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  • Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse by Berish, Andrew S.
    Andrew S. Berish

    Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse

    A deep dive into the meaning behind the hatred of jazz. A rock guitarist plays four notes in front of one thousand people, while a jazz guitarist plays one thousand notes in front of four people. You might laugh or groan at this jazz...
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  • On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer Volume 20 by Stephans, Michael
    Michael Stephans

    On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer Volume 20

    In On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer, author Michael Stephans has created a rich, multifaceted paean to jazz icon Bob Brookmeyer, the much-beloved musical genius who passed away in 2011, four days short of his 82nd birthday. On the Way to...
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  • Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse by Stanbridge, Alan
    Alan Stanbridge

    Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse

    Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses - especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism - that have influenced its creation,...
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  • Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler by Shaw, Brian
    Brian Shaw

    Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler

    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,...
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  • Legends of Jazz by Milkowski, Bill
    Bill Milkowski

    Legends of Jazz

    This elegant volume is a portrait gallery of 50 eminent legends spanning jazz history, from Jelly Roll Morton, perhaps the inventor of the art form, to contemporary axman Joe Lovano, who contributes a foreword. Arguably America's most profound cultural contribution, jazz has evolved for...
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  • A lifetime of Jazz by Carter, Tony
    Tony Carter

    A lifetime of Jazz

    Tony Carter, a retired college professor and project manager, has spent a lifetime immersed in the world of Jazz. His passion for the genre began in his teenage years, sparked by the discovery of Kid Ory's "Muskrat Ramble." This ignited a lifelong love for...
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  • Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse by Berish, Andrew S.
    Andrew S. Berish

    Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse

    A deep dive into the meaning behind the hatred of jazz. A rock guitarist plays four notes in front of one thousand people, while a jazz guitarist plays one thousand notes in front of four people. You might laugh or groan at this jazz...
    $27.50
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  • Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra (Print on Demand Collector's Edition) by Kolosky, Walter
    Walter Kolosky

    Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra (Print on Demand Collector's Edition)

    After much demand, the Collector's Edition (Print On Demand) Power, Passion and Beauty - The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra is finally here! This edition includes material from both the original 2006 print version and the 2013 updated eBook! Power, Passion and Beauty,...
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  • Experiencing Jazz by Lawn, Richard J.
    Richard J. Lawn

    Experiencing Jazz

    Experiencing Jazz, Third Edition is an integrated textbook, website, and audio anthology for jazz appreciation and history courses. Author: Richard J. Lawn, Justin G. BinekISBN-10: 1032231041ISBN-13: 9781032231044Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2024Pages: 390Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.08lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.86d
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  • Death, Resurrection, and the Spirit of New Orleans: Jazz on the Tube Conversations by McCarthy, Ken
    Ken McCarthy

    Death, Resurrection, and the Spirit of New Orleans: Jazz on the Tube Conversations

    Despite the catastrophe caused by the 2005 failure of the New Orleans levee system, the biggest engineering failure in U.S. history, New Orleans was re-inhabited, rebuilt, and re-ignited with the spirit that makes it one of the world's greatest cultural gems.This book tells the...
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  • Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition: Improvising Music in a Complex Age by Borgo, David
    David Borgo

    Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition: Improvising Music in a Complex Age

    The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated...
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  • Joe Zawinul [With CDROM] by Zawinul, Joe
    Joe Zawinul

    Joe Zawinul [With CDROM]

    (Jazz Play Along). For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages...
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  • Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture by Sheppard, W. Anthony
    W. Anthony Sheppard

    Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture

    The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Duke Ellington acknowledged his achievements. His astonishing ear for talent vaulted a...
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  • Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso by Ansell, Derek
    Derek Ansell

    Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso

    Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...
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  • Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso by Ansell, Derek
    Derek Ansell

    Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso

    Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...
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  • The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change by Hurley, Andrew Wright
    Andrew Wright Hurley

    The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change

    Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi...
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  • Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity by Cisneros, Carol
    Carol Cisneros

    Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity

    Heart of Grace is a deeply personal and poetic memoir by Carol Cisneros, who invites readers to experience the transformative power of self-love, healing, and grace. Through poignant verses and heartfelt reflections, Carol takes us on a journey of emotional discovery, offering solace and...
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 2: 'Round Midnight: Revelation and Experience in the T by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 2: 'Round Midnight: Revelation and Experience in the T

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 3: Misterioso: Freedom for Liberation in Creation by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 3: Misterioso: Freedom for Liberation in Creation

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender by Reddan, James
    James Reddan

    The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender

    The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration...
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  • Dan Coates Popular Piano Library -- Popular Christmas Hits by Coates, Dan
    Dan Coates

    Dan Coates Popular Piano Library -- Popular Christmas Hits

    The dazzling, beautiful, and entertaining arrangements in the Dan Coates Popular Piano Library advanced collections are a welcome addition to any pianist's pop repertoire. Popular Christmas Hits is a collection classic and contemporary holiday favorites. Titles: Bethlehem Morning * Frosty the Snowman * The...
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  • Writing Jazz: Conversations with Critics and Biographers by Feinstein, Sascha
    Sascha Feinstein

    Writing Jazz: Conversations with Critics and Biographers

    Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Balliett, Bob Blumenthal, Stanley Crouch, Linda Dahl, Maxine Gordon, Farah Jasmine Griffin, John Edward Hasse, Willard Jenkins, Hettie Jones, Robin D. G. Kelley, Laurie Pepper, Tom Piazza, Ricky Riccardi, and A. B. Spellman. This...
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  • Sax Expat: Don Byas by Chapman, Con
    Con Chapman

    Sax Expat: Don Byas

    Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with--Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others--but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly...
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  • Sax Expat: Don Byas by Chapman, Con
    Con Chapman

    Sax Expat: Don Byas

    Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with--Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others--but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly...
    $99.00
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  • A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music by Chambers, Jack
    Jack Chambers

    A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music

    In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington's music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington's attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellington's work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which...
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  • A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music by Chambers, Jack
    Jack Chambers

    A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music

    In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington's music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington's attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellington's work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which...
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  • The Improviser's Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking by Fischlin, Daniel
    Daniel Fischlin

    The Improviser's Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking

    An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser's Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care. Demonstrating...
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  • The Improviser's Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking by Fischlin, Daniel
    Daniel Fischlin

    The Improviser's Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking

    An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser's Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care. Demonstrating...
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  • Classic Funk and R&B Grooves for Bass: Book & Online Audio [With CD] by Des Pres, Josquin
    Josquin Des Pres

    Classic Funk and R&B Grooves for Bass: Book & Online Audio [With CD]

    Classic Funk and R&B Grooves for Bass is an overview of stylistic examples that capture the essence of R&B recordings from Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Motown, and New York. All the music examples (98 total!) are written in standard notation and tablature, and all the...
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  • Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene by Greenland, Thomas H.
    Thomas H. Greenland

    Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene

    How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists and their music to focus on non-performing participants, describing them as active...
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  • Carla Bley by Beal, Amy C.
    Amy C. Beal

    Carla Bley

    This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist. With fastidious attention to Bley's diverse compositions over the last fifty years spanning critical moments in jazz...
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  • Everyone Has Sight: But It Takes A Photographer To See by Moody, Boston
    Boston Moody

    Everyone Has Sight: But It Takes A Photographer To See

    After my honorable discharge from the Army, I found myself working for a company that manufactured stereo receivers and speakers. As a traffic manager, my days were filled with routine tasks, and after three years, I grew increasingly restless. Seeking guidance, I visited one...
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  • Jazz Legends Alphabet by Feiner, Beck
    Beck Feiner

    Jazz Legends Alphabet

    From Coltrane to Davis, Fitzgerald to Armstrong, Jazz Legends Alphabet is the quintessential A to Z of the smoothest, coolest, hippest cats to have ever made jazz music. Written with rhythm and illustrated with style, Jazz Legends Alphabet will make your little legend the...
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  • Jazz Skills: Filling the Gaps for the Serious Guitarist by Fisher, Jody
    Jody Fisher

