performer with a complimentary review, or extinguish a career by mentioning languid play. She ruffled the Manhattan music scene when she inquired about the night jazz and blues gods secretly recorded. During the summer of 2009, the sisters, immersed in the blues music scene, fraternized with a group of shadowy personalities soaked with street sense and ready to choose violence over talk. This novel, driven by greed and guitar lust, is a story of strength and honesty, despite its shocking ending.

"14 solo arrangements with CD accompaniment"--Cover.

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 169. Chapters: Amazing Grace, Carolina in My Mind, My Way, Let It Be, The House of the Rising Sun, Immigrant Song, My Sweet Lord, The Long and Winding Road, Superstar, Layla, I'll Be There, I'm Your Captain, A Change Is Gonna Come, Your Song, Paranoid, Lola, River Deep - Mountain High, Suicide Is Painless, Bridge over Troubled Water, Band of Gold, War, A Song for You, Spirit in the Sky, Someday We'll Be Together, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, (They Long to Be) Close to You, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, The Tears of a Clown, Bring It On Home to Me, Get Ready, It's Just a Matter of Time, Rocky Top, Rose Garden, Ball of Confusion, Solitary Man, (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, Voodoo Child, Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours, Make It Easy on Yourself, American Woman, It's All in the Game, We've Only Just Begun, The Letter, Fire and Rain, Domino, All Right Now, Summertime Blues, Thank You, (I Know) I'm Losing You, Lady D'Arbanville, Chestnut Mare, In the Summertime, Iron Man, Give Me Just a Little More Time, Worried Life Blues, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, As the Years Go By, I Can't Get Next to You, Wild World, Who'll Stop the Rain, Let's Stick Together, Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Handbags and Gladrags, Crazy Love, Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song), Black Magic Woman, Get Up Sex Machine, Instant Karma!, Up Around the Bend, The Green Manalishi, The Prettiest Star, Up on the Roof, Coal Miner's Daughter, Stoned Love, Neanderthal Man, El Cóndor Pasa, The Seeker, Mama Told Me Not to Come, I Hear You Knocking, If You Could Read My Mind, Isn't It a Pity, I Think I Love You, O-o-h Child, Memo from Turner, Mother, Uncle John's Band, Truckin', Memory of a Free Festival, Indian Reservation, Woodstock, Darla dirladada, Hello Darlin', No Matter What, Black Night, Hey Hey What Can I Do, Love the One You're With, ABC, My Elusive Dreams, Snowbird, Love on a Two-Way Street, Tell the Truth, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Cecilia, The Love You Save, Up the Ladder to the Roof, Tobacco Road, 25 or 6 to 4, Stepping Stone, Take Me to the Pilot, Ride a White Swan, Everything Is Beautiful, Come Running, People Got to Be Free, Yellow River, Blue Money, For You Blue, Somos Novios, Super Bad, Love Grows, Countryfied, Lookin' out My Back Door, The Wonder of You, The Fightin' Side of Me, After Midnight, Apeman, Watching Scotty Grow, Everybody Is a Star, Seven Bridges Road, Gimme Dat Ding, Didn't I, Knock Three Times, It's Only Make Believe, I Never Picked Cotton, If Not for You, If I Were Your Woman, Rainy Night in Georgia, Reach Out and Touch, For the Good Times, Fairies Wear Boots, It's a Shame, The Grunt, Heaven and Hell, Shilo, Travelin' Band, Big Joe Mufferaw, Hurry on Sundown, Knock, Knock Who's There?, How Can I Be Sure, I'm Eighteen, Cracklin' Rosie, The Thrill Is Gone, Together We Can Make Such Sweet Music, Teach Your Children, Ripple, Endlessly, One Less Bell to Answer, Moon Shadow, Border Song, Psychedelic Shack, Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone, Question, Kentucky Rain, Lonely Days, Grandad, United We Stand, Call Me, Thank God and Greyhound, I.O.I.O., A Song of Joy, All for the Love of Sunshine, Everybody's Got the Right to Love, El Triste, The Bells, A Little Bit of Soap, The Ghetto, Rats, Spill the Wine, Groove Me, Make It with You, Down the Dustpipe, Colour My World, Now Be Thankful, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, (D...

For all musicians wishing to learn fantastic bass lines. While reading from the book, play along with the bassist on the recording (CD included) until you feel you've mastered his feel and nuances. Then, using the special stereo separation on all of our play-along recordings, switch the bassist off and play along by yourself with just the piano and drums! This book (like all the Aebersold bass line transcription books) is a great study in professional bass line construction, and is a natural companion to the Aebersold play-alongs. Combo instructors can use this book to give their bass students instant, professional bass lines. Includes notes in bass clef with chord symbols above each measure. This book includes transcribed bass lines from Aebersold's only play-along recorded with electric bass, and several choruses of two different blues progressions in all 12 keys. This is the ultimate study in blues walking!