Music-Discography & Buyer's Guides

The articles in this e-book were originally posted as short blogs, or 'blogettes' on my Twitter feed and later included on my website.They are all to do with jazz recordings from the thirties through to the present time. Sometimes a single song is featured,...

Discography of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1913-1954. John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

Jazz musician Bobby Hackett - 'one of the finest natural musicians in the business' according to Muggsy Spanier - began his career in the 1930s; it ended with his death in 1976. An extensively researched discography of the vast number of recorded sessions in...

An entertaining and informative new guidebook to the creation of the musical show, filled with anecdotes, practical advice, and sparkling commentary from the biggest Broadway insiders.Author: Stephen CitronISBN-10: 1566631769ISBN-13: 9781566631761Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1997Pages: 305Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.05h x 5.93w x 0.88d

The second half of The Coolest Music Book Ever Made aka The MC 500; a two volume set containing short write-ups for 500 different songs spanning over 40 years. It includes artists like James Brown, Aaliyah, AC/DC, The Isley Brothers, 2Pac, Prince, Bob Marley,...

Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America's most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it's sometimes simple or...

FROM THE BRAIN TRUST BEHIND PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM -- THE WEBSITE THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DECLARED "AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE IPO D GENERATION'S LEXICON, A MUST-READ" -- A FRESH GUIDE TO THE 500 BEST SONGS OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS. Named the "best site for...

The only Jethro Tull biography that covers the band, its members and its activities from its inception to the current day. The band's history is accompanied by extensive discographies, tour dates, and television/radio appearances.Author: Greg RussoISBN-10: 0979184584ISBN-13: 9780979184581Publisher: CrossFire Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 454Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Here is the story of the boy from Brixton who became one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, returned to prominence in the 21st with music and visions informed by a sense of his own mortality and who through his life...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

THE CALLAS LEGACY LEGACY THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO HER RECORDINGS ON CD 4EDAuthor: John ArdoinISBN-10: 093134090XISBN-13: 9780931340901Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2003Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.21w x 0.58d

As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.com!More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of...

Over the 100 years since Benny Goodman's birth, interest in his life and music remains as intense as ever--yet there has been no new discographical information since 1996. Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography fills that gap, gathering materials uncovered since the last bio-discography of...

In Boston Symphony Orchestra: An Augmented Discography, James H. North gathers all the information about Boston Symphony musical recordings into one volume, capturing over 90 years of recorded history. Similar to his earlier New York Philharmonic volume, this discography contains a chronological list citing...

Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience. A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. Contains a thorough and accessible...

Following the successful volumes of Song on Record, this book surveys all the recordings of major choral works from the Monteverdi Vespers to Britten's War Requiem. Discussion of the various interpretations on record is preceded, in each chapter, by informed criticism of the work...

Dial Records catered to jazz musicians and record collectors. Charlie Parker was one of the major jazz artists to record with Dial. His Dial sessions occurred at the personal depths and artistic peaks of his career during which he introduced a number of such...

All about Counting Crows!History, biography, curiosities, F.A.Q., concert tickets, t-shirts, portraits, setlists, compilations, press material, memorabilia, sheet music, and an exhaustive part dedicated to the worldwide discography divided into chapters by album arranged in order of release and alphabetically (CD, LP, cassette, VHS, DVD,...

On June 20, 1945, Morna Anne Murray was born in the Canadian coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to Dr. James Carson Murray, the town's physician, and Marion Margaret Murray, a nurse. After expressing an interest in music at an early age, her parents...

On June 20, 1945, Morna Anne Murray was born in the Canadian coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to Dr. James Carson Murray, the town's physician, and Marion Margaret Murray, a nurse. After expressing an interest in music at an early age, her parents...

From Rolling Stone, the definitive and beautiful companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the music world. In partnership with Abrams, Rolling Stone has created an oversize companion book to celebrate the updated 2020 list of the 500...

From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting...

"A breathtakingly impressive work, After All is Said and Done represents the kind of creative fanaticism that could only come from a Deadhead." - Good Times, 2022 If any one musical act of the rock and roll era can be said to have transcended...

The true inside story of the rise of The Beatles, covering their roots in Liverpool and earlier years of the British Invasion, Germany, The Rise of Beatlemania, The Making of a Hard Days Night; Help; and then on through the Sgt. Pepper era.Taken from...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

S chsische Staatskapelle Dresden is the world's known second oldest orchestra. John Hunt was able to draw on the knowledge of orchestra members in the the creation of this discography. John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German...

