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47 produkter
Formation
Building a Personal Canon, Part 1
Av Brad Mehldau
Inbunden, 2023
674 kr
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As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience from his performances. With Formation, Brad seeks to extend that experience to the page, by sharing some of the deeply …
Desperado
An Autobiography
Inbunden, 2022
582 kr
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Tomasz Stanko is arguably the greatest jazz musician Poland has ever produced. His career spanned almost 60 years until his death in 2018. A visionary trumpeter and composer, a protege of Krzysztof Komeda and a colleague of musicians from Poland, Sweden, Norway, Britain, Cuba and the USA, his …
Cool Cat Blues
The Life and Times of Georgie Fame
Av Ben Sidran
Inbunden, 2026
385 kr
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COOL CAT BLUES is the story of singer / pianist Georgie Fame. Born Clive Powell, in Leigh, Lancashire, he rose from being a troubled kid to the very top of the British pop charts. Through conversations and correspondence with Fame, as well as diligent research, Ben Sidran traces Fame’s story from …
Long Agos and Worlds Apart
The Definitive Small Faces Biography
Av Sean Egan
Inbunden, 2024
403 kr
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The Small Faces epitomised the maxim, "Never mind the width, feel the quality." In their brief original lifespan, they released just three official albums and a dozen-and-a-half authorised non-album singles and B-sides. Yet more than five decades after the London quartet's split the phenomenal …
Ray Brown
His Life and Music
Av Jay Sweet
Inbunden, 2025
485 kr
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Ray Brown: His Life and Music is the first full-length biography of Ray Brown, one of the most outstanding practitioners of bass playing in jazz music. Brown’s career spans the most popular and creative eras of jazz, from 1940 to the dawn of the 21st century. During his early professional career, …
Ivor Cutler
A Life Outside the Sitting Room
Inbunden, 2023
394 kr
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Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room is the first biography of one of post-war Britain's most recognisable authors, poets and performers. Mr Cutler (as he preferred to be known) wrote and recorded some of the most unusual and memorable songs and poems in British popular culture, including …
Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae
The Complete Story of Reggae Told through its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten
Inbunden, 2016
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
687 kr
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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. It opens with an exceptionally comprehensive brief history of reggae. This is …
Scouse Pop
Av Paul Skillen
Inbunden, 2018
435 kr
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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. It looks at the reasons why …
Bill Russell and the New Orleans Jazz Revival
Inbunden, 2018
1133 kr
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Born in 1905, Bill Russell demonstrated diverse musical interests from an early age. Having been a contemporary of John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison, amongst others, his significance as a percussion composer is well known amongst aficionados. His work as a musicologist of New Orleans jazz …
Song for Someone
The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler
Av Brian Shaw, Nick Smart
Inbunden, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
645 kr
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Trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler (1930–2014) was one of the most enigmatic and influential musicians in recent memory. His instantly recognisable sound was a driving force within every major innovation in modern European jazz during the last half of the 20th century. More importantly, his life …
Mosaics
The Life and Works of Graham Collier
Inbunden, 2018
708 kr
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Graham Collier's career in jazz lasted over five decades. He was a bassist, a band-leader, a composer, an educator and an author, who wrote extensively about the music. His working life was littered with 'firsts'. Amongst his many achievements, he was the first British jazz musician to study at the …
Godfather of British Jazz
The Life and Music of Stan Tracey
Av Clark Tracey
Inbunden, 2017
707 kr
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This is the first book about the life of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey CBE (1926-2013). Drawn largely from his personal diaries and some of his many interviews, his son Clark Tracey pieces together what made the late Stan Tracey a unique character in jazz music. Stan's wit and wisdom also …
This is Hip
The Life of Mark Murphy
Av Peter Jones
Inbunden, 2018
448 kr
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When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, some of the obituaries mourned the passing of the greatest jazz singer in history. Murphy was the last of his kind, a hipster of the Kerouac generation, who rejected the straight life of prosperity and numb consumerism. With a catalogue of more than 40 albums …
Long Shadow of the Little Giant
The Life, Work and Legacy of Tubby Hayes (Second Edition)
Häftad, 2017
517 kr
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Over forty years have elapsed since the death of the British jazz legend Tubby Hayes and yet his story still continues to captivate. Beginning as a precociously talented teenage saxophonist, he took first the local and then the international jazz scene by storm, displaying gifts equal to the finest …