    Jazz Skills: Filling the Gaps for the Serious Guitarist

    In this book, Jody Fisher, author of the best-selling Complete Jazz Guitar Method, helps guitarists with their most common problems. Jazz Skills clarifies everything from understanding altered chords to spelling out changes in solos and developing a better technique. A great supplement for any...
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  • Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies by Marvin, Elizabeth West
    Elizabeth West Marvin

    Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies

    Interdisciplinary articles bridge the gulf between classical and popular music. Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music. Topics discussed fall into three sections: compositional poietics (poietics being the pre-compositional activities of composer...
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  • Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- The Magic of Miles Davis, Vol 50: A New Approach to Jazz Improvisation, Book & Online Audio by Davis, Steve
    Steve Davis

    Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- The Magic of Miles Davis, Vol 50: A New Approach to Jazz Improvisation, Book & Online Audio

    A slice of Miles' career from 1957 to 1964 where he was at the apex of his popularity. An example of Miles' unparalleled influence as a trumpeter, composer, and band leader, his sidemen, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, David Libbman, Thelonious Monk, Charlie...
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  • Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz by Terrill, Richard
    Richard Terrill

    Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz

    Writes Richard Terrill, "The name fakebook derives from recognition that a jazz musician who is improvising over a set of chord changes is "faking," making up his or her own melody. The fakebook then is a place to start, the structure upon which music...
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  • The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from Downbeat Magazine by Alyker, Frank
    Frank Alyker

    The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from Downbeat Magazine

    DownBeat magazine (est. 1939), the bible of "jazz, blues, and beyond " proudly launches the first book in its DownBeat Hall of Fame Series. DownBeat has documented Miles Davis's career like no other journal in the world. From Davis's first DownBeat interview in 1950...
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  • Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity by Cisneros, Carol
    Carol Cisneros

    Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity

    Author: Carol CisnerosISBN-13: 9798893245028Publisher: Franklin Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
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  • Jazz Among the Discourses by Gabbard, Krin
    Krin Gabbard

    Jazz Among the Discourses

    The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and...
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  • Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924 by Wondrich, David
    David Wondrich

    Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

    The early decades of American popular music are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music -- black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude -- made it onto records for all to...
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  • John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3 by Johnson, Bruce
    Bruce Johnson

    John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3

    A study of John Sangster's jazz suite Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. At more than 6 LP recordings, the Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books,...
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  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by Atkins, E. Taylor
    E. Taylor Atkins

    Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

    A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the...
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  • The Lion Roars: The Musical Life of Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre by Sandford, Phil
    Phil Sandford

    The Lion Roars: The Musical Life of Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre

    By day a mild-mannered accountant, by night a roaring jazz pianist and singer. A boogie and stride pianist, Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre was a leading figure in the traditional jazz boom in Melbourne after World War II. He sang in a Fats Waller style...
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  • In Love with Voices: A Jazz Memoir by Torff, Brian Q.
    Brian Q. Torff

    In Love with Voices: A Jazz Memoir

    "A career in music ... is a calling with such a strong pull; you'd think a tide was sucking you under. It becomes an intense obsession of such great intensity that you can almost think of nothing else, it drives you with a fever...
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  • The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States by Floyd, Samuel A., Jr.
    Samuel A. Jr. Floyd

    The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the...
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 1: Epistrophy: Historical and Hermeneutical Background by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 1: Epistrophy: Historical and Hermeneutical Background

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • Waits/Corbijn '77-'11 by Corbijn, Anton
    Anton Corbijn

    Waits/Corbijn '77-'11

    Now back in print, this stunning, award- winning visual odyssey encapsulates the essence of Tom Waits' enigmatic persona and Anton Corbijn's distinctive photographic style. Spanning over three decades, this extraordinary book showcases the enduring collaboration between a legendary musician and a renowned Dutch photographer--a...
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