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16 produkter
So What
The Life of Miles Davis
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2003
198 kr
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Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, and still sells 250,000 copies a year in the US alone. But Miles …
Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan Lomax
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2011
221 kr
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Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, …
Space is the Place
The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2000
209 kr
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This ground-breaking biography is as much about Sun Ra's music as it is about his passionate, often wildly unorthodox views on the galaxy, black people and spiritual matters. With the various incarnations of his inimitable Arkestra, his repertoire ranged from boogie-woogie to swing to be-bop to …
Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2016
367 kr
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Cosmic Scholar
The Life and Times of Harry Smith
Av John Szwed
Inbunden, 2023
293 kr
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He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, jammed with Thelonious Monk, lived with Allen Ginsberg, and received one of the first Guggenheim …
Cosmic Scholar
The Life and Times of Harry Smith
Av John Szwed
E-bok, 2023
207 kr
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Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times '' Dwight Garner. Winner of the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award. “The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s personality to catch …
So What
The Life of Miles Davis
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2004
408 kr
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Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed draws on various archives and never-before-published interviews with those who knew him to produce the …
Jazz 101
A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2000, 12-15 år
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
218 kr
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Szwed's guide to jazz will help curious culturephiles learn about this popular, yet occasionally intimidating, art form. Forged out of several of the world's most diverse musical traditions (classical, folk and pop), jazz continues to evolve in myriad new directions. Covering all the key basis, …
Crossovers
Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2006
343 kr
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Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers inside and outside the academy. With reviews written for the Village Voice and articles from academic journals, this volume …
Alan Lomax
The Man Who Recorded the World
Av John Szwed
E-bok, 2010
213 kr
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The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who …
Cosmic Scholar
The Life and Times of Harry Smith
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2024
214 kr
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Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times ' Dwight Garner. Winner of the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award. “The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s personality to catch …
So What
The Life of Miles Davis
Av John Szwed
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, and still sells 250,000 copies a year in the US alone. But Miles …
Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan Lomax
Av John Szwed
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, …
Billie Holiday
Av John Szwed
E-bok, 2015
144 kr
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Today, Billie Holiday is an icon – an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary music is unquestionable. But when eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record ‘Riffin’ the Scotch’ and ‘Your …
Space Is the Place
The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Av John Szwed
Häftad, 2020
321 kr
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Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played …