The Real Daft Punk embodies the dynamic practices and principles that launched Daft Punk to superstardom presenting the essence and gift of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. A profound reflection of the tidal ebbs and flows of Dance Music intersected with divergent thinking....

This Book is a Songbook with all the fantastic Music from the 1960's to the 2010's. It is pack with Artists, some well known and some that you should get to know. Every bit of music written in this book is fantastic and should...

Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, Performing ArtsA book that gets to the heart of the matter Whether you're a professional musician or an air guitarist, a collector or a true amateur, this book will shake things up The Top 100 Canadian Singles -- brought...

The fully authorized biography and collector's guide from the 1960s group known for the songs "She's Not There," "Tell Her No" and "Time Of The Season," as well as the album "Odessey And Oracle."Author: Greg RussoISBN-10: 0979184576ISBN-13: 9780979184574Publisher: CrossFire Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2022Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The ultimate guide to starting, keeping, and tracking your music collection with this guided journal, including expert advice, lists, and a log to keep track of over 300 records. Vinyl records are back--in a big way. Music lovers are turning back to vinyl for...

This first-of-its-kind catalog of Elton John's decades-long career tells the story of one of rock's all-time greatest artists, album-by-album and track-by-track. Organized chronologically and covering every album and song that EGOT-winner Sir Elton Hercules John has ever released, Elton John All the Songs draws...

The rise and fall of Some Bizzare--the label that introduced the world to Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, and The The--is the great untold story of alternative music.Along with Factory, Mute, and Creation, Some Bizzare was the vanguard of outsider music in the 1980s. The...

Blown Out on the Trail is the second in a series of books dealing with the unreleased recordings of Bob Dylan. The first edition, Skipping Reels of Rhyme, which was nominated for the 2019 ARSC award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, dealt...

The 50 classic rock and pop songs listed in this book are arguably some of the greatest of all-time. These tracks still sound good or "hold up" against today's popular music. The publication is intended to spark conversation and discussion. It is not a...

On August 4, 1927 Jimmie Rodgers had the very first recording session of his career, although he had no accompanying personnel that did not affect the session in the least. The session actually got started about 2:00 and lasted until almost 4:30, two songs...

Barry Alan Pincus, better known as Barry Manilow, was born on June 17, 1943 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. From an early age, music was important to Barry. After high school, he studied at New York College of Music and Juilliard. Around 1964...

Helen Maxine Reddy was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on October 25, 1941 to a show-business family. Helen started her career as an entertainer at age four while traveling with her parents. She sang on the radio and television and eventually won a talent...

Rev. Gates began recording with Columbia records in April of 1926. During this year Rev. Gates recorded 85 sides. In August through September alone Rev. Gates recorded 48 sides in New York. He recorded for Gennett, Banner, Paramount, Pathe, Okeh, Vocalion, Victor and others.His...

"When it comes to the J.A./J.S. Craig Fenton is the source." Signe Anderson original J.A. member and part of the J.S. 93-94. Have You Seen The Stars Tonite contains 179 photos, the singles and albums the Jefferson Starship and J.S. The Next Generation released,...

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, or MFSL for short, was the first audiophile label, using 1/2 speed mastering and 180 gram virgin vinyl to get the ultimate in recorded sound. This is a pricelist/discography covering the first 200 releases on vinyl.Author: Mikey ChlandaISBN-10: 1482563339ISBN-13: 9781482563337Publisher:...

Pop Art Afterflash offers a look at the 100 greatest British psychedelic singles of the 60's (as chosen by David Furgess of Autumn 66 Records) The book included color photos of all the entries)Author: David FurgessISBN-10: 1499774737ISBN-13: 9781499774733Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2014Pages:...

Chocolate Soup For Diabetics In Technicolor is a color photo gallery of some of the rarest freakbeat and psychedelic singles of the 1960's. It features artists from the famed Chocolate Soup seriesAuthor: David FurgessISBN-10: 1499727747ISBN-13: 9781499727746Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2014Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight:...

George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 2 is the companion to Vol. 1 published in February 2016. George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 2 is an in-depth illustrated critical review of a remarkable musician, songwriter, producer and star. It maps his career from 1981 to the...