Rufus Wainwright
Häftad, 2016
378 kr
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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 …
This is Bop
Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz
Av Peter Jones
Inbunden, 2020
435 kr
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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 …
Scouse Pop
Av Paul Skillen
Häftad, 2018
400 kr
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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. It looks at the reasons why …
Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival
The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox
Inbunden, 2020
422 kr
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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. Using extensive primary evidence, including recorded interviews with both men, the book provides the first detailed …
Komeda
A Private Life in Jazz
Inbunden, 2020
387 kr
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Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz is the biography of Krzysztof (Trzciński) Komeda (1931-1969), composer of no fewer than 40 soundtracks, including film scores to all of Roman Polański's early films such as Knife in the Water and Rosemary's Baby; and revered figure in the world of jazz, which regards …
Vinyl Ventures
My Fifty Years at Rounder Records
Av Bill Nowlin
Häftad, 2021
448 kr
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Rounder Records was born in 1970, a "hobby that got out of control," a fledging record company more or less conceived while the Sixties were still in flower, which began on just over $1,000. Founded by three friends just out of college, the Boston-area company produced over 3,000 record albums, the …
Keith Jarrett
A Biography
Inbunden, 2020
435 kr
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Keith Jarrett is one of the great pianists of our times. Before achieving worldwide fame for his solo improvisations, he had already collaborated with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. His 'Koln Concert' album (1975) has now sold around four million copies and become the most successful …
Hear My Train A Comin'
The Songs of Jimi Hendrix
Inbunden, 2020
426 kr
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Although his activity as a recording artist spanned a period of just three years, from 1967, the year of his arrival in England from America to 1970, the year of his death, Jimi Hendrix created a body of work that has exerted a significant influence on a number of artists in the 20th century and …
Eberhard Weber
A German Jazz Story
Inbunden, 2021
435 kr
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Eberhard Weber is a virtuoso who revolutionized jazz bass playing. He brought his instrument from the far corner of the stage into the spotlight - and turned it into a solo force. He began his career as a jazz bassist in the 1960s, and his band Colours with the saxophonist Charlie Mariano became …
Hidden Man
My Many Musical Lives
Av John Altman
Inbunden, 2022
794 kr
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Everybody knows John Altman's music, but not so many people know his name. Yet he is one of the most prolific composers, conductors and arrangers in history and his saxophone playing has been heard live and on record with many great names. In this vivid account of over fifty years in the world of …
Hidden Man
My Many Musical Lives
Av John Altman
Häftad, 2022
499 kr
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Everybody knows John Altman's music, but not so many people know his name. Yet he is one of the most prolific composers, conductors and arrangers in history and his saxophone playing has been heard live and on record with many great names. In this vivid account of over fifty years in the world of …
Kansas City Jazz
A Little Evil Will Do You Good
Av Con Chapman
Inbunden, 2023
595 kr
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The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct stylistic variation within the larger genre and a transitional stage between earlier forms of African-American music, such as ragtime and blues, and later, …
Mosaics
The Life and Works of Graham Collier
Häftad, 2018
385 kr
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Graham Collier's career in jazz lasted over five decades. He was a bassist, a band-leader, a composer, an educator and an author, who wrote extensively about the music. His working life was littered with 'firsts'. Amongst his many achievements, he was the first British jazz musician to study at the …
Cool Heat
Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life
Av James Gavin
Inbunden, 2026
462 kr
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How did Anita O’Day—the legendary jazz singer who, along with Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Stan Getz, led the so-called “cool school” of modern jazz—define cool?“That means doing everything that you like to do and getting away with it, you dig?”Her traits included a frosted tone …
Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs
From the Pleasure Garden to the Discotheque
Inbunden, 2025
510 kr
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The history of disco and its predecessors is often portrayed as one of glamour and excess. Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs expands this history, to encompass tatty but much-loved provincial dancehalls, mobile DJs with home-made light shows and rusty vans, one-hit-wonders on the chicken-in-a-basket …
Formation
Building a Personal Canon, Part 1
Av Brad Mehldau
Häftad, 2025
377 kr
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As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience from his performances. With Formation, Brad seeks to extend that experience to the page, by sharing some of the deeply …
